The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. Zuck still thinks that it is a device that can start substituting the laptop.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 19, 2018

A funny thing happened on the way to the release of the virtual reality epic Ready Player One — augmented reality grabbed a major piece of the spotlight. It all started last week when the film's director, Steven Spielberg, was quoted in an interview saying that the Oculus Rift had been used in the production of the film.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts. Really fantastic.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. The cool stuff of all of this is that all these Cosmos have the same base unit and just ship with a different faceplate on , and these faceplates are also on sale for $200.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. VR/AR expert and futurist Charlie Fink.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Fuzzy Door Tech, the technological brainchild of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s film production firm Fuzzy Door, launched its ViewScreen Studio and ViewScreen Scout solutions on Tuesday. With the tool, production teams can see real-time digital content across filming crew cameras at the same time.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Here you are my recap of the most interesting XR news of the week! Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. If the report were true, this would mean that Apple doesn’t believe in AR anymore and this would be terrible news for all the immersive realities ecosystem. Top news of the week. So, what’s happened?

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Awards also go to the winner of the startup pitch competition, Best in Show VR, Best in Show AR, and there’s also the Awesome Award. All these four awards are decided at the conference. Best Art or Film. Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I was very pleased to have a chat with him about his work, because I think that it could be interesting to understand why AR and VR are used by a big enterprise company (KLM, in this case) and how these technologies are implemented in the production processes. The last one was my part and I have only focused on that.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Augmented Reality Gets Its First Smartphone-Powered Headset and a BIG Partnership Between Hollywood-Backed Giants.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

Film festivals around the world have been embracing immersive content creation for a while now, with the likes of Sundance, Tribeca and even prestigious events such as the Venice International Film Festival welcome new crops of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) content.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2021

The company recently launched a new mobile AR mode, allowing you to access augmented reality projections of virtual meetings in real-time using a compatible smartphone device. With conventional film and television production at a virtual standstill, there’s never been a better time to explore the world of animation.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

VR Film of the Year. Perhaps no experience shows this better than VR films. The VR experience category included everything from films to art installations to festivals with nominees including Big Rock Creative, the National Film Board of Canada, Lost Eagle Studios, and others. VR Experience of the Year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! FRL Research is working towards giving you audio superpowers in AR. One is devoting to give you more realistic audio in AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Snap launched a drone and various AR services. Apart from the usual announcements of millions of users and billions of AR filters created, the company has revealed some cool news. Snap is doing a very interesting job in AR. Image by HTC Vive). HTC is keeping on its strategy of releasing whatever stuff metaverse-related.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 9, 2017

Along with its own awards ceremonies, VR has been recognised at respected videogame and film shows over the past 12 months, and now it’s coming to one of the UK’s most prestigious institutions: BAFTA. As expected, though, it’s Pokemon GO that grabs the most nods in terms of reality-altering games.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The second annual Virtual Reality Strategy Conference hosted by Greenlight Insights takes place October 24th through the 26th with new focus-areas reflecting the VR and AR industry’s lightning fast changes and growing worldwide impact across industries. Save up to $300 with Early Bird registration, available now.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 19, 2020

Virtual Reality health simulation with Arch Virtual. The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the use of virtual reality and augmented reality, experts say, especially in retail, education and health. For example, the Cannes Film Festival will focus on extended reality in its special Cannes XR virtual show this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

Meta has also added new moderation features to its social VR application , and it is now possible to avoid hearing what the people you don’t know are saying. Tribeca Film Festival has awarded three VR experiences. The Tribeca Festival , which also featured a beautiful VR version on Museum Of Other Realities, has just finished.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 26, 2018

To complement the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce “Distorted Reality,” a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOs. He owned this new format and really took charge.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Tech Trends checked out the world’s first feature length immersive film at its London premiere. 7 Miracles – the first feature-length cinematic VR film premiered at the 26 th Raindance Film Festival in London, which is Europe’s leading independent Film Festival and the largest in the UK.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Many companies are waiting for HoloLens 2, since it is a device that can be very useful to create enterprise applications, especially in the maintenance sector. (PS PS Contact me if you need someone to develop for you some AR enterprise applications!). Venice Film Festival is featuring a rich VR section. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

He’s also the co-founder of SuperWorld — superworldapp.com — which is Foursquare meets Pokemon Go meets Monopoly in the real world, building a community in AR, powered by the blockchain. Hrish: The VR/AR Conference? Alan: Yeah.The VR/AR Association Conference. You do a lot in this space. Hrish: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

He’s also the co-founder of SuperWorld — superworldapp.com — which is Foursquare meets Pokemon Go meets Monopoly in the real world, building a community in AR, powered by the blockchain. Hrish: The VR/AR Conference? Alan: Yeah.The VR/AR Association Conference. You do a lot in this space. Hrish: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

The artists have made an amazing job and the world is wonderful… I invite you all to check it out on September, 1st when the Venice Film Festival is starting… and in case you go there, let me know what you think about it! Bytedance reportedly acquires Pico for 5B RMB while it also pushes on mobile AR. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Lidar is a depth sensor, and it will be important because it helps in creating instant AR (because thanks to this sensor the device can orient itself in istants), have more stable holograms, improve interactions between real and virtual elements, and favor object detection and environment scanning. Thank me later.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A new BBC Virtual Reality experience takes you back to Berlin in 1943, at the height of the WW2 blitz. The BBC’s 1943 Berlin Blitz experience first previewed for selected audiences at the Venice Film Festival where it was very well received, but it is now available for the general public to download. “We One can hope.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As virtual reality continues to rise in popularity, more film festivals, both up-and-coming ones and established ones, are opening up virtual reality competitions. Here we selected 37 film festivals dedicated to virtual reality or with VR programs for your reference. Check them out and visit some in 2018!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

He's also the co-founder of SuperWorld -- superworldapp.com -- which is Foursquare meets Pokemon Go meets Monopoly in the real world, building a community in AR, powered by the blockchain. Hrish: The VR/AR Conference? Alan: Yeah.The VR/AR Association Conference. You do a lot in this space. Let's start with the one that's Rogue.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 12, 2016

and Universal Pictures is adapting Armada for a film adaptation, based on a script written by Cline. Cline has seen his fictional universes blend with reality after the consumer launches of Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive (with Sony’s PlayStation VR slotted for an October debut). What are your thoughts about the future of AR?

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Peter Graham

JULY 26, 2019

While America seems to be the hub for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content – a great deal of news comes from there anyway – one country that’s wholeheartedly embraced these technologies is South Korea. For further VR/AR updates from around the world, keep reading VRFocus.

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VRScout

AUGUST 21, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Microsoft and Intel teaming up to influence the development of VR/AR with mixed reality headset Project Alloy. The Nokia Ozo, originally $60,000, is a professional end-to-end solution for high-level 360 degree film shoots with big budgets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. invested in AR and VR companies. Vicon can now track your body in AR.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. NETFLIX LOOKS TO GET AUGMENTED.

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AIXR

APRIL 1, 2022

We at AIXR have curated a list of the ‘Top 7 VR Podcasts You Should Follow in 2022’ to ensure you are kept in the loop on XR/VR/AR trends, cutting-edge tech, and the most fascinating innovations from every corner of the industry. In no particular order, here are the podcasts you should be following. Voices of VR Podcast.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 30, 2017

The VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo just wrapped up Monday night in Toronto. Rikard Steiber, President of Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality at HTC, is constantly sharing his belief that VR “will change the world.” Second, they’re running labs on a range of capabilities in the ecosystems.

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