The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. They are Apple AR glasses!” I have this impression for a few reasons.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

allows clients to create bespoke immersive wayfinding visuals that help visitors navigate spaces using phone cameras. ” ARway Collaborates with Apple ARway is currently working with various XR device leaders to leverage its unique immersive wayfinding platform for a broad range of use cases.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

We discussed his company’s waveguide and materials research, using AR for medicine and surgery, and the Apple Vision Pro. Named X-Vision, Augmetics produced the device in Israel, which the FDA approved in 2019. ” At a recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Lumus also teamed up with Swedish eye-tracking company Tobii.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset. Concept render of the upcoming Apple headset (Image by Antonio DeRosa). And there is still the possibility that Apple cancels the project, something that wouldn’t be new to it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

Denny Rönngren, an OpenXR system architect at Varjo, noted: Varjo has been a contributor and adopter of OpenXR since 2019, and we are excited to be able to equip our enterprise customers with the cutting-edge capabilities of OpenXR 1.1. However, Apple is a notable exclusion; it’s not surprising. OPPO also uses OpenXR 1.1

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2020

He retired 15 years ago, and from that moment, he started working on the “ultimate display” , that aimed to be very immersive, power-efficient, and perfect under every detail. And they had prototypes and three different demos at CES, but since November 2019 they also have worn the lenses themselves in their lab tests!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption. Every year, I cast some predictions for the new year in AR and VR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Slim and light XR glasses capable of fluidly serving up novel and meaningful interactions are basically the holy grail in tech right now, with Apple, Meta, Google, Qualcomm, and many more laying down the groundwork to one day make them a reality. And… it’s not a great look. Some ideas are inevitable.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Want a recap of what happened in AR in 2019? Read my “ Reality Check ” post which looks back at the 19 trends I highlighted for 2019 and how they actually played out last year. 2020 smartphones will also sport powerful chips and processors designed to power immersive experiences. Source: Apple. Industry. #1 Source: Nreal.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

And while Portland is by no means a backwater, it’s still not a major tech or immersive content hub like LA or San Francisco either. Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley. Thanks @ObjectTheory for letting me play with your @magicleap !

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. And the fact that it features AR and eye tracking is for sure awesome. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Some good roundups of creative immersive experiences.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Following a handful of Apple Vision Pro games and a hefty January lineup , we reviewed numerous titles across February like Border Bots VR , Under Cover , Legendary Tales , Stranger Things VR , and Beat the Beats. Looking for new VR games in March 2024? Here are our latest monthly highlights. That's now reaching Quest.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. So, here’s the full low-down on Microsoft’s newest immersive device: It’s all about the Cloud. More immersive. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Jokes apart, since it is “just” an evolution of first gen, maybe we’ll be able to see some announcement in 2019 and release in 2019-2020. Probably Valve knows that a big FOV is one of the features that VR users ask the most because it creates a more immersive VR and so they are sacrificing PPD. We’ll see.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

600,000); We have always predicted that Quest would have sold 1–2M units in 2019. Bloomberg publishes new hints on Apple glasses. Every week we have new hints on Apple glasses: it is no more a matter of “if” they will come to the market, but a matter of “when” and “what”. Mainstream adoption requires time, content and money.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

When Valve released the Valve Index , one of the best headsets of 2019, it also opened the preorders for its VirtualLink adapter , that should have served to connect the Index directly to the graphics card using only one USB C plug. Apple is working on AR/VR. News worth a mention. Image by Hello Games).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Lone Echo 2 has been the “Duke Nukem Forever” of VR, and it has been constantly delayed from the expected 2019 release period. Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. More info (Motion tracking system) More info (Video player adding depth).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I have had the pleasure of being invited by Swiss company CREAL to try its revolutionary lightfield technology that is able to make the immersive reality offered AR and VR headsets more believable. The company entered my radars when my review hero Ben Lang tried an old prototype from CREAL at CES 2019 and talked about it enthusiastically.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

FRL is the R&D department of Facebook that works on immersive realities. Some claimed it will be wireless, others claimed it will be wireless, with eye-tracking, high resolution, 200° FOV, and other cool stuff… all for $250. Image by Immersive VR education). PSVR 2 will be cool but don’t overhype it. What a pity!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Even though we didn’t get PSVR 2 or the rumored Apple mixed reality headset this year, we still had a lot of interesting hardware to dissect this year. Plus, Red Matter 2 was the first major title to support eye-tracked foveated rendering on Quest Pro, which resulted in a 30% boost in base resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is a set of very high-quality headphones that are able to offer truly immersive and spatial audio, with a unique feature that lets you blend the audio of the AR experience and of your real world in an optimized way. Coming later on in 2019… this could really add intriguing possibility to augmented and mixed reality applications.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The advantage of using 72 Hz is that everything appears smoother, plus the display becomes brighter and the colors warmer ; Fixed foveating : we all know what foveated rendering is and we all know that to be implemented it requires eye tracking. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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