The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I have to admit that at least Zuck tried to do this in the best way possible : he has taken full responsibility for the problems in a video call where he announced the layoffs and has offered a good severance package for people going away. I have read countless of his articles, and reading that he’s without a job makes me sad.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

According to analysts, the Apple headset could reach 10M sold units in 2026… this means that in 4 years from now, it expects to have the sales that Quest had in 2021–2022. Talking about real stuff doable with Apple devices, Shopify has just released a video about an internal prototype created using the latest iPhone with a LIDAR sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Its resolution is impressive, for clarity that fans of simulator games would love. The game has been a huge success at launch, and I’m also planning to play it, as soon as I have the time. According to the reviews, the game is very fun, and the developers have done their best to transpose the original game to VR.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

But before we are going dive into it, just a quick briefing, If you’ve been playing any game with character figures, you know that you can customize them. Avatars are personalized graphic characters that users can create on internet forums, video games, social networking sites, and any virtual world to represent themselves.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2023

She gave me a very interesting presentation about the status of VR in China and the difficulties of launching a VR game there. In this article, I collected the most interesting tidbits of that presentation to share with you, so that if you want to start distributing your content there, you know what you have to do.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. It’s not clear on what platforms this functionality will be working on, but if I had to guess, I would say Project Cambria, since its body tracking was already revealed in a video some months ago. Other relevant news.

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ARVR

JULY 5, 2022

In this article, we will explore the role of NFTs in the Metaverse and look at why this sub-niche is growing so rapidly. they can buy, sell or trade digital land, build homes and offices, play hyper-realistic video games, start their own business, and organize concerts and live events. So what is driving this explosive growth?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

It seems that in many countries of the world this weekend was Father’s Day… so my best greetings to all of you that are fathers! With a video on Youtube, the always amazing Chris Madsen introduced us to the spaces of this new virtual ecosystem. Some articles on the metaverse. This week, for the first time, we had a look at it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Image by Epic Games). Fortnite is a huge game with millions of users, and if it comes to the Quest, it would be a great incentive for many Gen-Z to buy a VR headset. This “multi-year broad strategic agreement” to work together on XR platform development has been announced during the IFA 2022 conference. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And both the journalists of Road To VR and Upload VR agree on the fact tha t it doesn’t represent an improvement for VR gaming yet. The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I really hope for the best for all people that are in this awful situation. And don’t forget that it will surely be launched together with amazing VR games from Sony and its partners’ IPs, so I’m quite sure this headset will have its success. HTC has released a trailer video with his vision of the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Welcome to the last newsletter of 2022! Meta has also detailed the story of how the lenses of the Quest Pro (one of the best features of the device) have been manufactured: it seems that Meta had to create the supply chain from scratch to be able to build pancake lenses with the quality it desired. Decentraland lands to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! The second company to announce a Kickstarter campaign has been SimulaVR, which plans to start a crowdfunding campaign for its Simula One headset in January 2022. News worth a mention.

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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. The Quest will be the main product, with a huge area where to try it with a screen showing the video of you playing in mixed reality to others.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

For sure, as someone pointed out on Reddit, that number includes people in every kind of role, from game developers to customer support not to mention researchers. My review hero Benjamin Lang has written a detailed review about it with many visuals , so if you have lost it, you can read this article to understand how cool it was.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Our new Best Of Virtual Reality series highlights some of the best places in VR. We recently recognized standout places released widely in 2022 , including Vertical Robot’s visual powerhouse Red Matter 2 and the playful swinging in What The Bat? Best VR Games – Quest, Quest 2 & Quest Pro.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2021

My Twitter timeline on the 25th and 26th (of December) was filled with videos of kids unwrapping their Christmas gifts, discovering a Quest 2, and being super happy about it. horror games). Even before this Christmas, it was not uncommon to see videos of kids using VR being posted everywhere. … but they use it anyway.

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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. An article on New World Notes mentions an insider revealing that Horizon is still in beta because the project is in a quite confusing status. Read this review of the Varjo XR-3.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2021

On July 8th, Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual, one of the most awaited VR games of 2021, will be released on Oculus Quest (you can wishlist it here ). It is the re-proposition of the famous duo Sam & Max , that was very popular in the 90s, but this time in a completely different format, that is a VR game.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements. You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It seems that GDC was one of the events to be to create connections with the VR gaming ecosystem. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

This newsletter is happening one day after because on Sunday I was traveling, so I had to spend my Monday reading online articles for this roundup while I still was confused about the time of the day and the night. Exit Games finally announces Photon Fusion. And I’m sure they will help in having a safer ecosystem for young users in VR.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

One VR developer who had originally signed up to include ads in their game reversed their decision due to the controversy. But if Cassandra had been a prototyper , her best tactic would have been to build a cheap wooden horse, good enough to pop out of and surprise downtown Troy. Real IDs are the best way to tie it all together.

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ARVR

JULY 2, 2021

Beat Saber continues its streak for most played PSVR game. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts 2022 Oculus headsets will have new lenses. Road to VR breaks down the 20 best-rated Quest games & apps. Facebook continues its VR game studio shopping spree, acquires BigBox VR.

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MARCH 17, 2023

Industry events are one of the best ways for professionals or consumers to expand their knowledge, network with thought leaders, and discover new solutions. During the summit, attendees will have access to a host of exclusive pieces of content, from market-leading videos to engaging articles and guides.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 18, 2023

You can find my interview with Jan (whom I thank for his availability) in the video here below. I’m also reporting a (slightly edited) transcript with the video timestamps for those who prefer reading to watching. Ok, so if some developer is reading this interview, maybe could consider porting his/her own game to the Omni.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

With great pleasure, I announce to you that we have updated our game HitMotion: Reloaded (the first mixed reality fitness game ) on Viveport, and now we have far better bonuses management, apart from having fixed lots of bugs. Bigger than the usual indie VR team, but pretty little for an AAA game. Hello everyone!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2023

Gibby’s Guide went out and about to road test the best that the sector has to offer. As fans of Gibby’s work, we share a selection of the magazine’s feature articles, this one from the latest issue: Gibby’s Guide V23. The game, the interface, the disbelief would all fall away and only Experience would be left.”

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. In the future, we’ll get a faster screen, we’ll get a 120 hertz screen…which means then the game instead of running at 60 FPS wants to run at 120 FPS or 240 FPS.” “The issue is our efficiency.”

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Upload VR

JULY 28, 2022

Resolution Games announced a new esports tournament for its roomscale 1v1 shooter Blaston today, open to all players in North America and Europe, featuring a prize pool valued at $10,000. The Blaston Championship 2022 will begin on August 1, two regional tournaments – one for those in North America and one for Europe.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It will be possible to shoot 4K videos of the augmented applications, body tracking has been improved , and the system will be able to perform better environment understanding The new ARKit features will be used by a new tool provided by Apple for all its iPhone users: RoomPlan. The Upload Summer Showcase brought news about VR games.

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APRIL 14, 2022

8 Best Instagram AR Filters in Singapore & Hong Kong Chinese New Year is the most important festival celebrated by Chinese around the world, especially in Asia. However, just creating any Instagram AR filter wouldn’t cut it out either (especially a catching AR game filter ??).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2022

I know, the game is two months old now, but when it came out I was swamped with work to do, so I kept it as my Christmas gift, and I played it during the winter holidays. Just a caveat before you start: this post will contain mild spoilers on the gameplay … not on the story, but on some things that may happen during the game (e.g.

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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). Apple headset may come in second half of 2022. Andrew Bosworth to become Facebook CTO in 2022.

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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). The enterprise version costs $799. I have received it and I have reviewed it.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Here's where you can stream, rent, or purchase the 2022 Oscar nominees: Ascension Nominated for: Best Documentary Feature Director Jessica Kingdon's documentary explores cycles of production and the pursuit of wealth, using China and the "Chinese dream" as subjects. How to watch: Being the Ricardos is now streaming on Prime Video.

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