The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). So developing an eye-tracking algorithm to accurately track eyes and a method to deal with a large amount of data is quite difficult.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. HTC Vive is supporting 6 experience showcased there, among which shines Inory , that accompanies the viewer on a spiritual journey. More info (Road To VR article) More info (Disassembly album). More info (Upload VR article) More info (Kickstarter campaign).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

After one month from its official announcement, Facebook has released the Oculus Quest 2, that from the 13th of this month can be purchased online on the Oculus Store or on official resellers (like Amazon) or offline on partner stores (like Best Buy). We can understand this from the data of the sales of the games on the Quest store.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Top news of the week. Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

As usual, I have also created a video version of this article, and in it, I describe to you all the main features of this headset , from the visuals to the comfort, not to mention the headset and controllers’ tracking. Can it really compete with the Quest? Pico Neo 3 Pro Video Review. Production quality. Price and availability.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to this new edition of the XR Week Peek, which this week will be a bit special because I will summarize here what happened during the Meta Connect, the event during which Mark Zuckerberg launched the Quest 3, the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and new techniques for data harvest… cough cough I mean, new AI services.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

More than an article, with its 10,000+ words, this is a short book on the Pimax Sword, featuring everything you may need to know about them (what is Pimax, what are the Sword controllers, how do they work… even an interview with the COO of the company!). Image provided by Rob Cole). How would they work with current VR software?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

This week I’ve published a very interesting article inspired by the work of Basti465, who has analyzed the runtime of the Quest v29 finding hints about future features that are going to be released. This week, like the last one, we had some interesting articles with reviews and insights on just released XR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Everyone loves Beat Saber, and if the game offered a free multiplayer mode just requiring a Facebook login, many people would use that, and so Facebook could gather the data of all these players. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Pimax 5K+ on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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VRWorld

APRIL 30, 2017

. “The ASP strength we saw across nearly every segment of the business demonstrates continued demand for high-performance computing, which will only increase with the explosion of data. “ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. ” The post Top 10 Articles appeared first on VR World.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Anyway, many people have called b t on this data, and among these people, there is sir Palmer Luckey. The fact that the Rift S has sold less than the Index seems absurd, since it costs less, it has grown more than Index on the Steam data, and it has never gone out of stock. So, take SuperData’s data with a grain of salt.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

In my article about the craziest XR devices out there , I mentioned Ekto VR , the shoes that let you walk in real life to walk in virtual reality. After that article, Brad Factor, the CEO of EktoVR, contacted me to tell me that there have been a lot of updates in the device since the last time I tried them. We still have trackers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. More info (MacRumors original article) More info (Upload VR explanation). Top news of the week. Who knows.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This week, Upload is marking the start of its third year and this post is exactly article number 3,000 published for the site. Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. January 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Some of them require all kinds of data connectivity to siloed data in your organization, and they will require other projects to be done just before we can do this. It’s a mindset of how we’re going to capture data, create content, always update that content and keep this thing moving forward. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Some of them require all kinds of data connectivity to siloed data in your organization, and they will require other projects to be done just before we can do this. It’s a mindset of how we’re going to capture data, create content, always update that content and keep this thing moving forward. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Some of them require all kinds of data connectivity to siloed data in your organization, and they will require other projects to be done just before we can do this. It's a mindset of how we're going to capture data, create content, always update that content and keep this thing moving forward. And the whole thing is connected.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today’s episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today’s episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today's episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This headset is basically identical to the Pico 4, but it features a more cleanable headset, additional sensors for eye and face tracking, plus enterprise services (dedicated assistance, device management, data security certifications, etc…) and an enterprise runtime (which offers kiosk mode, for instance). News worth a mention. Learn more.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While I often discuss the long-term potential of AR & VR, in this article I'm reviewing Apple Vision Pro as it stands as a real product today. To legally download movies on Quest you have to sideload the Android phone APKs of Netflix or Amazon Prime Video from your computer. A product starting at $3500. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. We are also improving RenderDoc to report more performance data.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. This is a high-performance chip that is devoted to the headsets that want to compete in the high-tier league, the one of the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! The winner of this analytics is the Playstation VR, with a revenue share of 30% of the total VR market , compared with Oculus’s 25% and HTC’s 22%. These are the most important data contained in the report: Oculus is now the leading platform for developers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

FYI, I’ve had my Adsense account suspended because of the 3 informative articles about XR porn that I wrote. Image by HTC). Finally, HTC is ready to give us all the info on the Vive Cosmos. More info More info (Cosmos confirmed for Q3) More info (All the info teased by HTC on Cosmos). For what games are you hyped?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That said, inviting you to support this blog on Patreon , so that I can keep hosting these amazing articles, I leave you to Rob’s post, that is like a tiny book, on the journey of developing Project Caliper. Enjoy your read. Image by Rob Cole). Introduction. Why had they settled on this shape?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And if you’re in a hurry, jump directly to my final impressions and my pieces of advice on if you should buy it or not at the end of the article. To don’t do it, be sure that: You create your new Fb account some days before receiving your Quest; You set some believable data on your profile (and please, use a believable name !),

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. And then if you can’t hear, you can get that data information that is getting into your brain that’s in the same data structure as what the cochlear would be presenting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. And then if you can’t hear, you can get that data information that is getting into your brain that’s in the same data structure as what the cochlear would be presenting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And then there's Amazon, they have Sumerian. And then if you can't hear, you can get that data information that is getting into your brain that's in the same data structure as what the cochlear would be presenting.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

The technology behind it is pretty cool: you have some cameras (I guess RGB + depth) that scan yourself live in 3D , compress the data with a special Google algorithm, send it to the other peer, where it gets decompressed and reconstructed in real-time on a light field display. Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue.

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