The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by VR Panda) New information leak about the Quest 3 The launch of the Quest 3 is getting closer, and it is tradition with Meta, the weeks before the launch, everything about the device is getting leaked. Samsung can be the first partner also on this line of products.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Two days ago I was reading an interesting editorial about PSVR 2 by Scott Hayden, and my mind started wandering about the current moment of virtual reality, the stasis we live in, and our expectations for the upcoming headset. They are Apple AR glasses!” In this article, I’m going to tell you all the thoughts I had.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

More info News worth a mention (Image by Google) Samsung may use Google Soli in its headset Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm are building together a headset that may compete with the Apple Vision Pro. Last week I’ve already told you about two new chips that Samsung has built and that may be used in this headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. And it also makes me super-happy that no one is about Facebook and Apple… I was getting pretty bored in writing newsletters only about these two companies!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

More information about Google’s XR headset are coming “later this year” Google and Samsung will release an XR headset (Image by Google) Google, Qualcomm, and Samsung are working on an XR headset. Let me briefly tell you what have been in my opinion the 5 top pieces of XR news to keep an eye on from this event.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

This is going to be the week of the Apple Vision Pro, with the first people who preordered it finally receiving the device at home! Apple released a new trailer for the headset. Finally, we will have some real impressions on the device not coming from scripted demos. There is even an app to send faxes!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Image from The Information). Apple is working on some sort of metaverse, and its headset is entering mass production. It has been a week of interesting rumors about the upcoming Apple MR headset. So, forget about an Apple headset that is going to enter the mainstream , as I already sold in this previous article.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Will the Apple Vision Pro Debut in China Apple’s CEO and spatial computing champion, Tim Cook , confirmed that the recently released Apple Vision Pro would land in China in 2024. Tim Cook confirmed that Apple plans to release the Apple Vision Pro later this year at the China Development Forum in Beijing.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Apple may announce its headset at WWDC 2022. A new week, a new rumor about Apple. This time it comes from Bloomberg, which predicts that Apple will announce its MR headset in June 2022 during WWDC , to launch it some months later, probably during the holiday season. (Image from the web). Learn about the m**averse in Japan.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 27, 2024

Could Mark Zuckerberg’s lust-driven quest to own VR, AR and mixed reality end up costing Meta at the end of the day? That’s a question being posed after The Information reported recently that Google had approached Meta partner with its new software platform — Google Android XR — that is being developed for virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. The later departure of Alex Kipman seemed to be the final nail in the coffin for the AR glasses, but a new rumor brought a bit of hope: Microsoft seemed to work together with Samsung to design consumer-oriented AR glasses. Anyway, things have not gone as we all hoped.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. Top news of the week.

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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. This is something many of us predicted correctly: Apple showed how the Vision Pro can record volumetric videos, but in some contexts, this may feel cringe.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It is understood that the headset aims to compete with the Apple Vision Pro, which comes with an eye-watering price tag of $3,499. Furthermore, Meta has struck several joint ventures with companies like Lenovo, Samsung, and Xiaomi for the company’s Oculus Rift S, Gear VR, and Oculus Go, respectively.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Because of my busy time, the commentaries to this and the next two newsletters will be a bit shorter than usual, but I’ll try to be informative the same, just with fewer words. Apple is still working on a cheaper Vision Pro Meta is not the only company working on a cheaper device. Thanks for your understanding.

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

Well, good for you that are going to read this text Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Meta’s XR roadmap unveiled The Verge’s Alex Heath has been able to gather information about an internal meeting that happened at Meta, in which the management informed the employees about the roadmap of the upcoming XR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It wants to create an ecosystem , where most probably all the devices can work together (like it happens today with Apple devices); The report also claims that Facebook may be building its own operating system to encompass all these devices. WebXR is the standard to provide augmented and virtual reality experiences on the web.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 29, 2017

For every Nintendo there is a Sega and for every Apple there is a Microsoft. Virtual reality may be one of the newest arenas for these types of competitions, but it already has gladiators ready to do battle. Oculus/Apple . The similarities between Oculus and Apple begin with a shared interest in controlled content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, we cover NFL’s new VR series, Intel buying Voke, indigenous languages living on with VR, Unity’s big developer updates, Microsoft’s line of VR headsets, Apple using VR to develop self-driving car, money & funding, and more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

There is no official confirmation on this, and I hope to be wrong because having to use earphones would be a big hit to its comfort Release date and price : of course the release date (will it come before or after an Apple headset?) Image by The Information). Apple headset is rumored to be announced this year. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Hi, I am Chris Koomen, a Virtual Reality specialist and consult at KLM and board of advisory members at Bootcamp. In 2018 we did a case study where people were invited to use virtual reality in a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) fashion. So they came with the idea of using virtual reality and they needed 6 glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. For specific information please check out the website. What can the attendees expect from it? Is it possible to follow it remotely from overseas?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

The hype for the Apple visor is very high, and everyone is waiting for it as a kid waits for Christmas. Poised to arrive around January 2023, it is considered by many the savior of XR, the hardware that will show the real possibilities of immersive realities and make finally VR mainstream.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

After having seen the teaser of the Quest 3 and especially the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro (about which you can read my opinion here ), I’m always more convinced that we have entered into a new phase of XR history. Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon.

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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. Thank me later.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

“This is where the next chapter for AR and VR begins” is the only sure information that we have about the event. And to be the leader in some years, it has to start going public now, also to begin competing with Apple, that will probably announce its AR glasses next year. This is where the next chapter for AR and VR begins.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

Virtual Reality. It allows users to create a life-like avatar and hang out with up to three friends in a virtual environment, no matter where they are geographically. The recently launched new Samsung Gear VR with controller was also briefly mentioned as an affordable alternative to the more cost-intensive Rift set-up.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

In another one, a Vive Pro showed how can be the interface offered by this kind of smart contact lenses, that for instance can inform you of the weather, or of notifications from your phone. Mojo Vision thinks that in 2–3 years it can be able to deliver its first device. How big is the FOV of the Valve Index?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

I wasn’t sure if believing this claim from the press release, but then I’ve read the review of the professional XR journalist David Heaney on Upload VR about it and in there, he claims that “XTAL 3 is the most immersive virtual reality headset I’ve ever worn” After that, I was fully convinced of the value of this headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers. We're Curie-ous.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers. We're Curie-ous.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But now a new report from The Information informs us that it is also building its own operating system for those glasses, and it won’t be based on Android (like most of the operating systems for mobile devices, including standalone headsets), but made entirely custom. This is something we already knew. Funny link. Funny link.

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