The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I just left a very fun rooftop party just to write an article for you, and I hope you appreciate that! In this article, you are going to discover with me some cool information about the Pico 4 Enterprise, the enterprise version of the Pico 4. Eye tracking sensor on a Pico 4 Enterprise devkit. Specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

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. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. Further references.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For this reason, Meta has announced many productivity-focused news, like: New features for Workrooms, like integration with Zoom or the ability to use three virtual screens in front of you A partnership with Microsoft to bring Microsoft 365 and Teams Immersive Experience on Quest Pro Upcoming tools for professionals from Autodesk and Adobe.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve read a lot of articles and XR news this week, but actually, at the end of the day, nothing relevant has happened, except for the usual rumor about Apple… so you can close this roundup now… no ok, I’m kidding! But I think it’s not a good move for Meta, for the following reasons: It shows that it is “afraid” of HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You know that I have a big passion for Brain-Computer Interfaces, a passion that has grown even more when I understood they are a perfect match with AR and VR (I have even dedicated a long article in the past about this). OpenBCI has been making open-source tools for neuroscience and biosensing since 2014.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The ecosystem is full of people that keep writing articles about “How we will study in the metaverse”, “How we will work in the metaverse”, and that make talks about how one day we will have a concert with 20,000 people all together in VR like if it was happening in real life. Eye tracking. Accessories.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Altspace was pretty unique because it offered amazing tools to create groups and communities, so people being part of it had many connections inside the platform. There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article. You can discover more on the dedicated Linkedin post that I’m sharing below.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. After receiving the tracking information for my Pimax Crystal shipment, I looked forward to what would be my first time using a Pimax VR headset.

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2021

REACT Neuro uses analytics developed by pairing their own custom algorithms with the eye-tracking that comes built into the latest headsets. As a result, some solutions have a blurry line between personal mental health tools and interpersonal awareness solutions for enterprise. Enterprise Solutions and Soft Skills Solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

In this third and last article about my trip to Taiwan (here you are the links to my first and second one , if you missed them), I want to tell you about some other amazing XR stuff that I did there. Do you know for instance that I have tried the Vive Pro Eye ? Me doing a hands-on session with the Vive Pro Eye.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

I want to dedicate this newsletter article to my friend Mathew Olson, who at The Information kickstarted the “Reality Check”, a newsletter about XR which I received 3–4 times a week in my e-mail, and that was very well done. PSVR 2 will have eye-tracking from Tobii and maybe a detachable cable. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This sounds like black magic and it is really fascinating: using eye tracking and other hints, the system may understand what is that you want to hear, and filter out all the rest. HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. Google releases a tool for body tracking on your phone. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. When will the “Metaverse is dead” articles come out?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

And sorry if it took more days than expected to assemble this article… A good year for XR at CES Before listing all the most important pieces of news, let me tell you how XR presence was overall at CES. I hope it can be useful for all those people like me that weren’t able to attend this huge tech event in person.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. But the big question is the “how”. For what purpose?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

If you built an application without these patterns, the device was useless… an eye-tracking add-on was more practical than the NextMind dev-kit in a VR scene. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. Last week I praised Meta for finally taking action adding parental control tools to its device.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

During the interview we talked about practical stuff, like if HTC is working on a new product, and when we can expect to see lightweight AR glasses on the head of everyone. A lot of things have changed in your life since the last time we met: your role in HTC, the country you are in… So, how is life now?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. And the fact that it features AR and eye tracking is for sure awesome. Do you want to discover them with me? Top news of the week. Image by Lynx). I think we’ll discover it “soon”.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. This article is designed to give a broad overview of proposed solutions, and understand how each technology is being positioned.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2. Some articles on the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. eye-tracking analysis to see if you have fallen asleep while driving). The official computational unit runs Android. All APIs have a plain C version.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Truly next-gen VR (featuring a fantastic display and very wide FOV, varifocal resolution, eye tracking, haptics controllers, etc…) will take many years to realize. If you think about it, in the last period, the great years that we remember for headsets are 2016 (Rift CV1, HTC Vive) and 2019 (Oculus Quest, Valve Index).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

More than an article, with its 10,000+ words, this is a short book on the Pimax Sword, featuring everything you may need to know about them (what is Pimax, what are the Sword controllers, how do they work… even an interview with the COO of the company!). Image provided by Rob Cole). How would they work with current VR software?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s Chinese Single Day and I wish the best to all the single people that are reading this article: I hope you are all on Taobao or Aliexpress buying super-discounted items! HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico Neo 3 Pro, and its sibling Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye (featuring eye-tracking), are the latest enterprise headsets by Pico. Vive Focus 3 has an expensive cooling system that can keep the Snapdragon XR2 cold enough to perform its operations at the best temperatures (Image by HTC Vive). Pico Neo 3 Pro. Production quality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

This will be beneficial for Facebook to be able to attract talent from all parts of the world; The company is using its remote collaboration tools itself to test if they work well. Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest! HTC announces Vive Pro Secure. Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Meta is launching its own apps on the Store (Facebook and Instagram), and soon also other productivity tools like Slack, Dropbox, Monday.com, and also PlutoTV are coming.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

I hoped that in this period all VR people were in vacation, so that I could relax a bit… instead this week there have been tons of interesting news and articles… even more than usual! Image by HTC). After some weeks of silence, HTC has started again to rise the hype for its upcoming flagship PC VR headset, the Vive Cosmos.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

Anyway, there have been some things worth attention and I’m writing this article to report them all to you. HTC has maybe been the virtual reality company that has shown the most interesting things at this MWC. He has a point. Let’s start! The Vive Trackers 2.0. They seem identical to the 1.0 version but they contain the 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

For instance, there are lots of new headsets being released by hardware companies: just in the last year, there have been the Oculus Quest & Rift S , HTC Vive Focus Plus , HP Reverb , Valve Index , Acer OJO 500, and HoloLens 2 … just to mention the most popular ones. Is it necessary to own all of them? Prioritize your expenses.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g. 7invensun for eye tracking addons). If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC. 7Invensun’s aGlass DK II eye tracking addon.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

As I said before, apart from other tech giants, no one is going to challenge Facebook on its own terrain : Pico, HTC, HP, Pareal, Skyworth, Shadow Creator… all these companies are going to try offering something different. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. Will they succeed?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lots of articles by the so-called press were full of statements about the death of VR, or the fact that VR is a gimmick. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. General trends.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This week, Upload is marking the start of its third year and this post is exactly article number 3,000 published for the site. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. In fact, it was prior to most of the editorial team joining. December 2015. January 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). I’m afraid that many passionate people will lose the ability of using this tool for free. HTC won’t announce anything big at CES. More info (Adobe acquires Medium?—?Road Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Well, your favorite ghost has just done it for you in this article! Facebook is aware that new rules have to be studied now that VR and social accounts are unified and there are still not exactly guidelines to follow for account violations (more on this in this article on Road To VR ). Oculus Link. Rift line gets discontinued.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While I often discuss the long-term potential of AR & VR, in this article I'm reviewing Apple Vision Pro as it stands as a real product today. When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. A product starting at $3500.

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