GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Kindle is a classic for a reason: Amazon’s small, simple, affordable ereader lineup may not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it’s been good enough to get the job done. Times have changed, though, and people have come to expect even their cheap devices to have the latest technology. The Kindle’s microUSB port?… Read more.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That horrible mess of wires, dated PS Move controllers and dwindling support saw me retire it after Moss: Book 2. Moss: Book 2 In 2023, PSVR 2 was a welcome sight that signaled to me the start of VR's next generation, but I had some reservations. Software sells hardware, and it's hard to have faith in a platform with no clear roadmap.

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GizModo VR

MAY 5, 2021

But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know everything that Amazon’s e-reader can do. Your Kindle e-reader isn’t the kind of gadget you upgrade all that often, and you might have one that’s been serving you well for years. Here are some of the lesser-known features and settings you can play around with on your Kindle,… Read more.

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Road to VR

JULY 14, 2017

You can be just as emotionally engaged with a movie or a book as you are with a VR experience, and so looking at how the content contributes to his conceptualization of presence isn’t an interesting research question trying to figure out what’s unique about VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Fans of Ready Player One, rejoice!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This way every user can have decent full body tracking without having to buy external hardware and without having to wear anything. More info Quest outperformed AirPods on Amazon It seems that on Black Friday, Quest sales were superior to AirPods ones on Amazon in certain countries.

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GizModo VR

JULY 29, 2021

If you’re an owner of an older Kindle e-reader, your device may soon lose support for an important feature: internet access. Read more.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The e-Paper market has enjoyed steady growth over the last decade, starting with the introduction of the Amazon Kindle back in 2007. This category became truly mass-market a few months back with the introduction of Amazon's Kindle Scribe (and slated to start shipping in time for the holiday season).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Some weeks ago, I teased you that Meta was going to change its plans about hardware, because the recent drop in revenues forced it to be a bit more cautious with its spending for “the metaverse”. More info (Report on new directions for hardware at Meta) More info (Meta smartwatch canceled) More info (Portal will be aimed at B2B).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

We need at least 2 new hardware versions in my opinion to reach that stage. Road To VR has published one of his amazing behind-the-scenes articles about Moss Book 2. If you want to exploit his long experience with VR and design, book a timeslot of his here below. But people seemed very surprised by it. Other news. Learn more.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Scraper: A Novel About Punk, is a great book about a young rocker in the early 80s and his band. I don’t think there are any Humech robots in that story like the Scraper: The Rise of Cifer novel, which is available on Amazon. I wanted a well-known sci-fi author to help with the book. No relation at all. The fun aspect.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Many of these have emerged in the last decade, or limited in the last two, also thanks to the contribution of the so-called e-tailers, Amazon in the first place. In practice, players like Amazon and Netflix have overturned the Pareto principle. These trend include: ?

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

For years, news of Barnes & Noble’s Nook line of e-readers and Android tablet being discontinued have surfaced again and again, but somehow the little-brand-that-could defies its own death with new hardware that brings it back from the brink of extinction. Today that comes in the form of a new 10-inch Nook tablet … Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Dubbed “The Metaverse Primer”, it describes all the various aspects of the metaverse, from hardware to software, not to mention networking and monetization. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A good and bad pieces of news about Quest Pro hardware. It is not enabled to be used that way, but it is interesting that hardware-wise, it could work as a big joystick. Dean Takashi has interviewed Neal Stephenson about the metaverse , his book, and, of course, Meta. I have both good and bad pieces of news about Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

We’re hearing this since many years, but now the sensation is that we’re coming close to the moment when the prophecy will come true: the rumors are intensifying and the software (ARKit) and the hardware (depth cameras, 5G) designed by Apple are all converging to the glasses solution. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Besides specific hardware technological challenges, every haptics OEM or technology company must re-implement the technology stack for every new product from design guidelines down to actuator technology. We are publishing a book with that information for XR. XR, upcoming book. Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 3.

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VirtualiTeach

JANUARY 5, 2020

With the help of the local HTC Vive team, who provided the hardware, I hosted a range of speakers, live TilT Brush demos from students and delivered a range of different presentations myself (at one point having to run to the main stage, speak, then run back to deliver a presentation on the VR stage minutes later!) TeachingLand on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

I would bet on modified North Focals, because they fit very well with the provided description of the prototype hardware. These filings are public, so it is possible to read some data about these pieces of hardware in them. This has happened on the occasion of the launch of his book about the metaverse.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They will depend on access to massive amounts of computing power, meaning expensive computer hardware, meaning rare minerals, and meaning unspeakable amounts of electricity. MIT Technology Review ; The Verge ] The use case for AI is spam books on Amazon Kindle. CBS ] The use case for AI is spam Amazon reviews and spam tweets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. Beat Games).

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VR Spies

APRIL 17, 2018

The WMR controllers seem to me to have taken a page from HTC’s book and seem similar to the Vive wands with one notable difference in that they include both an analogue stick and track pad. So now that the hardware is out of the way it was time to get it all set up and working.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info (Meta’s losses in 2023) More info (Meta expecting even higher losses in 2024) Quest 3 enters the Steam chart at 0.15% Meta Quest 3 appeared for the first time in Steam’s Hardware Survey, with a 0.15% share of the market. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. Kudos to Shachar Weis for discovering this: he told me about this news, and I have verified that it has disappeared completely from Amazon Italy and Amazon France, while some Redditors confirmed that the same holds for Amazon UK.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the report, there is internal confusion at Microsoft about how to work in the XR sector : some are favorable to building hardware, while others (including the CEO Nadella) are more interested in building platforms and services (like Azure, or Microsoft Mesh). Tom Ffiske’s new book. News from partners (and friends).

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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!). Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sony may have been the first big company to get ebook readers with electronic ink screens into the hands of consumers, Amazon’s Kindle has since become the de facto e-reader of choice for most buyers. The newest Kindle Paperwhite, the fifth generation of Amazon’s flagship e-reader, remains the best E Ink device you… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

For instance, there are lots of new headsets being released by hardware companies: just in the last year, there have been the Oculus Quest & Rift S , HTC Vive Focus Plus , HP Reverb , Valve Index , Acer OJO 500, and HoloLens 2 … just to mention the most popular ones. Why should I annoy people just to have my own advantage?

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. And if you look at just the engineering side of the hardware, I mean, that's spectacular on its own. Alan: I think this is more than a hardware product. And for those of you want to learn more about it bynorth.com. Stefan: I'd say the integration is pretty cool.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. And if you look at just the engineering side of the hardware, I mean, that's spectacular on its own. Alan: I think this is more than a hardware product. And for those of you want to learn more about it bynorth.com. Stefan: I'd say the integration is pretty cool.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content – the latter presented in virtual environments, such as a desert or the sky (sport broadcasting tech could come from the acquisition of NextVR) Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality. Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. And if you look at just the engineering side of the hardware, I mean, that's spectacular on its own. Alan: I think this is more than a hardware product. And for those of you want to learn more about it bynorth.com. Stefan: I'd say the integration is pretty cool.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. And now they've got an accurate size of who you are.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. And now they've got an accurate size of who you are.

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