The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meta’s offering could so become this one: Quest 3 Lite, 64G, $199 Quest 3 Lite, 128G, $299 Quest 3 Lite, 256G, $399 Quest 3, 256G, $499 Quest 3, 512G, $649 And there is more: Meta is working on a partnership with Tencent to distribute the Quest 3 Lite also in China and compete with Pico in its own home. More info — Use Google Translate!

Unity 340

Unity Ukraine Microsoft Samsung 340

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

AR 335

AR Microsoft Sony Ukraine 335

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. Pico is facing in China internal confusion and mediocre sales. A report coming from China reveals interesting information about Pico. sales, while in China now it has sold less than 50K units.

Apple 333

Apple China Ukraine Unity 333

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

On the left side, there is the Daydream logo, that reminds the user that this is a product whose software has been offered by Google, and the Lenovo logo, because this hardware has been manufactured by Lenovo. What I really appreciated have been the lenses : I think that Google here used all its expertise on the field. WTF, really.

Google 321

Google Controllers Virtual Reality Oculus 321

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies. While HTC is struggling on the hardware side, I think that it is moving very well to create a good software ecosystem, at least in China.

HTC 410

HTC Oculus Conference China 410

The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

Apple 273

Apple Ukraine Samsung Data 273

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

I’m writing this newsletter across Hangzhou and Qingdao, which are two cities I personally love here in China! Top news of the week (Image by Pico) Pico launches Pico 4 Ultra and Motion Tracker in Europe and Asia After the launch in China, Pico has launched its latest product, Pico 4 Ultra, also in Europe and Asia.

Asia 309

Asia Europe Samsung Unity 309

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Actually, the first launch has happened in China with the Vive Focus at the end of 2017, but we had the full development of the ecosystem now. Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. Standalone headsets. 2018 has been the year of standalone headsets. You just turn them on and they work.

Virtual Reality 318

Virtual Reality Oculus China Samsung 318

VRWorld

JANUARY 10, 2018

“With the release of uSensAR, we are allowing developers, smartphone manufacturers, and content creators to build those AR experiences not just for iPhone, Pixel and Samsung S8 users… but for the entire Android ecosystem,” he continued. The uSensAR platform will support Unity , C++ and Java.

Augmented Reality 49

Augmented Reality Las Vegas Unity China 49

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Meta is having funding issues because of the new trade wars between America and China. Samsung itself has stated that it is very interested in developing a future headset that is able to deliver both AR and VR. Google Maps in AR).

Augmented Reality 397

Augmented Reality Magic Leap Leap Motion AR 397

The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Also thanks to the supply chain in China that has started again after the coronavirus crisis, the Oculus Quest and Rift S are now available in most countries , excluded the US, South Korea, and Canada.

Apple 309

Apple Unreal Oculus Tools 309

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Huawei VR glasses are now available in China.

Oculus 208

Oculus Hand tracking AR Unity 208

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. The Quest can be acquired in China from Amazon US , or from various resellers on Taobao.

Virtual Reality 321

Virtual Reality Oculus Controllers Gaming 321

Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While HTC is only releasing the headset in China, and not in the West as previously announced, the company is using Vive Focus as the impetus for its own mobile VR platform that aims to resolve what HTC calls a “highly fragmented” mobile VR market in China, and become a common platform and storefront across disparate hardware vendors.

China 174

China HTC Leap Motion Eye Tracking 174

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. Google AR apps.

AR 165

AR Magic Leap Oculus Virtual Reality 165

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

Augmented Reality 478

Augmented Reality Magic Leap AR Apple 478

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. Be careful that I haven’t tried the Quest myself and in any case, the Quest has still not released and the Focus has only been released in China, so both devices could see future impredictable updates. The never-ending story.

Oculus 276

Oculus China HTC Controllers 276

The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

Google 269

Google Gaming Unity Machine Learning 269

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

I’m still in China, in Qingdao to be exact, and this night, I went to Taidong, which is a very big night market. That’s why we rejoiced when Apple launched its headset: while Google and Microsoft can discard new technologies pretty easily, Apple is slower at deciding to take a step, but when it makes it, it commits to it.

Video 338

Video Eye Tracking Unity Zeiss 338

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. And it’s truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that’s coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. You see Google. Alan: It really is. ” OK.

North America 78

North America Software 360 Video Video 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. And it’s truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that’s coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. You see Google. Alan: It really is. ” OK.

North America 78

North America Software 360 Video Video 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt -- which recently just got sold to Verizon -- they had their Jaunt One camera. And it's truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that's coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. You see Google. Alan: It really is. Put it into VR. You see Adobe.

North America 60

North America Software 360 Video Video 60

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

Samsung 196

Samsung Survey Oculus AR 196

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

I’m very interested in this device, that’s why I dedicated various articles to it, like the tutorial on how to get started with Go on Unity , how to stream the headset content to an external screen and my comparison with the Vive Focus. Unity development. The headset.

Oculus 150

Oculus Controllers Video Virtual Reality 150

XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Written By: Eddie Avil. 4- Kshitij Marwah. Ceo-Founder Tesseract/#Jio Glass.

Augmented Reality 52

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality India Asia 52