The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Actually, the first launch has happened in China with the Vive Focus at the end of 2017, but we had the full development of the ecosystem now. Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. The Odyssey has anyway the problem of the non-optimal tracking of controllers. Standalone headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Augmented Reality in 2018. Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The SAO experience was created to welcome new users and teach them how to use Fove 0, the first commercially available VR headset with integrated eye-tracking. The San Francisco-based company has since secured over $11m across 3 funding rounds with investors including Samsung Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, and Foxconn Technology Group.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. million from Comcast and others , representing relatively early bets on VR content by investors.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. We won’t see a true disruptive headset probably until 2022-2023.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. Vive Focus comes to the west.

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