The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro is the device of the moment: since the preorders have been opened on January, 19th, my social media feed is full of posts that just talk about this device. As the Verge titled its review “The Apple Vision Pro is magic until it’s not” Let’s see what are the problems that sometimes arise.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And to increase comfort, this headset is the first one which is completely customized for your face. I’ve read a few, on Road To VR, Upload, CNET, plus something on Reddit, and they all agree on one thing: this is a great piece of VR hardware. Almost no one complained about the tether , and this is interesting.

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2023

For this article, we talked with Ronny Tome, the founder of a blockchain company Ducatus Global , to help us shed more light on the multiverse, what it is, and what it will play in bringing the metaverse to life. Before defining what the multiverse is, let’s do a quick review of what the metaverse is.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

I think that cubes are never enough… cubes are love, cubes are life. But if remove all this boring stuff, the software is actually good according to the first reviews, and also introduces some innovative solutions. The first one is that it is winding down its Realsense line. I cross my fingers for that.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer! Eye and face tracking are two features loved by Zuck because they allow for a better presence in a social VR environment since they let your avatar have facial expressions that resemble the ones that you are doing in real life. Other relevant news. Image by Xiaomi).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

This is the first newsletter of this new year, and I hope it will be a great year for every one of us. I ended the last year with some good posts, like this one where I had an exclusive interview with Holoride , one of the hottest XR startups out there. Welcome, 2022! Go reading it, if you missed it. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

I still feel a lot tired because of the jet lag and the little sleep I had in Austin, but this is pretty normal, and in one week or such this feeling should go away. Regarding content, some VR magazines started writing reviews about PSVR 2 games, even if most of them are just repetitions of the reviews of the same games on other platforms.

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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! And by the way, on the personal side, things are going well for me!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I’m curious to see how this will compete with the Quest Pro, because every one of these devices has its own strong points : for instance, Pico 4 Enterprise is more affordable, but Meta Quest Pro has a much better passthrough AR. The very lightweight form factor has instead remained very similar to the one showcased before.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I have to warn you that no announcement has been mindblowing , so if you were expecting a new Half-Life: Alyx to be shown there, you would probably be disappointed. It’s also cool that H umble Bundle has partnered with Upload to release a VR-specific bundle of games on the occasion of the showcase. Not bad for a dead technology.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

And even the press has positive impressions about the headsets they try: PSVR 2, for instance, was launched with good reviews even from mainstream tech magazines. A few weeks ago, a very interesting comment on one of my articles was doubting that VR can ever enter the wide mainstream. Can VR enter the mainstream?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2022

While yesterday the VR community was on fire because of the new anti-modding update of VRChat and the price rise of the Quest 2, I was discovering a little gem of VR gaming , suggested to me by my friend Dario of Cybermachine Studios. Here you are my review video of the game! Shame on me. Let me tell you more about it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2021

We thought it was hilarious at first and I think a lot of people also found it funny with reviews like "This is the best game ever made" Since then we have had literally hundreds of similar submissions, mostly cubes but sometimes other shapes too. The Cube is love, The Cube is life. … hard to make a success.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2022

If this is confirmed, it means that Quest 3 may provide graphics that are at least 2x better than the ones of Quest 3. At the sarcastic comment saying that it is an overpriced device no one will buy, HTC answered that it is absolutely not like that (Press X to doubt about the price). Fun fact: his device also broke after a few hours.

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ARPost

JUNE 30, 2022

In the true metaverse, they argue, we won’t be locked into or out of certain digital experiences – we’ll be able to move from one virtual world to another like walking from one store in a mall to another. Can moving from one platform to another be that easy? A Metaverse of Links. It seemed like a new idea at the time.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Today I finally review for you the Pico Neo 3 Link! I had a lot of delays in writing this article (sorry Pico, sorry VR community), but I promise you that it will be deep and detailed… as you like the posts on my website. Pico Neo 3 Link Video Review. If you prefer reading instead, well, go on! Pico Neo 3 Link.

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ARPost

APRIL 12, 2021

In the words of VIVE’s Head of Digital Commerce Yu-kai Chou: “These ones-to-watch are helping to propel VR from a relatively niche technology towards a future where we can imagine a VR headset in every household, workplace and classroom, while inspiring others by sharing their knowledge and insights. Charlie Fink. Ben Lang (Road to VR) #10.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The headset didn’t come with many surprises and these have been the specifications : Resolution (per-eye) : 2064 x 2208 Display Type : LCD Refresh Rate: 120Hz Lens type: Pancake Processor : Snapdragon XR2 Gen2 RAM : 8GB Battery Life : 2–3 hours Field of View : 110° horizontal, 96° vertical IPD Adjust : hardware-based. XR2 Gen2 has 2.6x

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It was not a perfect day because I also had some work-related issues to cope with, but it’s part of life when you are working with cutting-edge technologies I’m curious to know how the holidays are going for you, so answer this post letting me know how life is going for you! The mystery around Kura continues.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

Subscribe to my newsletter , then write me an e-mail to tonyvt AT skarredghost DOT com and I will give you one so that you can play this game for free! HTC has started shipping the Vive Focus 3, so we have started reading the first reviews about it. 2047 and are offering to my readers an exclusive giveaway of 3 keys!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

On this occasion, I wish every one of you a lot of happiness, joy, peace, good health, money. I just hope that the quality of the new year won’t be the same as the socks: I have bought some cheap ones on AliExpress, and the embroidery of the tigers seems made by some kid under the effects of Rohypnol.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

They are all quite affordable (Image by Varjo) The XR-4 launches in 3 variants: The standard one, priced at €3,990 The “Focal edition”, which basically optimizes the mixed reality cameras’ resolution and also makes them focus on the same things you are looking at with your eyes, creating a very realistic passthrough effect.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

We already knew about Nanite, the system that optimizes on the fly the 3D assets you put in the projects, letting you go beyond the concept of LODs; and Lumen, the new real-time lighting system that gives amazing shadings. More info (Lumus Maximus glasses) More info (In-depth article on Lumus Maximus by Karl Guttag).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2020

Yesterday, I finally finished Half-Life: Alyx. I am now ready to write you a full review of this game. Some days ago, I have written a first impressions article on this game, and it made some people unhappy because I somewhat criticized this game. Discover everything in this detailed article!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

is 33% smaller than v2 and has +75% of battery life. I know that many of you won’t be excited by this news, but remember the Vive Tracker is one of the most successful accessories ever created by HTC. The Vive Tracker is coming on the same date and at the same price ($130) as the Tracker 3.0. The Vive Tracker 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The headset takes inspiration from the Varjo VR-3 premium VR headset and removes its famous retina-resolution display and also hands tracking via Ultraleap, making it become a VR headset more similar to the other ones in the market. Resident Evil 4 VR is available on the Quest Store. Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

But today’s article is not about me, but about the best tech news, so let me tell you what pieces of XR news I’ve selected this week! This makes us think that somehow L G is going to provide the content available on its smart TVs to the Meta Quest. Let me tell you about the ones that I’ve read.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

One of them is that I’ve become for the third year a judge of the VR Awards ! The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. More info (Meta Avatar Store / VR Scout) More info (Meta Avatar Store / TechCrunch).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s exactly one year since we launched t he Alpha of the VRROOM platform , the social XR space dedicated to concerts and life shows. This project has been the biggest one I’ve ever worked on , and since my role is the CTO, I have been to follow its evolution from the driver’s seat.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2021

Now the Interaction Lab has decided to release a VR version of the tour on Steam so that everyone can enjoy a somewhat similar version of the physical one. All of this is also made worse by the fact that you are continuously moved from one scenario to the other, and this is a bit confusing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I got a review copy of Virtual Virtual Reality 2 by Tender Claws and since I’ve played some time with it, l et me tell you my first impressions on this game! But suddenly, Scottsdale’s VC funding is pulled and the servers begin to shut down one by one. WARNING: as always, my review will contain mild spoilers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

Almost no one works, and people are focused on enjoying good food and good company. I had no idea of how long I would have kept doing it, and I was pretty sure no one was going to read me. Again, I could go on in this list for a lot of time. 5 years later, I guess I was wrong. These 5 years lots of things have happened.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

I was reading Mark Gurman’s latest rumors about the upcoming Apple headset, and I found his article very intriguing. With the difference of the HoloLens, though, this headset is not a see-through AR device, but a screen-through one, like the Quest Pro. Let me explain to you why. Will it succeed?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I finally got my Quest Pro last week and this evening I plan to finally turn it on and try to have some fun with it! I guess a review is coming in 2–3 weeks, so be prepared As for the Pico 4, I’ll do that either this week or next one, instead. I mean, no one was expecting Pimax to launch a Nintendo Switch.

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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. Display Type : 2.56?

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