The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

T he use of the Exynos chips makes me think even more that this is an old device : Samsung has recently announced that it is going to build its headset with Google and Qualcomm, so it is impossible that the to-be-released device doesn’t have a Qualcomm chip. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

This means that the release of this headset may not happen before the end of 2023 for sure. Take the survey to help the global community learn more about the skills and technologies necessary to succeed in 2023 and beyond. But having these new displays is a huge undertaking, and the production may only start later this year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Verge started referring to them as the new “Glassholes”, the term that was invented to describe people wearing Google Glass in public, when that device was popular. I understand the fun of doing stuff with passthrough: when the Vive Focus came out, I did some stuff like that, too. There are many other examples of that.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sorry for the long backlog, but I’m not having much time to work on the blog during this period. According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Its huge investments are also attracting all the other major tech companies to enter the metaverse field, and Apple and Google will surely release some XR devices in the upcoming years because of that. My current situation is now quite positive: my blog is growing and is itself a revenue stream.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Don’t forget to read the coverage about it on my blog… Before leaving you to the news, I have to publicly compliment Emerson for having given the most correct answer to my contest. It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. And so on… Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence, has left Google to speak out about the dangers of AI. A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

The latest Q2 2023 operating loss of Reality Labs has been around $4 billion. I think we’ll understand the real situation Meta is in during this holiday season: Meta is betting a lot on having a fantastic end of 2023, and if it is not going to happen, then the company may be in trouble. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Take the survey to help the global community learn more about the skills and technologies necessary to succeed in 2023 and beyond. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As it is tradition of this blog, I have prepared a big fatty roundup with all the news announced at the latest Facebook Connect 2. Read more about this news: Founder’s letter by Mark Zuckerberg: [link] Design blog on Meta’s logo: [link] Facebook spending $10B for the metaverse: [link] Integral keynote of Facebook Connect 2: [link].

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login. So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Quest 3, which could be announced at Connect 2023, should instead have micro OLED displays , and probably feature a custom Meta chip able to handle better VR workloads than Qualcomm’s ones. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. But it’s not the best PCVR game of 2021).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The rumors also talk about a headset coming in 2022 with AR/VR and another one coming in 2023 as a smartglass. 10 minutes of Youtube video have been enough to make all game developers hype.

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