The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

On the 11 th of May, I received an email from Pimax about their new “Sword” virtual reality motion controllers , which had finally become available to purchase, following a reveal way back in January 2019 at CES. Google searches are very revealing. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. According to a report by Zion Market Research , the global augmented and virtual reality market was valued at around US$26.7

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. The management of this digital map of the world is very complicated, and the acquisition of Umbra can be useful exactly for this, representing an important piece of the AR Cloud puzzle for Amazon. More info (Use Google Translate). Some XR fun.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. Google Daydream has exclusive access to YouTube’s considerable 360 video library (although admittedly curation could be better) as well as its massive 2D video archive. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. Google to put all its experimental projects inside “Labs” division. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

This was the final big surprise of the event: Sony Pictures and Meta, in partnership with nDreams, will bring the famous franchise to virtual reality. Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device. A job listing from Amazon may point to the interest of the company in developing an XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. These numbers are impressive for a VR company, and show how a virtual reality company can be successful now. But it said that it needs at least 6 years to make it become reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Tender Claws and Google ARCore. As extended reality gaming experiences continue to take the world by storm, leading cloud and technology vendors like Google are offering game creators and developers an easy avenue into the ecosystem. To unlock this new world, Sense Arena worked with the experts at VIVE.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This time we will talk about haptics in XR with some celebrities in the field like Guido Gioioso from Weart, Ashley Huffman from TitanHaptics, and Joe Michaels from HaptX. The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2019

Earlier in the year, the UK team worked with Accelerate Places in Manchester, a co-working hub in the city center, to develop fireside breakfast discussions about the future of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR). Alongside UK peers and startups in the AVR industry ?—

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. More info (XTAL 3 hands-on) More info (Haptic gloves hands-on). Many great XR games are controlled by Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Personally, I praise a lot this initiative : we are in a very complicated moment for virtual reality, where the market is not ready yet for many startups to survive easily, and we should all support each other, helping each other to survive. It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning and edge computing. Google’s Plan How will Google compete with this? This can help to improve productivity, safety, and efficiency.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

After one month from its official announcement, Facebook has released the Oculus Quest 2, that from the 13th of this month can be purchased online on the Oculus Store or on official resellers (like Amazon) or offline on partner stores (like Best Buy). A new discovery may help in building believable VR haptics for the future.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I have hosted two great interviews I am very proud of: one with the CEO of HaptX about the new haptic gloves his company has delivered; and the other one with the CEO of Happy Giant with some exclusive news and footage of the upcoming “Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual!”. This week has been pretty amazing for my blog.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The haptic feedback of these controllers has been improved , and they can provide much stronger vibrations than the one of the original Quest. Imagine the people wearing Aria like the guys wearing Google Maps backpacks inside museums of campuses: they go around and collect data to build some maps. And what about the ongoing training?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. Amazon Sumerian. Thank you so much for joining me on the show today. Let’s tell everybody at home.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. Amazon Sumerian. Thank you so much for joining me on the show today. Let’s tell everybody at home.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And there’s been a sea change in terms of how visual effects are happening on set, probably starting at least with Ready Player One and Steven Spielberg with the extent to which that virtual reality technologies were being used on the set in Hollywood. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. It emerged.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And there’s been a sea change in terms of how visual effects are happening on set, probably starting at least with Ready Player One and Steven Spielberg with the extent to which that virtual reality technologies were being used on the set in Hollywood. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. It emerged.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And there's been a sea change in terms of how visual effects are happening on set, probably starting at least with Ready Player One and Steven Spielberg with the extent to which that virtual reality technologies were being used on the set in Hollywood. And then there's Amazon, they have Sumerian. It's now established.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. Amazon Sumerian. When it comes to augmented reality, you're gonna go more towards the marketing thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

An advantage using augmented reality for this versus just having a bunch of displays is that the monitors don’t break; if a Hololens doesn’t work, you get another one. there any other use cases that you’re using augmented reality for? Or virtual reality? That’s awesome.Is Cole: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

An advantage using augmented reality for this versus just having a bunch of displays is that the monitors don’t break; if a Hololens doesn’t work, you get another one. there any other use cases that you’re using augmented reality for? Or virtual reality? That’s awesome.Is Cole: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

An advantage using augmented reality for this versus just having a bunch of displays is that the monitors don't break; if a Hololens doesn't work, you get another one. there any other use cases that you're using augmented reality for? Or virtual reality? If you just do a Google search for Mercury OS, it'll come up.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And I think that as the Qualcomm XR-1 chip, this new augmented virtual reality chip that’s been built for those kinds of devices, as that gets adopted more, you know, we’ll see more and more advances in the digital eyewear technology. We know a little bit about how Google thinks about this. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And I think that as the Qualcomm XR-1 chip, this new augmented virtual reality chip that’s been built for those kinds of devices, as that gets adopted more, you know, we’ll see more and more advances in the digital eyewear technology. We know a little bit about how Google thinks about this. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And I think that as the Qualcomm XR-1 chip, this new augmented virtual reality chip that's been built for those kinds of devices, as that gets adopted more, you know, we'll see more and more advances in the digital eyewear technology. We know a little bit about how Google thinks about this. There's a long way to go. Alan: Yeah.

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