The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

But maybe the system performs sensor fusion between all the three cameras to create a colored stereo passthrough Two 480p 120FPS eye-tracking cameras Two 400p 120FPS face-tracking cameras. HTC ecosystem conference brings news in eye-tracking and positional tracking solutions.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Today I host another great article by Rob Cole , who writes again about his experience with the Pimax Crystal headset. The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Let me explain everything you need to know in this article! It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. Pico enters consumer VR. People playing with Pico headsets (Image by Pico).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR).

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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. It’s 2019.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by HTC Vive). HTC Vive Air is a design concept for a fitness-focused VR headset. You don’t even know how this made me happy!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out.

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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

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. That’s why this week we had a serious amount of articles that got shared that added no information about what we already know but got popular anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

In this article, I am going to summarize all the info that we know about this headset … so that if you are unsure about buying it or not, you can make your decision in a better way. But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

More info News worth a mention Information leaks on Vive’s inside-out Tracker There is a new leak about the inside-out tracked Vive Tracker that HTC teased a few months ago. It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in. It may also feature eye tracking, that can be very important for some training applications.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. I think we rode the escalator down? They’re very factual. Dean: Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. I think we rode the escalator down? They’re very factual. Dean: Thank you.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. I own a Vive Focus since seven months; I’m also a developer for Go and a Rift and I have read everything I could about the Quest (if you have missed the super round-up article on it , run to read it). The never-ending story.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they're very insightful. You've written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. I think we rode the escalator down? They’re very factual. Dean: Thank you.

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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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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

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The article talks about a Russian experiment to improve the mood of cows. I don’t know if it is the plan, but for sure it is a possibility.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Last week at a dedicated Vive X event, Chinese company 7Invensun has presented one of the most interesting eye tracking accessories to date. 7Invensun is one of the worldwide leaders for what concerns eye tracking. 7Invensun is one of the worldwide leaders for what concerns eye tracking.

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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. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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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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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

I’ve used it with the HTC Vive, and you can literally stand in the middle of your creation, and hold the virtual paintbrush in your hand to paint in the air around you. There are websites that lists popular destinations, news articles, in-world directories, and so on. High Fidelity avatar with eye-tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Unity GPU We recently enabled Unity’s GPU Profiler on Quest and Go.

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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). There will also be an option to include image-based eye tracking , in addition to the EOG-based eye tracking.

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