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

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2: What’s New?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

Users want to feel less strain when using XR devices and what sets the Apple Vision Pro apart from other products on the market is an emphasis on a hands-first user interface with your arms in a relaxed position: a pinch of the fingers controls how you view and interact with the content.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The upgraded Pico 4 should bring ringless controllers and maybe some refresh of the specifications. 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?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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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…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Earlier this month, reports highlighted how Google and Samsung face a “ great fear ” when Apple releases new products.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. The pinnacle of standalone performance is HTC Vive’s Focus headset that that uses "world-scale" and is similar to the HTC vive, a powerful headset tethered to a PC. Augmented reality is VR’s sister industry.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Truly next-gen VR (featuring a fantastic display and very wide FOV, varifocal resolution, eye tracking, haptics controllers, etc…) will take many years to realize. We won’t see a true disruptive headset probably until 2022-2023. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. Someone has disassembled the Index Controllers. If you like to see teardown of hardware products, then you will love this teardown of the Index Controllers that my friend Rob Cole has found on Reddt! I really hope so….

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It also features significantly higher resolution HDR displays, wider field of view lenses, eye tracking, head vibration, and ergonomic controllers with thumbsticks & high-fidelity haptics. Controller Thumbsticks ? HDR OLED Panels PSVR 2 is the only released VR headset with OLED panels since the 2018 Samsung Odyssey+.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. Hands-On: Meta’s Reprojection-Free Passthrough Prototype At SIGGRAPH 2023 we tried Flamera, Meta’s research prototype of reprojection-free passthrough AR. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ. But there is not only Samsung: XR2 Gen 2 is going to be integrated also by Immersed’s Visor, a new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a headset that is still undisclosed.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. I’m curious to see how this will turn out to be.

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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? So at first sight this seems a great deal.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the meantime, the headset sends the pose of the headset and the controllers to the PC , so that the PC can render the frames and execute the logic of the game for the next frame. You will be able to start a game, or choose a movie to watch in VR without having to use a controller anymore! Why not wireless?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This has been on one side amazing to increase the size of the VR market, but on the other side, it is becoming concerning, because Meta has now a de-facto monopoly, controlling all the standalone VR market, and more than 60% of the PCVR market. Pico Neo 3 Pro headset and controllers. It will also be a defensive move against Apple.

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