The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

The company’s XR portfolio covers everything from augmented reality smart glasses to a cloud-based platform for digital workflow creation. Goertek Goertek produces a variety of hardware and device options for the XR space, including augmented reality smart glasses and comprehensive VR headsets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We’ve seen various flavors over the years such as Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D , and of course Google Earth and Street View. How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3. How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Step Forward All of this took a step forward last week?—?including

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. Mainstream venture capitalists pumped up startups in virtual and augmented reality in the third quarter, with a record $2.3 Ellsworth: Right.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. Controllers: Two wireless hand-held controllers. HTC Vive Pro 2. Tracking: Two external base stations for full-space tracking, inside-out tracking for hand tracking including per-finger tracking on the controllers.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

If not, well, let me make a recap: startup Lynx opened the preorders some months ago about a new standalone headset all focused on having both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality , and featuring amazing capabilities like eye tracking, hand tracking, a new lens design, and 5G connectivity (through an add-on).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

While hardware advancements such as the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift have solidified at-home VR as a viable option, those looking for next-level immersion will still find the most success with location-based VR installations. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Moreover, Immersed is debuting its Visor product at a lower price than the Vision Pro, perhaps creating a wild card in XR competition alongside significant players such as Meta, Microsoft, HTC, Lenovo, Xreal, and Varjo. Immersed is launching its new product at a starting price of $499 , far lower than competing device prices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

From that day, many people have started asking me more about this augmented reality device, so I understood it was time for one of my big reviews! is the second iteration of the Realmax augmented reality glasses (the first one was the Realmax 100). Are you ready to discover more about Realmax Qian? RealMax Qian.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Given its great expertise in image analysis and its big user base, Snap is another company to keep an eye on for the future of augmented reality. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. It seems that this test has been a success, and so now Microsoft has won now a bigger contract to carry on the project: $21.88B (!!)

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! A leak by the famous leaker WalkingCat shows some pictures of the HP Reverb G2, which is the result of a collaboration between HP, Microsoft, and Valve. Image by Microsoft).

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Zappar was also nominated in the Best Developer Tool category for the ZapWorks SDK , and in the Best Head-Worn Device category for the new-and-improved ZapBox – a mobile phone adapter that includes targets and two hand-tracking controller wands. Alvin Graylin, HTC China President, presented the Auggie for Best Head-Worn Device.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Facebook has found a way to provide very robust hands tracking. A paper by FRL Research shows a new algorithm that Facebook has found to provide optimal bimanual hands tracking. HTC is going to deprecate Vive Pro and Vive Pro Eye. HTC is so guaranteeing continuity while deprecating the headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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ARPost

JUNE 5, 2023

By the time we have the Apple headset and the new Quest 3, everybody is going to be freaking out about how great hand tracking is and moving into this new world of possibilities,” said Moulder. More on AI AI isn’t distracting anyone from XR and Apple isn’t distracting anyone from AI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. On the enterprise side, many AR headsets, from firms like RealWear and Microsoft, for on-site usage provide eye and hand-tracking features to optimize workplace operations and communications.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC launches Vive Flow headset for relaxation, priced at $499. After endless teasings and leaks, in the end, HTC has finally unveiled its headset: called Vive Flow, it is a lightweight device for media consumption. Top news of the week. Chipset : Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 Display Type : LCD Display resolution : 3.2K

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. Huawei is advertising these glasses as competitors of Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro, but don’t get mislead by this. The actual specifications are more or less this one: Total 3K resolution (3200×1600); Around 70° FOV; 3 DOF rotational tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). First of all, Peter Chou, ex founder of HTC , has launched his startup XrSpace, with his first VR headset Mova (that you can see in the header image of this post), together with its social XR platform Manova.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. According to a report, LG is working on augmented reality glasses that should connect to the phone, be very light (around 80g) and be ready for 2021.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then. Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. As headsets become more sophisticated, the devices record increasing user data, from hand tracking, eye tracking, environment scanning and more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. The company has just revealed the Vive Wrist Tracker, which is an external 6DOF tracking unit that can be put on the wrist of the user or also on external props.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g. Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. Microsoft finally enables Research Mode on HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. Microsoft and Nreal have developed a very interesting research project to help blind children in speaking with people around them. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!), Image by Ray-Ban).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More info Microsoft is still committed to HoloLens 2 All this bad press about Microsoft leaving Mixed Reality has made the company release a press statement in which it states its commitment to HoloLens 2, IVAS, and mixed reality in general. Learn more Hand tracking is now available also in three.js

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today Tilt Five is launching its Kickstarter campaign for its innovative augmented reality glasses for tabletop gaming. I know it’s not your first rodeo with augmented reality…) ( 0:36 ). That’s where I got started with augmented reality. Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You've seen it from pre-DK1 days -- where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape -- and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that's not even connected to computers. You've written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. Dean: Yeah.

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