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. If it were a prize for the weirdest XR gadget from CES, Mutalk (the one in the header image of this article) would win without any doubt. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership.

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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.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can be achieved on Microsoft’s latest standalone AR headset. We’ll update this article as soon as we hear back. SEE ALSO Ubisoft's VR Escape Rooms Have Quietly Reached 200+ Locations Across the Globe.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

But before, please read (and share around) my latest article which is about a crazy experiment I did with mixed reality and generative AI… I’m sure you will love it! There is no face or eye tracking. In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1 So let’s dig into them. There is IPD adjustment.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2024

Moreover, the Vision Pro service allows medical learners to interact with Osso VR’s immersive learning procedures with the device’s integrated hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and voice control. The solution also offers vital instructional tools, enables performance monitoring, and provides feedback to the surgeons.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This article features the latest episode of The AR Show. This involved then-innovative feedback methods like eye-tracking and even going into customers homes while they used TurboTax. But the real inflection point for enterprise AR hardware came in 2015: Microsoft Hololens. See past and future episodes here or subscribe.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses. The next step is about trying to integrate the glasses with cloud services, something about which Microsoft is a worldwide leader thanks to Azure.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. VR animation tool Quill has proved to be an interesting tool for creators these years.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Since this article was going to foster a new wave of “VR is dead” articles from mainstream media, one of the other cofounders of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, has answered sharing some of the secret numbers of virtual reality headsets’ sales. SparkAR is an interesting tool for creators and marketers. Will it be successful?

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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. My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. When will the “Metaverse is dead” articles come out?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself. Some articles on the metaverse. More info (Leaks on RealityOS?—?Upload Upload VR) More info (Leaks on RealityOS?—?9to5Mac).

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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”.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. on the consequences of DMA over Apple (article in Italian, shared by Francesco Ronchi).

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

Microsoft Microsoft is one of the few companies that has approached augmented reality wearables more successfully. We expect to see Microsoft still at work for a long time in this area and we think it can succeed where it has failed with mobile devices. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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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. I’ve found on the web a long article about the haptics devices available , or on which there are experimentations.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. VR came into mind as the ideal tool to provide both. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

edge detection); Eye-tracking sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer); A battery system ; A 5Ghz radio communication antenna to make the lens communicate with an external unit; An ARM0 processor , that acts as a “traffic cop” for the data. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). I was reading my predictions for 2019 to prepare myself for this article, and to my surprise, I found it incredibly actual. It has not changed that much from when I wrote that article at the beginning of 2019. This shows how the technology is just slowly improving.

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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. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. All APIs have a plain C version.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

It doesn’t contain 100% the information of the written article, but it’s a very good summary. Having been used to the amazing management tools offered by HoloLens, I was pretty much turned down by this. Having been used to the amazing management tools offered by HoloLens, I was pretty much turned down by this.

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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. A leak by the famous leaker WalkingCat shows some pictures of the HP Reverb G2, which is the result of a collaboration between HP, Microsoft, and Valve.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

This article is designed to give a broad overview of proposed solutions, and understand how each technology is being positioned. Eye Tracking: IMR’s algorithm utilises single pass dynamic compression schemes, including foveation, tuneable parameters and offers support for eye tracking. We will adopt future H.265

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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! Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset.

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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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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 ARCORE The Android equivalent of ARKit, ARCore provides the open source native tool set needed for developers to create augmented reality apps on Android devices. Remote assistance tools can also help clinicians support their patients while reducing downtime.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As I reported last week, people are exploring class actions, or are switching to other devices, and I even found on Kotaku (a popular indie gaming magazine) a very angry article about this topic. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). Even Half-Life: Alyx is 25% off!

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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! Only $375 to see the notifications of your phone in front of your eyes. Discover the hottest XR topics of the week in this roundup post…. Image by ACM).

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Next generation VR devices are getting updated with all the necessary ingredients to make video passthrough possible including high resolution displays, powerful cameras, depth sensors, GPUs and eye-tracking. Platforms, Tools & Infrastructure. #9

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

When VRFocus spoke with Spatial ’s CEO and co-founder Anand Agarawala he noted that while eye tracking was currently supported if the hardware had the feature, the avatars could also support further facial movement like lips and eyebrows when the hardware catches up.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

This is much more than what Oculus promised to track some years ago (“only the height of the user is sent to Facebook, for statistical purposes”), and the amount of tracking info is going to slowly increase. It has some content creation tools (SparkAR). It builds its own hardware. It has its own store.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. The Lowe‘s Holoroom is being used to let customers test drive power tools and other home renovation equipment so that they feel comfortable not just buying it but also using it when they get home. Find out more or contact us to participate here.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

If the rumor is true, probably this is the Del Mar headset , and the Jedi controllers may be like the Oculus Touch but more comfortable and maybe with full finger tracking. Or eye tracking?). More info (Report by Bloomberg) More info (UploadVR’s article on the news). Other relevant news. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I needed a Vive OG last year to play around with eye tracking , I bought a used one. According to an article on Forbes of some months ago, if you have a VR game, the best strategy at the moment is selling it for an upfront cost : there are not enough customers to make revenue models based on advertisements or IAPs to work.

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