The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. The price of this device is $600 0 and it is of course aimed at the enterprise sector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: Which is the best headset? Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: Our Quick Verdict The Apple Vision Pro feels like the beginning of a new era for mixed reality headsets. A couple of weeks after the Apple Vision Pro was released, Zuckerberg shared his review.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

After approximately seven years of development, the Apple Vision Pro headset is finally here. For some time now, consumers have been on the edge of their seats waiting for an official Apple AR/VR announcement. Of course, some investors are still concerned. So, what is the Apple Vision Pro headset, exactly, and what can it do?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2023

Exactly one week ago, Apple announced the Apple Vision Pro, its first XR headset. This has been a piece of massive news, which most probably has started a new course for VR. I’m leaving you below a selection of good posts that can give you an overview of this new headset launched by Apple.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2023

While the passthrough is depth and scale correct for objects and scenery further away than arm's length, and has impressively low latency and stability, at close range it exhibits geometric warping and double-imaging on moving objects. It works by comparing the views from the two lower latency greyscale cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This would be a total pivot for Meta, which would so migrate away from the social importance of having eye and face tracking to compete directly with Apple in offering a consumer device totally dedicated to mixed reality. But NFTs should be bought with fiat currency and Apple will take a 30% cut out of them. Top news of the week.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 25, 2024

We also use the cameras, of course, they work together as the IMU is higher frequency but lower accuracy. While cameras typically run at 30Hz or 60Hz, the IMU typically provides updates around 1000Hz, enabling much lower latency. 0:00 / 0:11 1× Apple Vision Pro has a Travel Mode, but it's unclear what exactly it does.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. This is something many of us predicted correctly: Apple showed how the Vision Pro can record volumetric videos, but in some contexts, this may feel cringe.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If true, it would represent a significant change of course for the HoloLens product line. Samsung partnered with Oculus (now Meta) back in 2014 to build Gear VR, a snap-in VR smartphone holder that was a generational leap in terms of low-latency mobile VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 20, 2023

Of course, we are very happy about the feedback we receive, and we integrate many suggestions into future updates to create the perfect holoride journey for passengers. XR Today: Now that Apple has released their Vision Pro headset, do you see companies leveraging it to create future VR entertainment systems like holoride?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Of course, this option is hidden from all of us, so probably the secret user is a beta-tester of this functionality that leaked it. But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

So Varjo decided to flex in its presentation to show why the XR-4 may be more interesting for companies than the Apple Vision Pro. My commentary here is that it always depends on what is the use case: for some, Apple may be comparable, for others, not at all. M2 chip has an internal GPU that’s limited to around 3.6

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2020

Of course, it is aimed at the enterprise (and the military) market. Of course, he also talks about immersive realities. Apple signs a deal with Imagination Technologies. Apple has just signed a multi-year deal with Imagination Technologies. That’s why you see all arcades using a Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. To have such a low latency, the company needs very fast 5G networks and edge servers very close to the client.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Notice that while reading this review you must remind that this is just a devkit: its performances are of course not perfect, and its design and features may change before the final release. He also reports a very smooth and low-latency tracking ; The tracking of the controllers is good but it could be better. You have been warned!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! The first speech will of course be the keynote where we will listen to many important announcements, among which most probably the launch of the new Quest and of Facebook Horizon. Apple teases AR for its next event and invents the “SR” acronym.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

If I had to bet, I would say that the possibilities are two: Smartglasses to see the notifications of your phone A hybrid VR/passthrough AR headset, similar to Project Cambria or the rumored Apple headset. With the rumors intensifying, and with Apple always closer to entering the market, I am expecting an announcement for this year.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2021

Basically, it is an open and distributed platform to provide the AR Cloud (which is, in turn, a distributed, shared, and persistent augmented reality), that opposes itself to the private AR Clouds that companies like Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Niantic are building. And the first one, highlighted by Julia, is that it is accessible.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

During the launch, the following details were laid out by Jio: Focus on collaboration Product weight of 75 grams ‘Personalized’ audio features Support for over 25 applications A few other details emerged during the course of the event too. The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Co-founder Marco Salerno told me that the current prototype is capable of pushing back with two newtons (about the force of two apples resting on your hand), though they could feasibly push upward of 15 newtons with some different design tradeoffs. That’s thanks to three things: Latency.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 28, 2022

Of course you do. Since brands such as Apple began ditching the classic jack from their smart devices, good quality wired headphones have become harder to find, but they are out there. The codecs decode at a specific bitrate, which determines whether the headphones have a high or low latency (AKA lag), measured in milliseconds.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Quest 3 Specs, Compared To Quest 2 & Apple Vision Pro Read the full confirmed specs of Quest 3, including a comparison with Quest 2, Quest Pro, Pico 4, and Apple Vision Pro: UploadVR David Heaney But as I've learned from many years of trying dozens of face computers, on-paper specifications tell only a small part of the story.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The promotional videos leaked on the Quest 2 still operate with a USB cable for the Link , but I’m sure that Oculus is cooking something wireless, with a dedicated dongle to offer a high-throughput low-latency wi-fi. Of course, we will nod our heads and don’t believe to anyone of their words. Colocation. AR Glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

So if we talk about data speed, you would say that an average connection on a 4G network — nowadays, of course, that depends on the country and where you are — but it’s usually on the tens of megabits per second. Alan: We’ve got data speeds, then we’ve got latency. Alan: Latency is 10 times faster.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

So if we talk about data speed, you would say that an average connection on a 4G network — nowadays, of course, that depends on the country and where you are — but it’s usually on the tens of megabits per second. Alan: We’ve got data speeds, then we’ve got latency. Alan: Latency is 10 times faster.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With the Varjo XR-4 series, the tech leader aims to offer a more affordable and diverse alternative to upcoming headsets like the Apple Vision Pro. This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

The original HTC Vive is still the most used Vive headset on Steam, so of course, HTC still has to care about its users, but at the same time, it has no sense for it to spend lots of money for the assistance on an old device. Apple adds spatial AR features to its Clips app. This has been a genius move, IMHO.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Quest 3 Specs, Compared To Quest 2 & Apple Vision Pro Read the full confirmed specs of Quest 3, including a comparison with Quest 2, Quest Pro, Pico 4, and Apple Vision Pro: UploadVR David Heaney Starting at $500 though it's in a markedly higher price category than its predecessor, which Meta is continuing to sell alongside it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Some people wondered if the avatar moved in realtime with the real Alex, but the answer is no, of course, he was pre-recorded. They could build together something that could seriously compete with Facebook and Apple: let’s keep an eye on them. Of course, there is news on Quest also from this week.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

So if we talk about data speed, you would say that an average connection on a 4G network -- nowadays, of course, that depends on the country and where you are -- but it's usually on the tens of megabits per second. So I would say that one of the most important ones -- if not the most important one -- is actually related to latency.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 11, 2023

There was a small latency between looking at an object and the displays moving to adjust focus, but as with the retinal resolution aspect, the purpose of this prototype is to showcase what varifocal feels like, not to claim a specific technology for practically delivering it. Apple Vision Pro is set to arrive next year with around 3.5K

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

If you are wondering why we should listen to the words of Avi Bar-Zeev, well… he helped in shaping the HoloLens, recently worked on XR glasses prototypes at Apple… and also Facebook wanted to hire him to lead its AR program. Of course, there are also some concerns. He’s someone that knows well what XR is. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while Magic Leap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. As for the big names, I expect that Facebook, Apple, and the others will still wait : reports talk about these companies releasing their headsets from 2021 on.

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