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XTAL hands on: an interesting glimpse to Virtual Reality 2.0

The Ghost Howls

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. This meant that for Gartner, VR was not an emerging and experimental technology anymore, but it had already become something usable and useful. Gartner Hype Cycle 2019.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.15): Google confirms headset with Samsung, Ultraleap teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.09): Qualcomm XR2 defines the future of XR, Magic Leap having tragic sales, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. That is, the Quest 2 and the Vive Focus 2 may be based on this technology. Why am I so excited?

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CES 2017: Mixing Realities, Concept Cars, and the #VoiceFirst Revolution

Leapmotion

Technology has the power to open up new realities. One of our favorite games at CES was Spot the Leap Motion Controller. Our technology was everywhere from virtual concept cars by Volkswagen and Hyundai… Spotted in the wild @Volkswagen 's #CES2017 booth: #LeapMotion + #HTCVive. ” –The Buddha. 2jESVI6SVl.

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15 things to keep in mind if you have to showcase your VR game in China

The Ghost Howls

We of New Technology Walkers have taken there our MR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded , and made hundreds of people try it. If you can not, buy them in your country, with Amazon or eBay. The epic Noah Zerkin (the guy making the Leap Motion North Star headsets) at our booth to try the game! Smile and have fun.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

Meantime we already have iOS and Android smartphones and tablets: Microsoft Hololens, Google Glass and many others such as Magic Leap, North, Vuzix, Vrvana (acquired by Apple), SMI (same), Snap Spectacles (via the acquisition of Vergence), Bose, Meta View, nReal, DreamGlass, Epson, Rokid (working with the UK’s WaveOptics), Daqri and Realware.