The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

First of all, one of the leakers affirms having found the info from a Chinese video on BilliBilli, but then some Chinese people saw the same video and said that it said nothing that was contained in the leak. There is also a new render about the upcoming elite strap and a lot of videos about its high-quality passthrough in action.

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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! Meta Quest Pro announcement video. So if you just want to play VR games, you had better buy a Quest 2 or a Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

More info Other relevant news (Image by Upload) Upload VR Summer Showcase brought news about many games As usual, Upload VR had its Summer Showcase, in which it announced many pieces of news about many VR games. More games are experimenting with Gorilla-Tag-like movement mechanics , and 2.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung. It is cool that at the end of the video, the glasses show also the capability to work as sunglasses, and this means that you can carry them everywhere with you, even outside. More info (Both videos in this Twitter thread).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

It has all been because of these three pieces of news: My blog is now 5 years old ! I still can’t believe that I did it for so long… and this is also been possible thanks to your support Our game HitMotion: Reloaded has been approved on App Lab and even Upload VR reported the news ! Facebook, please do something about it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Talking about content, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is one of the first series shot with Apple’s ‘Immersive Video’ format and is set to debut on Apple TV+ in late 2023. Submitting a game for the Rift Store is problematic (trust me, I have a game submitted there and it has never been approved), and now Among Us is abandoning it.

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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. It seems that the company has chosen a price tag around $10B and has already proposed to some companies including Facebook and Johnson&Johnson. This is so sad.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

I am super happy about it, it’s like a dream coming true… On Wednesday 7th at 11:15–11:30 am CEST I will (remotely) speak together with Massimiliano Ariani at the famous Laval Virtual event , in the fitness track, where we will speak about HitMotion: Reloaded (btw download our game now !) The revenue from the sold headsets is so around $2.4B

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

Virtual reality and zombies go together like video games and…well, zombies. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is still one of the best VR games to date on any platform so any time this franchise gets another dose of VR goodness it’s good news. Tagged with: resident evil , Vendetta Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I think that part of the problem is a misunderstanding on purpose: Meta is selling the device as a prosumer one, but also as an advanced way to play games. People think it is a gaming device, but then the price doesn’t match their expectations, and so they get angry. Top news of the week. Image by Meta). Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

the GPU power of the previous model , and the comparison of the various games in their before vs. after versions is impressive. Finally with this chipset, games don’t appear just as flat colors anymore, but some real-time lighting becomes possible. Meta has also revealed that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is coming to Quest in December.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. Recorded or not, the result was so cool that videos of Ignite conference became viral in all the XR community. Maybe the release of the Quest 2 has forced them to level up the game.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

More info (NYE parties in VRChat) More info (Video streaming of Jean-Michel Jarre’s concert) More info (Animations around the space needle) More info (Editorial on virtual events becoming always more popular). Even more, it is easily attachable to objects and it costs less than the $100 price tag of the official Trackers. More info.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

According to a blog post diving into the research , here is how it works: The core idea behind our technique is to use a 3D model of the user’s face as a proxy for the hidden face. This proxy is used to synthesize the face in the MR video, thereby creating an impression of the headset being removed. This gaze database (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Gorilla Tag is coming to the Quest Store! The ultra-popular indie game Gorilla Tag is finally coming to the Quest Store! It was an absurdity that this game had not been admitted to the Quest Store yet, but finally Meta surrendered to reject humanity and return to monke. Prepare to return to monke. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

Facebook has lifted the embargo on Horizon and so we have started seeing the first reviews and videos about it. After a long silence, Respawn Entertainment has finally released some new info about the upcoming AAA VR game Medal Of Honor: Above and beyond. This is a PC-only game. You can now try Google’s volumetric videos.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Roblox employees will spend more time using Roblox for remote meetings than with video 6. The game is now fully playable without controllers, a feature that will be very important to be compatible with the headset from Apple. We will share a universal civility metric, and show that for most players, it increases over time 5.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Legend of Zelda has long been my favorite video game franchise and the prospect of walking through Kakariko Village , exploring Lake Hylia , and entering the iconic Hyrule Castle with my own body in a digital space seemed like a far off fantasy. . Tagged with: a link to the past , hyrule , map , nintendo , switch , zelda.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

You all know that I love Brain-Computer Interfaces, and so I have been very happy when NextMind has proposed to give me a sample of its brain-reading sensor to review here on my blog. NextMind Video Review. If you like detailed video reviews, this one is for you! Thinking that it was a doomed video, I decided to leave it as was.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. This has been quite an interesting week. Reviewers told that the tracking quality was very good. And this makes me a bit happy.

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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! If he’s right, what surprises me the most is the $499 price tag.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 9, 2017

Our final goal is to create a device that provides a richer experience in VR…but you could imagine it being used for surgery and video games, among other applications.”. Video games, for instance, would have to include information such as what part of the player’s body a bullet hit.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Microsoft) Xbox executives are still not interested in XR Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has reiterated the fact that Xbox is not interested in implementing VR because it’s too niche. A very interesting video explains why the Quest Pro has actually more resolution than Quest 2.

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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. So let’s try to rephrase this last paragraph using the same style used by VR Youtubers in the title of their videos to attract more people: THIS EXPLOSIVE WEEK IN VR HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!! The Upload VR Showcase has been full of announcements about VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. This is the biggest tracking area among the standalone headsets on the market, and while it is totally useless at home, having such a big area is important in entertainment locations because it lets players move around a big space to play their games. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

It features the store by iQiYi , and this makes it launch together with games like Fruit Ninja and Arizona Sunshine. The starting price tag is 2,999 yuan (~$440). More info (Lenovo Legion VR700 launched) More info (Lenovo Legion VR700 launch video). The price will increase to 3299 yuan (~$484) after the initial sales.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by NVIDIA). Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

Apart from the announcement per se, I’ve found it very interesting to hear the words of the founder Renji Bijoy about it (if you have 10m, watch his interview in the video linked here below). It is a great mix of Gorilla Tag and Rocket League!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 10, 2017

According to a blog post published today on the official Oculus website: We want to make it easy to share memorable virtual moments with your friends and family on Facebook. As the above video demonstrates, Livestream to Facebook for Gear VR will push out an up-to-the-minute first-person view of your VR experience.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 26, 2022

“People have spent over $1 billion on Meta Quest apps, helping to fuel developers’ businesses as they deliver the games and experiences that make VR great,” the company said in a blog post. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently showed off the device’s mixed-reality capabilities in a demo video.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By using a green screen and inventive camera setup, users can project the game world to the screen and let it surround the player — as if they are actually standing inside the VR experience itself. This not only looks great in video, but does a wonderful job of communicating what it’s like inside the headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Ace Combat and Resident Evil are both well established video game franchises currently promoting the 7th main entry in their respective collections of games. Later into the event, Sony and Chandana Ekanayake & Forrest Smith of Uber Entertainment revealed new information on their PS VR game Dino Frontier via a blog post.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This isn’t the long-awaited sequel to the 2005 game (though that is on the way), but instead a VR-exclusive story set right after those events. Double Fine also has a new 3D 360 video screenshot for the game, which you can check out on PSVR itself using the YouTube app, or watch on a smartphone or browser.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Now Kert Gartner, an indie game trailer maker is experimenting with what he thinks is a better way of showing VR. Featured in these new clips are Space Pirate Trainer (above) and Fantastic Contraption (below), two games that fully utilize room scale VR on the HTC Vive and, from tomorrow, the Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In 2015 he launched the first VR escape game in the world. He started selling VR escape games and now he is CEO at Avatarico. The company created 5 VR escape games and sold them to more than 100 locations across the globe. Since 2015 there are 200 000 customers played these games. . ” LB VR types.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

For sure, as someone pointed out on Reddit, that number includes people in every kind of role, from game developers to customer support not to mention researchers. The second one relates to a system that tries to understand what is happening inside videos. More info (HCI of the future) More info (AI for videos). Some XR fun.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” Right now, the most common use case for networked 3D experiences is online video games.

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