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The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 9, 2024
Unluckily, probably I won’t be able to get the Apple Vision Pro, first of all, because I’m in Italy, and second because it would be a pretty hefty investment for me to buy a Vision Pro and a Mac to develop for it. Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ.
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Face tracking and mixed reality are cool, but there is no app truly exploiting them Some features are still lacking. The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out.
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The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
More info (Ready At Dawn shuts down Echo VR) More info (Meta CTO on Echo VR shutdown decision) More info (John Carmack comments the news) More info (An editorial from a Echo VR community manager) Meta’s financials are improving, but at what cost… Meta has released its financial data for its past quarters and the situation is slowly getting better.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The method has been developed by Redditor Tiger-Hobbes and shared by Youtuber “No Borscht For You”. It consists of you using just an Oculus account (even a new developer one) without an associated Facebook account and using an old version of the Oculus companion app on your phone that sees your Quest 2 as an old plain Quest.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 23, 2023
Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. For sure, not having Microsoft backing it will slow down a lot of its development.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 9, 2022
As I’ve told you in my latest editorial, Meta is not living its best moment ever: the company has trouble growing its userbase and is facing various issues with regulators and new rules of the operating systems (especially new privacy rules on iOS). More info (Meta orders hiring freeze) More info (My editorial on Meta’s issues).
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 15, 2017
With a spear in hand and an enemy on the ground, you’re free to plunge your weapon into their torso at will with gleeful apathy. When I wrote about Gorn earlier this week, I purposefully made light of the games farcical violence and focused on the core gameplay at hand. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.
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