The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Regarding VR, this week we register the fact that two important events like Facebook F8 and GDC have been canceled. The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Last week, Augmented World Expo EU (AWE) 2023 hosted its yearly event highlighting recent innovations in enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR solutions, as well as related emerging technology such as genAI, digital twins, and geospatial tech. AWE 2023: HTC VIVE on Real-World Use Cases HTC VIVE is a significant player in the enterprise XR space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2023

The news comes after Meta unveiled its Quest Pro enterprise headset at its Connect 2022 event in October last year. HTC VIVE debuted its VIVE XR Elite at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 in January for roughly $1,200. Priced at £1,500, the Quest Pro faces strong competition from rival headset manufacturers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I have already written one mega-roundup post of that event, so I will just super-briefly summarize it again here (I’m tired summarizing the Connect! :O). During this event actually, Pimax has given lots of interesting news. You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. Rikard Steiber departs HTC. Some satyre on HTC. I love him. I’m amazed. Good luck to him! Many PSVR games will be discounted.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

VRX 2017, one of world’s premier conferences on the subject of business and technology needed for Virtual Reality, announced the first speakers for a two day event. The conference is organized by VR Intelligence, London-based firm whose leaders don’t hide that there’s an inflation of VR-related events.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for a recap of the major developments that took place in 2018: Enterprises that made the news for using wearables: In 2018, major retailers got more serious about XR in hopes of competing with Amazon and improving the shopping experience. Walmart was very active, beginning with its acquisition of VR startup Spatialand in February.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. The rise of enterprise.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

If you’re descending on this massive pop culture event this week, the first place you may want to start is the official VR Con that has expanded into the Futurism & Tech Pavilion. The event takes place July 19-23 at the Omni Hotel in downtown San Diego, across from the Convention Center. VR CON @ COMIC-CON. – 7 p.m.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to this new edition of the XR Week Peek, which this week will be a bit special because I will summarize here what happened during the Meta Connect, the event during which Mark Zuckerberg launched the Quest 3, the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and new techniques for data harvest… cough cough I mean, new AI services.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

This week has not been very important for AR and VR: no major event has happened. This anyway clashes a bit with the fact that Facebook has also to launch this year the smartglasses that it has made with Ray-Ban: I find it unlikely that in the same event it announces two different devices, both this important. was a lot of money?).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Expect next week a summary of how the launch of The Unity Cube has been; This Thursday I’ll be the co-host of our monthly “Awe Nite Florence” event series, which this April will talk about Location-Based VR! The event is free, and I invite you to register for it here … thanks! Image by HTC Vive). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

If you can not, buy them in your country, with Amazon or eBay. Speaking some Chinese will help you in surviving in most contexts, from buying things at the supermarket to talking with the organizers of the event. Ask for help to the event organizers or some local partners to have one. Some other things to set in advance: Wechat.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

I and my partner Gianni bought every new headset on the market : the Oculus Rift DK2, the Vive, the Rift CV1, the Gear VR, etc… We also went to almost every event we were invited to, even the smallest one (I remember once we went to a public plaza with like 7 people listening to our talk about VR…). Prioritize your expenses.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Alan has the event’ s executive p roducer , Anne-Marie Enns, on to talk about what attendees can expect on the show floor this year. She’s the founder of Pulled In Productions, a live event production company that specializes in tech events and live productions. HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Alan has the event’ s executive p roducer , Anne-Marie Enns, on to talk about what attendees can expect on the show floor this year. She’s the founder of Pulled In Productions, a live event production company that specializes in tech events and live productions. HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Alan has the event’ s executive p roducer , Anne-Marie Enns, on to talk about what attendees can expect on the show floor this year. She’s the founder of Pulled In Productions, a live event production company that specializes in tech events and live productions. HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. HP announces the Reverb G2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. Image from Amazon). HTC is now selling certified refurbished Vive HMDs for $400. Great times ahead for augmented reality! The hype is rising…. News worth a mention.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Whether you’re putting together a small get-together or an arena-scale event, AltspaceVR is here to help. This latest update introduces a new user interface offering a variety of prebuilt event templates for ad-hoc AMAs, political discussions, community meetups, and nine other additional formats. . Image Credit: AltspaceVR, Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sought-after authority on interactive media industry, Carter has presented at every event around the world, including Casual Connect, the LA Games Conference, and the VR/AR Global Summit. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sought-after authority on interactive media industry, Carter has presented at every event around the world, including Casual Connect, the LA Games Conference, and the VR/AR Global Summit. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sought-after authority on interactive media industry, Carter has presented at every event around the world, including Casual Connect, the LA Games Conference, and the VR/AR Global Summit. They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. Snap has organized this week an event called Lens Fest that has gathered lots of AR creators. Snapchat has just had its Lens Fest.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Before starting with the summary of the news of this amazing week, let me invite you all to subscribe to the FREE Awe Nite Florence Event that will happen this Thursday at 5 pm CEST and that will feature amazing hosts like Pico, VisionAR, and JoinPad! Here you are the link to the event, subscribe now! News worth a mention.

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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. Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft.

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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. Kent: It reminds me of-- I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that's a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft. It's amazing.

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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. Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). The variation of the offered events will be always wider. Accessories.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

BrainXchange, we started out as a boutique events company, and we just happened to enter augmented reality at the right time. So today we provide events, content, and other services all related to facilitating enterprise XR. Emily: Well, as for AWE, I think it’s a very important benchmarking event. What are you seeing?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

BrainXchange, we started out as a boutique events company, and we just happened to enter augmented reality at the right time. So today we provide events, content, and other services all related to facilitating enterprise XR. Emily: Well, as for AWE, I think it’s a very important benchmarking event. What are you seeing?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

BrainXchange, we started out as a boutique events company, and we just happened to enter augmented reality at the right time. So today we provide events, content, and other services all related to facilitating enterprise XR. Emily: Well, as for AWE, I think it's a very important benchmarking event. Let's start with that.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I will also add to it some info that has been shared after the event, to offer you a more complete picture. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive).

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