The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3. Regarding Apple, the super-reliable analysts have stated that the headset may feature three displays because just two are for losers. Other relevant news.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 19, 2023

I used to think that the path to the metaverse started with screen-based virtual worlds then expanded to virtual reality. We had an in-world office. I am on the OpenSim Community Conference organizing team, and our early meetings are in OpenSim. That’s hard to do on a screen in a virtual world.

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XROM

JUNE 4, 2023

The battle for supremacy in the world of augmented and virtual reality devices is heating up, with #Apple and #Meta taking center stage. On June 5th, Apple is rumored to launch its XR Glasses at the Worldwide Developers Conference (#WWDC) for an expected price of $3000. It's hard to say.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference is a good example that showcases this work. Those educators that remain in virtual worlds are leveraging them to create better experiences.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Xtadium will also host all announced 52 games on its platform, with Horizon Worlds also hosting the events in 180-degree cinematography. A Whole New (Virtual) World NBA Arena is set to return to Horizon Worlds on 17 November, with tonnes of new features for building online communities for sports brands.

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Steki Amusement

JUNE 13, 2022

Following Meta, Microsoft and Google’s entry into the metaverse, Apple, currently the world’s No.1 Recently, Apple demonstrated its Mixed Reality (MR) headset in testing to its board members. At the same time, Apple has accelerated the development of rOS (reality OS).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

First of all, the company canceled its usual F8 developer conference. It is working on some form of virtual currency, that has been internally named “Zuck Buck” (I love this name, actually). More info (F8 canceled) More info (Spain becoming a hub for Meta) More info (Zuck Buck virtual currency) More info (Meta custom chips).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. Conferences like the VR/AR Summit proliferate on the cusp of disruption,” says the columnist and author.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

This week at Google I/O, their annual conference focused on the press, analysts and developers, the company made two important XR announcements, the first an upgrade to mobile AR maps (Google Live Maps) and then a photorealistic volumetric telepresence system named Starline. Barra says he’s moving into the healthcare technology space.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Also, the OpenSimulator Community Conference — which took place this past weekend — reported 326 active users. You can see all the OSCC23 presentations on YouTube here , and the livestreams from both days of the conference here. Fred Beckhusen The total list of grids for which OutWorldz reports stats is available here.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

As Ted Schilowitz would say in a panel discussion later in the day, “One of the reasons people come to a conference like AWE is to see beyond the top five, to see what is on the fringes.”. The play followed Sofia who had just developed an “open navigation API” that allows easy movement between virtual worlds.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

Dominic Mallinson, Senior Vice President of R&D at Sony Interactive Entertainment, spoke a little about the current areas of VR that the group is looking into in a video that ran before the company’s E3 press conference yesterday. You can see it below, the clip starts at around 43:20.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This cloud environment could have an important part to play in the new era of virtual content streaming. Like Google, Apple has provided developers all over the world with a convenient way to get started with augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. So, for instance, you record a video of a person from a low position and then see how it looks from a higher position Apple has just published a patent about showing invisible things on mixed reality glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Note that, even in Apple’s Vision Pro announcement, they talked a lot about sports. The whole point of the M² network is that, in the virtual world space, these different companies are repeatedly solving the same problem. So I think sports is going to be a key area for us.” The Sports Metaverse Rises?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This is followed by 36% who shared that they’re planning to use the metaverse for interactions with colleagues, as well as for creating virtual content for their audience. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow. The updated ceremony is planned to be a showcase looking at both virtual and augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

There is no official confirmation on this, and I hope to be wrong because having to use earphones would be a big hit to its comfort Release date and price : of course the release date (will it come before or after an Apple headset?) Apple headset is rumored to be announced this year. and price (will it be affordable for PS5 users?)

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 23, 2023

Because the companies have figured out how to track a person’s body movement independently of the car’s motion, passengers and drivers will be able to wear VR headsets to simultaneously see the road and digital content or be totally immersed in a virtual world. I believe that putting virtual reality headsets in cars will kill people.

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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 city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts. Really fantastic.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem. video editors) use Apple computers, and for sure Apple will launch its device with a lot of functionalities for prosumers and professionals … so it has established partnerships to announce a similar type of content before Apple itself, to beat it in time.

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ARVR

AUGUST 12, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 I have been in a VR headset for thousands of hours and I’ve never experienced anything like an embodied Internet that I’m inside of. In virtual worlds, Gravity can be altered?—?turned What it has is ease, ease of access and ease of adapting to the worlds on its platform.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

For the past few years, virtual reality meetings, events, and classrooms haven’t taken off the way that proponents expected, due to inconvenience, usability issues, bandwidth requirements, the need for high-end computers, and expensive headsets, new software, and more. VR Conference. Image courtesy MeetingRoom.). Meetingroom.io

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Doing marketing in virtual worlds can be valuable. Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (Virtual VR Awards) More info (Cannes Film Festival postponed) More info (Summer GDC) More info (Rokid thermal glasses) More info (HTC faceplate delayed) More info (Google Chrome 81 delayed) More info (Zoom spiking, VR not). The time has come and finally Apple will implement a depth back camera in its upcoming iPad Pro.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

GamesBeat: We had our conference in May, and a lot of it was about science fiction, tech, games, and the inspiration that happens between them. The headsets and the technology for continuous virtual worlds and the blockchain for ecommerce, all the pieces are here. Maybe the Apple Watch will be good for something.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I’ve not been there, but as always, I have read tons of materials, so that to provide you a satisfying summary of the most important news from that conference (but this time I promise you I won’t write as much as for the Oculus Connect 5 !). PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Alex: Real conferences!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Alex: Real conferences!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! I hope for some juicy news… and you?

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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. Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This year, the dream of developing once, build once, and deploy everywhere can become reality. …unless Apple arrives and creates its own standard again…. Anything World makes you create virtual worlds with your voice. You know that I like talking with you about cool XR experiments, and Anything World is one of them.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Alex: Real conferences!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

When I returned to the initial point in the virtual world, my position in the real world was slightly different. It is a bit like Android vs Apple : Android’s Plays Store is more open and cheaper, but the Apple Store offers better quality. The Oculus Quest is like an Apple phone. Isn’t he cool?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. So we've had people in this virtual world saying, hey, we want to bring AR into this virtual world. And from all of these engagements-- Alan: In real shows, like IRL, in real life?

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