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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Together with this announcement, Sony has also announced 11 new games that will be compatible with the console, including 4 titles that have never been released before. Since PSVR 1 games won’t be compatible with PSVR 2, Sony has to build a content catalog for this headset from scratch, and this will require time, money, and commitment.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Qualcomm and Niantic bet on the future of augmented reality with AR2. At it, it announced the Snapdragon AR2, a new chip optimized for augmented reality glasses. AR2 is a chip thought so that you can have a pair of lightweight augmented reality glasses that work by being wirelessly connected to your phone via Wi-Fi 7.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones. 3D puzzle game Shores of Loci is set for an Early Access release on Quest 2 via App Lab and SteamVR on May 24th. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

They took five years to arrive at the first full version… this is a big sign of commitment The cyberpunk game adventure Low Fi is launching this year for PSVR 2. Instead, the studio behind the game, Iris VR, has just announced that the game is finally coming out this year. I’m pretty excited about that!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

The most affected by this “restructuring operation” is the “1P AR Hardware” team, the one working on augmented reality devices. She claims that this solution will add thousands of games overnight to the Meta Quest. The game will support all major headsets, with the notable exceptions of WMR headsets, and HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Resolution Games had its company event. Resolution Games just had its own event during which it announced many pieces of news about its games. Demeo is going to receive a new campaign, a PvP mode, but also a price raise to $40 to reflect the new value of the game. Pico games sale. Blaston is becoming free to play.

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MARCH 30, 2023

XR creators brought their A-game to this year’s festivities. Credit: German Heller EGGSCAPE Darragh : Hands down, this game by German Heller is one of the best, if not the number one headset-based augmented reality (AR) experiences I’ve ever played.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

If the 10th is the wrong date, then all my bets are on the 19th of October because on that date by chance already two games are launching : The Wizards Dark Times Brotherhood and the 7th Guest. It’s strange that two games decided to launch on the same date, so there is a chance this is a magical date.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Upload VR Winter Showcase brought many pieces of news about VR games. Upload VR has organized another one of its amazing VR game showcases. Some of the most intriguing ones I’ve found have been: We have finally some new info about Behemoth , the new game by Skydance: Interactive, the studio behind the Walking Dead: Saint And Sinners.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

Multitasking & Siri : will be able to run multiple apps at the same time, floating within the mixed reality space. According to Gurman, Apple is also investing in games, which will be an important part of the experience. Downpour Interactive, the company behind the game Onward, has seen some people going away.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

Also, another startup showed how it is able to change the texture of a moving piece of clothing in augmented reality in a very realistic way. If you like tennis, check it out App Lab game ‘Dead Second’ has released an update to improve its features Fist Of The North Star is a VR experience that lets you read a famous series of manga.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Spin Rhythm XD , the kinetic rhythm-action game mixing Bop It and Guitar hero, is coming to PSVR 2 on July, 9th Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive announced a new interactive story coming exclusively to Apple Vision Pro based on the popular Disney+ animated series What If…? The whole indie VR community will appreciate that.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which was considered the biggest acquisition in gaming history. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. This was expected… the game was already amazing on Steam.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

This doesn’t come as a surprise, considering that Quest 1 was already missing some key features shipped to Quest 2, and many new games weren’t already supporting it. Meta and Codemasters’s latest game is… meh. More info (A review of the game) More info (Reddit making irony of the game). It’s terrible, really.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

IVAS is meant to increase the capabilities of the soldiers deployed on the field thanks to the support of augmented reality glasses. And its latest update, dubbed the “Mixed Reality 2.0 The game is now fully playable without controllers, a feature that will be very important to be compatible with the headset from Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

The service offered users the possibility of playing PCVR games on their Quest via cloud streaming, paying a price between $1 and $3 per hour. According to the first reviewers, the experience with it may have varied, but it was in general a pretty good one, having similar performances to a local streamed game with Virtual Desktop.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

People have also started playing with mixed reality : my social feeds are full of people who are doing some activities in their home (e.g. cooking) while keeping Quest 3 on so that they can watch a movie in mixed reality while they do what they have to do. It would be a pity because we all were waiting for it!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Sure, Zuck is right, the Meta Quest 3 has better games, is cheaper, and is an all-in-one device without any wire, but he seems not to grasp that the Vision Pro is the first edition of a new line from Apple, the company that with his powerful brand and its magical UX is able to dominate many markets.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info Owlchemy Labs thinks hand tracking can make VR mainstream Owlchemy Labs has just presented a demo of the popular game Job Simulator completely working through hands tracking. The company has fine-tuned the interactions in the best way possible so the game can be played without controllers by retaining a good experience.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

More info (Pico 5 canceled — Road To VR) More info (Pico 5 canceled — Upload VR) More info (A refresh to Pico 4 is in the works) XBOX Cloud gaming comes to Quest After a long wait, finally, XBOX Cloud Gaming has arrived on Meta Quest devices. It is a massive game, and it is getting very positive reviews… even a 10/10 on IGN!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

More info (Reddit post claiming Horizon World is now cool) More info (The debate that sparked from my X post) News worth a mention (Image by Spatial) Spatial pivots toward social gaming Spatial.io The new course of Spatial is trying to become a platform for social games, a bit a la Roblox. has pivoted again.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The reasons behind the layoffs are well-known: the competition with TikTok hurting Meta’s revenues; Apple’s new privacy rules on iOS have reduced the effectiveness of the ads business; the conflict in Ukraine and the inflation have led to bad economic conditions. More info (Among Us VR review) More info (Jesse Schell talks about VR games).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

This is impressive Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Aerial View API instead lets you put inside your game (3D or VR) the 3D maps of the cities of the world, that is the 3D reconstruction of Google Earth. According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

This afternoon I’m flying to Paris to then go to Laval to attend Laval Virtual, one of the oldest events about virtual reality, where I’ll be as an attendee , a virtual speaker (about the game HitMotion: Reloaded), a host of the AWE Nite Florence (featuring great speakers like Charlie Fink… ), and also as a. Image by Epic Games).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For now, the best gift that I can give to you is telling you what have been the best pieces of news of the week in XR… Top news of the week (Image by Upload) Upload had its usual cool gaming showcase Upload , with the sponsorship of Perp Games, has just had its usual Winter Gaming Showcase. Great job, Upload friends!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Valve confirms it is working on a VR headset Speaking with the Korean magazine This Is Game, Valve’s product designer Greg Kumar has answered the explicit question about their work on a VR headset with the following sentence: “Still, I can tell you for sure that we’ve been working on a VR headset lately.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Its new flagship Immortalis-G715 GPU will supercharge the Android gaming experience and among the list of features, it will include hardware-based ray tracing for the first time. Niantic announces a new AR game, this time with NBA. It created a new geolocated AR game very similar to Pokemon Go, but with a different theme.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! Sony’s owned Insomniac Studios has zero VR-native games planned in the roadmap for this decade. It’s very interesting to read such a diverse set of opinions about this game.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This surprisingly means that Meta has approved on the Quest Store this app that lets people play SteamVR games bypassing the PC Quest runtime. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge. Lone Echo). But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. Long story short, all games that manage to have more than a certain number of downloads and revenues are subject to a per-install fee. per install.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2023

Because what matters is not the present, but the future: Apple’s commitment to XR is a long-term game, and while this headset will never become mainstream, probably the Apple Vision 3 (or 4) will. But unluckily, we haven’t got many details about the game. This doesn’t pose very well for the interest that Ubisoft has in this game.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

One of the reasons for such low performances of Sony’s headset is the lack of content, and in fact, in the classifications of the most sold games on PSVR 2, there are mostly old games in the first places, showing how there has not been a proper injection of many new good pieces of content for this console.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

The first is that the headset is just at the beginning of its life, some pieces of content like Beat Saber are not available yet, so this initial data is spurious and over time Beat Saber will be the most sold game again. Thanks to this, people that don’t see well can use the audio descriptions to interact with the game. How ironic.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There will be a lot about Apple in this newsletter, but don’t miss also the other important news, and the giveaway of keys for the amazing game Retropolis 2! We already knew about some of them, like the game Super Fruit Ninja, but we started to get information about the others, too. There is even Microsoft Word!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 3, 2023

More info Vertigo 2 has finally launched One of the most awaited VR games of the year, Vertigo 2, has finally been launched on Steam for $29.99. And according to the first reviews, it is not disappointing at all: Upload has even defined it as an ESSENTIAL game to play! It’s the best VR fitness game.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. More info Can Monster Hunter be Niantic’s second hit game? After the huge popularity of Pokemon Go, Niantic never managed to replicate the same success with another game.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

More info (Bloomberg report about Apple Reality) More info (Apple Reality?—?Road Road To VR) More info (Apple Reality?—?Upload Upload VR) More info (Apple chose between Vision and Reality). Image by Epic Games). It is mostly a standard concert inside a gaming world, with some 3D effects. Other relevant news.

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