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. Top news of the week. Funny link.

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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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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. Bank Of America to use VR training.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Hosted on the CharityBuzz website the auction is in aid of Elemental Music, a charity which trains and nurtures young musicians at the elementary and middle school level in the Santa Monica area. If you’ve ever wanted to step inside and see some of the inner workings then a charity auction is currently taking place to do just that.

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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. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Top news of the week. Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Mostly they are about entertainment, marketing or training experiences. I forecast a big growth in the enterprise usage of VR headsets, both 3DOF (mostly for marketing and education) and 6DOF ones (for prototyping, training, etc…). HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

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. The device does not use controllers at all, instead, Apple believes that with the XR revolution comes increased usability and accessibility via hand/eye-based inputs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

For example, if a user tries to pick up an object in an immersive training environment, hand-tracking technology allows users to pick up and interact with objects in real time by detecting user hand movements. Take, for example, Lufthansa – they train their aircrew through a VR application created by NMY Mixed Reality Studio.

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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 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! And it feels weird that HTC hasn’t fixed such a cheap little component that was already faulty on the original Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And moving on, I want to say that 2021 is looking pretty damn amazing to begin with for the XR world. Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But I think we're all looking forward to 2021, and what it's going to mean for all of us.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And moving on, I want to say that 2021 is looking pretty damn amazing to begin with for the XR world. Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But I think we're all looking forward to 2021, and what it's going to mean for all of us.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And moving on, I want to say that 2021 is looking pretty damn amazing to begin with for the XR world. Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But I think we're all looking forward to 2021, and what it's going to mean for all of us.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

The rumors of an Apple XR headset are making everyone excited. And here we are, almost two years later, that we have done together massive virtual events like SXSW 2021 or the concert of Jean-Michel Jarre for which I have been even mentioned by Unity itself on its website.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2023

Image by HTC Vive). but for now, let me just list the most important announcements: HTC announced the Vive XR Elite, a headset that mixes the comfort of the Vive Flow with the usability of the Vive Focus 3. A new rumor on Apple headset talks about a very high-end device. Top news of the week. XR had its good moment at CES.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g. that should be released around 2021 should add support for VR devices.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 I will say that Meta was not unexpected, in fact I have personally known about this work within Facebook for at least 3 years now, I cant imagine that other industry insiders have not known it was coming! VR training is one of the standout examples and has many benefits. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today HTC has unveiled its latest product, Vive Flow, a lightweight headset aimed at consumers. HTC is coming back to consumers after having already released this year two headsets devoted to prosumers and professionals: HTC Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3. The headset becomes easily portable with this shape (Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive). And what about the ongoing training?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The company has stated that in 2021 it will spend $10B for the metaverse , and that in next years that expense will be even larger. And for price parity, companies were usually working with Pico and HTC that have always had a better approach in the B2B sector.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I think that we’ll have more info at OC7, with maybe a launch in 2021/2022. In the meantime, even HTC that was safe until now is having troubles in manufacturing the external tracking faceplate , whose release date will be delayed. The time has come and finally Apple will implement a depth back camera in its upcoming iPad Pro.

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