The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I don’t have the time to write a full review now, but I hope to write this week at least a “first impression” article because many people are asking my opinion (thank you, really, for your trust!). But this article goes a bit more in detail about this topic.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2023

More info Other relevant news (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft discontinues Kinect for Azure Microsoft has decided to discontinue its latest iteration of the Kinect sensor, dubbed Kinect For Azure DK. Microsoft will stop selling its Kinect For Azure sensor in October 2023, or until the supplies last. This seems good.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

The first is that the headset is just at the beginning of its life, some pieces of content like Beat Saber are not available yet, so this initial data is spurious and over time Beat Saber will be the most sold game again. Let me leave you some articles that talk about how the experience was there. How ironic.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This means that when some VR indie devs write me an e-mail asking for a review of a game of theirs, I usually answer “I don’t know if I have the time” and in the latest times what happens most frequently is that later on I never manage to find the time to review it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

One of the reasons for such low performances of Sony’s headset is the lack of content, and in fact, in the classifications of the most sold games on PSVR 2, there are mostly old games in the first places, showing how there has not been a proper injection of many new good pieces of content for this console.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Starting next month, the NBA and NextVR will be broadcasting 26 basketball games live in VR, some of which are free to watch for US-based users with a VR headsets. The VR viewing schedule tips off October 26th with the New Orleans Pelicans vs. the Houston Rockets, and will feature a top game each week throughout the NBA regular season.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We are eagerly waiting to see what the scheduled release of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X later this year will do to AR/VR gaming! While we wait, we compiled a list of the most exciting video games that feature different use cases of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) as key plot devices. Pick up any of these games!

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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! When the headset launches, this would mean havin g games with much better graphics than we have now on Quest. In the meanwhile, the rumors about the headset continue.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Articles have been written on every possible related aspect. Microsoft, which apparently produces one of the best-performing augmented reality headsets on the market (HoloLens), is buying a video game production company Blizzard for a frightening amount of money: 68 billion dollars. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AR Headsets.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

continuing here with Epic Games. Project Anywhere Epic Games has signaled its commitment to a real-world metaverse with the AR launch of Project Anywhere. In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations.

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Upload VR

MAY 27, 2022

A free expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator brings the Top Gun experience to VR with new missions, challenges and aircraft. Microsoft Flight Simulator is available for PC and Xbox, with optional VR support for the former. The expansion is available now and as you can imagine, it looks like true a match made in heaven.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors. I’m pretty excited about that!

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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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VR Game Critic

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The very last month of VR game releases for 2020 is upon us. Hopefully, you’ll be able to enjoy the holiday season not only with a couple of brand-new games and old favorites, but also with friends and loved ones – be it virtually or in real life (if restrictions in your area allow it).

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We’re out of excuses, VR is ultimately the future of gaming In the past, there has been so many arguments made about why VR isn’t the already the standard in gaming. The Oculus quest 2 is the same price as the Xbox series S(a gaming console by Microsoft), but the Xbox is able to have much better graphics quality.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2020

With the recent release of Half-Life: Alyx , VR has been thrust into the spotlight of the mainstream gaming audience. Consider this article your official rebuttal to these tired arguments. Consider this article your official rebuttal to these tired arguments. That’s like investing in a new game console!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

In my opinion, Magic Leap 2 is a superior device to HoloLens 2 (see my hands-on here ), so I think that with these prices, it can have good success in the enterprise market, starting to gain shares with regard to Microsoft. It’s an article worth reading, which highlights the pros and cons of the device. Some articles on the metaverse.

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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. Oculus wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. Will it be successful? Will it be profitable?

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2017

Canadian technology company Globacore have created an AR homage to video game classic Lemmings (1991), now for Microsoft HoloLens. HoloLems , which is free on the Microsoft Store , uses HoloLens’ spatial mapping technology to generate an obstacle course from the player’s real environment.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Valve confirms it is working on a VR headset Speaking with the Korean magazine This Is Game, Valve’s product designer Greg Kumar has answered the explicit question about their work on a VR headset with the following sentence: “Still, I can tell you for sure that we’ve been working on a VR headset lately.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It’s that time once again – The Game Awards are back on December 8 and the nominations for 2022’s Best VR/AR titles were revealed this week. There’s five nominees in total, though much like last year, none of them are AR games. First is After The Fall from Vertigo Games, which launched last December but narrowly missed the 2021 cutoff.

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VRWorld

APRIL 26, 2017

” NVIDIA Starts to Focus on VR in Gaming with a new bundle for GeForce GTX cards. The Nvidia GeForce GTX Oculus Bundle provides a redemption code for The Unspoken, SUPERHOT VR, and Wilson’s Heart PC VR games.” ” Be Patient: Microsoft knows when your system is ready for Creators update.

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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. For instance, since I work on a VR fitness game , I’m thinking about all the new training experiences that will become now possible. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Other relevant news.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The video game industry is a source of constant innovation, with many of its breakthrough technologies being adopted by the business world. The concept of the metaverse is not new to gamers either – persistent, avatar-driven digital environments and even digital currencies have long been accepted as part of mainstream gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

I have no idea what Google will announce at Google I/O, but after all these years in the ecosystem, Meta has for sure at this moment more features in its operating system (casting, full body tracking, spatial anchors, room meshing, etc…) and many more games in its store. This would be fantastic.

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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. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. Exit Games finally announces Photon Fusion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There will be a lot about Apple in this newsletter, but don’t miss also the other important news, and the giveaway of keys for the amazing game Retropolis 2! We already knew about some of them, like the game Super Fruit Ninja, but we started to get information about the others, too. There is even Microsoft Word!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I was browsing social news about Magic Leap (I think I’ll write a roundup of all the news I’ve found, because they are pretty interesting) and writing stuff about the Milan Games Week event I attended, when I got a message by the great creative technologist Michel Buchner (follow him!) Is it a Sneak Peek of next-gen HoloLens?

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VRGames

JUNE 14, 2023

This weekend saw the exciting announcement of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, a highly anticipated game that is expected to be released on Xbox consoles and PC in 2024.

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VRGames

MAY 27, 2023

Paint Fiesta is an exciting new virtual reality game for Quest 2 developed by Mike Festa. It mimics the classic features of Microsoft Paint, while taking your living room to a completely new level as you transform it into a digital canvas!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash After having written about Knowledge Graphs, Decentralization, and the Semantic Web in one of my last articles , it is time to dedicate myself to the Metaverse. Read about what that will look like, who builds it, and how it works in this article! Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Actually, this week, Microsoft’s new mixed reality VP Scott Evans said that Microsoft is carrying on many innovations in various technological fields, and it is expecting the right time to release an update of the HoloLens. Resolution Games had its company event. Pico games sale. Blaston is becoming free to play.

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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 ). The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2024

Finally, the firm has previously stressed that Quest 1 isn’t shutting down completely and that users will keep full access to their existing apps and games. To dive deeper into how the Quest 3 offering weighs up against the Quest 2 and Pro model, check out our article: Meta Quest Pro vs Meta Quest 2: Which is Best?

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VRWorld

APRIL 2, 2018

Microsoft, AMD and Bose were all in the news for vastly different reasons, but all of these reasons were relevant to the world of VR. This segment, Stories You Might’ve Missed, is for news stories that broke but weren’t given articles on our site. Microsoft shows off prototype CLAW VR controller. Or, in Bose’s case, AR.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Microsoft’s Game Stack team have all issued statements announcing their withdrawals from March’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020. . It’s a day of tech company cancellations following on from Facebook just confirming F8 2020 will no longer be taking place.

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