The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC Vive Air is a design concept for a fitness-focused VR headset. HTC has just won an IF Design Award for a headset called Vive Air: it is a device designed completely to appeal to the fitness market , with breathable materials, detachable components that are easy to wash, and great comfort.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. Huawei is advertising these glasses as competitors of Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro, but don’t get mislead by this. I hope that at least they will keep the software infrastructure alive even if the officially dedicated hardware has been abandoned.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It can be readily recognized by the software with very little processing overhead.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

NVIDIA announced on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 it had expanded its CloudXR software developer kit (SDK) to deliver more scalable, customisable extended reality (XR) experiences for enterprises and developers. This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

From a VR headset for gaming is now an MR headset for entertainment and productivity. PSVR 2 Controllers (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). The software market will have a slight growth, but it will be driven anyway by the Quest, that is a standalone headset, which makes up 60% of all the SteamVR users. Accessories.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached HTC is having RMAs issues with the Vive Pro 2. was a lot of money?).

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

Bandai Namco’s Project CARS 2 – The sequel to the hit game developed by Slightly Mad Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, get your motor revving in this racing simulation video game. A fully immersive experience in the cosmos using the HTC Vive VR platform, SUBPAC, and headphones. Power Rangers VR – Case Study.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But apart from the hardware, what Apple is doing on the software side may also be intriguing: a new job listing from the company has been published to look for an “AR/VR Frameworks Engineer” that should have the role of “developing an entirely new application paradigm”. News worth a mention. Image by Sony). It is very cool. Learn more.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

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. He’s someone who has worked on games early in his career at Lucas Arts and has always been tied to the entertainment industry. Max Preussner was a senior software engineer for Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

So, keep a VR (and/or) AR headset at home so that you can keep working on XR software even during the lockdown. If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. Also now there will be interesting events in VR, like HTC’s VEC that will happen inside ENGAGE.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we — from the ground up — create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we — from the ground up — create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we -- from the ground up -- create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company. Hrish: Sure.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. It’s time for some amazing VR news, isn’t it? Top news of the week. Image by Ars Technica). Among this segment 75.9%

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You’ve got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you’ve got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail — across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You’ve got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you’ve got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail — across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You've got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you've got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail -- across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is a software solution that lets you connect your Oculus Quest to the PC so that you can “transform” your Oculus Quest into a PC VR headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. Raj has spent the last four years of his tenure on building business opportunities, use cases, experiential marketing with partnerships in location-based entertainment, museums, education and other commercial XR segments. Days on days on days.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. Raj has spent the last four years of his tenure on building business opportunities, use cases, experiential marketing with partnerships in location-based entertainment, museums, education and other commercial XR segments. Days on days on days.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. Raj has spent the last four years of his tenure on building business opportunities, use cases, experiential marketing with partnerships in location-based entertainment, museums, education and other commercial XR segments. Days on days on days.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

In the end, what you see is that people go into a racing game to be entertained; people go into a showroom to buy a car. You still see it on the hardware, software, and interaction side. On the software side, that’s another thing. It’s actually, “can you sell cars by using racing game technology?”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

In the end, what you see is that people go into a racing game to be entertained; people go into a showroom to buy a car. You still see it on the hardware, software, and interaction side. On the software side, that’s another thing. It’s actually, “can you sell cars by using racing game technology?”

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Because if you’re working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you’ve got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Because if you're working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you've got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets. Anybody can do this, not just developers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Because if you’re working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you’ve got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets.

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