The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

It can be a game-changer for the whole digital world, so I thought it was worth sharing my thoughts about what it could mean for XR. For instance, Apple is an example of a gatekeeper, since it is a trillionaire market leader, and acts as an intermediary between app developers and their users. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

What other devices are so cheap, have the best games, a continuous stream of updates? I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. Image by Epic Games). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. Not HTC, which has very little money compared to Facebook/Meta; not Valve, who is focused mostly on PC gaming; not HP which seems interested only in the pro/business market. No one can compete now.

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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. Long story short, all games that manage to have more than a certain number of downloads and revenues are subject to a per-install fee.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The legendary programmer and founder of Epic Games sat down with me after his keynote address at the VRX conference in San Francisco and, as conversations with Sweeney usually do, the topic quickly turned to the issue of open platforms. Sweeney’s ultimate example of a distressingly closed platform is Apple’s app store.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This year saw massive interest in MR headsets following Apple’s Vision Pro debut, and Meta looks to own the space following its experience with MR via its Pro headset. The XR marketplace could experience shockwaves when Apple debuts its headset. The firm is circling Connect 2023 around gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. And as usual, no piece of news was mind-blowing (yeah, Half-Life 3 is not confirmed this year, either), but all together show a vibrant ecosystem of VR game studios.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 21, 2021

Apple’s first entry into virtual reality could be an expensive VR headset with limited AR capabilities, according to a Bloomberg report. “Apple Inc.’s Current consumer VR headsets cost from $300 to $900, and the Apple headset reportedly could cost a lot more. Image courtesy Apple.).

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AR Insider

JANUARY 11, 2021

Russian government hackers piggybacked on cybersecurity software (!!!!) to penetrate deep into hundreds of government and corporate systems. And Sony’s investment in Epic Games values the maker of Fortnite at $17 B (China’s Tencent invested in 2012 and owns 50% of the company). Image source: Apple. Unity’s IPO.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The following subcategories are considered part of the metaverse: Virtual reality; Augmented reality; NFT; Crypto; Blockchain; Gaming platforms (this is far-fetched, but it is true that the whole 3D modeling part is based on the gaming industry, as well as much of the interaction programming). Not only the headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The second one is that we of New Technology Walkers have just launched our fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded for Vive Focus 3. It has been a huge week for events in virtual reality , thanks to three important initiatives of this kind: Venice VR Expanded, Burning Man, and Tokyo Game Show. Other relevant news. Image by iQiYi).

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Scrutinizing Apple’s in-app payment system on the App Store is all the rage among government officials nowadays, with multiple countries taking cards in the matter. A new report claims that India’s competition authority has jumped on the Apple regulation bandwagon, too, a move that’ll no doubt bring more attention to… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Together with this announcement, Sony has also announced 11 new games that will be compatible with the console, including 4 titles that have never been released before. Since PSVR 1 games won’t be compatible with PSVR 2, Sony has to build a content catalog for this headset from scratch, and this will require time, money, and commitment.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 14, 2021

These are each governed by different market factors. Meanwhile, leading mobile AR business models are in-app-purchases in mobile gaming, and advertising. And the stakes are high as Apple doubles down on wearables to offset declines from a maturing smartphone market. That includes AR, VR, and all of their subsegments.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 6, 2022

The global business community is increasingly moving to isolate Russia for the war it's waging in Ukraine, and video games are no exception. Here's a rundown of what we've seen so far from key players in the video game space as efforts to isolate Russia have snowballed in the midst of Ukraine's calls for the industry to take action.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is coherent with the 3 years for BCI (Brain-computer-interfaces) used in gaming that the CEO of OpenBCI told me in a recent interview. Until now, WebXR developers could only target Android or Apple users that were tech enough to use a WebXR viewer developed by Mozilla for iOS. Apple is working on Micro-OLED displays.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the enormous influence in the XR industry, VRTUOLUO has set up dozens of industry communities (such as the Industry Executives Association, VR Game Developers Community, VR Education Community, Financing and Investment Community, Offline Entertainment Group, etc.) and covered more than 80% of the XR pioneers as communities members.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And Apple hasn’t yet played its hand. Funds will be used to expand to more gaming platforms. The goal of the company is to translate the most popular and classic real-world games into immersive VR experiences for all ages. The first game to be released on the Oculus Store will be called ForeVR Bowl in 2021. seed funding.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 5, 2023

If Tesla can sell cars and Apple can sell phones in China, why isn’t Meta present there? But some observers are quick to point out that Zuckerberg has a history of criticizing the Chinese government, a stance that will likely be amplified in the current climate of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Put another way, the spatial computing spectrum has several subdivisions, each governed by different market factors and target markets. Demand grew in 2020 along with Covid-inflections in gaming, leaving Oculus Quest and Valve index sold out part of the year. That includes AR, VR and the enterprise and consumer subsectors of each.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Star Wars Squadron (one of the most appreciated VR games on PC) is going to be FREE on the Epic Store on November, 24th. From Thursday 24th November to Wednesday 28th November, all customers who purchase a PICO 4 are going to get for free three games: Ruins Magus, After the Fall, Les Mills BodyCombat. What The Bat has been released.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And why does China need another AR app marketplace when both Apple and Google have their own in the works, thanks to Apple ARKit and Google ARCore ? These Mini Programs would also include AR, and considering Tencent is the largest gaming company in the world , it means the app wields considerable influence in China.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 28, 2022

Tencent will form the new XR division under its Interactive Entertainment business group and develop the company’s software and hardware solutions under the leadership of Li Shen, Chief Technology Officer of Tencent Games , the sources explained in the report.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

Government: supporting societal progress and virtual public services to leverage the opportunities virtual worlds can offer. Super Resolution” is an upscaling technique useful to bring the app visuals to the same resolution as the device, built upon Snapdragon Game Super Resolution. Business: supporting a European Web 4.0

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

In the gaming industry, however, this movement to open-source started to make sense when a wave of user-generated content evolved into some of the most successful versions of modern gameplay. Castle Smurthenstein (Image Credit: Apple II Bits ). One widely-known mod is a game mode referred to as “battle royale.”

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Mashable VR

MARCH 19, 2022

He was credited as the executive producer on the 2019 science fiction film Io , and he's listed as a producer on two more recent streaming projects — The Banker on Apple TV+ and Outside the Wire on Netflix. Even when the federal government f *d us, we did it on our own.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

This week, we’re talking about something that’s a little bit more impactful on the current state of the web — Apple’s NeuralHash kerfuffle. In the past month, Apple did something it generally has done an exceptional job avoiding — the company made what seemed to be an entirely unforced error.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

HTC VIVE announced on Thursday it will sell its XR Elite mixed reality (MR) headset as a premium bundle for gaming. Steam remains one of the premier destinations for cloud-streamed content, not just for gamers, but for governments and enterprise users. Apple revealed the former at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on 5 June.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! This is the first public hint that Google is back on track working on a new AR device , most probably glasses that should compete with Facebook and Apple. Tilt Brush). News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Developers and coders will receive access to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces, allowing them to develop for the massive ecosystem of applications, games, and content. Currently, due to US government trade restrictions , Qualcomm cannot sell its 5G components to Huawei for its smartphone sales.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2022

Unsurprisingly, all of the important data points are related to the industry’s sole benefactor these days, Meta, which managed to raise the cost of entry to its VR ecosystem, find itself in a new battle with the US government over VR, and announce that it had, again, burnt an awful lot of money on its Reality Lab efforts this quarter.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

APRIL 28, 2023

Moreover, with significant firms struggling through Q1, official government bodies are also decelerating Metaverse growth out of competition fears. The company faces increased competition from other VR and AR companies, such as Sony and Apple. ” This aims to support businesses and developers in all industry sectors.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 16, 2017

But nine out of ten companies will not win their markets, especially if everyone follows the same game plan. RIM stayed enterprise-focused for so long, they were completely upended when Apple decided to stop segmenting the market and just build a better phone for everyone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple. It became active during the next portion of the demo meant to show the potential of the system in a game environment. ” The company offers an SDK so Unity developers can integrate the system into a game.

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InstaVR

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

But business impact has been substantial too — from Microsoft and Apple lowering financial projections to major conferences like Mobile World Congress and Facebook’s F8 being cancelled. . So it’s no surprise companies and governments can and are leveraging VR during the Coronavirus outbreak to better function.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Its resolution is impressive, for clarity that fans of simulator games would love. The game has been a huge success at launch, and I’m also planning to play it, as soon as I have the time. According to the reviews, the game is very fun, and the developers have done their best to transpose the original game to VR.

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