The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The difference between the two is becoming always more blurred, but for this year I prefer keeping them separate because they still have different markets. 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). This meme says it all.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Some of the increase could be due to the recently-concluded OpenSimulator Community Conference , or due to the fact that people are home from work or school for the holidays, and have time to go into virtual worlds. The public OpenSim grids now have a total of 102,917 standard-sized regions in virtual land area. Fred Beckhusen.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices. If he’s right, what surprises me the most is the $499 price tag. This is the 150th Week Peek! So many memories… who was there already in VR with me?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. Magic Leap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Please submit the link to the grid’s public page through a direct email or this form in case you find that your grid is marked as private and you want it to be back on our lists. We are now tracking a total of 2,516 OpenSim grids, 406 of which were active, public grids, and 280 of which published their stats this month.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

It was aimed at the enterprise market, with an expected price point of $1500. Then some days ago, suddenly it announced a shift: now Lynx aims to also target the consumer/prosumer market, with a headset that costs less than $1000, or “a couple hundred dollars”. Ok, enough with football… let’s get back to AR and VR…. Image by Lynx).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The announcement may still happen in the first half of next year, though, but according to Kuo it is more probable in June during WWDC than in January, because making the release too distant from the announcement may hurt the device’s sales. It’s December, the month of Christmas, the holidays, and New Year’s Eve! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The reasons of us rioters (because yes, I’m fully on the protesting side) are mostly: A similar change in pricing for products already on the market and/or that are already in development is completely unfair. There are some important pieces of news to know about and you are in the right place to read them! per install. And this $0.2

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 14, 2023

The public OpenSim grids gained nearly 2,000 regions this past month, and more than 1,300 new registrations, but continued to bleed active users as the weather improves and people spend less time inside at their computers. Of the public grids, 283 reported statistics this month. OpenSim total land area chart over the years.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 15, 2023

Meanwhile, the total number of registered users on public OpenSim grids increased by 7,440 and the total number of active users rose by 666. Other grids that were missing stats this month included Etheria Grid , Youth Nation , Mathesis , WaterSplash , E Grid , Champions Gate , and the Impulse Grid. The rest do not have accessible public stats pages.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The Cosmos seems so positioned as a prosumer device, and will have to prove its high quality, if it wants to gain market shares. The Rift S is so the only second-gen device selling for less than $500, and I wonder if this will mean that it will completely dominate the consumer market in the end. Top news of the week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

This week we reported that the company’s reference design for such a device won’t just be available to other manufacturers by the end of the year but also the first consumer device will be on the market. Tagged with: cats , htc , htc vive , Intel , oculus , oculus rift , project alloy. HTC Hits Out At Rift Exclusives.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 6, 2022

based company has suspended all new sales — not just games and gaming hardware — as it complies with the economic sanctions set in place by the federal government. In Nintendo's case, sales are suspended in the company's eShop online store, but apparently not because of any direct action taken on the company's part.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I feel a bit dizzy because tonight I had to wake up at 2 am to bring some people to the airport… so now my mind lives in a limbo between the real world and the sleepy dream world… can I say that I’m living in a mixed reality? In any case, in whatever reality I am, I am typing on a keyboard the best XR news of the week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. The $599 price tag for Vive’s biggest rival kept people guessing about just how much the more fully featured room-scale headset would really cost.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Guys and girls, sorry for the delay in the release of this weekly recap. I have had terribly busy days with the launch of our game HitMotion: Reloaded that will happen tomorrow on Viveport M. We are incredibly excited, but also need some sleep. If you’re interested, you can check the interview out here. Top news of the week.

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Everything VR & AR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hosts Nathan Pettyjohn is a technology entrepreneur with experience building teams in marketing, advertising, sales and mobile technology, and is currently the Founder and CEO of Aisle411, a global leading indoor location and mobile software company serving some of the world's largest retailers and brands.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This year I’m still writing a very long and comprehensive post, but I’m going to skip some details, that anyway you can read in the other articles I’m linking to let you can go deeper on the topics. This way, by reading this article, you are sure you have not missed any one of the announcements made there. Meta Quest Pro.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The HTC Vive releases for this week cover a diverse collection of genres of topics with some winter and Christmas themed treats mixed in. Recommendation: Catch it on sale unless you have an overwhelming interest in the era. Recommendation: Not a bad casual time-sink for the sale price. VR Dungeon, from Relative Reality Studios.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Discover the hottest XR topics of the week in this roundup post…. I hoped that in this period all VR people were in vacation, so that I could relax a bit… instead this week there have been tons of interesting news and articles… even more than usual! Top news of the week. Image by ACM). The SIGGRAPH has shown some interesting AR/VR solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Officially he is a VR angel investor, but he is much more than this: he is also an immersive technologies enthusiast and an influencer that can really foster healthy debates about the main questions that we all have around these technologies. I’m here with Eduardo Siman, VR enthusiast, influencer and angel investor.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This time, in addition to consulting, Irena and I are doing new analyses in the form of a paid product on Augmented Reality topics that we will offer on a monthly basis. Irena Cronin and I are seeing huge shifts coming as autonomous vehicles get to the point where they are driving around San Francisco without humans. Knock knock.” “Who

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic. We'll be discussing the myriad ways 3D and XR can be used for organizations. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? All that more on the XR for Business podcast. I am super excited and thrilled to invite Marc Petit on the show. Marc, welcome to the show. Alan: It's my absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic. We'll be discussing the myriad ways 3D and XR can be used for organizations. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? All that more on the XR for Business podcast. I am super excited and thrilled to invite Marc Petit on the show. Marc, welcome to the show. Alan: It's my absolute pleasure.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 29, 2017

As journalists — especially those, who publish multiple articles weekly — we’re often so focused on the now-now-now, that we rarely take a step back and reflect on stories from a few news cycles ago. Especially when those stories were inaccurate, misleading or outright false. but in many cases that’s not really how fake news actually works.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic. We'll be discussing the myriad ways 3D and XR can be used for organizations. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? All that more on the XR for Business podcast. I am super excited and thrilled to invite Marc Petit on the show. Marc, welcome to the show. Alan: It's my absolute pleasure.

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