The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2020

Pico Neo 2 Eye Video Review. If you are a tl;dr guy (or girl), probably you would rather watch a video of me speaking about the Pico Neo 2 Eye instead of reading thousands of words. And for this reason, your favorite ghost has prepared a nice review video for you! The visuals are where the Pico Neo 2 Eye shines.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

The StarVR headset has a monstrous combined resolution of 5120×1440 formed from dual 2160×1200 resolution displays in a canted arrangement, in front of which sit 2 sizeable, custom Fresnel lenses.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

And what some companies have done is actually flooded a real home and then created 360 video of that home. A lot of the immersive content today has to go through a full production with 360 video recording. I'm really excited to have eye tracking as part of the daily experience of XR. Brian: Yeah, absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. and Simon’s stuff, it felt like I was inside a video, but not quite? I want to try and be inside video content. Just look at the video that’s on the main page. Alex: RiVR is “Reality in Virtual Reality.”

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. and Simon’s stuff, it felt like I was inside a video, but not quite? I want to try and be inside video content. Just look at the video that’s on the main page. Alex: RiVR is “Reality in Virtual Reality.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

of videos) is too short to do something meaningful. The second most important XR news from this F8 has surely been the reveal of the Oculus Half Dome prototype : a tethered headset with varifocal display (that lets you see sharply the objects that in VR are close to your face, for instance), 140 degrees field of view and eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. GTC digital is online, NVIDIA shows cheap eye tracking. But NVIDIA has not given up, and has recorded the videos of all the expected speeches and put them online. Apple ARKit 3.5

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

The headset had astonishing specifications, like: Display resolution: 1,830 × 1,464 per lens resolution, total 16 million sub-pixels Display type: AMOLED Refresh rate: 90Hz Field of view: 210-degree horizontal FOV, 130-degree vertical FOV Eye-tracking: Fully integrated Tobii eye-tracking, including Dynamic Foveated Rendering.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. and Simon's stuff, it felt like I was inside a video, but not quite? I want to try and be inside video content. Just look at the video that's on the main page. Alex: RiVR is “Reality in Virtual Reality.” Alex: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I can take a video, it stitches on my phone. Beyond that, I mean, you’re able to create completely new 2D videos from the 360 perspective. So you’re able to capture in 360. And everybody thinks, oh, if I captures in 360, I got to look at it in VR, which is cool. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I can take a video, it stitches on my phone. Beyond that, I mean, you’re able to create completely new 2D videos from the 360 perspective. So you’re able to capture in 360. And everybody thinks, oh, if I captures in 360, I got to look at it in VR, which is cool. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I can take a video, it stitches on my phone. Beyond that, I mean, you're able to create completely new 2D videos from the 360 perspective. So you're able to capture in 360. And everybody thinks, oh, if I captures in 360, I got to look at it in VR, which is cool. Alan: Yeah, 360's too hard. One, ease of use.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Maybe he/she had tried just a cardboard somewhen or just watched some Youtube videos about someone playing VR. I can now see videos about VR also in meme websites like 9GAG, and this shows that VR has started entering mainstream consideration, but it is still far away from being the main topic of discussion.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. IMAX TO INVEST $50M IN VR CONTENT DEVELOPMENT – with Creative Artists Agency and Acer, the partnership will fund at least 25 VR projects including 360 videos as well as games.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Speaking of game changers, one of the other things you guys announced at VEC this year is six degrees of freedom video. So, normal 360 video allows you to kind of look around from the point of the camera, but what you guys have developed is a way to give, kind of, more presence by adding that ability to move up and down, and left and right.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Speaking of game changers, one of the other things you guys announced at VEC this year is six degrees of freedom video. So, normal 360 video allows you to kind of look around from the point of the camera, but what you guys have developed is a way to give, kind of, more presence by adding that ability to move up and down, and left and right.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2019

The talks were interesting to be updated about the latest news and products : for instance, I had the opportunity to see there a picture of the lip tracking device for the Vive Pro. And I also learnt about the eye tracking features or the 3D spatial audio features offered by the Vive SDK.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The chipset is the central unit of the headset, it is like its brain , the hardware computing the images that you see, that gives hw acceleration for video encoding, computer vision, AI, etc… The more powerful the chipset, the bigger the brain of your headset, that so can have more features and offer more realism.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Now he’s doing VR and he’s come up with a couple of funny VR shorts, interactive 360 videos. Microsoft and Facebook have talked about inside out tracking. Google recently bought Eyefluence for its eye tracking. To me, that seems like an investment in one particular person, the guy who made Madagascar.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Eye Tracking. With Facebook/Oculus’ recent acquisition of The Eye Tribe , the upcoming social VR giant is ready to take a giant leap in making headset-based VR truly immersive: depth of field. 360-video will continue to grow as a medium for immersive, linear experiences. Storytellers Begin to Adapt.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. You talked about these 8k cameras, or the 360 cameras. They’re going to sell you 360 video.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. You talked about these 8k cameras, or the 360 cameras. They’re going to sell you 360 video.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: There's VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there's also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. You talked about these 8k cameras, or the 360 cameras. They're going to sell you 360 video.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Quest Pro announcement video. It’s good news by the way that there is continuous IPD adjustment (and with a wider range than before) and that thanks to eye tracking sensors, the headset can tell you if you have positioned it well on your head. Face and eye tracking introduce obvious privacy concerns.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

While the Cosmos is tailored at consumers, the just announced Vive Pro Eye is dedicated to enterprise customer s. It is a slightly improved Vive Pro, that features integrated eye tracking offered by Tobii. Thanks to it, the user was able to see a volumetric video streamed via 5G in very high quality. at 120 fps.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Looking at the video, you may notice that the two games looks both very very good. A bit like what happened with Henry ported from PC to Oculus Go by John Carmack: he used a special encoding of 5K 360 video and the experience is similar to the realtime UE4 experience on PC, even if at the same time it is completely different.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But notwithstanding all these pro sides, Oculus has clearly stated that hands tracking won’t replace Quest controllers. It is also interesting to notice that journalists reported that if the hand tracking is not good enough on a particular hand, the system makes it to disappear, to avoid you seeing hands in weird poses.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. All of these headsets are gonna start to have eye tracking and all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You've got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. All of these headsets are gonna start to have eye tracking and all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. All of these headsets are gonna start to have eye tracking and all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But we’re using like five different SAS based services to take the podcast interview, to transcribe it, to create it into a little video that’s like a video header and then make it available as a blog post. But the idea with that is that we couldn’t possibly build even if it was just 360 video.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But we’re using like five different SAS based services to take the podcast interview, to transcribe it, to create it into a little video that’s like a video header and then make it available as a blog post. But the idea with that is that we couldn’t possibly build even if it was just 360 video.

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