The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). According to a report from Bloomberg, Sony may release its much-awaited next-gen PSVR headset (which I informally call PSVR 2) during Holidays 2022. This is very interesting: it means that Sony is leaving another year to Facebook to gain market shares with the Quest. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

Vivek Sharma, head of Facebook Gaming, will lead Facebook Horizon, while Jason Rubin, who has been head of AR/VR content, will lead the group’s content team. It sounds like a group that has to work on social AR/VR and experiment with different solutions. Sony has sold 10M PS5 worldwide. Let’s hope it will keep selling well.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

AIXR – “The Academy of International Extended Reality” – is an independent non-profit dedicated to promoting MR, AR, and VR tech. Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

A bit late, but this new roundup of best AR and VR news of the week is out! This means that these lenses can bend the light more than traditional lenses and so they can be closer to the display they are augmenting. Oculus Quest v18 adds colored Guardian and voice commands. Facebook showcases AI 16x supersampling.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

The very first Vision VR/AR Summit was home to keynote addresses from established leaders in the emerging industries, leaders such as Gabe Newell of SteamVR, Palmer Luckey of Oculus, and Dr. Richard Marks of PlayStation VR. This second Vision Summit will be the debut of the official Vision VR/AR Awards – Asia.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! In this big phone exhibition, usually, companies also exhibit AR and VR devices and considering that this year the trend is the one of AR and VR devices connected to the phone , I bet that this year’s edition would have been very interesting for us all (in fact I was planning to go there).

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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.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

‘On The Lot’ is back—and now featuring AR—October 13 and 14 at The Lot in West Hollywood. Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. Gary Radburn , Director of Workstation Virtualization and Commercial VR/AR at Dell. thelotstudios #filming #hollywood #studio #weho #summer.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

March has just started… I hope it will be an amazing day for you and for all the AR/VR ecosystem! Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR. I will have probably something to announce soon, so stay tuned. Top news of the week.

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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. Brilliantly, Sony Japan’s excellent party game, Playroom VR , is also nominated in the Family category.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. So here we go again… Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. Oculus’s Android App?—?an Oculus Quest 2 is now the most-used VR headset on Steam. - But demand remained strong. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is for the professional and the gamer, and it is especially intriguing if mixed with wireless module and Index Controllers; Cosmos XR (price unknown): features two high-res RGB cameras, that let you use the Cosmos both as a VR headset and an AR one. More info (Valve Index availability) More info (Facebook and Sony pulling out from GDC).

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2017

Virtual reality receives new categories as it takes center stage at this years awards for creative work in film, TV & VR. For their 8th ceremony however the organizers of the non-profit group are shaking things up by generously expanding their categories for achievements in virtual reality. Best VR Film. Best VR Documentary.

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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. The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Among the expected fare of films, games, animation, audio products and cosplay during the four-day conference, there was one obvious and unavoidable sorta newcomer to the scene — virtual reality. Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google. a fan of VR now!?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, Google makes music for Daydream, using AR to solve crimes, downgraded headset sales projections, prepping human head transplant for reality w/ VR, see your unborn child w/ VR, funding wrapup, and more… Special thanks to featured guest Jesse Damiani of VRScout.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up. If you already have an Oculus Rift and Touch controllers, you can join the early open beta and dial in your parents via Facebook Messenger.

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JULY 13, 2017

The BAT web companies — Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu — are using their war chests for a different take on virtual reality (VR) than their overseas competitors. The company is also toying with streaming live concerts and producing VR films , which will become more flexible in the future, with storylines changing based on consumer preferences.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Interestingly, these controllers are nothing revolutionary, they are not implementing inside-out tracking like the Quest Pro, but they are refining instead the existing design, a bit like Sony did with the controllers of PSVR 2. These are good news… but even on this side, I hoped for some more hours of duration.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Focused on harnessing immersive technologies to deliver groundbreaking VR, AR, Animation, DOOH, VFX and 360 degree video projects for some of the world’s largest brands including Sony, BBC, Red Bull, Microsoft and Lexus. Road to VR is a proud media sponsor of Develop:VR 2016.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

It was founded by Dave Ranyard, the former head of Sony London Studio. This is the first time that Mother has made an investment in the AR and VR space. Vaqso is a Japanese invention consisting of a small device that clips to the bottom of your Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or PlayStation VR (PSVR). Read more here.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In homage to the greatest movie ever made, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality – the VR arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment – has developed a virtual reality game that puts you in a Punxsutawney time loop. The game will comes to PlayStation, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive later this year. Click To Tweet.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Who will profit?

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Being one of the earliest films to explore the combination of human computer interaction, TRON is well known for its, at the time, exceptional graphics. TRON (1982). The Thirteenth Floor (1999).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. This is coherent with Meta CTO’s claims that this yea r some AR glasses for internal use will be ready.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

The idea is that, as soon as we identified VR was coming — this was before the Oculus acquisition by Facebook — it was clear that one part of VR would be computer-generated experiences, games being the major example. Video came along and people would hire someone to film a wedding, maybe. And Sony Pictures also includes Sony Music.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

Because of their input, a single DVD was capable of holding 95 minutes of footage (encompassing the runtime of 90% of films) all for a retail price under $20. And to explain at least a small portion of this sudden success, I’m going to look at another piece of technology at the time, Sony’s Playstation 2. The future, I say to myself.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 6, 2020

A piece of unexpected news hit the augmented reality world this week: Niantic has acquired 6d.ai, one of the most interesting startups in the AR Cloud landscape, for an undisclosed amount of money. Facebook), and so act as a provider of AR Cloud data for other companies. Niantic will surely use 6d.ai

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APRIL 29, 2017

Excerpt: “Palmer Luckey—founder of Oculus—is funding a Trump group that circulates dirty memes about Hillary Clinton.”. 6:10 PM @websterandrews2: guess I won’t be buying an oculus rift. The founder of Oculus is funding them. You’re using your @Oculus fortune to back a pro-Trump org w/ [Milo Yiannopoulos]?

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. He has a special interest and focus on emerging technologies including #VR #AR #MR #AI. Chaitanya has had a multi-faceted career in the Indian Film & CreativeArtsIndustry for over 17 years. 8- Eddie Lou.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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JULY 7, 2017

The event will be home to a collection of content and premiers exclusively in VR, AR, 360-degree media, and MR from movie studios, television networks, producers, distributors, and more. The following two days are riddled with keynotes, presentations, and more and these are just a few of the highlights for each day: Wednesday, July 12th.

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