The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Also, the awareness has grown , because every gamer knew about Alyx, and so about virtual reality. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. Apple headset is rumored to be announced this year. I guess you are not surprised to read a new rumor about the Apple headset also from this week. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll PlayStation VR selling more than 5 million units until now has proven that console players like virtual reality. Too many people still don’t understand the potential of virtual reality. Me wearing the Oculus Quest. The reasons?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

This afternoon I’m flying to Paris to then go to Laval to attend Laval Virtual, one of the oldest events about virtual reality, where I’ll be as an attendee , a virtual speaker (about the game HitMotion: Reloaded), a host of the AWE Nite Florence (featuring great speakers like Charlie Fink… ), and also as a. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Sony promises amazing haptic sensations on the controllers, that should be able to provide “impactful, textured, and nuanced” sensations. Facebook is also working with haptics, and it has presented two prototypes of the wristbands that could apply vibrations or pressure sensations on the wrist. It will so have inside-out tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that Meta Quest 3, a new mixed and virtual reality headset, will be launched at the end of the year. The announcement comes just days before rival firm Apple is set to unveil its Reality Pro headset at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, 5 June.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. HTC has just announced its new phone, the Desire 22 Pro, and defined it as a “metaverse phone”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. HTC is one of the best companies when it comes to XR for enterprise and it’s good that it is expanding its offering in the field. In the meanwhile, the Oppo AR glasses have been one of the most appreciated AR glasses at MWC, thanks to their very lightweight design.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We don’t know who originated the leak… but honestly, considering the perfect timing to generate hype for Facebook Connect, and the fact that it just shows a bit without showing too much… well, I have some suspects… (Do you remember the “leak” about Quest 2 some days before Facebook Connect 1 and timely before Apple Event?

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Haptical

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

And in 2019, we have seen a series of high-profile announcements from the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple, Huawei and YouTube, suggesting 2020 could be a breakthrough year for consumer XR. As an official media partner, Haptical is offering an exclusive discount code worth $100. said the same for AR/MR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

upgrade to Man’s Sky that adds support for virtual reality headsets. Hello Games’s Sean Murray has declared to be very happy of it since virtual reality has been a dream of his for many years. This would mean that it has sold more than Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, and HTC Vive Focus all together.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Apple launches iPhone 12, Pro models have Lidar sensor. But if Apple won’t abandon the project as Google did with Tango, and if companies like Samsung will start copying Apple (as it seems) in some years we could all have better phone-based augmented reality and 3D scanning may become a commodity. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Currently available for free on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift (sorry, mobile VR users), Blocks is a new app from Google that lets anyone create 3D objects without training. First launched in the spring of 2015, Kaleidoscope emerged as a global virtual reality festival — bringing audiences all over the world premiere VR content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In Korea, a TV documentary has used virtual reality to make a mother meet again her daughter Nayeon , who died of blood cancer some months before. I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

It essentially comprises VR headsets, smart glasses, and haptic technologies that where users can navigate digital worlds. This layer describes the technologies that allow users to explore the Metaverse through sophisticated human-computer interaction (HCI). Closing thoughts.

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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. Microsoft Flight Simulator is launching on August, 18th, without support for virtual reality. Top news of the week. Image by Khronos Group).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Other relevant news. Image by The Information).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. The expected price is around $900 There has been a lot of talk around the OWO haptic vest, a very lightweight T-shirt able to provide vibrational and electrical feedback directly on your skin.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

We may know the field of view of Apple AR headset. Of course, since he has not an Apple HMD, the only thing he could obtain was the screen splitting in two on his phone, showing that view that we XR developers know very well. It is now sure that Apple is going to release an AR headset , the questions are just when and what.

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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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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Virtual Reality is here to stay Virtual Reality (VR) invites you to explore alternative worlds as if you’re actually there. Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. I looked on my right, and I saw a virtual bottle on a barrel, together with some apples. There was no haptic and weight emulation, just a Vive Tracker on a real bottle.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. The other part of the problem is due, as per my speculation, to Meta wanting absolutely to take this out before Apple could release its headse t, to have a first-mover advantage over it. HaptX has unveiled its next-generation VR gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Valve has decided to drop MacOS support for SteamVR , and Mac owners can now only rely on a Windows installation to play with virtual reality. At the same time, Apple having always mediocre graphics cards on its laptops and its closed ecosystem have not helped much either in keeping this VR support alive. Image by HTC Vive).

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Virtual Reality is here to stay Virtual Reality (VR) invites you to explore alternative worlds as if you’re actually there. Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift.

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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. The pilot, which used an iPad and HTC Vive powered by Marxent’s 3D Cloud Service, showed that VR increases average order value by 60%.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

So it may be that Oculus contributed to the success of HTC Vive’s room-scale technology. That year we’ll be out of the depression (hopefully), and we’ll be close to the release of Facebook and Apple AR glasses. It seems that Luckey’s team was working on 6DOF input (i.e. We have still to be patient.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Furthermore, in February, this device has the possibility of coming after the announcement of the Apple headset, which, while not focusing on games, may have the ability to steal the spotlight from all the other XR headsets on the market. This is a device with OLED screens, HDR, eye tracking, and advanced haptics.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

Image by HTC Vive). HTC’s new headset may be called Vive XR Elite. Thanks to the support of the community member Inscothen, I have discovered that the Korean website of HTC may have leaked the info about the upcoming headset that the company should unveil at this CES. Meta bought Luxecel, Apple Limbak. Image by Meta).

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

For the past few years, virtual reality meetings, events, and classrooms haven’t taken off the way that proponents expected, due to inconvenience, usability issues, bandwidth requirements, the need for high-end computers, and expensive headsets, new software, and more. Image courtesy 8Agora.). Image courtesy AltspaceVR.).

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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

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. Dean: Yeah.

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