The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

But having these new displays is a huge undertaking, and the production may only start later this year. And as usual, no piece of news was mind-blowing (yeah, Half-Life 3 is not confirmed this year, either), but all together show a vibrant ecosystem of VR game studios. I do not know what to think about this.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Photo of Quest 3 devkit) More info (Environment scanning on Quest 3) Meta Avatars to finally get legs After many promises (and many jokes) about this topic , Meta has finally started rolling out legs for Meta Avatars. September is back! Who is as excited as me?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

As everyone was expecting, this week HP has launched its new PC VR headset, the Reverb G2 , that is an evolution of the Reverb launched next year. We don’t know how it is and even reviewers haven’t been able to try the controllers. Top news of the week. Image by HP). HP launches Reverb G2 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Some years ago, I was used to writing in the Connect roundup article every detail I could find online about the news announced. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Prepare your popcorns, because these will be some interesting years. Kura Gallium glasses are coming at the end of the year for $1500. At the end of the year, the manufacturing of production units should start , with the assembly line already ready to produce 100K-1M+ units. Top news of the week. Image leaked by WalkingCat).

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Mashable VR

APRIL 7, 2022

But many users have complained about the glaring lack of diversity across the internet subculture — there aren't enough authors of color in popular tags, stories with multi-dimensional Black and queer characters are few and far between, and creators of color across the app face suppression of their content and even rampant anti-Blackness.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 6, 2018

It really encompasses everything about virtual and augmented reality , like for instance: The difference between AR and VR; The XR hardware; 360 videos; The artistic uses of XR; Telepresence; AR and VR entertainment; AR and VR in China ; Emulation of the various senses in VR (haptic, smell , taste , etc…); And many more topics.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. There are some important pieces of news to know about and you are in the right place to read them! per install. Others are working on legal actions.

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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. This time last year the VR community was in an agony of impatience. The Vive was delayed at the last minute and the wait for news continued.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

More info (XREAL announces Air 2) More info (Differences between XREAL Air 1 and Air 2) Bigscreen Beyond is shipping Bigscreen has announced that its lightweight Beyond PC VR headset is now shipping in the United States, with international shipping coming in mid-late Q4 of this year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2021

HTC is coming back to consumers after having already released this year two headsets devoted to prosumers and professionals: HTC Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3. The attention to comfort is high on Vive Flow , at least on paper (we are waiting to read reviews on the official units). Trailer of the technology behind Vive Flow.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It was about time that this happened … but it happened many months after the topic was discussed in all VR communities (and that YUR’s Cix Liv had to leave his company for his stance against Facebook/Meta). But it is not sure it will release this year, yet. You can read more about it and register in this Linkedin post of mine.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 25, 2022

For those wondering why April 25 was the date chosen for this script out of all 366 days of the year (we count Leap Day because it's respectful), the answer lies in a tweet from Shatner, and it's cute as hell. Here's the deal: On April 25, 2019, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt tagged Shatner in a commemorative "perfect date" tweet.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Touch is an incredible device that is receiving high praise from review outlets across the interwebs. Rubin founded the now-legendary video game studio Naughty Dog when he was just 15 years old. Tagged with: Podcast , Rubin , the download , touch. But what does that look like in a post-Touch world?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 30, 2022

For this end of the year, I want to talk about one of the big trends we are experiencing in the immersive realities ecosystem: the growing attention to mixed reality. If you think about the timing, we are talking about 2 YEARS BEFORE the release of passthrough for developers on the Meta/Oculus Quest 2.

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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. The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone.

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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. Image by Valve).

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JULY 27, 2023

Apple finally announced its first “ spatial computing ” headset after years of speculation in June this year during the WWDC 2023 conference. Since then, the arrival of the new mixed reality wearable has become one of the hottest topics in the industry. The question is, how do the two solutions stack up against each other?

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VR Geeks

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Details about The Climb 2: Price: $30 Developer: Crytek Reviewed On: Quest 2 Available On: Oculus Quest Release Date: March 4th, 2021 Release Date: March 4th, 2021 Release Date: March 4th, 2021 Release Date: March 4th, 2021 Release Date: March 4th, 2021 Release Date: Gameplay.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Discover the hottest XR topics of the week in this roundup post…. This has been the week of SIGGRAPH , one of the most important technology exhibition of the year. This has been the week of SIGGRAPH , one of the most important technology exhibition of the year. Top news of the week. Image by ACM).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic. So that's a lot of engineering that we've been doing over the past two or three years, to fine-tune this technology. With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. What is a game engine?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic. So that's a lot of engineering that we've been doing over the past two or three years, to fine-tune this technology. With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. What is a game engine?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic. So that's a lot of engineering that we've been doing over the past two or three years, to fine-tune this technology. With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. What is a game engine?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 29, 2017

It’s somewhat understandable why this happens—we’re busy, readers have already lost interest, etc. but ignoring these things leads to a sort of systematic problem: a lack of accountability, which should be incredibly concerning to us all. Because, in retrospect, it’s easy to see how this dynamic becomes fertile ground for “fake news.”.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The last time Irena and I collaborated, we wrote a book, Infinite Retina , that Qualcomm’s head of Augmented and Virtual Reality, Hugo Swart, reviewed as a “must read.” 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.

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