The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2021

Whether you’re on the Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, or a SteamVR headset, you’ll find there’s plenty of VR gaming to look forward to over the next 12 months. So much so, in fact, we thought it easier to break down just a handful of our most-anticipated titles. EYE OF THE TEMPLE. LONE ECHO 2. SPLINTER CELL VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. The Oculus Rift S headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

No smearing, reduced mura; The lenses have been upgraded, using the ones engineered by Valve for the Index; The audio is conveyed through off-the-ear speakers , like the ones of the Valve Index; Comfort has been improved; There is IPD adjustment; There are now 4 tracking cameras. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

HTC Vive is supporting 6 experience showcased there, among which shines Inory , that accompanies the viewer on a spiritual journey. is a company that aims at using the data from the cameras of all the phones running AR applications, send them to a server, and merge them all together to create a full mesh representing the whole world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve made my usual video review of the new UltraLeap Gemini runtime , with some cool in-action shots of me using hands-tracking.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. The HTC Vive Pros were tethered, so there was no latency but the game did have a peculiar dense, dreamlike aspect to it, which often stems from lower refresh rates. Have fun and keep on rocking in the virtual world!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

…and fostering the creation of Virtual ones. Many companies that have seen their events canceled because of the virus are now thinking about doing virtual ones. Oculus rejects Crisis VRigade again, causing backlash from the community. It was rejected by Oculus, but it found great success on Quest’s unofficial store.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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ARPost

JANUARY 3, 2022

Now that new technologies push the barriers of cyberspaces, it is possible to become immersed in a virtual world where you can create 3D art. Each user can have their own private world where they can relax by creating shapes and colors. This VR art creation tool is available for free for Oculus Rift , HTC Vive, and Valve Index.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. One is the high cost: HTC markets it as a consumer device, but at that price, not many consumers are going to buy it, so it will be a prosumer one.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2016

‘Step Into Rift’ had been Oculus’ mantra since the launch of the headset back at the end of March this year, but with the launch of Oculus’ dedicated motion controllers, Touch, players can finally ‘Reach Into Rift’ too. SEE ALSO Oculus Rift Review: Prologue to a New Reality. Oculus Touch is (finally) here.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. This tracker can be worn on the wrist, for a more accurate hand-tracking experience, or be installed on external props (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 19, 2020

Yesterday, I attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference, the annual event by HTC, that his year was held completely inside ENGAGE. Due to Coronavirus concerns, most companies are canceling their events, while others are deciding to transform them into virtual versions. Last year, I was there physically in Shenzhen for the same event.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. The official boxes of the Oculus Quest (above) and Vive Focus Plus (below). Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). The only true difference is in storage.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Traditionally based off of technological developments happening in the real world, some of the first movies with VR technology started coming out in the early 80’s when advancements in computer technology allowed research to begin on more affordable VR. Brainscan (1994). Though, they do not appear to provide any haptic feedback.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. HTC is now selling certified refurbished Vive HMDs for $400. The hype is rising….

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Even the Oculus Rift’s largest “ experimental ” room-scale setup is smaller than what’s possible with the HTC Vive, which uses Valve’s tracking system. The same event equipped with Oculus Rifts would’ve required a minimum of eight sensors wired to each of the PCs. The Missing Pieces.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

You put them on over your shoes, you put on a VR headset, and you walk, and you feel like you are actually going where you’re trying to go in the virtual world and experiencing it from a natural intuitive perspective. You showed us that the tracker is different because HTC Vive has also released this update. Brad: Yes.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2019

It’s the sort of thing that jars you out of your experience if you aren’t paying attention, but even then, avoiding it altogether means remaining conscious of boring interface elements that are removed from the virtual world. Image courtesy Hello Games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Just recently, in the last few years, I founded a company called CastAR, where we’re making AR glasses that allow you to blend virtual graphics with real-world objects on your table. Ellsworth: VR is amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And it’s this kind of a-ha moment, where they go from the real world of crappy pass-through camera to the completely virtual world. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. Out-of-home entertainment locations, I would say HTC is probably the leader. Bob: Oh, by far.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

On one side, many of these games have a huge multiplayer component and acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft gains a lot of expertise in how to manage virtual worlds that host many thousands (if not millions) of players at the same time. HTC discounts its headsets. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And it’s this kind of a-ha moment, where they go from the real world of crappy pass-through camera to the completely virtual world. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. Out-of-home entertainment locations, I would say HTC is probably the leader. Bob: Oh, by far.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. This openness reflects also on the hardware side, where Pico has just announced a partnership with Ultraleap to bring its hand-tracking device to Pico via an adapter. 10 Years of Oculus. Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. With the upcoming update of the runtime, Vive Focus 3 will be able to track its position in a space up to 33m x 33m, that is 1000 square meters.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. laughs] Kent: Yeah, there’s all sorts of thresholds.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there's so much of a mirroring of what's happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it's a surgical simulation or Walmart's using it to train for different employees. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. Kent: Yeah, there’s all sorts of thresholds.

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