The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. I made this meme in Word in 5 minutes, and it started spreading like fire. Internet is beautiful. The VR Fast was also fast in dying.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). Nreal Light is shipping in Europe and US in 2021. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). In particular, the ones by Panasonic that were so popular at CES 2020 , are going to be released in 2021. All the ones that have been announced are going to be released in the next 12 months.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. In May of 2017, Unity CEO John Riccitiello forecasted two things : That harsh times with people saying that VR is a fad would have come. It’s 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! It will be released to selected partners in Q4 2021 and to the general public in Q1 2022. Chip shortages are going to continue throughout 2021.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. Theme and amusement parks have begun incorporating VR technologies from HTC VIVE for novel attractions. VR Theme Parks.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market. So, personally, I bet on a PSVR 2 in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR. The Unity Cube ?? (PS Respect for the devs of Cooking Simulator, it is actually a good game.

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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. We’ll wait.

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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

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. Eye tracking. HoloLens has been warned.

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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. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform.

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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). Rift line gets discontinued.

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