The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

Apple MR headset may cost $2000+. The rumors about the Apple headset have started to intensify and converge on what they suggest. This week, Mr. Kuo, a popular Apple analyst, has said a few interesting predictions about the upcoming headset. Learn more (MUTEK Immersive Collection) Learn more (MUTEK Independent XR Study).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2024

Meta’s open approach contrasts Apple’s walled garden ecosystem, which supports its spatial computing vision. While Apple’s approach is straightforward and focuses on its hardware ecosystem, Meta’s approach is more customizable and tailored to specific solutions. .” Apple WWDC ’24 to be an XR Showcase?

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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. What a time to be alive! Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

However, much of their discourse excludes the role and value of haptic feedback. In this paper, Tanay Singhal and Oliver Schneider from the University of Waterloo , adapt terminology from game design to study haptic feedback. Results indicate that juicy haptics can enhance enjoyability, aesthetic appeal, immersion, and meaning.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2024

There’s going to be a ton of apps available on Vision Pro day one, with more than one million iOS and iPad apps working in compatibility mode on Apple’s first mixed reality headset. Haptics – Test Haptic Feedback Adam Foot $0.99 GIF & Video Maker: Blue Cap Co William Richards $2.99 Date Memos 泽新 李 $0.99

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 7, 2023

That innovation still exists, of course, although, following a slow first half of 2023 for the immersive industry, a breakout AWE 2023 and Apple Vision Pro announcement brought new life to the market. Moreover, Apple expressed dissatisfaction with its Sony and TSMC suppliers when it hosted WWDC 2023.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2020

David Parisi is an associate professor at the College of Charleston and author of "Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing.". Enter haptics. While it is difficult to capture the health and growth of the haptics industry with a single number, one estimate puts the global haptics market at US$12.9

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

More info (Ultraleap teasing a new device) More info (Maybe a new sensor is coming) Has Palmer Luckey tried the Apple headset? This week we had the usual articles about the Apple headset speculating its upcoming launch for June, 5th and stressing how Apple is launching for the first time a product that has not a clear market.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2023

More info Some new leaks on the Apple Vision Pro This has been a quite positive week to discover news about the Apple Vision Pro, thanks to a few leaks about it. My thoughts and prayers go to the dev team that violated the NDA of the Apple Vision Pro: Apple will find them and sue them to hell. RIP Kinect, again.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The feedback has been overall positive, with people praising its haptics and display : one thing that made me curious has been when Brad Lynch said that the HDR is so effective that looking at the sun in the game Horizon: Call Of The Mountain you really have the sensation of something too bright for your eyes.

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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. Regarding all the rumors about the use of tracked controllers, Mark Gurman stated this in his latest report: “ I’m told that Apple isn’t planning its own Vision Pro game controller, nor is it actively planning support for third-party VR accessories ”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Inside-out tracking was expected after having seen the controllers, but the haptic feedback on the head is a very welcome surprise. Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun. Apple is working on a whole spatial ecosystem.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Apple, Sony, Microsoft, and countless other vendors in the technology space are now investing heavily on the concept of “spatial audio”. For instance, haptic feedback is becoming a commonplace tool for some XR innovations attempting to help users engage with virtual content like never before.

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

At HaptX, we periodically speak to leading experts in haptic technology, its history, and its applications. Archer, recently curated a special issue in the journal New Media & Society focused on haptics, which is now available for purchase through Sage Journals. A History of Haptics: The Birth of a New Language.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pico has also studied the headset to be balanced thanks to the battery installed in the rear of the headband and that counterbalances the front weight of the computational unit. I think this tweet summarizes my thoughts of its beginning: With much respect for Pico, but this beginning looks like a cheap Apple keynote.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. As this year continued, I tackled different development areas (Tracking, Ergonomics, Haptics, Mechanical, Software, etc.) Image provided by Rob Cole).

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The ecosystem is full of people that keep writing articles about “How we will study in the metaverse”, “How we will work in the metaverse”, and that make talks about how one day we will have a concert with 20,000 people all together in VR like if it was happening in real life. Apple could announce its headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

The most interesting one regards the correlation between the sense of haptics and the other senses perceived by the human body. When you touch an object in VR, you must feel the related haptics, hear an associated sound and see your virtual fingers touching the objects. More info (Latency in haptic gloves) More info (Tasbi).

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

So, for instance, you record a video of a person from a low position and then see how it looks from a higher position Apple has just published a patent about showing invisible things on mixed reality glasses. When virtual reality has the wrong kind of haptics… Funny link. Some news on the metaverse. Some XR fun. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 6, 2020

It has now an agreement with Plessey, a company working on MicroLED displays, and that was previously one of the acquisition goals of the competitor Apple. Apple strikes deal for indoor maps and buys NextVR. This has been a great week for competition in the AR space since also Apple has performed some interesting moves.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Talking about visuals, the display resolution is 1800 × 1920 per eye, which is even less than the one of the Quest 2, but here there are two displays, one per each eye , so there are fewer “wasted pixels” Plus the lenses are not Fresnel ones, but pancake lenses studied to give you a bigger eye box.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

Studies show that the market for gesture recognition technology is growing at 18.8%, and the eye tracking market is growing even faster, at 33.4%. Innovative tools can feature screen-based cameras built into glasses and headsets, like the Apple Vision Pro. Hand-tracking tools also come in a variety of different forms.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

I think the battle with Apple has just begun. This can increase the reach of the game, even if, as Valve has stated, the game has been studied for VR, so it can result boring on a standard Desktop PC. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Regarding IPD, Facebook has studied a method to provide a sort of mechanical IPD adjustment with a single display : you have the lenses that can go farther or closer to each other by snapping into three IPD values: 58mm, 63mm, 68mm. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). Oculus Link.

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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. Interesting research: A number of reports and studies circulated in 2018.

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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! I hope for some juicy news… and you? ForeVR bowling is out.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Meta’s venture into the Metaverse is an empirical study from which the entire industry can learn, not a failure. Meta has created multiple emerging technologies, including hyperrealistic avatars, AI-powered Research SuperCluster , haptic gloves, and generative AI content creation platforms. The Death of the Consumer Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

That year we’ll be out of the depression (hopefully), and we’ll be close to the release of Facebook and Apple AR glasses. A detailed study of bathrooms inside VR games. Robert Scoble says that probably the year of XR will be around 2022 , and personally I agree with this general estimate. We have still to be patient. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We've found and we've seen studies which show that classic CDTs computer based training you've attention level is in the low teens. Alan: So are you putting together like a haptics suits for these people, so that if they make a mistake in training, they get a massive shock through the whole body? Allan: --kind of experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We've found and we've seen studies which show that classic CDTs computer based training you've attention level is in the low teens. Alan: So are you putting together like a haptics suits for these people, so that if they make a mistake in training, they get a massive shock through the whole body? Alan: Or haptic gloves?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We've found and we've seen studies which show that classic CDTs computer based training you've attention level is in the low teens. Alan: So are you putting together like a haptics suits for these people, so that if they make a mistake in training, they get a massive shock through the whole body? Alan: Or haptic gloves?

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It’s not just the Rift: I’ve tried on haptic gloves that were too large for my hands and gotten my hair caught in the HoloLens’ adjusting mechanism, not to mention how ridiculous I feel wearing the devices, making me less eager to try these new experiences in public.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I do a lot with Apple technology. So we set up a website called iPadEducators.com, which went on to win an award, and it led to both of us becoming Apple distinguished educators. You've got very simple haptics; I can feel that I've stepped off of the mat, so therefore, I need to stop. I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it’s just unbelievable just how far it’s gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford. We have to be the best.”

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