The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

HTC discounts its headsets. HTC has started a good discount on its headsets that will last until the end of the month. Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture. You decide what to think about it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure. Gear VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The ecosystem is full of people that keep writing articles about “How we will study in the metaverse”, “How we will work in the metaverse”, and that make talks about how one day we will have a concert with 20,000 people all together in VR like if it was happening in real life. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This week, Upload is marking the start of its third year and this post is exactly article number 3,000 published for the site. Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. In fact, it was prior to most of the editorial team joining. December 2015. January 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. image courtesy VR First. Vancouver Film School, Canada. VIGAMUS Academy, Italy.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market. The premies are all good, but will it actually deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2018

In this article I want to show you what it is, its characteristics and also a brief interview with DreamGlass CEO, so that you can decide if it is something that suits your needs. HTC has understood that too, and that’s why its latest flagship phone can be a controller for the Vive Focus. HTC: 10, U11. on the screen).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lots of articles by the so-called press were full of statements about the death of VR, or the fact that VR is a gimmick. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. General trends. Mobile headsets. Mobile headsets are dying.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. I own a Vive Focus since seven months; I’m also a developer for Go and a Rift and I have read everything I could about the Quest (if you have missed the super round-up article on it , run to read it). The never-ending story.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in. Samsung AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention. but we know zero about it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. I already dedicated an article about how the tracking technology of Google is awesome. Unity Development. Then, keep reading.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

If you already know the headset very well, and just want to read my considerations, go straight to the final part of this article. Comparison of the speakers solutions in the Oculus Quest (left) and HTC Vive Focus Plus (right). Strangely, it is even more expensive than HTC’s standalone. Specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). and I can expect more realistic filters with depth occlusion to come soon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Do you remember the leaked letter written by Zuckerberg when he wanted to acquire Unity? Many other headset vendors are now targeting the B2B sector because they can’t compete with Facebook on the consumers’ one (Image by HTC Vive). The tech world domination. No competition. What if you don’t like this vision?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

I’m very interested in this device, that’s why I dedicated various articles to it, like the tutorial on how to get started with Go on Unity , how to stream the headset content to an external screen and my comparison with the Vive Focus. Unity development. The headset. The post Oculus Go review: should you buy it?

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Likewise, the VR presentation on the Microsoft booth at the education show was muted – rather than the bewildering array of Windows MR headsets seen two years ago, the company promoted the virtual learning systems on only one provider, with the Samsung Odyssey on display giving an example of the education content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

In this article, I am going to summarize all the info that we know about this headset … so that if you are unsure about buying it or not, you can make your decision in a better way. But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While I often discuss the long-term potential of AR & VR, in this article I'm reviewing Apple Vision Pro as it stands as a real product today. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The article talks about a Russian experiment to improve the mood of cows. I don’t know if it is the plan, but for sure it is a possibility.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Alan: An amazing article. So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But a lot of it is independent.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Alan: An amazing article. So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But a lot of it is independent.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Alan: An amazing article. So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it's a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But a lot of it is independent.

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