The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). Although we use Unity in-house for development, we don’t require it specifically.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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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. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Having sold 317K units in Q4, the Quest has so sold around 710K units in 2019. Anyway, many people have called b t on this data, and among these people, there is sir Palmer Luckey.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). Mathew Olson from The Information (subscribe to his awesome newsletter !)

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. The never-ending story. It has to be tried in the wild to judge it properly.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. It seems like a great tethered headset for the PS5.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads. WebAR will start to exploit its potential.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Everyone loves Beat Saber, and if the game offered a free multiplayer mode just requiring a Facebook login, many people would use that, and so Facebook could gather the data of all these players. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Zappar’s Zapbox , DigiLens’ ARGO , Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 , the Magic Leap 2 , XREAL (previously Nreal) Air , and the Varjo XR 3 Focal Edition were all in the running, but the prize went to the HTC VIVE XR Elite. This is something we’ve been working on for a long time,” HTC China President Alvin Graylin said in accepting the award.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. It’s time for some amazing VR news, isn’t it? Top news of the week. Image by Ars Technica).

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

Today we hear from Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC’s China President of Vive. Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC leading all aspects of the Vive/VR business in the region. But likely it’ll be the second half of 2018 or 2019 for mass adoption of such apps to really take off. Alvin Wang Graylin.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We entered so the “winter of VR”, which happened between 2017 and the first part of 2019, that is the period when virtual reality was considered “dead”, and it was very hard to survive in the ecosystem. He makes the miracle of transforming your data into his money (Image by Tweaknology).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. But it is still a niche : as Mathew Olson from The Information highlights, “[PwC data] translates to a projected $6.9 In 2019 I saw Louis Cacciuttolo asking in some XR groups if we knew a spare developer to join VRrOOm as an employee. The amazing Unity Cube. Don’t give up.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. This is a watershed moment for VR-style headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just– anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they’re like custom one-off apps. Although I’m on your website now, it says, “The process combined engineering data, reality data and IOT data. What do I do?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just– anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they’re like custom one-off apps. Although I’m on your website now, it says, “The process combined engineering data, reality data and IOT data. What do I do?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just-- anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they're like custom one-off apps. Although I'm on your website now, it says, "The process combined engineering data, reality data and IOT data. Like, how is that possible in 2019?

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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. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. It was 2019 and I had a very brief written interview with Charlie Fink about his new book Convergence.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Droonlon F1 is super-versatile because it works with ALL virtual reality headsets by HTC. The first compatibility was quite expected since the Vive Cosmos is the successor of the HTC Vive, and 7Invensun, being part of the Vive X incubator, is a partner of HTC’s. And changing the lenses is super fast and easy.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? .” And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? .” And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, "you're doing VR -- you're ahead of the game, you're a future company," to, "you're not using VR? And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. Unity is always my top one. What's wrong with you?".

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Frank discussions with a mentor (who has a portfolio of patents and experience bringing products to market) led to us looking at the estimated setup costs, potential sales numbers based on best-known data, current Global risks to supply and manufacturing, escalating transport costs. The Guncube. Two are seen in the image above right.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019. HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. How does it work? Why not wireless?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is a trend that started in 2019 (with the Quest, Vive Focus, and Lenovo Mirage Solo… yes, the Lenovo Mirage Solo, who else remembers about it?) was already in passthrough AR in 2019 on the Vive Focus Plus , so that to guarantee the safety of the users that could play our fitness game by being aware of their surroundings.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The startup was rescued from bankruptcy by existing backer Candy Ventures in 2019. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Blippar was reportedly worth $1.5 Xu Chi, the CEO and co-founder of #Nreal, a trending mixed reality (MR) start-up. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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