The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. David Heaney has also published a very interesting article on how the Quest 2 is more powerful than a Quest 1 and how it compares to a VR-ready PC. News from partners (and friends).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. We’ve put together this article to run down what we think are the biggest things to keep an eye out for coming out of VRDC and GDC this year. What to Expect from Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. Epic Siren demo.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2. An article by my Patron Ilias Kapouranis analyzes Single Pass Stereo rendering and it shows you that it is not a silver bullet that can reduce your rendering times by 50%. A very interesting read.

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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! This has been the week of SIGGRAPH , one of the most important technology exhibition of the year. Top news of the week. Image by ACM). Image by HTC).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The San Francisco-based company has since secured over $11m across 3 funding rounds with investors including Samsung Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, and Foxconn Technology Group. ” Check out the full hands-on article here. The post ‘Sword Art Online’ Experience Comes to FOVE 0 appeared first on Road to VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. The technology is improved. Alan: Today’s guest is Matt Miesnieks, the CEO at 6D.ai.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. The technology is improved. Alan: Today’s guest is Matt Miesnieks, the CEO at 6D.ai.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. The technology is improved. Alan: Today’s guest is Matt Miesnieks, the CEO at 6D.ai.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

Of course, the Pro has the advantage of the tracking technology : we all know that SteamVR tracking is far better than the awful constellation tracking (sorry Zuck) and with 2.0, Comfort and special features (design, noise-free microphone, integrated audio, etc…) have been the typical advantages of the Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ. But there is not only Samsung: XR2 Gen 2 is going to be integrated also by Immersed’s Visor, a new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a headset that is still undisclosed.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure. Gear VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. Vulkan News We’ve added support for Vulkan Multiview and Fixed Foveated Rendering in our platform and in Unreal Engine, which can boost performance significantly. Now you can measure the quality and impact of your art and product pitch, so you can test, refine, and improve.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. In fact, when queried about what are the models that Unity is using for its AI technology, the only answer that journalists got was that Unity was using 3rd-party services for integrating its AI offerings.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. We invite all industry technology providers and stakeholders to join us in this meaningful program.”.

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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. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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