The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, for instance, has been helped a lot by the fact that it is the pre-installed browser on all Android phones. Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you recall, Zuckerberg specifically got Meta into XR because he wanted to free his company from the grip of Apple and Google (the prevailing gatekeepers of the smartphone era). The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Unless overuse of VR headsets has granted them telepathic super powers, it would have been pretty hard for any one person to predict everything that happened to the VR industry in 2016. 2) 2017 needs to be about experimentation, just like 2015 and 2016. 4) VR is here, 2016 was the year of VR availability.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

A pair of “Sony type NP-BX1” compatible Li-Ion batteries and a USB charging cradle cost less than £20. Following the successful development of 2K and 4K prototypes, the product launches of 4K and 5K headsets, by November of 2016 Pimax had built its ambitious 8K prototype. Google searches are very revealing. Approx weight: 25g.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Reading the specs of Pimax Reality, every VR enthusiast can only go in awe: there are integrated all the features we have always wanted in a VR headset: amazing visuals, comfort, eye tracking, full-body tracking, hybrid functioning mode, etc… It just needs an integrated coffee maker machine to be perfect.

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