The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Interested people in selected markets will be able to preorder the device starting from November, 15th 2022. The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. Some months ago, some important magazines leaked that Microsoft might have abandoned the HoloLens project. Other relevant news. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Actually, this week, Microsoft’s new mixed reality VP Scott Evans said that Microsoft is carrying on many innovations in various technological fields, and it is expecting the right time to release an update of the HoloLens. Viture One glasses are one of best inventions of 2022 according to TIME. Other news. Learn more.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

You’re going to need them in the new normal and, hopefully, at CES back in the real world, 2022. SenseGloves Nova, which are haptic feedback gloves for professional VR training, were announced at CES. The company is currently developing an email service to compete with Google and Microsoft. Here come the high tech masks.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself. Emerge is a new XR haptic device. Discover Sundance New Frontiers 2022 festival. More info (Leaks on RealityOS?—?Upload See you there.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 15, 2022

Some vendors will even be able to help you explore things like haptic technology, for touch-based feedback whenever someone interacts with an object. You could create a Microsoft Mesh MR experience with an integration to Microsoft Teams. Step 4: Consider Your Users.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This “multi-year broad strategic agreement” to work together on XR platform development has been announced during the IFA 2022 conference. After further tests on the device, t he Army has begun accepting the first 5000 units that Microsoft should manufacture. Meta acquires haptic company Lofelt. Upload VR).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

percent between 2022-2030. 2022 is a breakout year for MR hardware and software. Following Connect 2022, Meta debuted the Quest Pro, a consumer and enterprise-grade MR headset. Alternatively, major Meta competitor PICO debuted its own MR device in 2022. Mixed Reality Today. Competitive Growth in the Mixed Reality Market.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

While the Meta Quest Pro offered a big step up to the Quest 2 when launched in October 2022, the arrival of the Quest 3, with features that outshine the Pro in certain areas and a lower price tag, has left business leaders wondering whether the premium headset is worthwhile. Meta has a fantastic selection of apps and tools on its app store.

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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. Bytedance , the owner of the VR brand Pico, has just increased its expected sales target of VR headsets for 2022 from 1 million units to about 1.8 Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Snapdragon (@Snapdragon) October 24, 2022. TruTouch haptics to interact with virtual content. Meta’s latest enterprise headset will also integrate Microsoft and Zoom’s collaborative tools, providing workers access Office 365’s productivity suite of applications. Who’s getting one?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. PlayStation VR2 is not confirmed for 2022, yet. PSVR 2 is one of the most awaited headsets of 2022. The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun. Only PSVR2 will be able to exploit the true power of this console , but it seems that this new headset won’t arrive until 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

Goertek XReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

According to IDC’s March 2022 quarterly report , headset shipments grew by a staggering 92 percent in 2021, with several players vying for the top spot. Importantly, this is not their only offering as they also power a full-body haptics suit in partnership with TESLASUIT. Microsoft Windows Operating System compatibility.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Meta, one of the first companies to help VR go “mainstream”, introduced its Meta Quest Pro during the 2022 Meta Connect Event. The solution is a more lightweight, and feature-rich version of the previous Meta Quest 2, with an enhanced Snapdragon XR2+ processor, pancake optics, and TruTouch haptic feedback.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. It will be released to selected partners in Q4 2021 and to the general public in Q1 2022. Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. The event is free, and I invite you to register for it here … thanks! Top news of the week. Image by Magic Leap).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The full BT-45 range was announced at AWE at the end of 2022. They can also be linked with various haptic feedback tools and accessories. The features of Longan Vision’s headsets are specifically calibrated to the needs of first responders, with intelligent environmental monitoring, edge detection, and AI target highlighting.

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AIXR

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Meta SEO With Meta (formerly Facebook) committing to the Metaverse, all eyes are on fellow digital juggernauts such as Google, Bing, and Microsoft to see which – if any – becomes the next to buy into the Metaverse in a big way. Brands will need to develop campaigns with this in mind.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For the most part, your digital identity on channels like Microsoft Teams and Zoom is likely to consist of a face and a set of shoulders. Without new sensors or haptic feedback tools, tracking things like torsos and legs is complex. In October 2022, Zuckerberg showed off its new full-body avatar solution with working legs and feet.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

During 2022 it was hard to move without bumping into the term “metaverse.” While Meta focuses on creating virtual reality environments, companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are developing metaverse environments for collaborating and working on digital projects.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 27, 2023

Meta, the world leader committed to paving the way to the future of the metaverse, announced the Meta Quest Pro in October 2022. It’s designed to empower a new work age, with TruTouch haptics, full-color passthrough, and an intuitive Snapdragon XR2+ processor. Since 2022, this price has dropped even further to around $999.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Alongside a host of training resources designed to work on any laptop, VR headset, or device, FundamentalVR also offers solutions compatible with haptic feedback tools. Users can build their own experiences using the Virti student, or access a library of pre-built experiences.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If we have to keep hearing about the metaverse in 2022 and beyond, we should all be honest about one thing: So many of these fancy metaverse demos are just worse versions of IRL activities. It circulated around Twitter and Reddit again in early February 2022. Microsoft, too, has some fancy hologram stuff in the works.

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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. The expected price is around $900 There has been a lot of talk around the OWO haptic vest, a very lightweight T-shirt able to provide vibrational and electrical feedback directly on your skin.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The solution also includes a VIVE tracker and haptic feedback technology, leading to a 10-15% improvement in cognitive function during learning experiences, and fantastic engagement. RoboRaid and Microsoft HoloLens. Extended Reality has the power to pull people into unique experiences through more than just immersive visuals.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Here are some of the main companies you should be watching in 2022. Innovators in the world of Mixed Reality, Microsoft relies heavily on concepts like hand and eye tracking to help users combine the physical and digital worlds. Microsoft also makes it easier for other developers to create immersive experience within the MR landscape.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The device will be sold exclusively as an enterprise device, starting from 2022. At the event, it should just tease the new device, to then announce it formally at CES 2022. Or some haptic accessories?). Microsoft X-Rings is a controllers that can change its shape. The AR program for the US Army gets delayed.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Now they find themselves without a market, and the pivot to enterprise is too little too late considering that Microsoft has enterprise features that are much better than the ones of Magic Leap. Robert Scoble says that probably the year of XR will be around 2022 , and personally I agree with this general estimate.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Inside-out tracking was expected after having seen the controllers, but the haptic feedback on the head is a very welcome surprise. Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun. Chip shortages will hurt PS5 even in 2022.

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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. I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder. Pico Neo Eye 2 and controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If it keeps this pace, it could go beyond the 10M mark in 2022. Our brain is very plastic and the BCI could trigger the right parts of the brain so that you feel haptic sensations on 6 fingers if your avatar has 6 fingers. HaptX launches DK2 version of its haptic gloves. Microsoft announces HoloLens Industrial Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It has feet controllers, haptic feedback for hands, vibrational feedback for the hand, and other cool features that are missing in the most common headsets. The headset also features a varifocal display , maybe the first of its kind, but you pay it a lot since the model supporting it is worth $3900 (yikes!). Last Call has been released.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? It’s not your drab, beige Windows building, or Microsoft Word. It’s just neat how they built a subculture within the Microsoft culture.

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