The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

A conversation could be coming to your home in the next five years and it is probably as unavoidable as those previous ones: Are you on a Meta Quest or do you have Apple Vision? Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. The just-announced visionOS 1.0

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Microsoft, which apparently produces one of the best-performing augmented reality headsets on the market (HoloLens), is buying a video game production company Blizzard for a frightening amount of money: 68 billion dollars. Of course, it is also because the metaverse and the technologies underlying it have truly enormous potential.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Top news of the week Meta is shipping the Quest 3 The news of the week is of course that Meta is shipping its new Quest 3 headset and its many accessories. Apple is still working on a cheaper Vision Pro Meta is not the only company working on a cheaper device. More info — Use Google Translate!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

It can also be an effective way to boost productivity during collaborative sessions, enhance the quality of training courses, and increase creativity. Of course, leveraging the power of virtual reality starts with choosing the right headset capable of transporting each user into a new digital landscape.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Render of the possible upcoming Apple device (Image by Antonio DeRosa). Apple is proposing itself to be the next competitor of Meta. Apple has the most important tech brand, it has a lot of money, it has experience in shipping successful hardware and software, it has compelling content (movies, music, apps), and it has physical stores.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Apple is already far ahead given the success of Watch and Airpods. Amazon and Microsoft launched wearables lines in the past quarter and smaller players like Bose and Snap are planting seeds for a wearables-heavy future. . The poster child here is Apple. The situation is similar with Microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

February 2024 is here, and this month marked the end of a long, long wait for Apple’s Vision Pro. Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. Apple has already sold 200,000 devices in the first week, which is impressive. It’s still more or less the game of of Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. “Decent” to be a devkit, of course. Apple glasses.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations. billion in 2021.

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Anand Tech

JULY 26, 2023

Interestingly, the company aims to serve world's leading tech giants, challenging TSMC, IFS, and Samsung Foundry. As demand from Japanese companies alone may not suffice, Rapidus is looking for orders from international corporations like Apple, Google, and Meta. "We "We are looking for a U.S.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

The spatial line-up of brand partners represents a range of enterprise end-users, such as Adidas, Vogue, Ready Player Me, OpenSea, Polygon Studios, and Samsung. Steinerman noted that Spaital started as a platform solely available on XR headsets such as Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Magic Leap. ”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. And if they have these features from Microsoft, they won’t need to get them from Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2019

Of course, you can look through. I just know that Samsung has patented some contact lenses incorporating displays but nothing has been done to my knowledge. I have just mentioned that Microsoft suggested us that the DARPA could be interested in such kind of devices… what we knew from the DGA (French DARPA) already.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

Apple, Apple, Apple. The impact of Apple’s headset is predicted by some in the XR industry to bring new eyes and fresh investments towards broader enterprise and consumer AR/VR/MR companies – already, it appears XR firms are taking note of the potential spatial computing trend of 2024.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

Turning Apple Vision Pro's Digital Crown is a bit like tuning your reality. Apple Watch owners will be familiar with the Digital Crown. On Apple Vision Pro, it is a dial on top that jogs you along the spectrum of immersion so quickly it feels like magic. Microsoft formally killed its PC VR platform.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

Those known to be taking part include Google, Microsoft, LG, Sony, ASUS, Garmin, Panasonic, Nvidia, Intel, Hisense, JBL, and AMD. This is a collaborative smart home device standard backed by more than 500 tech companies, including leaders in the field like Amazon, Google, and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on. What can the attendees expect from it?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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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. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Of course, the object must be in the FOV of the cameras of the headset to be tracked, even if HTC says that the tracking can somewhat continue also when this condition is not true (i guess using just IMU data). Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership (Road To VR). Further references.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Yes, of course: all the computational units are in the external computer, not in the headset , that’s why it is so light. This lets you experience scenes that are a bit more complex than the ones that you can live on Microsoft’s device; The field of view is 40° Horizontal and 30° Vertical. How can it be so light?”

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future. Training, of course, was a huge application area, with banks and even restaurants employing XR to recruit and train the next generation of workers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz. Of course, indies won’t be super-happy of this decision, but unluckily this is how business works.

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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. We all wonder who can be the Facebook competitor, and we often talk about Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, but we usually forgot about Huawei.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

It’s printed on premium paper and it’s priced high like a textbook at fifty dollars – of course it’s filled with an hour of animation – so it’s not a normal book and it doesn’t adhere to book economics. They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

It’s printed on premium paper and it’s priced high like a textbook at fifty dollars – of course it’s filled with an hour of animation – so it’s not a normal book and it doesn’t adhere to book economics. They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Of course, it is not the best VR experience, and of course, it is terrible for gaming, but in the enterprise, it has still value and will probably have for at least one-two years. In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2.

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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. But at any rate, what we realized was when Google and Apple gave this gift of AR to the world just three summers ago, saying they were all-in with AR, meaning that the hardware was going to work, it was like, wow.

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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. But at any rate, what we realized was when Google and Apple gave this gift of AR to the world just three summers ago, saying they were all-in with AR, meaning that the hardware was going to work, it was like, wow.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Is this a hint of Apple’s future plans for VR and AR? The rumored iPhone 7 Plus with a dual-lens camera system finally made its debut at Apple’s September product presentation Wednesday. iPhone 7 Plus depth sensing demo during Wednesday’s Apple keynote presentation.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

While Apple has certainly changed in the years since Job’s passing, the company has undoubtedly continued to aggressively pursue patents, sometimes racking up hundreds of filings in a single month with inventions spanning everything from touch-sensitive smartwatch bands to 3D environmental mapping. Samsung, Apple v.

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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. But at any rate, what we realized was when Google and Apple gave this gift of AR to the world just three summers ago, saying they were all-in with AR, meaning that the hardware was going to work, it was like, wow.

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