The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

— VR Nima (@NimaZeighami) January 5, 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. For every piece of news, I’ll share with you a brief summary and one or more links to go deeper. Further references.

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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…). We are organizing the Future Business EcoLink Conference 2022 and the 7th Golden Gyro Award.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2023

The news comes after Meta unveiled its Quest Pro enterprise headset at its Connect 2022 event in October last year. HTC VIVE debuted its VIVE XR Elite at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 in January for roughly $1,200. Priced at £1,500, the Quest Pro faces strong competition from rival headset manufacturers.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. Through the use of artificial intelligence, app developers can streamline how their program processes algorithms and data.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We can understand this from the data of the sales of the games on the Quest store. Apple launches iPhone 12, Pro models have Lidar sensor. It seems that how we move in VR is like a fingerprint of us and so an ML system can easily classify users even from anonymized data. more sales that on the launch day of the Quest 1.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

This could enable Meta to generate a valuable income source and services for its XR hardware ecosystem, competing with Apple’s Vision Pro offerings. At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. How will Meta use this data?

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2018

According to the report, the following is true: The United States has a larger VR install base than China, through products like PSVR and the HTC Vive. With these and other data points in mind, Digi-Capital posits the following: Of every $5 spent on AR/VR, China alone could take over a fifth of 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. Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. But there is more!

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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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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

An HTC Vive Pro 2 headset, bought last month to replace my work Oculus Rift. Of these, only the Quest was a wireless VR headset; the Oculus Rift, Valve Index, and HTC Vive Pro 2 are all what are collectively termed PCVR, that is, virtual reality headsets that require a cable to a high-end gaming computer in order to work.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

There is no official confirmation on this, and I hope to be wrong because having to use earphones would be a big hit to its comfort Release date and price : of course the release date (will it come before or after an Apple headset?) An analysis of the job postings of Meta shows that the company is trying to add cellular data to its headsets.

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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. It will also launch the Meta Quest 3 ahead of the Connect 2023 event in September to compete with the Apple Vision Pro. What is Green Capex?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

HTC VIVE unveiled enterprise-grade hardware and platforms on Thursday via its XR Elite Business Edition and Business+ solutions. Conversely, Apple has entered the XR scene with a potential enterprise-focused Vision Pro headsets. percent from 2022 to 2030, it added. billion USD by 2030.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Probably, an affordable Quest 2 based on XR2 may come out in 2022. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. In any case, I’m very intrigued. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

With the rise of 5G, cloud rendering, and computing, smart glasses can access 3D data from the cloud. Notably, the firm worked with Orange to augment the Tour de France 2022 and expand the region’s 5G coverage as part of the project. Apple is already leveraging LiDAR to improve their apps’ light and detection range.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Most probably this announcement has been made to envision a future competition with Apple, bringing to XR the battle Android vs iOS (and Samsung vs Apple) that we already have on phones. Reality Labs’s revenues, also thanks to the very good sales of Quest 2 during Christmas, have gone up from the terrible Q3 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 took place in Miami 5 to 7 December, and concluded its final days in the sunny backdrop of Miami Beach’s historic Fontainebleu Hotel. The platform also supported legacy data for previous standard operation procedures (SOPs) and other VR content. Currently, ExplodedView is iOS exclusive.

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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. So I am personally a bit confused about what is going to happen, but what is almost sure is that in 2022 we will see the launch of a Quest 2 Pro. Facebook executives talk about their vision for the future. was a lot of money?).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

I see 2020 as a good year of consolidation, where VR will grow linearly before the expected explosion around 2022. and the growth, from the data, seems slow (for now), but exponential. We won’t see a true disruptive headset probably until 2022-2023. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market. The reasons?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today’s episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today’s episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today's episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

These new optics and wearable screens, coming by 2022, along with the smaller computers that will drive them, will bring us all into a 3D world that few can imagine today. Well, some do, but most of us use Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube, to listen to music now. The vinyl is more enjoyable. You can hear more detail in the highs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Gartner Hype Cycle for 2022, which now includes the Metaverse (Image by Gartner). The XR field is now growing, and the long-term outlook is also great, with the upcoming release of the Apple mixed reality headset which is for sure going to re-ignite the hype for immersive realities again. Saint Zuck from Palo Alto.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. Other relevant news. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

BUT if you read the privacy policies of these two services, you can discover that Meta can send some of your eye tracking data to Meta servers , and while this may just be to guarantee the correct visualization of expressions on your avatar face in multiplayer experiences, it opens a backdoor to Meta to get some precious data about our eyes.

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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. I think that in a good part of 2022 we will just see the VR market growing because of the huge growth of the Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. It was enjoyable moving my controller around and seeing the reaction in the IMU data, or obscuring different sensors to see the data stream drop out. .

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. Millions of VR headsets have been sold and PwC expects an installed base of 55 million active VR users by 2022. By the way, it took until iOS 9 for the Apple Watch to finally track menstruation.).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The data collection from XR headsets to offer targeted ads has to continue somehow. But it seems that Meta is also working on other broader options, and we will know about them in 2022. And for price parity, companies were usually working with Pico and HTC that have always had a better approach in the B2B sector. Cloud Backup.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. There were also some significant acquisitions in the space, such as Jaunt XR being bought by Verizon , and Apple acquiring UK start-up Ikinema. VR Therapy.

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