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Open Haptics Ecosystem: unlock a tremendous value for the haptics market

ARVR

Disclaimer I’m opinionated and loud about Haptics. I'm also host of the Haptics Club and board member of Haptics Industry Forum. Summary: A major upside for the haptics market is locked in the impact of haptics on usages, today unknown. Haptics is hard, everyone says that. No, it is not.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This time we will talk about haptics in XR with some celebrities in the field like Guido Gioioso from Weart, Ashley Huffman from TitanHaptics, and Joe Michaels from HaptX. Apple is working on some sort of metaverse, and its headset is entering mass production. This is clearly the beginning of Apple’s entrance into the Metaverse.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.01 + 2023.11.08): Pico performs layoffs, Nimo announces AR glasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.17): Big tech companies’ battle for talents, PSVR 2 still not confirmed for 2022, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The same has happened with Apple, which is now offering bonuses to employees to keep them inside the company. Apple has performed very strategic acquisitions as well, and the news of the week is that Snap has acquired Compound Photonics to gain a key supplier of LCOS and Microled displays. Apple may have delays for its headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.17): HTC announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, PSVR 2 to feature eye tracking, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Inside-out tracking was expected after having seen the controllers, but the haptic feedback on the head is a very welcome surprise. Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun. SlimeVR is an open cheap solution for full body tracking.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.24): Pico 4 Enterprise launched, Meta under criticism, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple headset will not be focused on gaming. A new report seems to suggest that the upcoming Apple headset won’t be focused on gaming at all. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. Other relevant news.

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Reimagining Cinema with Radiant Images’ Michael Mansouri

XR for Business Podcast

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. And in the 90s we had the laptops.