The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

This has been the week when the preorders of the Apple Vision Pro have been opened and s**t just started getting real! I’m very curious about what Apple’s headset is going to bring to our ecosystem… and you? Of course, some people from all over the world made some tricks to buy it anyway.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2018

But I also remember doing that for the first time in a crowded Apple store, with no real intention of buying the first-generation iPhone I was playing with. This, many experts argue, is the stage we’re currently at with virtual reality. Professor Jeremy Bailenson guides Social Science Research Asst.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple aims at a $1500 Vision device Let me tell you what have been the main pieces of news about the Vision Pro I’ve found this week. First of all, Apple has updated the runtime VisionOS to version 1.1, It’s basically a book. You can get it from the most important e-book stores.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

After the announcement of the release date of the Apple Vision Pro, the whole community is just waiting for its preorders to open up this Friday. The headset will be sold in physical stores and on the Apple website. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple has only 60–80K units available at this time , so most likely they’ll go sold out.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Since Apple confirmed its entry into the extended reality market at WWDC 2023 in June, consumers have been clamoring for an official Apple Vision Pro release date. Advertised as more than just a mixed reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro could mark a new era for extended reality.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

From the nth rumor on the Apple headset to the announcement of the Pico 4 Pro in China, there have been a few things happening that you as an XR enthusiast can’t miss. According to Gurman, Apple is also investing in games, which will be an important part of the experience. This week we had quite a few interesting pieces of XR news.

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ARVR

JUNE 13, 2022

I used the measure app from Apple ( I used it in several other projects and the accuracy is better than other apps). Add music and small 3D Model interaction like moving books, Scribbling on a whiteboard and playing a video in Monitor. How I converted my room into a Virtual reality Game? Now it started getting a vibe.

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AR Insider

MAY 31, 2021

This week, we look at new VR mounts and locomotion inputs, the ongoing Apple/Epic saga, and hands-on with Huawei’s VR glasses. Together with cyberchair and cybercarpet (included), Cybershoes allows gamers to walk and run in virtual reality. The Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference begins June 7th.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Apple to launch a second “more affordable” headset in 2025. Since the rumors about the upcoming Apple headset were not enough, the famous Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has thought well to release rumors about the next-generation headset. Shopify’s internal prototype shows the power of diminished reality. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple announces the release date of the Apple Vision Pro During the last few days, the rumors about possible release dates for the Apple Vision Pro have intensified , and someone talked about January, 27 as the day of the launch. The headset will be available for purchase in the U.S.,

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. Next year, the new Quest will help in getting there, but it will be Apple that will really disrupt the market, because it will come up with cool wearable glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 3, 2023

You are in the right place… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple may launch its headset on June, 5th Apple has finally announced the date of its upcoming WWDC event: it will be held on June 5–9. Everything seems ready for the great moment. So, as usual, there is a lot of confusion about what’s happening in Cupertino.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This unprecedented event is a creative collaboration among three big names in the industry, namely Big Rock Creative (producers of an official Virtual Burning Man Experience ), Partikle Digital , and Golden Apple Comics. To celebrate the comic fandom, FanConXR has been designed and developed with virtual reality at its core.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Apple is working on some sort of metaverse, and its headset is entering mass production. It has been a week of interesting rumors about the upcoming Apple MR headset. So, forget about an Apple headset that is going to enter the mainstream , as I already sold in this previous article. Other relevant news. Learn more. Learn more.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 5, 2020

That is software and technology associated with AI, including machine learning and natural language processing, Computer Vision, augmented reality, virtual reality, and all other apps that support the creation and the maintenance of a digital 3D world. The book also introduces what this all means culturally, both pro and con.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Apple may announce its headset at WWDC 2022. A new week, a new rumor about Apple. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Virtual reality is being used to test Apple’s self-driving vehicle. According to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, Apple will be able to continue to keeping their secretive plans to develop self-driving software behind closed doors thanks to virtual reality.

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Upload VR

APRIL 19, 2023

Apple is building a "a trove of software and services" for its upcoming AR/VR headset, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Interestingly, Gurman claims gaming will now be "a central piece" of Apple's offering, representing "a reversal from Apple’s stance earlier in the product’s development".

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

This seems to hint that the two companies are going to build a new XR headset together, which according to the rumors will be the Quest Pro 2, which would be aimed at competing directly with the Apple Vision Pro. This could be useful to let Meta answer to the movies available on the Apple Vision Pro because of Apple TV.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. It was 2019 and I had a very brief written interview with Charlie Fink about his new book Convergence.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing again “Mister President” Alvin Wang Graylin in the occasion of the launch of his book, Our Next Reality , that he wrote together with Louis Rosenberg. And now the book is out , it’s nice to be able to get that message out and hopefully deliver some good. That’s good.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2022

During the tutorial, I found and assembled four parts, which in the end shaped a full golden apple. I started so going around to find the missing pieces, and while walking, I found a pile of books on the floor with a bookshelf close to them. As soon as I did it, the cute creature helping me became happy and the tutorial was over.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Everyone was waiting for the Oculus Rift CV1, the first Virtual Reality “consumer headset” for the technology to boom… but then when it launched, it was actually a boom-erang, because the price was too high and the features too limited to have a real consumer appeal.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

Ah S**t Here We Go Again GIF from Ah S**t GIFs The Autumn of VR We are in an “Autumn” of Virtual Reality. People have started wondering if Virtual Reality will ever become mainstream, and the metaverse has become kind of a joke, about which even Meta took some steps back. Rinse and repeat.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Apple headset will not be focused on gaming. A new report seems to suggest that the upcoming Apple headset won’t be focused on gaming at all. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. Other relevant news.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. This is the fourth paradigm shift for Apple. So, what is Apple getting ready to announce over the next year? Eventually, I hear, Apple will even bring 3D to 2D monitors.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

This afternoon I’m flying to Paris to then go to Laval to attend Laval Virtual, one of the oldest events about virtual reality, where I’ll be as an attendee , a virtual speaker (about the game HitMotion: Reloaded), a host of the AWE Nite Florence (featuring great speakers like Charlie Fink… ), and also as a.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I’m not sure if this meme is about Schrödinger’s cat or virtual reality… (Image by 9GAG). #3. Apple is always coming next year, every year. For this reason, Apple is launching its AR/VR/XR headset next year, since 2015. Apple is always coming next year, every year. Corollary #3.1:

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The same has happened with Apple, which is now offering bonuses to employees to keep them inside the company. Apple has performed very strategic acquisitions as well, and the news of the week is that Snap has acquired Compound Photonics to gain a key supplier of LCOS and Microled displays. Apple may have delays for its headset.

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Upload VR

JUNE 7, 2022

The New York Times reports that Jon Favreau is developing “video content” for Apple’s upcoming mixed reality headset , expected to launch next year. However, Favreau is no stranger to virtual reality either. “So it felt like we were making a live action film inside virtual reality.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Well played Apple. More info (Blender now supports Virtual Reality) More info (How to activate VR support in Blender).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Yes, we have rumors about Apple XR devices even this week. Yes, Apple is working on XR glasses. It’s believable.

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