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. This new model has new cool styles and features improved battery life, all for $269.99.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more. The paper analyzes the other papers about the use of XR to solve mental issues and claims that often these research papers do not explain what are the adverse effects the technology on the patients using it (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. More info Sony Mocopi seems to be good for full-body VR Thrillseeker, the superstar VR Youtuber, is experimenting with Mocopi, the lightweight full-body VR kit by Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m pretty excited to receive this headset because I want to see the clarity of the images everyone is talking about and I also want to play around with mixed reality, a technology I am a big fan of. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

We all know the Gartner hype cycle of emergent technologies: they are initially overhyped, then undervalued, and finally, they fulfill their potential and become popular and useful. No one still knows how to build the necessary technologies to make it happen. PSVR 2 Controllers (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Image by Sony). Top news of the week. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2023

.” US Attorney General Merrick B Garland said in a statement, “Today’s complaint alleges that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies. Each of the state attorneys offered comment on the matter.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

base station tracking technology. The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Vive Tracker tracking. Image by Rob Cole).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

With this operation, Facebook secures another amazing development studio (after Beat Games), making sure that it will be able to provide high-quality games for its headsets in the future, and protecting itself from hostile acquisitions of other companies (like Sony acquiring Insomniac). Do you want to read a good book on AR/VR? Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. Regarding the compatibility of older PS4 titles (including VR ones), Sony has clarified that most of titles will be compatible, but some of them won’t work on Day 1. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs. from 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. It's based on complex technology, like real time rendering and rules and physics. It's a very, very involved and complex piece of technology. So before, up until a few years back, you were using offline rendering technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. It's based on complex technology, like real time rendering and rules and physics. It's a very, very involved and complex piece of technology. So before, up until a few years back, you were using offline rendering technology.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. But it also shows that VR is not exploding next year and that the consumer use of the technology will only represent 37% of the whole market. affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Rob loves exploring the technology always starting from the human perspective, putting the human at the center of his experiments and analysis, and he did this also while working on Project Caliper, his experiment in building a better version of the Valve Index Controllers alone in his spare time. Image provided by Rob Cole). Tundra HDK RMA.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Qualcomm told me that by the end of 2020 we will see a ton of them announced (Qualcomm makes the core technology that Facebook’s Oculus Quest uses.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. It's based on complex technology, like real time rendering and rules and physics. It's a very, very involved and complex piece of technology. So before, up until a few years back, you were using offline rendering technology.

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