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 weather is getting crazy… a bit like me.

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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).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I think Pico is the only company making a good choice of clearly separating the business and consumer lines. Don’t misunderstand me, the headset has also its good sides, like great lenses and amazing controllers. For instance, the full light blocker to have proper VR isn’t shipping until November (another disappointment).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

After the announcement was made, the game development community (including the VR one) didn’t just backlash, it totally rioted against this decision. The posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless. And this $0.2

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Upload VR) More info (Apple renaming its MR operating sytem to xrOS? 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. Top news of the week.

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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). But the good news is that finally, this feature is coming. Other relevant news. Original image by Meta). The time is now.

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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

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). Specifications.

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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

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. So it’s good that we have simulators, but now we need devkits. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for this tip!) All these official pages before the launch of a Meta headset are pretty uncommon.

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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!!!!! It has been a great fest for VR.

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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. This means that the release of this headset may not happen before the end of 2023 for sure.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2021

This is the first newsletter of the new year, and I hope it will just be the beginning of a wonderful year in AR and VR for all of you! We all hope that this trend will go on also after the pandemic because in VR it is possible to do performances that are impossible in real life (like having a NYE party in Notre-Dame). Welcome 2021!

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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. Reviewers told that the tracking quality was very good. It seems to me a great piece of hardware.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2019

If you were skeptical about the $40 price tag on Sony’s latest PSVR exclusive, Blood & Truth (2019), the company has some good news: you can now play a healthy slice of the game for free starting today. The post ‘Blood & Truth’ Free Demo Lands on PSVR Today appeared first on Road to VR.

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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. Happy Women’s Day to all the women in XR ! You are all fantastic!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There is a lot of hype in the community about the rumored upcoming standalone Valve headset, codenamed Deckard, so everything that may hint at an upcoming release generates excitement in us VR enthusiasts. New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

Minutes after posting this story, a PlayStation Blog post confirmed Arizona Sunshine hits PSVR in June with PlayStation Aim support. PlayStation VR (PSVR) owners are constantly asking for bigger and better games to show off their headset with, and it looks like they might soon get a big one: Vertigo Games’ Arizona Sunshine.

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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. Hello everyone from Palo Alto, California!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 22, 2017

The VR industry and fans have another reason to be excited with the film adaptation of Ernest Cline’s book Ready Player One set to be shown for the first time. The book upon which the film is based is noted for its many pop culture references and we’re given a good handful in the trailer as well.

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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. The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 ! It seems that the company has chosen a price tag around $10B and has already proposed to some companies including Facebook and Johnson&Johnson.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

This is the week of this blog’s birthday and so I’m publishing a very special post, that I’m going to split into two parts. It’s a while that I don’t write something about entrepreneurship, so I thought it could be a good idea to give you some pieces of advice on how to be a good VR startupper.

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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. This is also because the cameras of the headset are mostly pointed towards the lower region… and for a good reason.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

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. They were made for each other. h/t: Push Square.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

I just send you a lot of good vibes, hoping that this summery week will bring you sun, fun, and joy. It’s been a bit of a crazy week for me, and I hope it has been a bit more relaxing for you. It has just announced VISOR, a new high-end headset to be used together with its app.

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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. Yesterday I have eaten a lot, including a chocolate egg and an Easter cake with tons of pistachio and hazelnut cream. Top news of the week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 17, 2017

Today, Disney is announcing a new virtual reality experience for Oculus Rift with Touch and Gear VR. Lumiere’s Dress Rehearsal is being made available through the Disney Movies VR app that can be downloaded now for free on Oculus Home for Rift and Gear VR. accent quite as good as Jerry Orbach’s nostalgic baritone.

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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). Beat Games). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Image by Road To VR, from HTC images). The launch date is on March, 24th, 5 days before the Kickstarter launch of Tundra: a good way to ruin the party to its competitor. 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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 31, 2017

Microsoft’s planned roll out of a whole suite of VR headsets continues with the revelation of designs from Dell and ASUS. The Acer headset uses a new technology called “impulse backlighting” that addresses the requirements for good mixed reality experiences. Tagged with: microsoft Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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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! So many memories… who was there already in VR with me? We’ll see….

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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. The pandemic has hit also one of the most important technological expo of the year, the CES, that this year was held digitally. We had no big reveal, no breakthrough innovation showcased.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Among the top 5 news I have chosen, only 1 is about VR. In an interview with the fantastic blog The Ghost Howls (I don’t know if you have ever heard of it), Kura Technologies’s CEO/CTO Kelly Peng has revealed some interesting info about their upcoming AR glasses. Top news of the week. Image leaked by WalkingCat). Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, recently published an article with his thoughts on what it will take for VR to reach the mainstream. Perhaps not coincidentally, the piece published on Luckey’s personal blog this week comes just after reported priority shuffling at his former company, Oculus. .

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