XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 14, 2023

According to Juro Osawa of The Information, ByteDance stated that it would scrap its plans to release the Pico 5, citing that Pico 4 revenues had fallen “far short of ByteDance’s expectations.” The news comes as the Chinese tech giant aims to develop a premium rival to the Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 22, 2024

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is coming. Apple will host a widely published in-person keynote showcase during the event, followed by three days of virtual content to bring budding developers the latest updates. Apple has not confirmed any Vision Pro-related WWDC news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

I didn’t forget my promise of a big article about the Vision Pro, I just had to postpone it because I was too busy. We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 30, 2024

Apple provided early Vision Pro units to some mainstream news outlets and YouTubers, and the review embargo was for today. My editor Ian Hamilton has already been hands-on with Apple Vision Pro twice, once just after its announcement at WWDC 2023 and again a few weeks ago.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Here's what you may have missed: Following Apple Vision Pro 's recent launch, it's been a quieter week for VR. beta , we learned Vision Pro's true active resolution and EyeSight's secrets , while several parties are making PC VR streaming apps for Vision Pro. VR experience.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It makes changes to the hand tracking UX, adds support for iPhone-captured spatial videos, improves the microphone quality, adds support for multiple mixed reality room setups, improves multitasking, improves Quest Link, adds Facebook live streaming and YouTube Live Chat, and adds support for gamepads on the web.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The solution also included high-edge AI capabilities and Vodafone apps within the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform. Vodafone also shared plans to create a HyperRealityHub+ variant connecting multiple users for shared immersive experiences using Wi-Fi 7 and 5G, aiming to improve interactions across various verticals.

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Upload VR

APRIL 3, 2024

Apple's Spatial Personas immediately change what it means to connect with someone else through virtual reality. We opened Apple's Freeform whiteboarding app and started putting together a list of movies we want to watch in VR. What Apple Vision Pro's FaceTime was like before Spatial Personas.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This surprisingly means that Meta has approved on the Quest Store this app that lets people play SteamVR games bypassing the PC Quest runtime. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset. To me, this is a sign that Meta doesn’t care about PCVR at all anymore, and so it lets Valve do what it wants.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Pico does plan to release a refreshed version of Pico 4 however, Osawa writes, but he doesn't give any detail of what changes this new model will bring. ByteDance's main hardware focus now is the development of a high-end Apple Vision Pro competitor incorporating "cutting-edge technologies", a project which Osawa reports is codenamed Swan.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Alas, there is no word yet on when we non-Americans will be able to order this device, although at least one VR YouTuber, Brian Tong, has heard (via his unofficial, internal sources) that Apple is planning to expand access to the U.K. Apple has announced in a Feb. Apple has announced in a Feb. On the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I can’t wait to discover the Pico 4, the Quest Pro, and the Apple Reality headsets… and you? Apple headset may be called “Reality”. We have new rumors about the upcoming Apple headset. It seems that one of Apple’s shell companies has just registered the trademarks “Reality One”, “Reality Pro”, and “Reality Processor”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

These are its specifications: Qualcomm XR2 chipset 4K low-persistence 90 Hz Curved Display 3664 x 1920 resolution, 773 PPI 98° FOV 6GB RAM (2133 Mhz) / 8GB in the Pro Eye version 128GB/256GB storage Wi-Fi 6 connectivity USB-C 3.0 HTC new products may be the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3. This device looks very promising on paper.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset. There is no face or eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Leaks point to features of Quest 2 Pro (and Quest 3?). This has been a hectic week for the leaks on the upcoming new Oculus Quest Pro device. Reddit user Samulia and Youtubers Basti564 and Sadly It’s Bradly together hinted at the feature of the upcoming headset. I also thank everyone of you that supported me in this journey!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

He said this very explicitly: A narrative has developed that we’re somehow moving away from focusing on the metaverse vision, so I just want to say upfront that’s not accurate. If Zuck had declared that Meta’s new vision was artificial intelligence (maybe changing the name to MetAI?), I hope for this second scenario, of course.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

I’m incredibly happy about having been hosted by Sebastian Ang (MRTV), one of my favorite VR content creators, in his weekly podcast on Youtube! It’s a long post, in which Mark details the vision for the future of XR and for the “metaverse” that Facebook is going to follow in the upcoming years.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. UploadVR David Heaney If you want to read an on-paper specs breakdown of Vision Pro, you can do that here.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You can see all the OSCC23 presentations on YouTube here , and the livestreams from both days of the conference here. We are keeping the mobile app purely for gameplay, roleplay, and entertainment. The area is already the size of 32 standard regions and we have plans to actively expand this in the new year.”

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Mashable VR

MARCH 16, 2022

HUDWAY Glass Heads-Up Navigation Display A modern car navigation safety solution, the HUDWAY Glass connects to any HUD app-equipped smartphone and delivers digital driving directions to a transparent display that mounts on your dashboard. Grab one for only $49.99 (regularly $55) if you’re planning on traveling any time soon.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2024

There’s going to be a ton of apps available on Vision Pro day one, with more than one million iOS and iPad apps working in compatibility mode on Apple’s first mixed reality headset. At the time of this writing, the list totals 196 third-party apps. PCalc TLA Systems Ltd.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

We could start this journey because we had an established experience-building business, plus we finally got access to various grants to build our vision You have the foundations of the team to build it: be sure to have a team of experts that know how to build this new platform, or that at least can learn very fast. What do you want to build?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Before starting with the news roundup, would you mind subscribing to my Youtube channel?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Quest Pro launches, but the reaction of the community is mild. On October, 25th, the Meta Quest Pro has been officially launched , and the people who preordered it started to receive it. Face tracking and mixed reality are cool, but there is no app truly exploiting them Some features are still lacking. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Alan: Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Alan: Interesting.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many products showcased at the conference included flagship releases of VR headsets and solutions such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo ThinkReality A3, and AT&T’s Volumetric Video Photo Booth, among many others. ” Developers would use their passion and visions to build solutions to break communication barriers.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We are bringing new understanding to entrepreneurs and product strategists on Augmented Reality and everything related to it, including AI and Computer Vision. It brings with it a bunch of new technologies that could disrupt even Apple, Google, or Amazon, but soon will start bringing service after service to your home.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

The march has gone on exactly as planned. When there will be eye-tracking on the Quest 2 Pro, for instance, I bet that viewing and hovering may regard also what you are looking at with your eyes. Apps are now a race to the bottom to propose things that are free, and IAP and ads are the only way for many devs to sustain themselves.

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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 company insists a lot on the relaxation use case and believes that it is the killer app for this device. Trailer of the technology behind Vive Flow. Vive Flow description.

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