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A Closer Look at the HP Reverb G2

ARPost

The company’s original Reverb headset is well known to industry users, but is less popular among casual users than models by companies like VIVE and Oculus. Don’t worry – preorders open across Europe and Asia on July 6. Where the Reverb really comes into its own is gesture control. Why We Love It Already.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.12.13): Upload Winter Showcase had many VR announcements, Pico prepares for the holidays, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Does Palmer want Oculus back? I tweeted the news saying that “Palmer Luckey is not doing that bad without Oculus…” and Palmer Luckey himself answered to me commenting “Without Oculus for now, anyway”. More info (Anduril getting $1.48B of investments) More info (Palmer Luckey commenting about Oculus). Image by Valve).

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The XR Week (2020.11.16): HP Reverb G2 still haunted by WMR tracking, Quest 2 update brings 90Hz, and more!

The Ghost Howls

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). to play simulation games) or if you don’t need to play games where controllers tracking is fundamental, like competitive shooters.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.04): Vive Flow teased, Valve Deckard leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Apple’s working on solving this problem, too, according to a report in Nikkei Asia. Microsoft announced its augmented reality headset, Hololens, in 2015, and released the first version in 2016. Facebook Connect: The AR Angle.

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Forecast: VR Market Will Reach $162 Billion by 2020

VRScout

The US, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) are projected to account for three-quarters of revenue for VR and AR. The social conversation listening report shows a decrease in online mentions from Q1 2016 to Q2 2016 for Microsoft Hololens, Playstation VR and Oculus Rift — but a 115% increase in people talking about the Vive.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.13): iPhone 12 adds depth camera, StarVR One is back to the market and much more!

The Ghost Howls

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering.