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JANUARY 25, 2023

According to media reports, the layoffs include its entire Mixed Reality Toolkit group and the AltspaceVR team, effectively killing Microsoft’s own Hololens project. What about Meta, Google and Apple? Apple still hasn’t released its long-awaited AR headset. million in 2022. million units its first year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. Image by Sony). Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR. What a time to be alive!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the enormous influence in the XR industry, VRTUOLUO has set up dozens of industry communities (such as the Industry Executives Association, VR Game Developers Community, VR Education Community, Financing and Investment Community, Offline Entertainment Group, etc.) and covered more than 80% of the XR pioneers as communities members.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. These may be upcoming features or possible features Oculus is experimenting with a selected group of beta testers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Preorders are open now with just a little deposit of $10, shipping in 2021. The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Some info on content.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Stay with me for this write-up inspired by the discussion made at the 2021 Smart haptics conference. the XR Haptics working group I chair with Chris made incredible strides in only 6 months. Apple and Sony have brilliant scientists talking and working with open-minded product and designer teams. And it works!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Meta’s earnings report for 2021 has both lights and shadows. We were all waiting for it, and then it finally arrived: Meta has finally released its earning reports for 2021, and for the first time it treated its Reality Labs division as a separate entity, so we know how well it is performing. Image by Apple). Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. Image from Khronos Group).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

The headset will be much better than Quest, but its problem will be that it won’t be able to have the same great library of content of the Quest , so probably this will become an enterprise headset as well; Sony will tease PSVR 2. Sony has already clarified that it won’t sell the PSVR 2 together with the launch of the PS5.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

The rest is our long story… Well, I have time for a long story… Our story began in 2016 when Tao Hu, our founder, and CEO, left Oculus and started the company with VC seed funding and a group of like-minded geeks. This is how we managed to get by till late 2021. Tao Hu, founder of Moon VR (Image by Moon VR).

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

At the same time, Apple having always mediocre graphics cards on its laptops and its closed ecosystem have not helped much either in keeping this VR support alive. Not to mention the fact that Apple has always said that it is not interested in VR, but only in AR. Sony reveals finger tracking technology for controllers.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. Moreover, Apple recently made a huge splash in the XR market with the Vision Pro, an XR device which leverages eye and hand tracking for its spatial computing input system.

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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! If you are part of an R&D group inside a University, I suggest you give it a look.

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MAY 10, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. Some of the key takeaways were that in 2022 percentage of VR devices supporting hand tracking has increased by 119% compared to 2021.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Deconstruct the Zuck Since unveiling that Facebook would shift to Meta Platforms at the Connect 2021 event, the media has de facto placed Zuckerberg front and centre of the Metaverse. Nowhere in Zucker 2021 Founders Letter did he mention he was the Metaverse , nor would he become the centre of it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

In Q1 2021 the increment has been +146% over Q1 2020 and this has been mostly due to the Oculus Quest 2. Its sentence mimics a statement from PlayStation about the upcoming PSVR2, so it seems that now Facebook sees Sony as the only credible competitor. Apple adds spatial AR features to its Clips app. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

He complained about having to obey platforms and their taxes (clearly hinting at Apple), saying that he had a different vision. This has even been underlined by Apple itself which called out Meta’s hypocrisy after the announcement of the creators’ fee on Horizon. The expected sales for 2021 are in the 1–2M ballpark.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2023

The price is very steep, but this is kinda of a unique PCVR headset, with a very small form factor and very high display contrast; Sony has announced that Gran Turismo 7 will have a VR version that will launch with PSVR 2. A new rumor on Apple headset talks about a very high-end device. Image by The Information). Or well, two rumors.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. If it manages to enter the European market, it means that Meta can sell many millions of headsets more than in 2021. It will also be a defensive move against Apple.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Though the social networking website still exists, with 303 million unique visitors in Feb 2021 according to Statista , its decline means most talk about Tumblr in the past tense. After Apple removed Tumblr from its App Store over child pornography claims, owner Yahoo!

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