The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2023

OPPO MR Glass will be available as a Snapdragon Spaces developer kit in China, distributed in the second half of 2023. More info HTC VIVE launches VIVE Business+ HTC is one of the leading companies in enterprise virtual reality. It also features a heartbeat sensor, even if it is not clear where it is installed.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

I have written a little blog post about my participation there. Actually, this is the first time that there is a least some chance that an Apple headset gets announced because all the rumors talk about a 2022–2023 release window, but the fact that the event still online makes it slightly less likely. Top news of the week. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

More info Vive discontinues Facial Tracker HTC has discontinued the Facial Tracker, the face-tracking device that worked with various PC VR headsets. May it be something that HTC is going to announce at CES? These copies are specifically dedicated to the followers of my blog, so the chances of winning them are pretty high.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

According to this report, this is the plan that Meta has for the upcoming years in VR: Release Quest 3, focused on Mixed Reality, in 2023. HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. HTC is one of the best companies when it comes to XR for enterprise and it’s good that it is expanding its offering in the field.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. The Tracker is good, but since HTC has never had competition in the field, i t has always been the same since the launch year. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Last Wednesday, Meta-owned Metaverse platform Crayta, developed and operated by Unit 2, announced its closure effective March 3 2023. Moreover, last week another Meta-owned VR gaming developer, Ready at Dawn, announced that its online multiplayer game Echo VR would shut down on August 1, 2023. Read our announcement & FAQs below.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In my career as an XR professional, I’ve got to know people from all over the world, especially thanks to this blog, social media, and the international events I attended. Do you know that there are some XR blogs and magazines all in Spanish to cater to Spanish and Southern American markets?

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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. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. Meta confirms Quest 3 is coming in 2023. We were all suspecting it, but now it is official: Meta has announced that Quest 3 is coming in 2023. We can also guess that the release will happen during Meta Connect 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Meta never had a true competitor after the HTC Vive, so it will be interesting to see how the company will react to this situation. In Q4 2023, it had for the first time more than $1B in revenues , which were driven mostly by the sales of Quest devices. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Since the hardware is almost ready, the company is now ramping up the development of the actual rOS (Reality OS) operating system, for the launch that may happen in 2023. Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2022 and 2023? Eye tracking technology continued to see growth in 2022 into 2023 for many key verticals, including healthcare, driver monitor systems (DMS), and more. OctoXR is a low-code plugin, which means that it does not require users to have extensive coding knowledge.

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 18, 2022

I do plan to replace it with an HTC Vive Pro 2 kit sometime later this year, the same model I specified in my proposal for a virtual reality lab for the Libraries , a task which took up a significant chunk of my spring. My work on this blog is considered part of my research! The Meta Team.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

PSVR 2 may launch in Q1 2023. The channel says that according to “credible sources”, Sony may launch PSVR 2 sometime in Q1 2023. On the occasion of the MWC, Meta has been back at talking about the metaverse on its blog. Other relevant news. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Donate for good. Image leaked by WalkingCat).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Image by HTC Vive). HTC teases a new headset. HTC has started the usual marketing operation it does for the launch of every new device. We don’t have further details about it, and if you try to enhance the above image, you just get a “Nice try” trolling label coming to view (gg HTC for that). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the meantime, Bloomberg published a report saying that Apple is going to launch its XR headset in the “next several months” (a timeline that goes from now to 2023, I guess), and that it is probably waiting until there could be physical events again before doing it. It’s nice to see how Facebook is updating the Quest software constantly.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

There are many limitations to this mod, plus the application is not on sale anymore so only existing players can mod it, but it made me smile the idea that the community managed to restore the game in a way More info Meta Reality Lab’s revenues dropped in Q3 In Q3 2023, Meta had its lowest revenues for Reality Labs.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Roblox was already on App Lab, where it had more than one million downloads, and now is going to be available on the official Quest store Asgard’s Wrath 2, coming on Quest Store on December 15th, 2023. Also, it lacks integrated audio, which in 2023 is a big issue. And as you can imagine, the leaks come from him, always him: Brad Lynch.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

But I think it’s not a good move for Meta, for the following reasons: It shows that it is “afraid” of HTC. The move has probably been done to better compete with the Vive XR Elite, which is going to be released now exactly for $1100. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

HAPPY 2023! Image by HTC Vive). HTC’s new headset may be called Vive XR Elite. Thanks to the support of the community member Inscothen, I have discovered that the Korean website of HTC may have leaked the info about the upcoming headset that the company should unveil at this CES. Top news of the week. Donate for good.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The shutdown will come to effect in August 2023, and in the meanwhile, all the players will be able to get some premium addons and beautifications for free. The contest runs from January 31 to March 3, 2023. Don’t miss them! Learn more Hand tracking is now available also in three.js I will leave you the link to do that below.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As many of you already know, I already deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts in 2018 , followed by moving away from Facebook-now-Meta’s virtual reality hardware completely (I now have a Valve Index at home and an HTC Vive Pro 2 headset at work, using SteamVR). So, why did I finally get rid of that? It’s a bit of a story.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Then we have a new report from The Verge that says that the upcoming Apple visor is coming with an M2 chip (we knew that); Kuo saying that Apple will release its visor in January 2023 (we knew that); Apple AR glasses (not the headset, but the glasses) have now entered the design development stage and should release in 2024 (again, we knew).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The glasses, codenamed Orion, should be made to replace smartphones and are slated for a release date of 2023–2025, that seems very reasonable, considering that no present tech is able to create truly consumer AR. HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre. All of this seems cool, but also very confused.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

At the same time, I think that Meta is not pushing much on its business offerings (and in fact this price clarification arrived many months later than expected) so probably the field will still be dominated by Pico and HTC for any foreseeable time. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It has not been the only company helping XR (HTC did a lot for kickstarting enterprise VR, for instance; Valve created many technologies used by current VR headsets, etc…), but it was the company that did the most to speed up the development of XR and I think it’s important to recognize it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2023? Eye tracking technology continued to see growth in 2022 into 2023 for many key verticals, including healthcare, driver monitor systems (DMS), and more. OctoXR is a low-code plugin, which means that it does not require users to have extensive coding knowledge.

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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. It seems like a great tethered headset for the PS5. It should sell 2–3 million units in its first year. Metadonation.

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Ryan Schultz

OCTOBER 12, 2022

SkarredGhost), an Italian man whose blog, The Ghost Howls , covers the VR/AR/MR/XR industry and the metaverse, wrote : Let’s be honest: Meta Connect was utterly disappointing. Maybe I wouldn’t hate myself if I had to write blogs while wearing a plastic headset. Tony Vitillo (a.k.a. And maybe they will. Ugh, okay.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. The XR2 processor is already used in other products like Meta Quest 2 and HTC Vive XR Elite, making porting of games much simpler.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. Shipping should start in 2023. That’s why the headset should be available by the end of the year, and my bet is that Apple is trying to have it ready before the holidays.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Palmer Luckey has published a blog post on his own website to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Oculus, the company he founded. Apple glasses may have been delayed to 2023. But according to some analysts, it may be delayed until 2023. HTC Vive is going to launch… a box. HTC implements OpenXR on the Vive Focus 3.

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