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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And as I promised you, I’m sharing with you all my impressions , so you will feel as if you were here with me… Today I will talk with you about the WCVRI event, the RealMax AR glasses and the Droolon F1 eye tracking accessory! The pavilions are a few, and so the expo floor is quite big. Hands-on Realmax AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Welcome to my weekly appointment with the best AR VR news! There I am going to talk about some use cases for AR and VR! In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. I know that last time we had some technical issues, but this time will be much better, I promise!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Another week, another roundup of amazing AR/VR news! but I have found some time anyway to read all the news I found about AR and VR and create this summary just for you! Not reading it would be a pity, so go on…. Facebook may be partnering with Luxottica to create consumer AR glasses. Top news of the week. Image by Ray-Ban).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Facebook reveals its work on the UX of AR of the future. Facebook has unveiled new details on the research it is performing on the UX of the AR glasses of the future. It comes as no surprise so the rumor of some weeks ago about Facebook developing its smartwatch … it can be a very previous device to pair to its future AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. That’s why the headset should be available by the end of the year, and my bet is that Apple is trying to have it ready before the holidays. But the big question is the “how”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. Sony creates an AR headset for LBVR. Sony is offering a Ghostbuster AR experience in Ginza, Japan, and for this it has manufactured an AR headset. Sony is offering a Ghostbuster AR experience in Ginza, Japan, and for this it has manufactured an AR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. Under 70 days to go until our biggest F8 to date — where we'll share the biggest AR/VR news from Facebook to date. The reasons?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). The last step is the one we all dream about, of when we’ll have fashionable slim AR glasses, that will offload many of their computations to the cloud. Please help me convince Noah about this :D).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

You may wonder why I am saying this: well, spend some minutes to watch this video and you get immediately the reasons. It is a square one, so it seems that the system takes the undistorted view of one eye, exactly as the Oculus Go does when recording a video. Better integration with HTC phones. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

90% of people getting a Quest for Christmas are new users for VR; Facebook has released 3 videos related to the 3 talks that it should have performed at GDC. No one of these pieces of news is mindblowing, but they are all mildly interesting. It is another step towards the creation of a great AR ecosystem for Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s start this week with a bunch of cool news about the past week in AR and VR! The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2018

The name is self-explanatory, but since I like to write a lot of unnecessary sentences, I’ll tell you that it is an event focused on the applications of AR and VR in architecture, design, rendering and all related sector. What features architects and designers need from AR and VR but aren’t there yet?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Furthermore, Valve already teased that it was working a new headset in a recent video showing all the iterations of Vive, where at the end it was possible to see Gabe Newell wearing a very strange prototype… What is portrayed in the photos? There are some semi-disassembled VR headsets that are under assistance.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus , HTC and Google are all racing to crack the inside-out code first. This take on AR is what Oculus’ chief scientist, Michael Abrash called “ Augmented Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

According to Ars Technica , the frames don’t get sent as a whole, but in little horizonal slices there are continuously streamed, so that to reduce a lot the perceived latency. The external area of the frame is getting huge compression (Image by Ars Technica). Why not wireless?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. In my visit, I tried a lot of AR/VR experiences , most of them just for few minutes. The flying benches oscillated to follow the movements of the images show in the video.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. Voice input is something Microsoft can do , but hand-tracking is a separate and enormously difficult problem despite companies like Leap Motion working hard at it.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released. Motion Controller. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift. Gaming) PC.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Nreal is one of the most popular companies in the field, having won over several well-known investors like Qualcomm, short video app Kuaishou, video streaming app iQiyi, and GP Capital. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. The first is a 360 film, shot by British cinematographer Chris Campkin, who literally had to battle lions running off with his camera rig during the shoot, as this video shows.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Today’s VR systems are both fantastic and restrictive: they blow you away, but it’s clear how far they have to go. We’d wear these contacts all the time, switching between AR mode (high transparency so you can see the world underneath digital overlays) and VR mode (low transparency so you can achieve full immersion).

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released. Motion Controller. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift. Gaming) PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality) aims to create an open and universal standard for the discovery, configuration, and operation of VR/AR devices. Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I've really followed the news. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. well, failing.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The easiest application of the device is to view panoramas and videos. In addition to the original Pixel and Pixel XL , the VR headset works with the Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+ , Note 8 , Huawei Mate 9 , ZTE Axon 7 , LG V30 , Motorola Moto Z , Z2 and Asus ZenFone AR. HTC Vive ($499). Samsung Gear VR ($129.99).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC.

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