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 - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

EolianVR (@EolianVR) July 20, 2022. The National Mission Force and Rapid Deployable Teams can utilise digital twins combined with incoming data for mission operations planning for teams dispersed across environments.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Specialities include computer science, data analytics, the creative economy, telemedicine , imaging , and others. Disciplines will include research and development (R&D) for AI, machine learning (ML), quantum information, blockchain, and data science.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC launches Vive Flow headset for relaxation, priced at $499. After endless teasings and leaks, in the end, HTC has finally unveiled its headset: called Vive Flow, it is a lightweight device for media consumption. The device will be sold exclusively as an enterprise device, starting from 2022.

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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. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 6, 2022

There are anthropological questions that we should get ahead of and start to have conversations about” She added she saw a future with wearable technologies, where people would move away from “our phones into glasses” to view data, volumetric video, and other immersive content. CathyHackl.eth (@CathyHackl) July 5, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements. I guess we have to wait a bit more for all the big announcements we are waiting for this 2022. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. Top news of the week. Image by GDC).

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

The Metaverse, 2022, hottest tech topic. Audiences at-large in 2022 were in the perfect place to understand some of the potential of the Metaverse, and equally, many savey firms were ready to engage audiences with grand promises. With the use of headsets particularly, there’s the opportunity to collect far more data than before.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. At its core, Meta is a data company; data revenues drive its social media platforms, and the wealth of data provided by headsets is increasing – therefore, in value for a firm like Meta.

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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. percent from 2022 to 2030, it added. Healthcare has become a massive benefactor for XR technologies, namely with the debut of the Microsoft HoloLens 2 and, most recently, Magic Leap 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. Well played, Microsoft.

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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 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? While in all past years the answer had always been “HTC Vive”, now the king is Oculus, with both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest getting the majority of answers (especially the Quest). So don’t expect it to revolutionize AR or VR soon.

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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

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. Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. It seems like a great tethered headset for the PS5.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Microsoft and the Haas Group. The company decided they needed to update their technology as a result, and turned to Microsoft for assistance. With the Microsoft ecosystem, and the HoloLens 2 headset, it’s easier to provide everyone with a comprehensive view of what a project will look like, and make rapid changes to designs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

sThe Future of Privacy Forum, a major organisation advocating privacy and data protection, unveiled a new data flow infographic on the top use cases for technologies employed in extended reality (XR). RESOURCE: Download FPF’s interactive visual guide to smart city technologies and data flows, Shedding Light on Smart City Privacy.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More info (Ready At Dawn shuts down Echo VR) More info (Meta CTO on Echo VR shutdown decision) More info (John Carmack comments the news) More info (An editorial from a Echo VR community manager) Meta’s financials are improving, but at what cost… Meta has released its financial data for its past quarters and the situation is slowly getting better.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

It seems that so the Quest 2 Pro will be at least unveiled during the next Facebook Connect , for a potential launch in 2022. 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.

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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. Some people denigrated early efforts, like the VR headsets that HTC and Oculus produced, as a fad, comparing it to the Segway or earlier 3DTV attempts.

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Microsoft chose this approach for HoloLens 2, which Quest Pro actually bears a striking resemblance to. It crushes the sinuses under your lower forehead and cheeks. The Charging Dock.

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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. This metaverse song is the best song of 2022.

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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

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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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

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.

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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. The system – which is still in prototype phase and is not expected to deploy until 2022 at the earliest – also collects data to highlight areas that need improvement and further training.

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