The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (Nathie going around the streets with the Vision Pro on) More info (Vision Pro guy with a robot dog) More info (A girl staying in the pool with the Vision Pro) More info (Photos and videos of other people wearing the headset in public places) Unity has released the tools to build for the Vision Pro. I sincerely hope so.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In late August, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released its 11th annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report , highlighting innovative technology solutions that positively impact society. Moreover, Microsoft is resparking its stake in an Industrial Metaverse, with plans to debut products in 2024.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Last week, Augmented World Expo EU (AWE) 2023 hosted its yearly event highlighting recent innovations in enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR solutions, as well as related emerging technology such as genAI, digital twins, and geospatial tech. Time and time again, we have seen how important businesses have been to scale that technology adoption.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%. Google has incorporated AR/VR technology in many of its offerings, including adding a VR mode in YouTube and an AR mode in Google Map, and has made sure that its Google Pixel smartphones are all AR-compatible and include Google Lens functionality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Apple is already working on future technologies for its headset, and one of the rumors that popped out is that it is working on a next-generation technology to ensure a long duration of the battery of its device. This can be very useful, but also a bit creepy on the privacy side. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Our software and hardware engineering and research teams have used a variety of equipment that rides on top of our in-house developed technosports platform , ranging from the HTC Vive Pro and its motion detectors, the (now unfortunately defunct Myo) sensors, the ZED stereo cameras, and Microsoft’s HoloLens.

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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. Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The great news for Meta is that since it is a strong partner with Qualcomm, it will have exclusively the chipset for around 6 months, so competitors that use the same system can only arrive in 2024. So while the technology is amazing, it’s important we also tune our expectations: this is a vision of the future, not of the present of XR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. Alan picks Dean’s brain for a few such scoops.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. Alan picks Dean’s brain for a few such scoops.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you've been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat's lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There's been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. There’s been a number of kind of false starts with this technology. Alan picks Dean’s brain for a few such scoops.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). After Valve, I started an AR company called CastAR where we were doing augmented reality very similar to the technology we’ll be talking about today. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands. It’s an interesting place to work.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. Room 2024, West Hall. Liz Mercuri (Unity). : Tuesday, February 28th, 10:00am – 11:00am.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Pimax 12K (Image by Pimax) Regarding the 12K headset, this was still some way off, with a 12K demo planned for Q3 of 2023, a roadshow in Q4, and a presentation at CES in January 2024. There is now a good chance we could see something towards the end of this year, with a potential release to consumers in 2024. Welcome to the future!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the middle, we had various winters where the technology and the market slowed down.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. This is a watershed moment for VR-style headsets.

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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. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The product is still being built, and the expected release date is 2024. HTC discounts its headsets. HTC has started a good discount on its headsets that will last until the end of the month. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR.

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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. Top news of the week. News worth a mention. Image by Sony).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

From new features to new customer focuses, this week, like many in 2024, will prove vital in laying down the foundation for XR in the future. It may expand upon this YouTube update during Connect 2024 – the company’s yearly showcase event – with the direct support of 8K hardware streaming.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Rob loves exploring the technology always starting from the human perspective, putting the human at the center of his experiments and analysis, and he did this also while working on Project Caliper, his experiment in building a better version of the Valve Index Controllers alone in his spare time. Image provided by Rob Cole). Tundra HDK RMA.

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