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 ! 6 DOF Controllers for Vive Focus. In short: the Vive Focus will finally have two 6 DOF controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

But the release of the Apple Vision Pro proved to Valve employees that people are fine with having an all-in-two device with two units connected by a cable. The Controllers can track the five fingers and have very strong haptic vibrations.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

Dubbed “Waiting for App Lab”, the bundle was meant to unite the powers of little game studios so that to perform together a more powerful marketing campaign and gain more visibility for the apps they provided. As players, I think we all love bundles , they are a fun way to spotlight different sorts of games, to mix them.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It seems that Mark is still working on that vision, so that in the end, Facebook will be able to do on its devices whatever it wants, without compromises and without control. A company of this kind, with full control and no restrictions, could do great things on the tech side, but very bad things on the privacy side.

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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. They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. What will happen next? Top news of the week. Image by HP).

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. The former is connected to either a computer or a gaming console and delivers the most powerful VR experience. Motion Controller. Vive Controller. Gear VR Controller. Daydream Controller. Gaming) PC.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Fight hellish spawns of teddies, bunnies, and elephants with your bare hands in this mild survival horror game. Take the leap! In this short (and surprisingly non-nauseating) VR experience, you lose control of your body and perform a free fall above a scenic vista. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. I saw that myself when I tried out Qualcomm’s new wireless stand-alone VR headset prototype at the Game Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. You can see how it is in this picture, where I’ve put my hand for scale. The amazing Ben Lang.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. The former is connected to either a computer or a gaming console and delivers the most powerful VR experience. Motion Controller. Vive Controller. Gear VR Controller. Daydream Controller. Gaming) PC.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. How is Apple going to sell this headset?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. And that was with controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. And that was with controllers.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He's been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he's covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. first of all, I guess you've been in the games world for a long time. But now we pretty much cover the gamut of tech news and game news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

At this point, there is another question that every one of us is making: is this a controlled leak by Valve itself? I’m not saying that it is absolutely a controlled leak… I just want to say that personally, I believe that it is. It may just be someone from Valve that is inside the /r/Vive community. Vive Pro headsets + 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. And that was with controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

And the moderation tools look like a scary Big Brother where you may always be controlled by some person from Facebook. Apple acquires startup SPACES. What is sure is that Apple continues to slowly build its AR and VR technology, so that one day it could come out with something amazing. This is a PC-only game.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

The company offers a range of modules, including the Stratos Inspire, and Leap Motion controller. For companies interested in a world of technology stepping beyond controllers, Ultraleap promises unlimited potential. The organisation is also investing in haptics, to help users feel more within the XR interactions.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. And our third product category we call Clay Control, which is kind of all the devices that can use gesture interaction at a distance. Alan: Yeah, it is-- it's a game changer. Alan: Hey, everyone, Alan Smithson here. Varag: Wow.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. And our third product category we call Clay Control, which is kind of all the devices that can use gesture interaction at a distance. Alan: Yeah, it is-- it's a game changer. Alan: Hey, everyone, Alan Smithson here. Varag: Wow.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. And our third product category we call Clay Control, which is kind of all the devices that can use gesture interaction at a distance. Alan: Yeah, it is-- it's a game changer. Alan: Hey, everyone, Alan Smithson here. Varag: Wow.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Pikmin Bloom is the latest game by Niantic. Image from Skydance Interactive).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

We are all ready to play it, and if you are not, you are still in time to pre-download the game , so that at the X time, you can immediately hit the “Play” button. The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. I’ll keep you posted!

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