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XTAL hands on: an interesting glimpse to Virtual Reality 2.0

The Ghost Howls

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.15): Google confirms headset with Samsung, Ultraleap teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.09): Qualcomm XR2 defines the future of XR, Magic Leap having tragic sales, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Past weekend has been the weekend of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the company that has dominated the sales of VR hardware has been of course Oculu s, thanks to the discounts on Rift S and Go and the great reputation of the Oculus Quest. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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15 things to keep in mind if you have to showcase your VR game in China

The Ghost Howls

Of course, you must also pre-install the game on all the devices; Batteries and chargers. These, of course, are to be bought in China and not to be taken from home. If you can not, buy them in your country, with Amazon or eBay. I used them to cover the light sensors of the headsets, for instance; Business Cards. Food and water.

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All the most important AR and VR news from Facebook F8

The Ghost Howls

There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. Of course, the quality of the tracking is not the one of the Kinect yet, but we’re getting close. That’s impressive.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

There are also the underlying depth mapping systems such as Intel RealSense, Microsoft Kinect, Leap Motion, Occipital, Apple TrueDepth (with related acquisitions like PrimeSense and LinX), Nimble VR (acquired by Facebook), and Apple’s predicted move into ultra-wideband spatial sensing with the U1 chip announced as part of the iPhone 11 launch.

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The Best VR Experiences From Raindance Film Festival 2018

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Of course the festivals VR exhibit wouldn’t have succeeded without the tireless work from its curator, Mária Rakušanová, who has managed to scale this year’s VR showcase in a really impressive way. The Apple is a Chinese, Japanese and Korean co-production which won Best Multi-Person Experience award at Raindance.

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