The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Impressive numbers for sure. (Thanks Tony VRrool for the tip on the Chinese VR market). Regarding the last point, the company highlights that the glasses use waveguide optics to provide better augmentations, even if this leads them to have just 40° FOV. Samsung original controller design gets leaked. billion U.S.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. Target has started carrying the Merge VR headset, and T-Mobile stores are stocking up on Samsung Gear 360 and Gear VR. While VR hasn’t gone mainstream yet, we are nearing a tipping point and retail experts agree. and Canada.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tips & Tricks for the Quest 2! New tips and tricks for Quest 2 are being published for Quest 2: Quest 2 doesn’t work well outdoor, even in conditions when the tracking of the Quest 1 worked. Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display. News worth a mention. And it has now a free demo, so you can try it now!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

More info (Oculus Quest 2 tips & tricks) More info (How to activate 90Hz) More info (Top 15 free apps to download on Quest 2) More info (The best paid games and apps to download on Quest 2). I’ll link you some of them here below. My favorite one? The Quest 2 launch has been very positive. UWB may be a new useful tech for smartphones.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This week I’ve picked three for you: An article that talks about monetization of the metaverse, and all the new play-to-earn frenzy (Thanks James Watson for the tip) Another article criticizes all this speculation on virtual lands in the metaverse. As every week, I share with you some cool bullsh*t-free articles about the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info (Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI) More info (The Q* algorithm could be the reason why Altman was fired) News worth a mention Samsung trademarks “Samsung Glasses” Samsung has filed a trademark for “Samsung Glasses” in the UK. Thanks to Davy Demeyer for the tip!)

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The price is $599, but to work the glasses should be tethered to a smartphone from Samsung or OnePlus, so the overall price of the whole system is well beyond $1000. Thanks to Tom Ffiske for the tip!). On November, 30th, finally, Nreal has launched its Nreal light AR glasses in the US with the support of Verizon.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

If you are a creative, you may be very happy to discover that finally, Logitech has released its VR Stylus, that is a pen, tracked with SteamVR technology, optimized for drawing in VR, both in 3D in air and in 2D by pressing the tip on a surface like a desk. That sounds amazing, and in fact it is, given that the reviews are pretty positive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

More info Samsung is still on track to deliver its headset Samsung’s president of mobile experience, TM Roh, has spoken with CNET about the XR strategy of the company. Then he talked about the ecosystem and the fact that Samsung wants to create an open ecosystem around XR where many partners can operate in.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Samsung heavily invests in DigiLens to build its AR glasses. Samsung has to lead a new round of investment into DigiLens, which is now evaluated at more than $500M. Thanks Rob for the tip on the second one!). I can’t wait to see if it will be able to bring games with richer graphics on the Quest Store.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I tried contacting Canon, and if I get more info, I will let you know! (Thanks Davy Demeyer for the tip!). Thanks Rob Cole for the tip!). Thanks to David @Spatialpixels for the tip!). The only thing that we can see from the images is that it is a tethered headset, and that features cameras for the passthrough vision.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Thanks Nova for the tip!) More info Lynx is shipping its headsets After a long wait of years, finally French startup Lynx has started shipping the first batch of its headsets to its backers. We will finally see how much this headset can penetrate the market against tech giants like Meta and Bytedance. Good luck, Stan and team!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We know that Google has bought North, so probably it has the intention of entering the market as well… and some weeks ago we had the leak of an internal Samsung video with a concept about its own smartglasses. Thanks to Kun Dong for the tip!). Facebook has just launched its device, too. Header image by Xiaomi).

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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. This OC6 promises to be great, with Facebook detailing its work on augmented reality and unveiling cool content, like the AAA war game that Respawn is developing with Oculus.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The unique (and formerly Valve developed) retro-reflective-powered CastAR system gave us a glimpse at one of augmented reality’s possible futures; Avegant turned up with their bizarre yet technically impressive personal media player the Glyph ; PrioVR had their new entry-level motion tracking / VR input system to try.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. And I think virtual and augmented reality — from an industry standpoint — is really going to be driven from enterprise. Christophe: I’m with you.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He's worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. Alan: A lot of early days, virtual and augmented reality was -- like you said at the very beginning -- let's just make something really cool and shiny, and we fell into that trap as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. And I think virtual and augmented reality — from an industry standpoint — is really going to be driven from enterprise. Christophe: I’m with you.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. And I think virtual and augmented reality — from an industry standpoint — is really going to be driven from enterprise. Christophe: I’m with you.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture. Thanks Marco Giammetti for the tip). Among the many features of this piece of hardware, there is the one that it is able to perform ray tracing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2021

Facebook has already launched the Quest 2 ; HTC hasn’t tweeted anything, so I expect it to not launch its Quest 2 competitor at this CES ; Nreal is still in the middle of its logistic problems; Samsung is silent; etc… I hope to be wrong, but I don’t think we’ll see any kind of disruptive XR headset at CES 2021. That would be mind-blowing.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

And the fact that there will be a VR version of this important game will give virtual reality even more awareness and popularity inside the gaming community. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. Samsung is one of the most famous suppliers of components for electronic devices (e.g. Samsung Odyssey+).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 5, 2019

Now he’s spending all of his time in the new world of spatial storytelling — or augmented reality, as some call it. Zappar is an augmented reality platform, and a creative studio, all rolled into one, and they’ve been doing augmented reality since 2011.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 5, 2019

Now he’s spending all of his time in the new world of spatial storytelling — or augmented reality, as some call it. Zappar is an augmented reality platform, and a creative studio, all rolled into one, and they’ve been doing augmented reality since 2011.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

So we have come at it from this approach of what– we have the tools — with augmented reality — to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable. But again, it’s sort of like the tip of the spear for us. Alan: Samsung Note has infrared camera on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

So we have come at it from this approach of what– we have the tools — with augmented reality — to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable. But again, it’s sort of like the tip of the spear for us. Alan: Samsung Note has infrared camera on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

So we have come at it from this approach of what-- we have the tools -- with augmented reality -- to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable. But again, it's sort of like the tip of the spear for us. Alan: It's either by the Phab 2 or just by the new Samsung S10. Alan: All right.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The predictions by John Riccitiello are proving to become reality. After so many years, finally VR is reaching its tipping point where one platform will reach the 10 million sold units, which is considered as a magic number for a healthy ecosystem. The next two years are going to be very interesting for our field (Image by Road To VR).

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