ARVR

MAY 11, 2022

Long Tail And the list goes on…Amazon is making a few subtle but notable geo-local AR moves, while Microsoft Mesh is an enterprise version of much of the above. See the full briefs episode below, and the report it’s based on here … The author of this article owns stock in NexTech AR Solutions.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Microsoft has not expressed interest in joining the VR wars anytime soon but a recent patent filing might be evidence that Bill Gates’ outfit was just being coy with its future plans. Of course, as The Sun points out, none of this means that Microsoft is bringing anything definitive to the next Xbox in the way of VR gaming.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Microsoft has not expressed interest in joining the VR wars anytime soon but a recent patent filing might be evidence that Bill Gates’ outfit was just being coy with its future plans. Of course, as The Sun points out, none of this means that Microsoft is bringing anything definitive to the next Xbox in the way of VR gaming.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. IEEE’s virtual reality conference acts as a venue for the presentation of market-leading research results in the areas of virtual reality and 3D user interfaces.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In this article I’ll describe the 6 most important AR trends to watch in 2020. Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Have a look at this article for more use cases: 5 examples of AR in e-business. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. on the consequences of DMA over Apple (article in Italian, shared by Francesco Ronchi).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. ChatGPT for Enterprise On a more positive note, virtual reality (VR) training pioneer Virtualspeech integrated trending ChatGPT technologies into its enterprise-grade immersive learning platform last week.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. Amazon is motivated for similar reasons?—?a Going down the list, Microsoft is motivated to drive and future proof its core product: enterprise productivity. Key questions include, what did we learn in the past year?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2018

In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. Well, just some days after that article, I’ve been proved wrong. Yesterday, I was reading an article on VentureBeat about the importance of WebXR. Thanks Mozilla for this hack.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

More info (Huawei VR glasses WeChat article) More info (Huawei VR glasses launch trailer) More info (Article on Huawei VR glasses) More info (Article on Huawei VR glasses). Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. I recommend you watching the photos of the article linked below to see what I’m talking about!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to a flash sale, that put it at the ridiculous price of $150, the Go has sold more than all other devices, and has even been #3 most sold device on all Amazon videogames category. More info (Oculus Go being best-seller on Amazon) More info (Oculus Quest sold out) More info (Oculus Quest vs PSVR Google search stats).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. As for the review, since I’m crunching these weeks, probably I will just write a quick hands-on article and delay a more detailed review for next month. Learn more Some XR fun Should you buy a Quest 3 or a Virtual Boy?

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. If Google is the spatial web’s knowledge layer, Facebook could be its social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. It works by activating the smartphone camera to “localize” a device by recognizing where it is. The Possibility of AR on the Urban Space 2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. If you’re interested, you can check the interview out here. That said, let me do a short recap of the past days in AR/VR. I love him.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Tokyo Game Show has been the first big gaming event to be held in virtual reality : dubbed TGSVR, the event let you wander around a virtual space full of booths about popular games, and watch videos and posters about them. In reality, it depends on how many of these findings it will actually implement. Image by ambr).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. Microsoft admits display problems on HoloLens 2. Microsoft negated the issue, but now, after continuous reporting from users, it has been forced to admit it. Some XR fun.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

Stephenson is the person credited with first connecting the term "metaverse" to the idea of an immersive virtual reality in his 1992 novel Snow Crash. Satya Nadella , Microsoft MSFT -1.4%. Microsoft’s CEO understands that the metaverse concept will impact every part of the way we do business. Neal Stephenson, Author.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 27, 2019

Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and access to the company’s suite of mixed reality technologies. . The Bass in VR – The Bass. Project lead: T.J.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! A gamer injuries his neck while playing virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

More info (Best Black Friday deals) More info (Cyber Monday VR deals) More info (Sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Other sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Rift S discounted on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is a remarkable result in a niche like virtual reality. In the month of October, companies will be able to use Mesh inside Microsoft Teams, so members of a company can meet in a 3D space (in VR or flatscreen) and interact together. It’s my first time in such an important magazine and I’m incredibly happy about it!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Previous ML CEO Rony Abovitz has answered his article saying that Karl always strives for perfection and so criticizes every headset currently on the market. This week we had two big news that endorsed the importance of training in virtual reality. Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. Sounded good.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Mixed Reality (MR)  — It is a combination of both AR and VR. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

But before leaving you to the best pieces of AR/VR news of the week, let me tease you that in the upcoming days I will publish an article I’m sure you will all love… it’s a hands-on preview on… you’ll discover it! Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. Just be sure to keep an eye on your e-mail to not miss it….

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

For XR, instead, it has not been a special week at all: we had a bunch of nice news, plus the usual articles saying “Oh, VR is not mainstream yet, it will never be blablabla”. For the second kind of articles, well, look online, and I’m sure you will find some journalists who say that VR is just a fad while donning their Cardboards.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

and you found this article for whatever reason, first of all, welcome to the club! Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. and if you get your Quest for Christmas…. … It’s more than 15x in growth in less than one year!

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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 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. Some weeks ago, I have published an article about VR and its “kids issue”. Looking back at augmented reality in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Most of these lessons can be adapted to many countries you can travel to showcase your game to, so I think that if you are a VR indie game developer, you may find this article interesting in any case! These are the things that I took to my booth: Virtual Reality headsets ( Vive Focus Plus , in my case).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

This is even truer in a new and complicated market like virtual reality. According to an article on Forbes of some months ago, if you have a VR game, the best strategy at the moment is selling it for an upfront cost : there are not enough customers to make revenue models based on advertisements or IAPs to work.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This week we had tons of news about new upcoming augmented reality glasses and smartglasses: Oppo has revealed the second iteration of its augmented reality glasses. The article is very detailed, and if you are a nerd like me, I’m sure you will love it. If you’re thinking “it is another Nreal Light clone”, well, yes it is.

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