The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

It is one of the games with the highest review scores on Steam and Metacritic; Valve has already released two patches to fix some common complaints on the game; The game has had an impressive number of downloads (the estimated number is around 200–500,000), concurrent users (more than 40,000), and viewers on Twitch (300,000+). Apple ARKit 3.5

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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. What a weird decision…). Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Because of ongoing Covid lockdowns in China, Pimax were unsure if the controllers would ship with batteries (held at another warehouse location), so advised me to purchase them on Amazon and provided a link. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole). Google searches are very revealing.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The Enterprise Edition features a more balanced design and eye-tracking ; Finch and Nreal have developed a new controller that consists of a ring on your finger plus a bracelet around your arm. They are standard Quests , the ones you can buy on Amazon, BUT they have a business licensing.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

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. In this way, the opportunity to really know your user using AR and VR is closer than you think.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. Image from Amazon). The first one is called Almalence and is a Unity plug-in (already available on the store) that should improve the clarity of images inside the Vive Pro Eye.

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VRWorld

APRIL 30, 2017

link] (PDF Download). “ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. . “ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. link] 7invensun-eye-tracker-for- vive/. ” Did something new come out recently? Intel’s doing well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

So you know it's a marker, but there's got to be some sort of standardization, so that if I'm seeing something, I know -- like a QR code -- that is in an AR experience; I pull up my phone, I open my camera, and it automatically downloads the app or takes me to the website or whatever. Who owns the eye tracking data?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

So you know it's a marker, but there's got to be some sort of standardization, so that if I'm seeing something, I know -- like a QR code -- that is in an AR experience; I pull up my phone, I open my camera, and it automatically downloads the app or takes me to the website or whatever. Who owns the eye tracking data?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

So you know it's a marker, but there's got to be some sort of standardization, so that if I'm seeing something, I know -- like a QR code -- that is in an AR experience; I pull up my phone, I open my camera, and it automatically downloads the app or takes me to the website or whatever. Who owns the eye tracking data?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

So you know it's a marker, but there's got to be some sort of standardization, so that if I'm seeing something, I know -- like a QR code -- that is in an AR experience; I pull up my phone, I open my camera, and it automatically downloads the app or takes me to the website or whatever. Who owns the eye tracking data?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. Alan: You know what he suggested today?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. Alan: You know what he suggested today?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They also feature eye tracking, hand tracking and now the XR-3 version has also added a Lidar camera for environment scanning and a custom-made inside-out tracking algorithm. I can’t wait to know more about this, because it can be an invaluable tool for creators. Some good news for the VR ecosystem. VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

Maybe with eye-tracking, AI, 5G connection, and a battery that lasts all day. AR will be used mostly to increase the functionalities of already existing apps : we’ve seen that some of the top downloaded apps on the iOS store now all integrate augmented reality. Smartphone AR is really useful for try-on purposes.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The device also mounts a Wi-fi 6 modem (Qualcomm FastConnect 6800), meaning that your headset can download games faster and that local streaming of your games from PC to the Quest via Virtual Desktop / Riftcat can become much better (provided you have a compatible modem). It is not a very safe mechanism, IMHO. RAM is improved to 6GB.

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