The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

There are some moments in which looking in front of me with this device, I have the impression that what I see is real, and I lose totally myself in virtual reality for some seconds: this tells you how much the visuals of Pico Neo 3 are good. I have found no way to use hand tracking or passthrough AR in the SDK documentation.

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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. exits beta stage.

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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. Pimax Sword Controllers – review by Rob Cole for Skarredghost. Image provided by Rob Cole). Introduction. From the China.cn

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

In my article about the craziest XR devices out there , I mentioned Ekto VR , the shoes that let you walk in real life to walk in virtual reality. From a vision level, we’re fulfilling the sci-fi promise of virtual reality, but so many of us in this space are doing very similar things. Tony: Yes, that will be cool.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Devs are doing very interesting things with hands tracking for Quest. Better Adoption = Better ROI.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! Some will also feature tracked controllers. 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. While the company had originally collaborated with HTC to create the Vive, this time around Valve opted to handle everything on their own. Image courtesy HTC. Vive Cosmos.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers. Markerless full body tracking : Oculus is now able to track completely your body using only the RGB camera of a phone.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

That’s a piece of fantastic news for all those enterprise companies that plan in implementing augmented reality in their production processes. 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).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. USB should have OTG enabled; Battery : 3 hours nominal duration; Vive Focus Plus and controllers (Image by HTC). The Quest has more tracking cameras and more audio jacks.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

“The iterative–“ Lance: It’s the iterative transformation or the iterative deployment of augmented reality/virtual reality within your business organization. I think augmented reality and virtual reality and these technologies now, they do drive that kind of warranted rollout.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

“The iterative–“ Lance: It’s the iterative transformation or the iterative deployment of augmented reality/virtual reality within your business organization. I think augmented reality and virtual reality and these technologies now, they do drive that kind of warranted rollout.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Lance: It's the iterative transformation or the iterative deployment of augmented reality/virtual reality within your business organization. I think augmented reality and virtual reality and these technologies now, they do drive that kind of warranted rollout. The iterative--". you're like "Oh, OK."

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

The picture also shows the girl using the device making a micromovement of the hands on her lap, a clear hint to the fact that this device can perform accurate hand tracking like the Vision Pro. Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And what is interesting is what we can expect from it in the coming times : since the XR2 offers hardware acceleration for AI, video encoding/decoding, etc… it has the power to bring better hands tracking, voice detection, and environment understanding to the Quest 2. Amazon) and offline (e.g. Initial Setup.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. I am so glad that I changed my laptop for Christmas: the new one is an i7 with RTX2060 which lets me use virtual reality. We are lucky that we have virtual reality. Virtual Reality is fantastic to escape this current situation, so exploit it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fact that the studio behind such a popular game has decided to have a VR port is the sign that Virtual Reality has started to become interesting for famous indie studios. And the fact that there will be a VR version of this important game will give virtual reality even more awareness and popularity inside the gaming community.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. The Apple is a Chinese, Japanese and Korean co-production which won Best Multi-Person Experience award at Raindance. This is a room-scale (50m2) multi-person VR experience for up to 4 people.

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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. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in 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. And I kind of see spatial computing as the antithesis of that, because it's very difficult to hop into a virtual reality experience for a few minutes, although I will say--. 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. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg. Since then, Facebook has continued to roll out new features such as native hand tracking and Oculus Link , which allows users to experience PC VR HMD quality on the standalone headset. HTC Vive Retires. Virtual Worship. Cows Like VR Too.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive). Rift line gets discontinued. Messenger in VR.

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