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

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s ready to answer with his HTC super powers. And I still remember that you have done boxing, so I agree with you in any case… HTC Vive Pro first impressions. It is more refined than the original Vive, but it has not that Apple-like approach that has the Rift. HTC Vive 1.0 vs HTC Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I’m a man, so of course, I don’t cry, but “a friend of mine” had his eyes become very wet while watching it. I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. In both cases, Oculus has basically given no answer. I think we’ll discover it “soon”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said.

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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! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Image by HTC). HTC has not confirmed nor denied the price, but 90% of cases when this happens, the rumored price is true. Apple is working on AR/VR. Other relevant news. The page has now been removed. has been released.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. The XR2 processor is already used in other products like Meta Quest 2 and HTC Vive XR Elite, making porting of games much simpler.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Of course, all the community is interested in them, because they could mean a revolution in augmented reality, that is currently based on devices that have a tiny FOV window, or that have a wide FOV but unsatisfying quality of the visuals. Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. And then just recently now you might have read that we have made a new thing with the new Apple iPad, with the LiDAR stuff, adding functionality that wasn't possible before. Alan: True.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. And then just recently now you might have read that we have made a new thing with the new Apple iPad, with the LiDAR stuff, adding functionality that wasn't possible before. Alan: True.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. And then just recently now you might have read that we have made a new thing with the new Apple iPad, with the LiDAR stuff, adding functionality that wasn't possible before. Alan: True.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

No grey zones like HTC did in the past. 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. For sure mixed reality should be big with this headset because this device is being released in preparation for the future Apple AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Well, it seems that our hope has died. In fact, the glasses cost £20,000.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In my opinion, it is a controlled leak to ruin the launch of Pico 4 , which according to rumors is happening these days… but of course, I could be wrong. HTC releases eye and face tracking for Vive Focus 3. HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. The HTC Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset. Now HTC has changed its mind, and the Play has become an enterprise headset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

A new report from CCS Insight, instead, predicts that this year will be sold 7 million standalone VR headsets , and of course Oculus Quest and Go should make a great part of these devices. Apple moves top executive to AR glasses team. According to a report, Apple has just moved Kim Vorrath to the AR glasses team.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. But it’s an experimental project, so of course, it has issues. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. Apple new interface for the Apple Watch may be a glimpse of future XR interactions.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. 7- Alvin Graylin. 14- Kai Liang. 16- Vinay Narayan.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Zuckerberg has basically made a pitch for the press and the investors about Facebook’s new course. Of course, also the price will follow suit, but we don’t know what is the possible range. And for price parity, companies were usually working with Pico and HTC that have always had a better approach in the B2B sector.

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