The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pixel density is what makes us see everything crisper, and if with the 773 PPI of the Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3 Link the screen door effect was already almost invisible, I think that with 1200, it will be impossible to see pixels at all, for a very immersive virtual reality. Just Dance is coming exclusively to Pico 4!!! Presentation.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

“It is a massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time, rendered, 3D virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users, each with an individual sense of presence.”. Matthew Ball , Author, formerly Amazon AMZN -2.9%.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We’ve made seven initial selections based, where we could, on first-hand visits to venues in virtual reality. We recently recognized standout places released widely in 2022 , including Vertical Robot’s visual powerhouse Red Matter 2 and the playful swinging in What The Bat? Best Movie Theater. Best Golf Course.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Vehicle passengers keen to experience virtual worlds or play games — all of which are in tune with the movement the car they’re riding in — will have to use the Ride utility token to make purchases. The company had previously said it would launch in summer 2022, but has since pulled back on specific timing for next year.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

John Hermann, in a recent article for New York magazine titled The AI Magic Show ( original ; archived version ), wrote: In 2022, artificial-intelligence firms produced an overwhelming spectacle, a rolling carnival of new demonstrations. MIT Technology Review ; The Verge ] The use case for AI is spam books on Amazon Kindle.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Lynx will start this Kickstarter campaign in September 2021 and expects to ship its consumer device in February 2022 (but remember that delays with Kickstarter are very frequent). It is a very useful collection of articles for people that are new to this world and want to understand all the facets of the topic very fast.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Last October, Mozilla announced that it had decided to discontinue the Hubs Cloud hosting service, which ran on AWS (Amazon Web Services). HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Today is the first of twelve successive Mondays which I am taking as research days from my full-time paying job as an academic librarian at the University of Manitoba.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In celebration of the 2022 Holiday Season, Meta is offering a $50 discount on all Meta Quest 2 VR headsets. Each headset comes with a pair of Touch controllers as well as support for hand-tracking, allowing you to interact with the virtual world using your bare hands. Every purchase comes with a free copy of Resident Evil 4 VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I truly hope they can create a serious blockchain that can be the foundation for ownership and payment systems in virtual worlds. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. The best summary of Apple WWDC 2022 so far Funny link. Quest runtime v41 brings Social Home. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Probably, an affordable Quest 2 based on XR2 may come out in 2022. This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper. In any case, I’m very intrigued. Other relevant news. Coronavirus impacts headsets production and kills F8 and GDC. More info Buy it now!

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Quest Pro , on the other hand, is aimed at productivity use for professionals who want to get involved with building the virtual worlds that will make up the metaverse. It also integrates with Google and Amazon Echo devices meaning it can be fully voice-controlled.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. The headset is expected for Q4 2022 , with no preorders available. CES 2022 is going to be less cool than expected. Some months ago, it was announced that CES 2022 would have had a physical edition again. This is great.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Using Amazon Web Services, Alta VR was able to rapidly scale its environment for a more demanding virtual world, and now accommodates thousands of new players every day. According to Alta VR , the popularity of the Oculus Quest, combined with the power of AWS meant they could rapidly immerse a huge community.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Didimo’s Popul8 tool allows world-building firms to create hundreds of unique characters in a fraction of the time and cost needed to do so. The Porto, Portugal-based company and attendee of the Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami will announce further partnerships in due course.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. They are standard Quests , the ones you can buy on Amazon, BUT they have a business licensing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! It gives you an overview of the current status of AR, VR, and the M-word.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. Covers neural graphics advancements, digital twins, & virtual humans: [link]. Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) August 9, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

I honestly hope we’ll have more unexpected announcements about VR games in the remainder of 2022…. Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device. A job listing from Amazon may point to the interest of the company in developing an XR headset. The Mall wants to bring shopping centers to virtual worlds.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

As is often the case, the forefront of this revolution has occurred in games and virtual worlds. and fraud, scams and exploitable code remains a problem here in in 2022. For the virtual worlds and avatar systems where composability and interoperability are critical?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). This is still the situation in this first part of 2022. No one still knows how to build the necessary technologies to make it happen.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Spaces offers functionalities in: Image tracking Object tracking Hand tracking Spatial mapping Environment understanding and meshing Plane detection Real/virtual world occlusion …and more. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

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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. He has set a shooting game in his apartment, and in it he can also use his real table as a prop in the game , moving it in the real and virtual world together. Oculus has made its GDC announcements. Amazing demo, have a look at it! It seems fun.

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