The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. The cost appears to be around $90k in the US, Canada, Mexico and Australia. . Since 2015 there are 200 000 customers played these games. . Millennials did the same with video games.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2017

In a recent entry on their Developer Blog , the Oculus Team announced that the Oculus Store has moved to the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) rating process, effective immediately for all new titles. The Oculus Store adds to the list of participating storefronts, which includes Google Play, the Nintendo eShop and the Windows Store.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

In most of what I’ve done with virtual reality prior to using CoSpaces, students have consumed the content to connect to a learning objective — mainly Google Expeditions and Nearpod VR. Since we our school uses Google Apps for Education , students are quickly able to create accounts with Google Single Sign-On.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Australia-based startup hopes to ship its first production run starting in April 2023, which includes a batch of 2,000 units. How will the “Google Analytics” of the metaverse be? As it was highly predictable, the Nofio wireless adapter for Valve Index has surpassed its Kickstarter goal. Funny link. Donate for good.

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 31, 2022

It was exactly five years ago today—on July 31st, 2017—that I wrote my first blogpost on this blog. At the time, this blog was called the Sansar Newsblog, because that was the only metaverse platform I wrote about. Some statistics from five years of blogging: 2,553 blogposts (which works out to 1.4

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 1, 2017

Another recent blog post highlighted teacher Shafaq Imran, a Global Ambassador from Pakistan, and students from Highland Middle School in Illinois students testing the project. Pakistan is one of the six Muslim countries targeted in an attempted travel ban by the Trump administration, and many people see it as unstable.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 7, 2019

InstaVR Interviews is a blog series where we turn the spotlight on our customers. A big part of that is we build everything into a Google G-Suite for Education, which hosts all the Insta360 content on the Google Platform. You can have them from China, you can have them from Australia, you can have them from America.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Alan: You know, I read a quote yesterday and it was, “It’s no longer about what you know, because everybody has access to Google, and Google knows everything. But I think that’s where Apple, and Google, and even Facebook have a massive advantage over companies, even like Magic Leap with 3 billion plus in funding.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Alan: You know, I read a quote yesterday and it was, “It’s no longer about what you know, because everybody has access to Google, and Google knows everything. But I think that’s where Apple, and Google, and even Facebook have a massive advantage over companies, even like Magic Leap with 3 billion plus in funding.

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