The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Before starting with the actual roundup of news, let’s all have a moment of silence for Ebbe Altberg, the CEO of Linden Lab that passed away after a long illness. Top news of the week. Facebook may be already working on the Quest 2 Pro. This confirms that Facebook is already actively working on the Quest 2 Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Let’s start this roundup with a roundup of news about me, that this October I’m doing so many things! Ok, after these pieces of news you probably didn’t care about at all (but let me believe you did), let’s start with the actual roundup of the best AR and VR news of the past week! Top news of the week. Image by Lynx).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2023

Today’s article will be a bit different than usual. We picked as his role the one of a tech expert because it was a field that we know very well ourselves, but as its main expertise we didn’t pick the too obvious AI field, but virtual reality, because it was a growing field of interest in 2014 after Facebook acquired Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And since our love is for immersive realities, let’s celebrate it with this roundup of the most interesting XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). Facebook keeps working to become a leader in immersive technologies. For the short term future, we have some news on the Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! Top news of the week. Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store…. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Top news of the week. A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. Other relevant news. Image by HTC). Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Another week has just passed by and it was a cool one with many news and articles to talk about! Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). This week we had much-encouraging news on the growth of the XR market. The best of them comes of course from Facebook. Other relevant news. Image by OpenBCI).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Top news of the week. This is also confirmed by the Wired article, where the journalist states that he has been able to see the conference in preview before the general audience. They could build together something that could seriously compete with Facebook and Apple: let’s keep an eye on them. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But we can still rely on Meta that is still spending billions on XR and… OH NO, THE QUEST PRO DIED TOO. Other relevant features introduced in this update are: Facebook Livestreaming is also back, letting people share their gaming sessions directly on Facebook. This reworking is going to introduce new delays to its release.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This has been a week full of interesting news. Top news of the week. In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Other relevant news. Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

I will leave the description of all the news presented at OC6 for a big roundup article that I’ll write during the weekend (as I do every year). Today I want to focus only about the most important announcements, that de facto define the road that Facebook will pursue in the short term future. The death of Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Many people requested it, and it has finally been approved by Facebook. Top news of the week. Other relevant news. Image by Sony). Sony aims at hybrid games for the PSVR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Yesterday I got this amazing news that my Youtube channel has now 1000+ subscribers. And now, with much love, let’s examine the best news of the week in XR! Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). Facebook gets sued for monopolization in US and Germany. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

It means that every week, even if I have absolutely no willingness to do it, even if I am busy with other projects, I have to write some articles. I made this meme in Word in 5 minutes, and it started spreading like fire. Internet is beautiful. The VR Fast was also fast in dying.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. Top news of the week. Other relevant news. But I’ve not put this news at such a high place in my roundup because of tech stuff, but for its emotional power. Image by Lynx).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Just after Facebook has launched Ray-Ban Stories smartglasses developed in collaboration with Luxottica and just before Apple Event, Xiaomi has entered the smartglasses field with its own product , just announced on its blog. Facebook has just launched its device, too. Specifications. Commentary. Thanks to Kun Dong for the tip!).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This week in XR hasn’t been that interesting, we had mostly some minor news… but as always, this hasn’t stopped me from finding some notable things to know…. Top news of the week. The growth of VR headsets still fits an exponential curve and this is a piece of FANTASTIC news. Other relevant news. Image by Lynx).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

Remember that in those old days, every year was either “the year of VR” or “the year VR died”, and I, as a believer, was more of the first kind, so in 2024, I was already expecting lightweight AR glasses worn by people in the streets. Because it’s f **g true. And our field, too.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2021

Some days ago, Facebook has surprisingly launched Horizon Workrooms, its solution to offer remote business meetings in virtual reality. The launch has been seasoned with the usual fluff about the metaverse and Zuckerberg has said that people at Facebook have already been using this product for their meetings for months.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The reason some use LBVR is they are only looking at commercial rather than the entertainment (or they are trying to make their articles unique!). We will get to see if a closed ecosystem against an open development market will work, and how much the Facebook login issues will impact buying habits. Is LBVR dead?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Top news of the week. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Other relevant news. This is anyway good news. Image by Apple).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Top news of the week. First of all, the market is growing with a good rate of 30% year-over-year , and this is great news especially for the developers that want to make a living out of Steam content. Other relevant news. But at least the good news is that many Americans have seen something about VR on the TV.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The reason is that the whole ecosystem is not ready yet : We have basically only one vendor that has some kind of mainstream appeal (Facebook) and the rest of the market is all focused on the enterprise. I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder. The Quest 2 is a product to which is difficult to say no.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Top news of the week. Reading between the lines of its announcement, where they talked about a future roadmap, it is clear that they are most probably going to launch a new consumer-oriented device in the next 12 months (and those who participate in the beta will get -a 35% discount on that headset). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

The hype is too high, the news will reach so many people, that I (and with me, anyone else) can’t predict what will exactly happen. Go is the new Gear VR; What is the destiny of the Oculus Go? Oculus may tease or launch a new kind of Quest. But at the same time, this is a piece of bad news if you’re a little team.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Time will tell — but for now, here are nine dating sites and apps that died. Sparked Facebook Dating launched in 2019, five years after founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed (in now-leaked emails) that Facebook was a better dating site than Tinder. At least there's Grindr. Missed Connections Oh, Craigslist Missed Connections.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Jokes apart, before starting, let me send a big hug to all of you that are in quarantine because of the coronavirus and thank all the people that in these days have cared about me after having heard the sad news about Italy (Simon, David, Daniel, Suzie, Mark… John that has been so kind… Sebastian, and many others!). Top news of the week.

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ARVR

APRIL 1, 2021

I introduced the thing every week just like I introduced this article: We’ve all lost so much, what would you like to Say Goodbye to ? Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Then their father died. accepted him as a Friend on Facebook not knowing his Dad had died suddenly and unexpectedly that morning. Enter The Monarchy 3.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 9, 2017

We’re expecting a lot of news from Sony here so don’t miss it. — Make sure you stick around the rest of the week for all the latest on VR gaming and check out our E3 news hub for all of the latest. Update: The Intel and PC Gamer Show was missing when this article was first published. We’ll see you then!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

I’m super excited that this week I’ve shared the news that we of NTW are going to launch our game HitMotion:Reloaded on November, 27th. But there have been also many wider-scope news this week that I want to discuss with you, so let’s start talking about them! Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. To further define this, paid AR ad placement takes form in branded lenses that companies pay to amplify on AR networks like Snap and Facebook. For example, the web’s killer apps have matured into mundane but pervasive activities like search, email, news, and shopping. And yes, we’ll invoke the m-word.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

I hoped that in this period all VR people were in vacation, so that I could relax a bit… instead this week there have been tons of interesting news and articles… even more than usual! Top news of the week. Other relevant news. This week, Facebook wanted to show the world that it has some crazy skills with BCI as well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ). It even just got the release of new headsets like Bigscreen Beyond. Contextual AI is on the rise Couldn’t I write a tech article in 2024 without mentioning AI? Of course not.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 29, 2017

As journalists — especially those, who publish multiple articles weekly — we’re often so focused on the now-now-now, that we rarely take a step back and reflect on stories from a few news cycles ago. Because, in retrospect, it’s easy to see how this dynamic becomes fertile ground for “fake news.”. note: all times PST].

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

Analysts now don’t say anymore that VR has died. Mike Verdu announces the statistics on the most successful titles on Quest at Facebook Connect last year. These are the success cases companies like to show, while all the failures rarely come to light (Image by Facebook). Seize the opportunities.

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