The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Preorders are open now with just a little deposit of $10, shipping in 2021. A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. Since HTC has always made announcements during the CES, I think it will be announced in January. But I can speculate.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

HTC just released a software update for Vive XR Elite which includes a new beta direct touch mode. Vive XR Elite is HTC's latest standalone headset, and its first targeted to consumers instead of just businesses. Back in May we reported on HTC's first major software update for XR Elite. and now 6.5. and now 6.5.

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AffinityVr

JUNE 28, 2021

The first half of 2021 has brought incredible tidings, bringing the industry ever closer to its projected value of $333 billion within this decade. Despite localized slowdowns happening across the world, tech giants like Google, Facebook, HTC, Snapchat and Apple have [.].

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MAY 20, 2022

Apple is ramping up development of the operating system for its headset, with a plan to launch in 2023, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Apple has in recent weeks ramped up development of realityOS (rOS), its operating system that the headset will run, and previewed the headset to the board of directors, Gurman reports.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Reports have revealed that Apple could potentially ramp up work on a pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses that could support the release of the company’s Vision Pro headset. With the proposed smart glasses, Apple fans may tether the devices to their iPhones similarly to others like its Watch and AirPods wearables.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. billion in 2021. billion in 2021,” states IDC’s report. The post Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021 appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. It is weird that Apple wants to create a new standard even there. Apple is doing a great job of masking what it is actually doing. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2022

Players can access it via HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index. See Also: 21 Most-Read ARPost Articles of 2021. In the same post, he shared that it’s still in development, and he denied a 2021 release. Another highly anticipated device is the Apple MR headset. They can even cross seas and explore new islands.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. In this sense, 2021 will be a very important year, because we’ll start seeing how the mainstream is interested in wearing electronic glasses on their face.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The global pandemic has changed the rules for everything, and the situation is so confusing and so rapidly evolving that any prediction for 2021 is completely unreliable, too. 2021 won’t be the year of VR. Well, let’s be honest, this won’t happen in 2021, either.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

in Revenue in First Half of 2021. HTC, a strategic partner and shareholder of VR Education, has also started selling its ENGAGE-based product, VIVE Sessions, in China. It’s very similar to what Apple has been doing for smartphone,” CEO Chi Xu said. “We the Lume Pad won innovation awards at CES earlier this year.

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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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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

We had a lot of news in the XR space in 2021, and a lot of trends could be distilled from that news. See Also: 21 Most-Read ARPost Articles of 2021. The company launched in 2020, partnered with Chinese company Shadow Creator that same year, held a product launch in June 2021 , and seems to have disappeared in the meantime.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

Welcome 2021! 2021 has been greeted by many virtual celebrations. One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. We’re in 2021, but this guy is living in 2077. Be the first donor of 2021!

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AR Insider

MAY 17, 2021

This week, the Epic/Apple saga continues, HTC doubles down on enterprise AR Niantic enters the AR platform race, and Spatial leans in to NFTs. Let’s dive in… Apple – Epic Smackdown, part deux. As the trial drags on, Epic’s case against Apple may be losing its edge. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

And to be the leader in some years, it has to start going public now, also to begin competing with Apple, that will probably announce its AR glasses next year. But Facebook has a big problem and that big problem is called Apple. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews). What will these devices be?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Lenovo and NuEyes to launch AR glasses in 2021. The AR wars are ramping up, and with Facebook and Luxottica releasing a smart-glass in 2021, they will become even more fierce. For instance, Beck is an athlete that prepared for years for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 that have then been postponed to 2021 with much of her frustration.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Apple Maps are going AR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

” Acquisition Triggers Competition The news comes after ByteDance, the company behind the developments, bought out Pico Interactive in 2021 to compete with major manufacturers like Meta Platforms and HTC VIVE. Further issues have surfaced due to ongoing competition with the Meta Quest 3 and upcoming Apple Vision Pro headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Additional headsets, including the Meta Quest Pro , HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, Varjo VR-3 and XR-3, and Lenovo VRX and A3 feature this technology. The Apple-Atmos Partnership Dolby Atmos, a mainstay in audio solutions, enhances Apple’s spatial audio for listening to music and movies in 3D sound.

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JUNE 15, 2023

That's how Tim Cook pitched Apple Vision Pro to the general public on Good Morning America when asked about its affordability. As Palmer Luckey put it , Apple could make AR & VR "something everybody wants before it's something that everybody can afford." "You're going to live in the future, and you're going to do it today."

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Pictures from FBEC 2021 (Image from VRTUOLUO) Who will be the most important speakers?

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Perceiving this as a long-term risk to Steam, Valve then worked with HTC to build a Rift competitor with direct Steam integration, the Vive. In 2021, the last major Rift Store exclusive shipped and the Rift S headset was discontinued. Together, they beat Oculus to market with tracked controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

They could build together something that could seriously compete with Facebook and Apple: let’s keep an eye on them. Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. With a tweet, HTC has just teased the upcoming launch of a new device. Pico Neo 3 is coming in Q2 2021. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This is the first newsletter of Autumn 2021: I think I’ll miss the sun but for sure not the mosquitos. If this happens , Facebook is going to disrupt completely the market, because it would be a headset offering so much for so little price, destroying the competition with Pico and HTC. Apple headset may come in second half of 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. HTC has just announced its new phone, the Desire 22 Pro, and defined it as a “metaverse phone”.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT as of 2/3/20 Apple Inc. AAPL) As we previously detailed in depth, Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now and is planning to release its own AR smart glass and AR/VR hybrid headset. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2. the year of AR glasses?

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

When HTC VIVE started teasing the HTC VIVE Flow way back in 2021 , it left some consumers a little confused. They were named the “best wearable tech” at the Esquire Gadget Awards in 2021. With that in mind, we decided to take a closer look at the HTC VIVE Flow to see whether it still holds up in the VR market.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Prior to Valve, Lawrence was part of the Human Interface team at Apple, working on system features and applications for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac,” notes the description. Best of luck to those who do participate. For further updates, keep reading VRFocus.

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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. Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. What a time to be alive!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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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. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. But it’s not the best PCVR game of 2021). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

After having seen the teaser of the Quest 3 and especially the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro (about which you can read my opinion here ), I’m always more convinced that we have entered into a new phase of XR history. And this is opening new opportunities for all of us. The big dogs are all coming.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Facebook’s profit-deferring strategy had pushed would-be competitors like Lenovo and HTC to focus on enterprise markets where buyers are less sensitive to price than the value of not using anything connected to Facebook. Quest Pro may also compete with the forthcoming AR/VR headset in development at Apple.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. With the Starboard UI and Apple Glasses release anticipated for Q4 2020/Q1 2021, the world is eagerly awaiting the next generation of extended reality (XR) standards. . #3:

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 27, 2023

Previously, the company faced immense setbacks after Apple changed its privacy policy , shuttering out Meta’s ad targeting facilities on iOS and Mac devices. Meta increased its staff as the company scaled up its operations to accommodate its metaverse ambitions from 2021, ending in less-than-expected results.

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