Upload VR

AUGUST 21, 2023

An Apple Vision Pro model was reportedly spotted with 1TB storage. French tech news website iPhoneSoft reports that a source who tried Vision Pro at one of Apple's public developer labs saw the 1TB figure listed as the storage in the device's Settings app. The China-only Pico 4 Pro has 512GB of storage.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Upload VR Showcase has been full of announcements about VR games. Upload did it again: on December, 2nd, the big XR magazine has streamed a big showcase of many news about VR games. This one has been richer than the previous one, and we had both news on existing games and announcements of new upcoming titles.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The Venture Reality Fund and of course HTC. China is committed to development & application of #VR in various fields.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

HTC released a video showing off its vision of the metaverse, a reflection of what the company thinks virtual spaces will look like in the near future. HTC’s most recent concept video isn’t at fault for shooting for the stars. To think, HTC and Oculus were once competitors back in the early days of consumer VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2023

Exactly one week ago, Apple announced the Apple Vision Pro, its first XR headset. It will be a shorter and maybe not-so-exciting newsletter, but I will be happy of having shed some light on other interesting pieces of news from this week in XR Stay tuned for my roundup about the Apple Vision Pro coming in the next few days!

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2017

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. As an active supporter of VR and head of one of gaming’s most important VR-compatible game engines, when Sweeney speaks, we tend to listen. HTC Vive is a completely open platform.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2018

According to a report from Digi-Capital , China is likely to beat the United States in AR adoption. How China could win in AR adoption, and our thoughts. According to the report, the following is true: The United States has a larger VR install base than China, through products like PSVR and the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

If the Paradise was in China, its name would be Qingdao. HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has immediately answered that 899$ is a too high estimate of the price. Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

A comment from HTC , just saying that it was up to compete with Oculus has had on Twitter something like 12K likes , and I think that HTC’s social media manager had never seen that number in his whole life. What are you going to buy if you don’t want to use the Quest? Image by Epic Games). The same on Twitter.

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Upload VR

MARCH 17, 2024

The paper comes from Xi'an Jiaotong–Liverpool University in China, where the authors have been studying the effects of VR refresh rates, resolution, haptics, stereoscopy, and more for years, including how these elements all relate to simulator sickness. Here’s every Oculus Store game that can run at 120Hz on Quest 2 (so far).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human! Image by IGN).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Meta, Tencent to Distribute Quest Headsets in China Last week, Meta Platforms and Tencent Holdings entered discussions to distribute Quest hardware and software solutions in China. Currently, China has two key Metaverse suppliers, HTC VIVE and Bytedance.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We don’t know who originated the leak… but honestly, considering the perfect timing to generate hype for Facebook Connect, and the fact that it just shows a bit without showing too much… well, I have some suspects… (Do you remember the “leak” about Quest 2 some days before Facebook Connect 1 and timely before Apple Event?

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

HTC, a strategic partner and shareholder of VR Education, has also started selling its ENGAGE-based product, VIVE Sessions, in China. It’s very similar to what Apple has been doing for smartphone,” CEO Chi Xu said. “We 5 ways to build the mobile gaming metaverse. link] Dissections in VR are FREE.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

It should launch with 41 new titles specifically made for it, so we can assume that finally, we will see some big new games from the studios that Meta acquired. This doesn’t surprise me because in China many people told me that they were waiting for Oppo to make a move with a VR headset. HTC has made its moves at MWC, too.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

.” Acquisition Triggers Competition The news comes after ByteDance, the company behind the developments, bought out Pico Interactive in 2021 to compete with major manufacturers like Meta Platforms and HTC VIVE. Further issues have surfaced due to ongoing competition with the Meta Quest 3 and upcoming Apple Vision Pro headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. What a time to be alive!

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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

AUGUST 15, 2021

I have made some Youtube videos with really terrible quality My bonds with China have brought me some critics. This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. Internet is beautiful. The VR Fast was also fast in dying.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Use cases demonstrated at their AWE booth included games, AR ads with interactive navigation to the displayed items, and IoT devices that triggered visual alarms in massive virtual mockups of real locations when those devices measured certain parameters, like high temperatures. We see that as a necessary stepping stone to the metaverse.”. “At

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Yesterday was Chinese Lanterns’ Festival… my best wishes to you all, especially a big hug to all people that are still in China and are living very hard times… ??! I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). 3 Headsets come from China with love. This week we had the announcement of 3 headsets from China. What will happen next?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). I’ve read on your website about eye-tracking games. How can eye-tracking improve VR gaming? 7Invensun logo (Image by 7Invensun).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

The most popular frameworks, ARKit and ARCore, have improved and now they can offer some amazing features : ARKit, for instance, can now track a 3D object (a friend of mine tried it and said it works pretty well), while ARCore can give you Cloud Anchors, so that you can share your AR gaming session with your friends in local multiplayer.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Useless news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. Is it worth your money? It was funny.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

Image by Hello Games). On August, 14th, as promised, Hello Games has released No Man’s Sky Beyond, the big 2.0 Hello Games’s Sean Murray has declared to be very happy of it since virtual reality has been a dream of his for many years. The game works on all PC VR headsets and also on PSVR. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Top news of the week. Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Before starting: if you like this kind of posts, you can subscribe to my newsletter to receive them directly in your email!).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!) HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. and “What are the differences with the Mainland China”. What are the differences with Mainland China? Let me try to answer you these common questions… How is Taiwan?

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VRWorld

JUNE 13, 2016

Bethesda announced that is bringing the world of Fallout 4 into Virtual Reality and there will be a series of VR experiences and games announced during this ‘media frenzy’ week. Razer is the driving force behind the OSVR, an Open Source Virtual Reality industry initiative.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today is my last day in China. Most probably this announcement has been made to envision a future competition with Apple, bringing to XR the battle Android vs iOS (and Samsung vs Apple) that we already have on phones. Games and products are just numbers in an Excel sheet that must produce some defined outcomes.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. Last but not least, there is a new casting mode added to the Quest SDK , so the spectators of your game via Casting can see not only your first-person point of view but also a more intriguing third-person one. Other relevant news.

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