The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Steam VR headsets reach an all-time high. According to the estimates by Road To VR, the number could be as big as 3.4 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. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2021

On July 8th, Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual, one of the most awaited VR games of 2021, will be released on Oculus Quest (you can wishlist it here ). It is the re-proposition of the famous duo Sam & Max , that was very popular in the 90s, but this time in a completely different format, that is a VR game.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The price of the Pro received a lot of critics and angry comments from the VR enthusiasts , that were expecting something like $799 for the full package and $499 for only the upgrade. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material. Oculus Go showcased. Vive Trackers 2.0

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WILL JIMMY FALLON’S NEW VIRTUAL REALITY SEGMENT HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF VR? MONETIZING VR: PREMIUM CONTENT AND TV APPS.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Also website like WEARVR get a chance to grow without the company software distribution platforms, I see that there are appearing more OSVR games every week. For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor. The OSVR is packed in a brown cardboard box which is bit similar to the Oculus Rift DK2 box.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Formerly known for its linear, story-driven VR adventure series The Gallery , Pistol Whip is a surprising shift for Cloudhead Games into VR’s rhythm and shooting genres. Developer: Cloudhead Games. Available On: Oculus ( Rift , Quest ), Steam (Index, Vive, Rift, WMR), Viveport (Vive, Index, Rift, WMR).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

And don’t worry, your favorite ghost will keep haunting you with VR news all over the year, not only during Halloween! I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021! VR adoption is increasing, and Quest is its lead. The best of them comes of course from Facebook. I’m sure you will love it, so don’t miss it! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2022

It is a modular system that can track either only your legs to let you walk naturally in VR , or your full body for cool dancing performances in VRChat. Briefly, I’m a Tech Savvy, VR enthusiast who has a background in Electronics Engineering and Product Management. And all of this for a very small price. I have interviewed Tu?ra

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This is especially true for those brave enough to participate in Black Friday, a night so barbaric it’s basically the equivalent of a suburban gladiator fight; except instead of battling for their lives, these “warriors” are battling for 25% off the latest Samsung 4K TV. PS VR BUNDLES GALORE! PS VR BUNDLES GALORE!

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2020

Before EA’s upcoming space combat game Star Wars: Squadrons launches on PC VR and PSVR October 2nd, you may consider popping into a few of these VR-compatible flight combat games to get a head start on the competition. We’ve listed both PC VR and PSVR games below. Price : $25.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

For VR and AR, well, summer is seldom the right moment to have many great news, so this week hasn’t been that exciting. Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. ), that I sincerely thank from the bottom of my heart. Top news of the week. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

This week VR is dead again. Like an out-of-season VR Halloween. which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded). Sorry to inform you about that. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2,

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Road to VR

JULY 30, 2020

Onward has come a long way since it first launched into Early Access on Steam back in 2016. While we’re still waiting for a ‘full release’ of the game four years later, indie studio Downpour Interactive has managed to tighten up the team-based shooter to fit onto Oculus Quest, replete with PC VR cross-play.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

For XR, instead, it has not been a special week at all: we had a bunch of nice news, plus the usual articles saying “Oh, VR is not mainstream yet, it will never be blablabla”. For the second kind of articles, well, look online, and I’m sure you will find some journalists who say that VR is just a fad while donning their Cardboards.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Much as I’d enjoyed many experiences and games with the Vive and Index controllers, both had their own issues. With many games now catering for the popular free locomotion movement style, the lack of joysticks seemed an odd choice for a new controller in 2022. How would they work with current VR software? From the China.cn

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Digi-Capital reported that venture capitalists invested $500 million in augmented reality and VR during the third quarter, with 65 percent of that money coming from mainstream traditional VCs. At that rate, VR is consuming a measurable part of VC investments in the world. It focuses on media, AR/VR, and A.I.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

What better publicity could a VR company ask for, than to have an Avenger demo your product in prime time, on one of the most-watched talk shows in America? She has broad experience in traditional film, TV, digital media, augmented reality, virtual reality and video games. They can do this now in VR.” How did that happen?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

What better publicity could a VR company ask for, than to have an Avenger demo your product in prime time, on one of the most-watched talk shows in America? She has broad experience in traditional film, TV, digital media, augmented reality, virtual reality and video games. They can do this now in VR.” How did that happen?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

What better publicity could a VR company ask for, than to have an Avenger demo your product in prime time, on one of the most-watched talk shows in America? Alan: Today's guest is Jenna Seiden and she's an entertainment and emerging technology consultant in VR, AR artificial intelligence, and IOT, and she's a social impact investor.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Of course, not much has happened in the VR field in these days, because most VR companies are in vacations, and VR journalists are not writing many posts as well (in these days, we just see a lot of fluff articles like “The best 25 games for Oculus Quest” and things like that). Wasn’t VR dead?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

VR is cool and all the rest, but Italian food is even better! Pico aims at having 200 pieces of content at launch , and it is actively seeking interesting applications, not necessarily in the gaming field. It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

But now, it is the turn of some cool AR and VR news…. Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. The latest report on virtual reality by SuperData doesn’t offer us great news on the VR landscape. The Quest is selling well, and Oculus itself didn’t expect billions of sales. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

I’m preparing to celebrate this birthday by hanging around in some social VR environment and chatting with people that will be there. Gear VR is dead. Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Original image by Oculus). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. For the PC, the connected headset is more or less like a Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This has led to long manufacturing delays and component shortages , especially for the silicon processors used in everything from electric cars and smartphones to game consoles and VR equipment. I was now officially a SteamVR developer, and free to build games or hardware for release on the Steam platform.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Quest Pro specifications (Road To VR) Quest Pro won’t ship with a depth sensor (Upload VR). According to Meta, Pro has a 25% improvement in sharpness at the center of the field-of-view, and a 50% improvement across the periphery. Specifications. Meta Quest Pro and controllers (Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond is one of the most awaited VR games of 2020. Oculus and Respawn Entertainment teased it in 2017 at OC4 describing it as an AAA war game. The game may work also on inferior hardware, but glitches may happen. But actually, we had in the last 2 days much negative info, too.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021.

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