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!!!!! Image by Upload). It has been a great fest for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

This is good because it means that slowly Meta’s social VR experience is arriving in all the countries of the Western world. Upload VR) More info (Zuck teases new graphics for Horizon?—?Polygon). Road To VR) More info (Logitech Chorus?—?Upload Upload VR). Lenovo announces its Legion VR 700 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Temperatures are getting colder, but not in VR… here it is going to be a very hot week with the launch of the Quest 3! Top news of the week (Image from Upload VR) Pico 5 leaks show a very ambitious product line The leaks on the Pico 5 are intensifying , which usually means that the device is going to be announced quite soon.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

It has just authorized other VR OEMs to use its Quest operating system and blurred the lines between the Meta Quest Store and App Lab. And it didn’t end very well: the first headset was made by HTC and Valve, and as soon as HTC realized that much of the VR money was on software, it launched its own store: Viveport.

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ARVR

MAY 19, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2. Developing an Original World-Traveling VR Experience 4. Some references that helped me to write this blog ?? How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

AR Foundation is typically used for AR devices, e.g. smartphones, and it’s the first time to my knowledge that is employed with a VR headset. Between the lines, he said that when VR games will be able to gain 10M users , then Xbox could be interested in going virtual. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for this tip!)

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Upload VR) More info (Apple renaming its MR operating sytem to xrOS?—?Yahoo!) This system could so be employed to have full body tracking inside experiences like VRChat. The good thing about such a system is that it is affordable and very comfortable: you just wear a few bracelets and you can have full-body VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Another week closed at home, sending big hugs to all of you VR enthusiasts of the world. It seems that the company has chosen a price tag around $10B and has already proposed to some companies including Facebook and Johnson&Johnson. Facebook has already refused the acquisition. Other relevant news. This is so sad.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Image by Road To VR, from HTC images). This can be used for enterprise experiences, or to enhance your social VR life on platforms like NeosVR, where you can have your mouth realistically reproduced in VR. But I promise you that visually it will be amazing, and there you will also be able to find some nice easter eggs!

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Did you maybe, but just maybe noticed that you are tagged in some of the photos on Facebook your friend took? Even though you told them not to tag you because you’re drunk as hell and you don’t want your little sister to see it? Well, don’t take on your friend so soon.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 30, 2017

What began as a local meetup group and one man blog has now grown into a multifaceted, strategic organization that we now call Upload, Inc. The name might be different but our mission remains the same: to promote, accelerate and cultivate the VR/AR industries in everything we do. VR is so emotional, so transformative.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We will soon enter Autumn, exactly the season I think VR is in (I’ve just written an editorial about this if you are curious to read it…). The only doubt I have is about what content it is going to offer: if the headset is without controllers, it means is dedicated mostly to social VR, media consumption, and/or virtual screen for the PC.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — CNET) More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — Hand Tracking) Sony to make PSVR 2 compatible with PC To celebrate the first anniversary of PSVR 2 , Sony has written in blog post in which it talks about how it is improving the content catalog its users can access.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Honestly, the launch moment has been a bit underwhelming because Zuck decided to focus the keynote more on AI than on Quest 3 , but for us in the VR field, this has been the most important moment. Yes, the Quest 3 will be able to provide some sort of very rough full-body tracking , which is great for social VR experiences.

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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 ! AR/VR developers, rejoice!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

The Tracker is one of the most successful products sold by HTC: it is mostly used by the VRChat community people to have full-body VR in their favorite social space, or by VR arcades to be able to track props in virtual reality. I think it’s very good because it can finally give full-body VR to many Quest and Vive XR Elite users.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Now that you have your awesome 360/VR videos or photos uploaded to VeeR, how to bring them to a larger audience and get discovered by more people? Search for a specific tag on VeeR App. Search for a specific tag on VeeR website. 2 Easy Ways to hashtag your work: Hashtag your work when you upload it. veereditor.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

It’s summertime, and as usual, during this part of the year, people think about going to the seaside more than about VR, and so the news to talk about are always fewer. On Saturday, 10th at 19:00 CEST I will virtually be at XReality’s Meetup talking about VR events, and what I do together with VRrOOm. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

The conference was held in Altspace VR, but it was not like the usual Altspace meeting, because first of all his avatar (and some other ones) were made with volumetric capture, and then the visuals of the surroundings were amazing and some parts were even interactive. Post your VR dance clips below”. We want to see your dance skills!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) PlayStation VR 2 has been launched This has been the week of PSVR2. Now a new fascinating hypothesis comes from China about Tencent VR: Tencent may be in talks with Meta about becoming a distributor of Quest 2 in China. The two devices were nicknamed Cardiff and Hermosa.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

Let’s leave the summertime sadness to Lana Del Rey… Top news of the week (Image by Immersed) Immersed announced Visor headset The company Immersed is well known in the VR community for its productivity application to have a multi-monitor setup for your computer in virtual reality. It’s a huge result no other VR app ever had.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

All the reviewers highlight it is better than Quest 2, but for most people, there is no real value to justify the $1500 price tag yet. For instance, the full light blocker to have proper VR isn’t shipping until November (another disappointment). Road To VR) More info (Meta Quest Pro review?—?Upload Enjoy Quest Halloween sale.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

And if this CES has been a bit of a disappointment in general, this holds even more for AR and VR, for which we have no crucial announcement. CREAL is a very interesting Swiss startup that Road To VR is following since some years. We had no big reveal, no breakthrough innovation showcased. Senseglove Nova.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s Monday again, so it’s time for a new roundup of the coolest AR and VR news of the week! It was about time that this happened … but it happened many months after the topic was discussed in all VR communities (and that YUR’s Cix Liv had to leave his company for his stance against Facebook/Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

But before digging into them, let me invite you to the official Venice VR Expanded world that I helped building inside VRChat that kickstarts September, 2nd! All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. This week we have lots of news about Ocu…ehm Facebook!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

I hoped that in this period all VR people were in vacation, so that I could relax a bit… instead this week there have been tons of interesting news and articles… even more than usual! The SIGGRAPH has shown some interesting AR/VR solutions. Discover the hottest XR topics of the week in this roundup post…. Top news of the week.

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SpringboardVR

APRIL 24, 2019

Note: We are actively working with VR Arcades to help discover how Educational content can best be used in the VR Arcade setting with the goal of passing these findings on to you! Read more about educational VR content in our 5 EDU Titles for VR Arcades blog!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

It seems that more than 300 people worked on the project, which was headed by Clay Bavor, the head of AR/VR efforts at Google. This can be a great idea, considering the fact that Google already successfully did it for mobile phones and that in VR we had a company, Valve, which did something similar for PCVR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

VR is cool and all the rest, but Italian food is even better! Pico Neo 3 Link is already in the preorder stage , and VR enthusiasts can preorder it via dedicated resellers. But it represents Bytedance officially entering the consumer VR field, and challenging Meta.

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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! Quest Pro specifications (Road To VR) Quest Pro won’t ship with a depth sensor (Upload VR).

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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 one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine.

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