Haptical

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

VR Intelligence, a network of the leading decision makers in virtual, augmented and mixed realities recently released an industry report titled as XR Industry Insight Report 2019–2020. You can get a copy of the full report here.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Image by HTC). The interesting thing is that HTC has claimed that duration, but then some people of HTC said that is not true, and also some reviewers called this a fake news. I hope that HTC releases a public statement about these two points, to clarify the situation to its customers. Good luck to him and to HTC!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve read a lot of articles and XR news this week, but actually, at the end of the day, nothing relevant has happened, except for the usual rumor about Apple… so you can close this roundup now… no ok, I’m kidding! This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”. And by the way, on the personal side, things are going well for me!

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of the consequences of the launch of Unity 6 is that Unity also finally released to the public the Unity beta package to develop for VisionOS, so that finally all of us Unity developers can start developing for the Apple Vision Pro, trying our prototypes on the emulator. Great job, Vuzix.

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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. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

The biggest news of the week is the one that you can see in the above graph: i n the Steam Hardware Survey for April, it is possible to see a big spike of connected headsets. More info (Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Facebook’s revenues for Q1 2020) More info (Quest and Rift S stock, updated) More info (SuperData’s report).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. Internal iOS 13 code seems to point at Apple AR glasses. It’s time for some amazing VR news, isn’t it? Who knows.

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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

MARCH 7, 2022

If I had to bet, I would say that the possibilities are two: Smartglasses to see the notifications of your phone A hybrid VR/passthrough AR headset, similar to Project Cambria or the rumored Apple headset. With the rumors intensifying, and with Apple always closer to entering the market, I am expecting an announcement for this year.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC rises the hype for the launch of its new headset. For once, HTC seems to have organized the pre-launch of its new upcoming headset fairly well. HTC has said this headset will be amazing , so everyone is hoping for this to be true, even if we all know that the price will be high.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The first one is the usual SteamVR hardware survey. Apart from highlighting that the Rift S is expanding its size and that the Valve Index is now selling well, the survey shows that VR users on Steam are continuously growing. Secret Oops is a nice AR game for Apple Arcade (and it is made by Mixed Bag, a studio from my city!)

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple announces the release date of the Apple Vision Pro During the last few days, the rumors about possible release dates for the Apple Vision Pro have intensified , and someone talked about January, 27 as the day of the launch. The headset will be available for purchase in the U.S.,

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. I think the more specialized the training is, the better fit it is for PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. I think the more specialized the training is, the better fit it is for PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren't about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. I got in VR, I operated the machine, I drove it around, I killed some virtual people.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2019

The newest Steam Hardware Survey shows how Rift S has now more or less 8% of the market. Strategy Analytics highlights in his survey that mobile headsets like Daydream, Gear VR and Cardboard are continuously losing importance and revenue shares. In the end, XRDC has made a very interesting survey among XR devs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

HTC releases eye and face tracking for Vive Focus 3. HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro. The eye tracker, instead, can be attached as a magnetic insert in the internal part of the device, and HTC claims it’s accurate to within 0.5°~1.1° Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fact that the studio behind such a popular game has decided to have a VR port is the sign that Virtual Reality has started to become interesting for famous indie studios. And the fact that there will be a VR version of this important game will give virtual reality even more awareness and popularity inside the gaming community.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The age of high-end, commercially available virtual reality began on March 28 with the launch of the Oculus Rift. Since then the HTC Vive , PlayStation VR and Google Daydream View have all entered the arena. The Apple iPhone , for example, sold only 1.39 million units when it released in 2007 before skyrocketing to 11.63

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So Miro Shot is a band and we’re touring a virtual reality live concert around the world. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. So maybe gaze control, where they look at something and it triggers something else, or even like a survey at the end saying, “How was your experience? Anne: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So Miro Shot is a band and we’re touring a virtual reality live concert around the world. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. So maybe gaze control, where they look at something and it triggers something else, or even like a survey at the end saying, “How was your experience? Anne: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So Miro Shot is a band and we're touring a virtual reality live concert around the world. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. So maybe gaze control, where they look at something and it triggers something else, or even like a survey at the end saying, "How was your experience? But a lot of it is independent.

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