The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 24, 2023

One of the traditions of this blog is my usual greeting message for the Winter Holidays … and this year could not be an exception. Also, Samsung will probably unveil its moves, so… it is going to be interesting. I hope you will receive wonderful gifts and that Santa Claus will surprise you with what you always wanted.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. According to a new leak, Microsoft scrapped the plans for a HoloLens 3, and also the collaboration with Samsung has been brought to an end.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

I’m also working on a cool tech prototype and I will share it with you very soon in the next few days on this blog. Samsung hopes with this acquisition to acquire knowledge and technologies for the manufacturing of the displays of future XR headsets, of which Samsung may be a supplier. Be sure not to miss it!

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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. I’m pretty excited by these growing rumors about Samsung because Samsung has always proposed interesting XR devices. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

More info (SideQuest VR download page) More info (Launch blog post). More info (Announcement blog post) More info (Boz announcing the news on Twitter) More info (My long editorial on Facebook and its advertisement efforts). And no, I’m not writing it because I’m the lead developer of the game. Absolutely not. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. The latest Q2 2023 operating loss of Reality Labs has been around $4 billion. Maybe we are getting out of the quicksands we were in since the start of the year. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

More info (AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta — Road To VR) More info (AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta — Upload VR) More info (TikTok influencers are using Meta smartglasses) The Samsung headset may be revealed soon According to a new rumor, the XR headset that Samsung is building with Google and Qualcomm may be revealed at the beginning of the new year.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Big-G is in fact focusing on strategic partnerships like the one with Qualcomm and Samsung to try to impose itself as the provider of the runtime for XR headsets. The one winning the most important prize, Best 2023 Experience, has been Noire by Centre Pompidou. This does not mean that Google is not still committed to AR, though.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless. Others have even threatened the safety of the employees. Others are working on legal actions. Many journalists talked negatively about this news. This is a small win for us.

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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

JUNE 13, 2022

This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Renato Andrade, Senior XR Product Designer, Samsung R&D Institute (SIDIA) , posted his thoughts on the changes, gaining him over 20,000 impressions on LinkedIn. Industry Reactions to Unity Fees Many XR developers took to their Twitter and LinkedIn profiles to express their opinions about the pending changes.

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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. Samsung terminates its XR services. All of this in less than 1 year.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info (Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI) More info (The Q* algorithm could be the reason why Altman was fired) News worth a mention Samsung trademarks “Samsung Glasses” Samsung has filed a trademark for “Samsung Glasses” in the UK. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Talking about content, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is one of the first series shot with Apple’s ‘Immersive Video’ format and is set to debut on Apple TV+ in late 2023. For these reasons, there is a pairing process associated with them , that performs a “re-calibration” of the optic system to take the lenses into count.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

I’m not there (I’ve still never been to CES…), but as usual I will follow the news and report it on this blog, so stay tuned! Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ. Keep this in mind when you are doing marketing for your XR game. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. Steam Summer Sale 2023 is offering amazing discounts on popular VR games like Ultrawings, Half-Life Alyx, After The Fall, and many more! I’m curious to see how this will turn out to be. The first tests with it have been pretty successful.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Devices will begin shipping before Jan 15, 2023. This week we got to know that Meta is in talks with LG and Samsung to talk about microLED supplies. More info (Meta talking with LG and Samsung) More info (ITRI Display). Enjoy some Black Friday discounts! This is impressive. The research you didn’t know you needed. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. But will it be enough now to beat Apple? Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Apple may announce its device in 2023. This time it’s again the turn of Mark Gurman, that believes that all the developmental delays of the headset (not to mention the chip shortage and the pandemic) will push the announcement of the headset to WWDC 2023. Like every week, I have a new rumor about the Apple AR/VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. Horsepower.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

I’ve already reported on this blog how Xiaomi has disbanded the team working on the Oculus Go and this seems to point that there won’t be a Go 2. According to some rumors, Facebook is building its AR glasses together with Luxottica , and the release date is after 2023 … so it is a very long term plan.

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