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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ARVR

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Haptics Tech Consumers Are Missing Out On Insights from Delft University’s Yasemin Vardar on all the fun haptics tech. Today, haptics aka tactile feedback is used in games, user interfaces, online shopping, tele-touch, data visualization, art appreciation, and an aid for the blind. Photo via www.sunnic.com.tw Vibration ?—?the

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

After the announcement of the release date of the Apple Vision Pro, the whole community is just waiting for its preorders to open up this Friday. The headset will be sold in physical stores and on the Apple website. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple has only 60–80K units available at this time , so most likely they’ll go sold out.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 3, 2023

You are in the right place… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple may launch its headset on June, 5th Apple has finally announced the date of its upcoming WWDC event: it will be held on June 5–9. Everything seems ready for the great moment. So, as usual, there is a lot of confusion about what’s happening in Cupertino.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Disclaimer I’m opinionated and loud about Haptics. I'm also host of the Haptics Club and board member of Haptics Industry Forum. Summary: A major upside for the haptics market is locked in the impact of haptics on usages, today unknown. Haptics is hard, everyone says that. No, it is not.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

Apple WWDC may reveal something about Apple’s upcoming headset. Today is the day of the Apple WWDC event and maybe we can have more info about its upcoming headse t. Anyway, it is more probable that we’ll have some software reveal that hints at Apple’s XR strategy. The Verge) More info (Predictions for Apple at WWDC?—?Bloomberg).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I can’t wait to discover the Pico 4, the Quest Pro, and the Apple Reality headsets… and you? Apple headset may be called “Reality”. We have new rumors about the upcoming Apple headset. According to the usual analysts, this means that the name of the upcoming headset will be Apple Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple aims at a $1500 Vision device Let me tell you what have been the main pieces of news about the Vision Pro I’ve found this week. First of all, Apple has updated the runtime VisionOS to version 1.1, bringing many quality-of-life improvements. More info (VisionOS 1.1)

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

From the nth rumor on the Apple headset to the announcement of the Pico 4 Pro in China, there have been a few things happening that you as an XR enthusiast can’t miss. According to Gurman, Apple is also investing in games, which will be an important part of the experience. This week we had quite a few interesting pieces of XR news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

New reports highlight some episodes of the life of Apple XR glasses. This week The Information has written a long report about the history of Apple XR glasses. Since the hardware is almost ready, the company is now ramping up the development of the actual rOS (Reality OS) operating system, for the launch that may happen in 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple hires Meta’s XR Head of PR. A report by Bloomberg reports that Apple has just hired Andrea Schubert, Communications Director at Meta’s consumer hardware division for XR, including Portal, AR, and VR devices. bHaptics announced TactGlove haptics glove. Superhero games in virtual reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest Pro: Which “professional” headset is best? When Apple first announced its innovative spatial computing headset , it seemed like a revolution. Though Apple didn’t share much about the actual specs of the product initially, it promised to deliver an experience unlike any other.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who is considered a reliable reporter about Apple, claimed that “a small number of high-profile software developers” have already received the Apple mixed reality headset to start developing content for it. Cats are the best haptic devices.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

But the release of the Apple Vision Pro proved to Valve employees that people are fine with having an all-in-two device with two units connected by a cable. The Controllers can track the five fingers and have very strong haptic vibrations. It seems that Valve is going to introduce a new term to define its virtual reality: Cyberspace.

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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. Other relevant news. Image from the web). units in 2023. Pico 4 may launch in September.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Apple doesn’t call Vision Pro a mixed reality headset, or a virtual reality headset for that matter. To Apple, it’s all spatial computing , which is fine—if not a little too vague. Apple is thinking different about how it couches Vision Pro; it’s more face-computer than VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This time we will talk about haptics in XR with some celebrities in the field like Guido Gioioso from Weart, Ashley Huffman from TitanHaptics, and Joe Michaels from HaptX. Apple is working on some sort of metaverse, and its headset is entering mass production. This is clearly the beginning of Apple’s entrance into the Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Apple headset may have been delayed again. A new week, a new set of rumors about the upcoming Apple Reality One, the most awaited headset in the history of XR. This week we got to know that Apple has just rebranded the operating system of the upcoming device from RealityOS (or rOS) to xrOS. Top news of the week.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Bringing the right virtual reality headset technology into your business can be an incredible way to improve productivity and efficiency, enhance customer and employee experience, and turbocharge collaboration. Not all virtual reality wearables today come with controllers.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate. Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The brand also has a range of peripherals and accessories, including gloves with haptic feedback capabilities.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

Believers in virtual and augmented reality found themselves sleepless and stirring on the eve of Apple's keynote address at WWDC23. As the moment drew near for the 10 am Pacific keynote from Apple, people watched who had bet their livelihoods on the belief that one day we'll wear glasses that are personal computers.

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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 25, 2021

Apple way be working on a VR headset. According to Bloomberg, next year Apple is going to release a VR headset with limited passthrough AR functionalities. The HMD should be targeted to prosumers and Apple expects sales in the order of magnitude of one Apple headset per day, per store. Other relevant news.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2023

Apple Inc has entered talks with roughly six media partner firms to launch a virtual reality (VR) content platform for its upcoming headset, reports revealed on Monday. The partnership aims to integrate the Cupertino-based firm’s Apple TV+ product lineup on the new head-mounted displays (HMDs).

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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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XROM

APRIL 9, 2024

Lumafield, with the help of their Neptune industrial CT scanner and Voyager analysis software, conducted non-destructive teardowns of three popular headsets: the #Apple #VisionPro, #Meta Quest Pro, and Meta #Quest3. The processors inside these headsets are the engines behind their virtual experiences. Let's start with the design.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 1, 2022

This Monday, leaks in a Twitter post by IT Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed a potential 2023 release window for the upcoming PlayStation virtual reality (PSVR) 2 headset. Genius also provides aspherical lenses for the PSVR 2 device, and Ming-Chi Kuo states that Genius is working with other extended reality (XR) clients, including Apple.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

Even Apple seems to focus on the business world with its pricey Apple Vision Pro. Remember, alternatives like the Apple Vision Pro are set to cost almost four times as much ($3,499). They also feature advanced TruTouch Haptics for better feedback when interacting with digital objects.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 16, 2021

One thing that most Big Tech companies working on smart glasses haven’t figure out yet is how to effectively interact with an augmented reality environment. Apple is heavily rumored to be working on its own pair of AR glasses and apparently considered vibrating haptic socks to tackle this problem. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

The extended reality landscape is evolving, bringing with it new mixed reality headset trends that impact consumers and business leaders alike. Though mixed reality hasn’t earned as much attention as virtual and augmented reality in the past, that’s all starting to change.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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 announces the new generation of its haptic gloves. Someone put some chickens in virtual reality and saw that they are happier.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 27, 2023

Meta Quest Pro vs Apple Vision Pro: which “Pro” headset is really going to change the way we think about immersion forever? Meta and Apple have contributed significantly to the hype in the XR industry in the last few months. Since then, the arrival of the new mixed reality wearable has become one of the hottest topics in the industry.

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