The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

I’ve learned a lot this year and a half working on VRROOM, so I feel the need to tell you about the story of our project and the important lessons that I’ve learned along the road. And if I can give you a suggestion: read, read a lot. Finally I have some time to read @slhamlet 's book during these holidays!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2023

AmazeVR has just released its new app called “Amaze Concerts” on Meta Quest 2 (App Lab) and SteamVR. In case you missed all my previous articles and you are too lazy to read them, the “long story short” you should know is that Amaze VR is dedicated to the production and sale of high-quality VR concerts.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 18, 2023

I was very curious to try this device since when I read its hands-on by Upload VR, in which David Heaney claimed it was the first wide FOV headset without peripheral distortions he had tried. Long story short, it means that it can detect the pose of your hands from just the camera of your smartphone and nothing more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

I’m pretty busy lately, so I’m writing very slowly my articles from AWE … but even if slowly, I’m keeping going forward. If you are interested in a review of them, you can check out my previous article. If you are too lazy to read my whole review (shame on you!), Which ones?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Created by veteran animator Daniel Martin Peixe, The Remedy is a roughly 10 minute long story which establishes a very effective comic book-like experience by stringing together various Quill scenes to tell a complete narrative. Guest Article by Daniel Martin Peixe. Install/update the Oculus TV app. Launch Oculus TV.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 30, 2022

I admit that this news has caught me by surprise, because I have many projects in XR that are doing pretty well, and actually this has been one of the best moments to be in the ecosystem for me. As an indie developer, I totally hate the fact we are relegated to the B-store App Lab, with limited features and monetization possibilities.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

As it is a tradition of this blog , I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! I hope that this way, even if you lost the announcements from CES, you can catch up with all the most important ones by just reading a single article. Click to read the thread on Twitter… it is worth it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

I’m back in Italy, but I have left a piece of my heart in Austin, where I had an unforgettable experience both on the personal and professional side at SXSW (you can read more about my experience here ). if the app is 18+ and the player is 15, the system won’t download it). It was even featured on Google News. Upload VR).

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Selected Articles and Commentary Mythical Library, AltspaceVR I am 72, which I consider to be semi-old, and I am very active in social VR. This article is a brief collection of readings, set in an overall commentary about virtual reality, primarily intended as a backgrounder for semi-old friends and colleagues who may be interested.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

For the usual detailed written review, go on reading the post. On the front of the device, you can see the 16MPixel RGB camera , that has been added to the G2 4K model so that it can be used in some enterprise applications (more on this later on in the article). Zoom on the lateral fitting mechanism. Lateral view.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Even if you already have the game, please get it again from App Lab, so that you will receive our upcoming updates (that will be super cool!) Let nDreams’s story inspire you.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ). Like during all paradigm shifts, there are no standards yet, and I have to say no killer app yet. On the Vision Pro, many of these apps are basically 2D screens.

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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

APRIL 30, 2021

Some weeks ago, I’ve launched on App Lab “The Unity Cube” , a VR experience for Quest, with just… a cube and nothing more. I want to tell you the incredible story of this crazy launch, and how things have gone until now. The reasons for the cube. pornographic content is not allowed).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

This week I’ve published a very interesting article inspired by the work of Basti465, who has analyzed the runtime of the Quest v29 finding hints about future features that are going to be released. So they are building everything custom at the moment and will be able to delegate things later on when they have cracked the right formula.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

The FTC says that Meta is gaining an unfair competitive advantage in the VR fitness app sector with this acquisition since it already owns Beat Saber, which is used a lot as a fitness app. Some of them will come already next week, while others will come later on, following a re-prioritized roadmap.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

Some weeks ago, a group of 12 indie development studios decided to launch the first bundle dedicated to App Lab experiences for Oculus Quest. These apps were not available on App Lab yet, that’s why the name of the bundle: all the developers had performed the submission to App Lab, but they were not approved yet.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Reading between the lines of its announcement, where they talked about a future roadmap, it is clear that they are most probably going to launch a new consumer-oriented device in the next 12 months (and those who participate in the beta will get -a 35% discount on that headset). 124 apps made more than $1M on Quest. In total, 52.5%

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Customers don’t have to go through the Oculus Home interface, look for sideloaded apps menu to launch the training app. But they’ll find a simple launcher featuring just the app you made for them; Sample menu of a Quest used in business environments, showcased at OC6. Oculus For Business becomes so a must-have.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Well, your favorite ghost has just done it for you in this article! Read it to be sure not to miss anything important if you had not the time to watch the show. The controllers have become a mix of the one of the Oculus Quest and the one of the Rift CV 1 (still the best for what concerns ergonomics). Facebook login. Oculus Link.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As a European, I won’t get the Quest on 13th (damn) but only on 15th, so expect a review about it for this Friday/Saturday… I know it’s too late and everyone will have already published bazillion posts about it, but make me happy and read it anyway. So, sooner or later, all content will be made only for Quest 2. Top news of the week.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In our Love App-tually series, Mashable shines a light into the foggy world of online dating. The internet is one big graveyard of abandoned apps and dusty old websites. Dead apps are a window into our online dating pasts. Or will those apps eventually end up in this same cemetery? At least there's Grindr.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

You can see the integral interview in the video here below, or read the full transcription, which has been (as usual) slightly edited for clarity. This is why I wrote it as a joint collaboration with Louis because we wanted to make sure that we get both sides of the story out to the readers and that way they can make up their own minds.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

I’m doing my best to work, and I don’t want you to miss this appointment with my news roundup, so I’ve prepared it the same… I just warn you that my usual commentaries will be shorter this time. Some articles on the metaverse. And together with this, we had other news that are worth a read. I’ve been sick this weekend.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Today in Italy it should be the day when we go pic-nicking… but given the fact that we are in lockdown, I’ll just eat a lot at home While I send you a lot of good vibes, let’s see together what have been the best pieces of AR/VR news of this week, that has been incredibly interesting! (My Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It’s since 2017 that I hear about how Apple is going to disrupt XR, I guess that sooner or later “the next year” is going to happen… By the way, even if Apple has not announced any glasses, it has kept releasing features that enrich its potential XR ecosystem. This time will be the right time, they say. This is anyway good news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

Some weeks ago, I was reading the post where Cloudhead Games described its story, and it resonated a lot with me. We read every month the stories of the success of someone that has earned $1M on Quest, or whose startup has received investments for millions of dollars. The long answer is… yes, but it may not be easy.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Be sure to check it out on App Lab in a few hours, even if you have already completed it in the past… And please, give it 5 stars, it’s super-important to have a positive review for our future… do it as a Christmas gift to me! Will this story change with AR glasses? Meta updates its Ray-Ban Stories glasses. Tilt Brush).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Reading the reviews from the most important magazines, I’ve learned that the killer feature of this headset is the new XR2 Gen2 chipset. Roblox was already on App Lab, where it had more than one million downloads, and now is going to be available on the official Quest store Asgard’s Wrath 2, coming on Quest Store on December 15th, 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Long story short… Samsung is copying from Apple, again More info Other relevant news (Image by Apple) Apple Vision headset delayed to 2026 Apple is having its share of problems with the XR headset it is building, which is its most complicated product ever to assemble. If you want to buy some PCVR games, I suggest you give it a read!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The result is a display that takes the best of LCDs and OLEDs The same resolution and FOV of Quest 2 Two side-facing 1K near-infrared 120FPS cameras with laser constellation projection (so there are 2 cameras plus 1 or 2 emitters). This way black colors truly appear black. So I expect at least 2/3 of what is written here to actually happen.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2022

As usual, keep reading for the written version of the tutorial. So if on that anchor I put a dancing character, that character will be put again in the same position every time the app gets executed: the virtual object becomes so consistent in all the different runs of the app, it is as if it was part of the real world.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

After one month from its official announcement, Facebook has released the Oculus Quest 2, that from the 13th of this month can be purchased online on the Oculus Store or on official resellers (like Amazon) or offline on partner stores (like Best Buy). Thank me later. The enterprise version costs $799. My favorite one?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

There are many sides to consider of the whole story. And now, 8 years later, just a mobile headset could do all of this. The fact that this was not the best commercial made by Meta is visible also on Youtube, where only 2% of the viewers have put a like on the video. Some articles on the metaverse.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

App Clip Codes also enable AR experiences that can be activated through a quick scan. This allows app developers to place virtual objects with specific latitude, longitude, and altitude on the screen relative to the positions of real world objects. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

(PS If you just want an overall “tl;dr” impression, go directly to the end of the article where I express my final opinion about it). While the written article includes all the details of all the most up-to-date features , the video will show you anyway my opinion on the main characteristics of the Vive Focus 3 headset.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are our picks for the top 25 best Quest 3 games available now. Our list of best Quest 2 games and best Quest 3 games will be updated and maintained separately. What follows is a set of mind-bending scenarios that nearly break you brain at every turn, paired with a poignant story about self-acceptable.

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