The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This means having AR and VR on the same device ; A 5G modem ; 8K videos playback at 60fps; Accelerated AI so that to be able to perform objects recognition and other cool stuff on the camera feed. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Oculus will release its official cable next month in limited quantities , but for now, it has released the specifications required for Link so that you can find alternate cables on Amazon. South-Africa startup Eden Labs has created an interesting design for VR headsets needed in public installations to show 360 videos. I love him.

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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 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. The future of VR 180 video format is uncertain. Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. The time is coming!

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 21, 2016

Weekly Funding Roundup: Vrse/Within Raises $12.65M, Felix & Paul Studios Raise $6.8M & Samsung Acquires Joyent 1) Vrse , a startup building technology for delivering virtual reality video across platforms, is announcing today that it has raised $12.56M and that it’s taking on a new name: Within. Andreessen Horowitz led the round.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To mark the shift towards a positive end of 2023, following a shaky start to the year, AWE brought together firms such as Meta, Lenovo, and HTC VIVE to highlight the forecasted industry upturn. Sahni also highlighted how new workplace applications are coming to Quest 3, including Microsoft Mesh, Windows 365, and Adobe High Five.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This means having AR and VR on the same device ; Feature a 5G modem ; Play 8K videos at 60fps; Have accelerated AI so that to be able to perform objects recognition and other cool stuff on the camera feed. More info (Oculus Go being best-seller on Amazon) More info (Oculus Quest sold out) More info (Oculus Quest vs PSVR Google search stats).

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

While the ability of VR to provide valuable, realistic experiences without introducing real-world risks has found many fans across various industries (from healthcare to real estate), the most popular types of virtual reality content remain video games, movies and television. from Amazon. Photo from Microsoft. from Microsoft.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Even though they’re not the only VR headsets on the market, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift attract the most attention and command the mainstream media presence. When announced, Oculus Rift launch price of $599 presented a main advantage over HTC Vive’s $799.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Instead of showing people how the “metaverse” is now with very rough images (that easily become memes) or how it may be in the future with some fluffy videos, Zuck has used the best technologies from the Meta R&D department: Meta’s Codec Avatars. So this version is still meant to take photos, videos, and have phone calls.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

More info (Best Black Friday deals) More info (Cyber Monday VR deals) More info (Sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Other sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Rift S discounted on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Pimax 5K+ on Amazon?—?affiliate

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Maybe he/she had tried just a cardboard somewhen or just watched some Youtube videos about someone playing VR. I can now see videos about VR also in meme websites like 9GAG, and this shows that VR has started entering mainstream consideration, but it is still far away from being the main topic of discussion. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Can this count as AR having become mainstream?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

If you can’t perform streaming, plan B is having a gameplay video; Teaser trailer video of HitMotion: Reloaded that we took to Nanchang. If you can not, buy them in your country, with Amazon or eBay. There was no way of showing the streaming of our game, so we just showed a gameplay video on a laptop.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Image by HTC Vive). News worth a mention.

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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. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. November 2015.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Alan: Everybody’s been making these beautifully Hollywood produced videos on “Look at what you can do with AR!” Or AR, for that matter.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Alan: Everybody’s been making these beautifully Hollywood produced videos on “Look at what you can do with AR!” Or AR, for that matter.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Alan: Everybody's been making these beautifully Hollywood produced videos on "Look at what you can do with AR!" Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014.

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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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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world.

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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.

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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. The game has also strong Half-Life vibes , and in the gameplay video that has just been released, they are clearly visible. Image from Amazon). The hype is rising….

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We'll be talking about making an AR video with Will.i.am, creating art with Intel, and delivering on the promise of VR and AR with the San Francisco 49ers, San Jose Sharks, YouTube, and more. And basically, this is a series that can also be shown in standard video format. So we filmed some AR videos with Will.i.am.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa. VB: You’ve just described the plot of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 video game. Valve and HTC have the Vive. VB: Trend number two you said was intelligent assistants. Facebook has Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard. It wasn't, you hold up an AR device, and all of a sudden, this video plays over LeBron saying hi, or anything that would feel kind of gimmicky and not as impactful.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’re part of Nielsen as of late 2018, and the original focus of the company was on digital games — video games, primarily. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’re part of Nielsen as of late 2018, and the original focus of the company was on digital games — video games, primarily. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

We're part of Nielsen as of late 2018, and the original focus of the company was on digital games -- video games, primarily. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets -- like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it -- are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Which still has its uses!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. 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.

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