Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2018

Google Blocks, the 3D object creation tool for VR/AR app developers, just got a big update that includes new environments, improved object snapping, and a number of experimental features that the company says makes Blocks “more powerful and even easier to use.” New Features.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

Google has great expertise in building operating systems, plus its Google Play store would have let Meta Quest become compatible with all its Android Apps out of the box. This allows frontline workers to share streamlined workflows and real-time thermal insights that help make informed decisions in high-risk environments.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2018

Google is finally bringing the official YouTube VR app to the Oculus Store for Samsung Gear VR soon. Google also announced a new social feature coming alongside the Gear VR app which will allow you to chat with friends while watching videos. The company says it will be available on Daydream View and Gear VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

As it is a tradition of this blog , I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! 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. Further references. Shiftall MeganeX.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

HTC is shipping the Vive Focus 3. HTC has started shipping the Vive Focus 3, so we have started reading the first reviews about it. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. Google Poly has recently shut down, leaving creators without an open and free place where to share their 3D creations with the other members of the community.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Image from The Information). This week The Information has written a long report about the history of Apple XR glasses. Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Chinese giant Baidu (The Google of China) has announced its XiRang platform aimed at building the metaverse. Top news of the week. Donate for good.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Facebook has acquired Ctrl+Labs some years ago, and now it is using its expertise to create a wristband that can sense the motion information that your brain is sending to your hands. As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. It displays additional information regarding the captured environment.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

People seeking visas, passport renewals, and updated country info can use cross-platform tools to receive key information and documents for their travels. Companies such as Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE rely on AI to assist in foveated rendering. into their services and platforms.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 Last year, Google also acquired North, an AR smart glass manufactures.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

My blog has just turned 4 years old and I’m incredibly happy about it! Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. The HTC Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

We all wonder what is happening, and a Redditor, that seems informed on the fact, claims that it should be all about the mandatory Facebook login. FRL Research (the previous Facebook Reality Labs) has just published a blog post detailing the amazing research it is doing on audio for Facebook’s future AR glasses. HTC, you did it again.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. In particular, it investigates how it is possible to build an informative AR experience that can accompany an article. People think it is a gaming device, but then the price doesn’t match their expectations, and so they get angry.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by The Information) New Apple headset rumor talks about natural interactions and content creation tools Rumors and leaks about the upcoming Apple headset are being wisely slowly spilled week after week to keep the attention on the headset high. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

In case there is another platform involved, e.g. Android, 30% will go to Google, and 25% of the remaining money (i.e. Palmer Luckey has published a blog post on his own website to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Oculus, the company he founded. Image by The Information). HTC Vive is going to launch… a box. Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Fouché leaves Magic Leap less than a week after an article by The Information ( subscription required ) questioned the incredibly well-funded company’s readiness to ship a mixed reality product. A LinkedIn profile for Fouché lists him formerly in the Magic Leap position. Abovitz has helped secure roughly $1.4

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. Image by The Information). It seems like a great tethered headset for the PS5. Other relevant news. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

There are most probably many more people that failed doing VR games than the few ones whose success the big stores highlight in their blog posts. But it is still a niche : as Mathew Olson from The Information highlights, “[PwC data] translates to a projected $6.9 This helps a lot if you want to be independent.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

In a recent blog post highlighting the firm’s ten-year immersive journey, the company teased that new smart glasses are incoming. During the blog post, Meta notes that a new AR device is coming that combines AR and AI in more sophisticated ways. Initially, Meta remained the key leading champion in the XR space.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I’ve heard that Google is opening the Daydream platform to MR apps and also Oculus is working on some kind of passthrough for the Quest, even if the 4 cameras are positioned in the corners and […] are in an ideal arrangement for [Mixed Reality passthrough]. The Vive Focus controller, as seen from inside Beat Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. The same on Twitter. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room. Full of useful information, with us on the stage having fun while doing it, and with a lot of engagement from the virtual audience. Create a network of people that can inform you about initiatives.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! HTC announces Vive Pro Secure. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

These guidelines are contained in a document entitled “Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Accelerating the Development of Virtual Reality Industry” and has been released by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. You can find the original text in Mandarin here.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I know, I’m too honest… and this is not good for views on my blog. Image by HTC). It seems that motion sickness triggers some specific areas of the brain, and this information can be used to study motion sickness in further detail and assess the validity of methods to contrast it. Google details Project Starline.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

But this is known since a lot (see all the work researchers are doing with smart prosthetics), and the Matrix is something far more different than it : it would require injecting information into all areas the brain, something for which now we have just very simple experiments. Anyway, see you in Half-Life today! Yes, Android, Google.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Then, The Information has reported a similar rumor, but talking about other glasses, codenamed Stella , that should be similar to Snap’s Spectacles and be released much sooner than 2023 (it could be the 1st generation of devices created by this partnership). More info (Report by CNBC) More info (Report by The Information).

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Many of his games started by searching for inspiration on Google Images and using MURAL for massive mood boards during the course of the project’s development. For more information and the full interview, kindly visit Meta’s blog. He told Meta that had constantly been moving between projects at different stages.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

It’s a beautiful summer day and I’m quite happy because this week my blog has turned three years old ! This would mean that it has sold more than Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, and HTC Vive Focus all together. Project Soli to be implemented inside the Google Pixel 4. Happy blog’s birthday, Tony!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

This is the current SteamVR controller pricing in GBP (shipping to UK) at the time the article was written: HTC Vive controller (2018) single £193 includes free shipping and tax HTC Vive controller (2018) pair £386.00 online trade portal (the information appears a little dated): Business Information. Factory Information*.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! Do you remember when everyone was mocking HTC for its super-high prices and people were praising Meta for its cheap costs?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. The fact that Unity supports it, implies that any game developed in Unity will be able to run either in the HTC Vive, the Oculus Rift or any other OpenVR-enabled hardware. Introduction to OpenVR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). Google is also a company that is investing a lot in AR and VR (Image by Road To VR).

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