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Editorial: VR Devs Fended For Themselves At Gamescom 2023

Upload VR

Read our hands-on impressions here: UploadVR Harry Baker Australia-based studio Toast Interactive are finally branching out from planks to platformers with Max Mustard , a Moss or Astro Bot-like experience melding third and first person gameplay together with a hefty squeeze of charm on top.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. More info (Sony invests in Epic Games) More info (Editorial by Ben Lang).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g. Sony has finally revealed that PlayStation 5 is coming on November 12th (in America, Australia, Korea and other countries; rest of the world is on November, 19th).

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.25): Lots of new VR content previewed, Sony acquires Insomniac, Matrix 4 in the works and much more!

The Ghost Howls

MRTK, not to be confused with VRTK, is the official SDK to develop for Microsoft HoloLens and HoloLens 2. Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. has been released. has been officially released on GitHub.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

At the time of writing they are: United States Canada Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Republic of Ireland Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Australia Japan New Zealand Taiwan. If you a content provider, can your partner with Oculus to provide your business applications to companies?

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy.

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Driving Innovation with Automotive VR Pioneer Elizabeth Baron

XR for Business Podcast

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies.