Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The DOE is incentivizing the competition with $680,000 in cash prizes and additional sponsor prizes from IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung. Information provided by WhiteHouse.gov https://www.edsimchallenge.com/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/11/15/new-prize-challenge-virtual-and-augmented-reality-learning-tools.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

More info (SideQuest VR download page) More info (Launch blog post). More info (Announcement blog post) More info (Boz announcing the news on Twitter) More info (My long editorial on Facebook and its advertisement efforts). And no, I’m not writing it because I’m the lead developer of the game. Absolutely not. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This made sure investors gained some trust for immersive reality startups again, something that will be beneficial for our whole industry. I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

By the way, stay tuned on this blog to read about my experience at AWE! Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Apple is clearly committed in augmented reality, and the recent release of ARKit 3 proves that. All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. What is interesting the most of this announcement is that in the invitation to the event it is stated “Join us to begin a new chapter of virtual and augmented reality”. Augmented Reality. Top news of the week. Image by Upload VR).

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 25, 2020

Videogame engine Unity has supported the XR industry from the early days of virtual reality (VR) through to the current crop of augmented reality (AR) hardware. As such, Unity confirms in its blog that: “Until that plugin is available, built-in support of OpenVR will continue to be functional and available in 2019.3,

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Microsoft). This is the 150th Week Peek!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It’s a very busy working period for me, and I’m sorry if I’m being very irregular in writing blog posts or in answering on social media… but I’m really tight on time! But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet. News worth a mention. Image by Neos). Header image by HP).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department. Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display. PLEASE DONATE FOR MY BLOG! And it has now a free demo, so you can try it now!

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Kent's wide range of expertise in various topics establishes him to be one of the leading minds in the coming virtual reality revolution. Alan's business has worked with companies like Samsung, HBO, Techweek, Microsoft, Comcast, and many more. Sabarish is a 14 year-old Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality developer.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

As it is a tradition of this blog , I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! Vive Wrist Tracker official announcement blog (HTC Vive) HTC announces Wrist Tracker for $129 (Road To VR) Bi-manual hands tracking working flawlessly on Focus 3 thanks to the Trackers (Twitter). Further references.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If OpenAI wanted to slow down to have time to understand the consequences of this new type of AI, Microsoft would already ready be to hire all the talents of OpenAI and carry on AI developments by itself. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But while we were great on the technical side, we weren’t good at doing business and marketing (I only started my blog in summer 2016 ), so in 2017 we closed the curtain on our crazy adventure. It is still like a window to the augmented world. We had full-body room-scale VR in 2014 , we were so cool.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! Please support this blog. Some updates on Meta products.

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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. I have to perform further analysis and then I’ll publish a blog post about that).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

But after some initial growth, the platform never took off, and Gear VR , thanks to the push from Samsung (one of the best brands of Android phones) and its great catalog of content (funded by Facebook), won the battle. Please donate on Patreon to keep this blog alive! News from partners (and friends). The Quest 2 has ups and downs.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. firm investing in AR solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7B. The biggest news of the week has been the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft for $68.7B. With it, Microsoft acquires many popular games like Overwatch, Starcraft, Call of Duty, and even Candy Crush. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. firm investing in AR solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

The output of the high-resolution display is moved where the user is looking at, offering an unprecedent clarity in augmented reality. Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He creates and oversees interactive reports and segments, including virtual and augmented reality, eSports, mobile games, and he’s really amazing at pulling together all the data that businesses are using to make real business decisions, on where to invest their capital. We have a number of reports available. It just works.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He creates and oversees interactive reports and segments, including virtual and augmented reality, eSports, mobile games, and he’s really amazing at pulling together all the data that businesses are using to make real business decisions, on where to invest their capital. We have a number of reports available. It just works.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He creates and oversees interactive reports and segments, including virtual and augmented reality, eSports, mobile games, and he's really amazing at pulling together all the data that businesses are using to make real business decisions, on where to invest their capital. We have a number of reports available. It just works.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for more articles about my Chinese experience in the upcoming days! Image by Microsoft). Microsoft wants to play safe, though, so it is now launching it only in two small countries , so that to identify possible problems only in a small subset of the worldwide population before the big launch.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft to tighten safety measures in Altspace VR. After a similar announcement performed by Meta last week, this week Microsoft has announced the tightening of the safety measures inside its social VR platform Altspace VR. Removing them removes lots of potential problems from Microsoft.

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