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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this article we’ve pulled together a concise look at the best VR headsets currently available, and a few you might want to keep your eyes on. See this article for the specs your PC needs to handle VR headsets. Jump to: Best PC VR headsets | Best standalone VR headsets | Best console VR headsets. Image courtesy Valve.

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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. units for my use in these articles. Image by Rob Cole).

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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! It’s impossible not to talk about the M-word, so let me point to you some articles that could deflate a bit the hype about it: The Chinese giant Baidu (the Chinese counterpart of Google) is investing in building an open Metaverse ecosystem.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. With tech giants such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and others betting big money on it, every company needs to get a move on and decide how they are going to use the metaverse. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Today is a bit of a special day for this newsletter because this article you are reading is the 250th roundup about XR news I’ve written! Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device. A job listing from Amazon may point to the interest of the company in developing an XR headset. Some articles on the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

Road To VR published some statistics comparing the sales of Quest and PSVR 2 on Amazon US over the holiday season, and the proportion of sold Quests to sold PSVR 2 is 30 to 1! Probably this is the final nail in the coffin of tethered VR, at least for what concerns broad consumer adoption.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. This article explores the technological and business trends enabling this future. You’d need a way to visualize the experience.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Varjo XR-4 is on sale for enterprises, but the company has also opened up a waiting list for interested consumers (especially simulator fans, I guess). But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. For many days there have been articles on this topic, and I was very curious to discover what it did mean.

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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. This gives it an inside track to develop product simulations, not to mention a channel for distribution and monetization. To attract them to the platform as an alternative to selling on Amazon, these distribution flows include Walmart , Google , Facebook , BuzzFeed. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon. Learn more Some XR fun A new article on TechCrunch stated that VR is dead. Take the survey before it closes, on August 6.

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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. Some people have expressed a good opinion about this game on Reddit.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 14, 2018

This essentially means that when we enter a virtual environment, we believe we are present, in spite of our conscious brains telling us that this is indeed a simulation. I’m reminded of an article I read about a father who felt “super human” while using his Amazon Echo. This article was originally published on ERP in News.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Google uses it to find the information we need; Amazon uses it to suggest things we should buy; Netflix uses it to recommend movies; Spotify uses it for music – it’s all powered by AI. So, in this article, I’ll give an overview in simple terms to show why it’s so powerful and what you can do with it.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

In this article, I will explain why I think the AR glasses are coming back and they are staying this time. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Photo by Rahul Chakraborty on Unsplash By far the most popular is the Amazon Alexa with about 69% share of the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It works connected to a phone, and while it doesn’t have any kind of tracking embedded, for tasks like watching Netflix it can be very useful (Thanks David for the tip); Amazon has announced the Echo Frames, its smart glasses that let you speak with Alexa. For simulators, design experiences and other kinds of similar usages, it is a blast.

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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. It had no sensors, just a simulated sensor bar in front of the handgrip. Enjoy your read. Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. Your best bet is Amazon and dealing with the international shipping charges. It’s a royal pain to get hardware in Chile.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If this was not enough to prevent people from buying the game, the first review articles I have read about the game are not enthusiastic: IGN and Road To VR highlight many bugs and a not-so-smart AI for the enemies, while Upload says that the multiplayer mode feels a bit shallow because it has no ranking system. Learn more. Learn more.

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Tech Trends VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Amazon, IKEA, and Wayfair are all using these technologies to bring together the advantages of online shopping with brick and mortar retailing to add value to real-world shopping experiences with a minimal learning curve for both employees and customers. “The Think Amazon buying Whole Foods.)

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

More info (Air Link launched) More info (A trick to force Air Link on Quest 1) More info (Another trick to force Air Link) More info (New Oculus Avatars launched) More info (Article detailing Oculus Avatars on The Verge) More info (Mark Zuckerberg using the new Oculus Avatars) More info (How the Logitech keyboard appears in VR). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). They are standard Quests , the ones you can buy on Amazon, BUT they have a business licensing. News worth a mention. Image by Virtual Desktop).

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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. The service also allows users to generate content such as stories and articles. Pichai also noted that workers in the United States would be the first affected.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The ecosystem is full of people that keep writing articles about “How we will study in the metaverse”, “How we will work in the metaverse”, and that make talks about how one day we will have a concert with 20,000 people all together in VR like if it was happening in real life. This meme says it all.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For the latest you can check out our regular UploadVR Showcase streams , our weekly VR Download livestream discussions or podcast , and our daily articles with new trailers, interviews, tours, gameplay, and details about new virtual worlds. You can watch Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube with others using Bigscreen.

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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. But I guess there were some legal reasons for that. It is very cool.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

Anyway, there have been some things worth attention and I’m writing this article to report them all to you. There was a setup that let them simulate a fly inside a ballon and it worked completely wireless. He has a point. Let’s start! tracking technology. Varjo Virtual Reality headset prototype (Image by Road To VR).

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. 8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. by Tom Emrich.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 8, 2024

We witnessed AI's seamless integration into various business processes, significantly in retail, where giants like Amazon and Walmart exemplified this trend. Industries from aerospace to healthcare tapped into the power of digital twins for simulation and testing, while 3D printing broke new ground in material complexity and durability.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Do you remember that Facebook is working on hyper-realistic avatars , that not only have an appearance very similar to the one of the user, but that can also simulate exactly his/her facial expressions? More info (MacRumors original article) More info (Upload VR explanation). Facebook expands its research on hyper-realistic avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. Multiplayer shooter Solaris Offworld Combat , from the creators of the successful Firewall: Zero Hour, has been released this week. Magic Leap may partner with AWS.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check this article written by Chris Ullrich on the approach of both companies. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. This approach brings to the fragmentation shown in the next figure Adding on this, no haptics technology can solve the haptics perceptual problem, which means perfectly simulating reality. ExpiCulture? See section 8 5.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

More info (Google Starline announcement) More info (Google Starline article on Wired). Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue. Facebook is working with Amazon to solve all the bureaucratic stuff and we hope that sales can start again soon. Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

As I have detailed in this other article , Oculus has just launched a new Oculus For Business program that offers various interesting enterprise offerings: dedicated support, 2 years warranty, kiosk-mode, and some tools to configure and control multiple headsets at once from a simple web panel. Job Simulator, Owlchemy Labs, 23.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 17, 2019

From their simulating of medieval fantasy to their fun and addictive exploration and combat, games in this genre are some of the first that comes to mind when people think of the best “open-world” titles out there. Like we said at the beginning of this article, if you are a fan of this type of game, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 17, 2019

From their simulating of medieval fantasy to their fun and addictive exploration and combat, games in this genre are some of the first that comes to mind when people think of the best “open-world” titles out there. Like we said at the beginning of this article, if you are a fan of this type of game, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

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