The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Valve has decided that Virtual Reality doesn’t deserve a dedicated sidebar, and has moved all the VR information about an application into the “System Requirement” section. What was expected but still not announced is that the FTC is also trying to prevent Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard. Some news on content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 1, 2024

This could include immersive collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Teams Immersive Spaces. For example, if your teams already share knowledge in Microsoft Teams, you may need an XR training solution that integrates with Microsoft Mesh. They can provide feedback, answer questions, and offer tips as the learner explores.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro may have a very slow start The same Ming-Chi Kuo, who probably woke up with a lot of pessimism that day, has also expressed doubts about the widespread success of the Apple Vision Pro. This would mean that Apple’s XR offering should rely for 3 years on a very expensive headset with very low sales.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Thanks Gianluigi Perrone for the tip!). Enjoy PlayStation Summer Sale.

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CraneMorley

JANUARY 3, 2019

2019 looks like the year that virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality go mainstream as learning and on the job performance tools. Virtual Reality. Mixed Reality. We will go more in-depth with application case studies on: Mixed Reality. Augmented Reality. Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro. Finder: This is the Mac equivalent of Windows Explorer.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

And these experiments about wireless headsets make us think that Valve is investigating the possibility of making the Index wireless (or even better, standalone), a feature that many users have asked for. (Thanks Ilja Z for the tip!). Image by Microsoft). Nreal Light is on sale in Germany. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. And if they have these features from Microsoft, they won’t need to get them from Meta.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Virtual reality offers a fantastic way to embed employees in rich simulated environments. Finally, mixed reality solutions like the Apple Vision Pro can combine elements of the virtual and real worlds to create highly accurate learning simulations.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Youtuber Brad Lynch of the channel “Sadly It’s Bradley” has discovered, thanks to “a tip”, some references to a device codenamed “Deckard” inside some SteamVR firmware files. Apple Maps are going AR. iOS 15 finally brings AR navigation instructions to Apple Maps , in a way similar to the one that Google is already offering.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. you should consider upgrading to this new one. (Thanks Rob Cole for the tip!). Microsoft finally enables Research Mode on HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And purists of VR may still prefer a game built from the ground up for virtual reality, like Half-Life: Alyx. Apple is having delays in the manufacturing of its XR headset. But fans of the original Resident Evil 4, which has been one of the most iconic games of the saga, may still prefer the original one.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tips & Tricks for the Quest 2! New tips and tricks for Quest 2 are being published for Quest 2: Quest 2 doesn’t work well outdoor, even in conditions when the tracking of the Quest 1 worked. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. News worth a mention. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3. Regarding Apple, the super-reliable analysts have stated that the headset may feature three displays because just two are for losers. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

The Tracker is one of the most successful products sold by HTC: it is mostly used by the VRChat community people to have full-body VR in their favorite social space, or by VR arcades to be able to track props in virtual reality. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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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 had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Thanks Leywes for the tip).

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

See Also: The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into Think how Microsoft revolutionized personal computers, or how Apple changed the mobile phone market forever. In comparison to the upcoming competitors we’ll discuss, this device by far stands above the rest in terms of financial expense alongside Apple.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 5, 2020

That is software and technology associated with AI, including machine learning and natural language processing, Computer Vision, augmented reality, virtual reality, and all other apps that support the creation and the maintenance of a digital 3D world. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. The same has happened with Apple, which is now offering bonuses to employees to keep them inside the company. Apple may have delays for its headset.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. Talking about smell in Virtual Reality, the names of the companies working in the field were mostly two: VAQSO and FeelReal.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. According to Korean publication The Elec, Apple has requested a sample of a display component for OLED displays that can arrive up to 3000PPI. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If OpenAI wanted to slow down to have time to understand the consequences of this new type of AI, Microsoft would already ready be to hire all the talents of OpenAI and carry on AI developments by itself. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens. Thanks to Davy Demeyer for the tip!)

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. Apple ARKit 3.5

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B The company is investigating the matter. (Thanks Rob Cole for the tip!).

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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

MAY 17, 2021

Don’t take this as sure news (Thanks Niclas Johansson for the tip!); An article by Microsoft Design details how some designers have created an AR cube with very natural interactions. More info (Intel research) More info (Animated pictures research) More info (Microsoft Design’s cube). Another week, another speculation on Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2020

Today I host a guest post by Ryan, Senior Writer at AR/VR Tips , an online company that showcases the latest augmented reality apps and virtual reality products. HoloLens 2 AR glasses (Image by Microsoft). What Are AR Glasses? It is partially transparent and won’t obscure your vision.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7B. The biggest news of the week has been the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft for $68.7B. With it, Microsoft acquires many popular games like Overwatch, Starcraft, Call of Duty, and even Candy Crush. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Thanks Davy Demeyer for the tip). transforming it in a lightweight browser for iOS that makes Apple users enjoy webpages implementing WebXR. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon. Apple is working on AR/VR. Some weeks ago, a report told that Apple had stopped working on its AR glasses. News worth a mention. Image by Hello Games).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Let me compare it to virtual reality. In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

Accelerated computing has reached the tipping point — general purpose computing has run out of steam,” Huang told more than 11,000 GTC attendees gathered in-person — and many tens of thousands more online — for his keynote address at Silicon Valley’s cavernous SAP Center arena.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. So one of things that I was doing throughout our journey with virtual reality was documenting all of the projects that we were carrying out.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. So one of things that I was doing throughout our journey with virtual reality was documenting all of the projects that we were carrying out.

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