The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

to play simulation games) or if you don’t need to play games where controllers tracking is fundamental, like competitive shooters. Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. All in all, this big update is useful to finally give full power to the Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 jailbreak was probably fake. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Top news of the week.

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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. Today is the 4th of July, an important day for all my friends from the US! More info?—?NVIDIA

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Oculus has its winter sale , Steam has one too , and Sony isn’t missing out, at least in the EU. Perhaps the best deal, though is for Driveclub VR [ Review: 7/10 ], a rock solid adaptation of the racing simulator, which has had nearly half of its price slashed now costing £15.99. is a good deal, too.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Oculus Quest and Vive Focus 3 get interesting updates. News worth a mention. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you like anime and you like virtual reality (as my buddy Max, to whom I dedicate this post), I’m sure that you will appreciate a lot this article. But it wasn’t until Sony announced PSVR that things started to change. Project Morpheus or Sony PSVR. various high-quality VR games on Oculus or SteamVR.

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VR Game Critic

DECEMBER 10, 2017

With several new game reveals, trailers and release date announcements for PlayStation VR, Sony’s annual PlayStation event (December 9-10) did not disappoint and proved once again how dedicated the platform is to its virtual reality player base.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. Honestly, I’m glad about that, I was getting bored from reading only articles about it.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Movement within virtual environments is a hard problem, and while VirZOOM addresses some of the challenges of VR locomotion, people who are sensitive to simulator sickness will likely still have issues with some of the games developed by VirZOOM. He says: So now our current anxiety is all about VR sickness.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). mostly negative from v1.8.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

More info (Lumus Maximus glasses) More info (In-depth article on Lumus Maximus by Karl Guttag). I already expressed this doubt in a previous article of mine , and I repeat that IMHO the only hope for PCVR is PSVR 2, which may bring back the attention to VR titles with stunning visuals. Discover some cool reviews!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. More info (Facebook buys Beat Games) More info (Oculus post announcing the news, with some FAQs) More info (Ian Hamilton’s editorial) More info (Damo9000’s irony on the announcement).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Using the term LBVR has a danger of being confused with the Location-Based VR market that is a general term for training, and simulation , the definition of entertainment shows this specific focus. The reason some use LBVR is they are only looking at commercial rather than the entertainment (or they are trying to make their articles unique!).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Sony) Sony shows the behind-the-scenes of PSVR 2 In a recent blog post, Sony Interactive Entertainment has shown the internal evolution of PSVR 2, from the initial experimentations to the final release. Learn more Some XR fun A new article on TechCrunch stated that VR is dead.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this article we’ve pulled together a concise look at the best VR headsets currently available, and a few you might want to keep your eyes on. See this article for the specs your PC needs to handle VR headsets. Value Pick: Oculus Quest 2 with Oculus Link (and Elite Strap ) – $350. Oculus Quest 2 Specs.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

For XR, instead, it has not been a special week at all: we had a bunch of nice news, plus the usual articles saying “Oh, VR is not mainstream yet, it will never be blablabla”. For the second kind of articles, well, look online, and I’m sure you will find some journalists who say that VR is just a fad while donning their Cardboards.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. units for my use in these articles. Image by Rob Cole).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Sony and Nintendo were all set to release a collaborative game system known as the SNES-CD back in the 90s as an add-on device for the Super Nintendo. It’s been a long time coming and now Sony is finally putting all of its wacky peripherals to use in one immersive experience. Funny how that works out, isn’t it?

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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. Last week there has been the CES, maybe the biggest technology show of the year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Sure, there had to be a good reason why, they didn’t have infinite money, but as the head professor of the games courses had just purchased a $50k simulator chair basically on a whim, I figured I might just ask. And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. And Oculus did hold on to that exclusivity for quite a while. VR was here.

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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. The $100 consumer Gear VR also debuts during this same period, arriving alongside a virtual arcade from Oculus to let people play some classic games. December 2015. In December, these plans become known.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Then there’s the existing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets, which each require powerful PCs to operate. For a more detailed breakdown, read our VR 101 article right here to get started and learn about the real differences between each headset here. First, turn off the lights and close your window blinds/curtains.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 24, 2019

With hardware makers pushing out more and more headsets Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has taken a far more relaxed approach by letting PlayStation VR continue to do its thing. While the highly popular rhythm-action experience left Early Access in May, that was only for PC (including an Oculus Quest edition). Vacation Simulator.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 8, 2019

pixels/° (110°x113° FoV, 1080×1200 pixels per eye), that of the Oculus Rift CV1 as 13.85 Unlike the HTC Vive and Vive Pro and the Oculus Rift CV1 referenced above, PSVR has three sub-pixels (red, green, and blue) for each display pixel, while the others have only two sub-pixels per display pixel. Vive et al.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 6, 2020

As David Heaney explains well in the article linked here below, MicroLED are probably the future of XR displays , since they are better both than current OLED and LED technologies: they can be very tiny, very bright, self-emissive and with a long timespan. Here again, I was expecting more, giving the very high popularity of the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I think this headset can be very successful in a very small niche of the VR market : PC VR enthusiasts looking to upgrade their headset to play social VR experiences like VRChat or simulation games like Flight Simulator. Sony PSVR 2 has obtained positive reviews for its very good visuals, its good comfort, and its innovative haptics.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Image by Sony). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That said, inviting you to support this blog on Patreon , so that I can keep hosting these amazing articles, I leave you to Rob’s post, that is like a tiny book, on the journey of developing Project Caliper. It had no sensors, just a simulated sensor bar in front of the handgrip. Enjoy your read. Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Today is a bit of a special day for this newsletter because this article you are reading is the 250th roundup about XR news I’ve written! This was the final big surprise of the event: Sony Pictures and Meta, in partnership with nDreams, will bring the famous franchise to virtual reality. Some articles on the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2018

You know, I have already talked about that topic in another article , but recently I got to know some new data and decided to share them with you to foster the debate on this important topic. We recently released the VRQ app on Viveport, Oculus and Gear, and are gathering data on nausea sensitivity across age group and between sexes.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

This game made by Sanzaru Games together with Oculus Studio is one of the best and longest games ever released for virtual reality. It is clear that we are looking at a game that raises the quality bar of VR gaming , thanks to the talent of people at Sanzaru Games and the high budget offered by Oculus. October, 9th 2019.

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