The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Top news of the week. Sony aims at hybrid games for the PSVR 2. Internally the device is referred to as NGVR (Next-Gen VR), but honestly, I still believe it will be called PSVR 2.

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VR Game Critic

JANUARY 14, 2020

With the holidays behind us, the New Year is already off to a good start with several great titles arriving this month. Fans of The Walking Dead universe will be on the lookout for survival adventure Saints & Sinners where players face countless challenges while fighting their way through the flooded ruins of New Orleans.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2018

With mostly prior confirmed PSVR titles presenting at E3 2018 , we expected Sony to dedicate a few moments during its E3 2018 keynote to highlight the platform’s upcoming VR games, of course with the understanding that high-profile PS4 titles would mostly overshadow VR titles. Image courtesy Squanch Games.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2018

Beat Saber Coming to PSVR. The game sold over 100,000 copies in its first month of availability on PC VR devices, and is set to launch on Sony’s platform with a new song, and potentially more content. Bethesda also announced their new Prey: Mooncrash DLC will soon include two VR-compatible game modes.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 2022, Gamescom had a sizable VR presence in the public-facing halls, with a giant Pico booth offering demos of games like After the Fall and a decent-sized public booth nearby from Resolution Games, offering demoes of their then-new free-to-play multiplayer title Ultimechs on Pico and Quest headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Two VR journalists have been invited to the event, the motto of the event has become “Code new worlds” , plus all the Apple “analysts” agree the launch is tomorrow. A huge QLED TV can cost $2000, so spending $1000 more to have a giant virtual screen in every room of your house may make sense. So I’m almost sure it is going to happen.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Top news of the week. New Oculus Venues gives us a glimpse of Facebook Horizon. Without previous notice, Facebook has started rolling out a new version of Oculus Venues, for now available only to selected beta users. More info (New version of Venues rolling out) More info (Venues’s new features and avateering system).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (Tim Cook on Vanity Fair) More info (The Vanity Fair article, reported by Upload VR) More info (New Vision Pro trailer) On the past Tuesday, the first reviews of the device started to come out, and then the flow of people expressing their opinions on the device never stopped.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Further References AjnaXR Official Website (AjnaLens website) Launch trailer video (AjnaLens Youtube Channel) Relevant News At CES there were other pieces of news that made fewer headlines in our ecosystem but were still relevant. At CES, it continued with this strategy, and it announced a few new games coming for the headset.

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Upload VR

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s been a pretty decent year for VR so far, but there’s still a huge number of games releasing for Quest, PC VR and PSVR in the second half of 2022. We’ve compiled a list of every confirmed title below — while some have confirmed release dates or months, there’s quite a few games without a specific date yet.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

As it has happened with Oculus, this news is good and bad for Pico and VR in general. It is good because this new acquisition from a major company will give investors more faith in VR and so more money will come to XR startups. There are no disruptive new functionalities, but many welcome improvements.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The damn coronavirus has arrived in my city in northern Italy, but I’m still alive and kicking, reporting you the most interesting XR news of the week! This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). I really hope so, we now don’t need a big crash in the XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

The new device, still unnamed, boasts a Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 processor and is said to include 1.3-inch More info (Sony MR headset — Road To VR) More info (Sony MR headset — Upload VR) Shiftall reveals MeganeX Superlight Shiftall (remember to read the f before the t) revealed at CES a new headset: the MeganeX Superlight.

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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! But before digging into the news, let me invite you all to the latest work that we of VRrOOm have developed: a new social XR immersive music experience from the French legendary composer Jean-Michel Jarre! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

In his report, he states that Taiwanese lens manufacturer, Yujingguang is working on next-generation lenses, and these could be installed in the upcoming next-gen PSVR and next-gen Quest (Quest 3 or Quest 2 Pro, depending on Facebook’s strategy). Ready Player Me avatars are now compatible with Somnium Space.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). I don’t think there is much more to say about this device than you all already know: the Quest gets new updates every month and is getting always more features.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It is not the most sold ever, though, since PSVR and Gear VR are still far ahead of them. On a separate note, a new image leaked from the firmware of the Quest 2 seems to point to future phone notifications on it. and at least 40 titles have done over a million dollars in revenue. Niantic is working on its AR-glasses platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And since virtual reality is a rather new topic, and UE4 already supports VR, this means that all these studios could advance together in creating a VR toolset for their future games. After this news, the VR community got obviously hyped. Will it be a porting or a new game? More info (Rockstar working on an AAA VR title?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

He has always been supportive of me, and by speaking with him on Twitter and Linkedin I’ve always learned something new. In this one, there have been many news about VR titles, some of which are distributed by relevant companies in our industry, and others made by indies. He will be missed by all of us. May he rest in peace.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

We don’t know when these glasses will release and for what price , but the fact that such a big consumer-oriented giant has got interested in glasses is a positive sign that we are on the right (long) road towards the release and adoption of consumer-oriented AR glasses. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet. Some people abandoned the ship, but the majority of them were forced to accept the new conditions, to not be cut-out from the VR device of the year.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Anyway, I know you are not here to read my thoughts about the weather (or maybe I’m wrong… in this case, let me know, so I can start a new newsletter about this topic), so let’s start talking about XR news! That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I have hosted two great interviews I am very proud of: one with the CEO of HaptX about the new haptic gloves his company has delivered; and the other one with the CEO of Happy Giant with some exclusive news and footage of the upcoming “Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual!”. Other relevant news. But how much has it sold?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

By the way, I wish you a lot of happiness for this new season. I’m getting busy with some new interesting projects, but at the same time I’m still working on our HitMotion: Reloaded , which is now finally available also in Passthrough Mixed Reality! Top news of the week. Image from Imgur).

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2017

Supermassive Games, the makers of VR titles Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (2016) and Tumble VR (2016), are coming out with a new psychological horror game for PSVR called The Inpatient that seems to offer a level of realism thanks to some very well-tuned facial motion capture. He suggests I take a nap and I oblige.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The chipset is the new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+, which moves slightly the RAM on the chip: XR2 has the RAM stacked on top of the chip, whereas XR2+ has the RAM to the side to enable better thermal dissipation and thus higher sustained performance. John Carmack has said that if you use the Quest Pro without using all its new features (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

Valve is rising the hype releasing constantly new material about the game, making us slowly discover how the game is. This week, we had tons of materials and news coming : First of all, Valve has released 3 new gameplay trailers, plus one long 9-minutes gameplay video made in partnership with the popular magazine IGN.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jim Brodbeck, the main developer of RainSoft Games , to talk about his upcoming title “Powder VR”, a game that will make you do some crazy stunts in the snow , like jumping down a helicopter to ski at a hundred miles per hour down a steep slope! There’s no rush quite like it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

In all this mess, there have been some positive signs: Standalone headsets are giving new life to VR; Gartner has stated that VR is now a mature technology for enterprise usage; The latest reports by market analysts are finally positive again for what concerns VR. Mobile headsets. Mobile headsets are dying.

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