The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

What I discovered instead was that Valve had finally announced its flagship VR game, called “Half Life: Alyx” on Twitter! We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time. Whatever happens around Half-Life creates huge interest on the web. This is huge.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 16, 2022

Today, content comes in all shapes and forms (TikTok videos, blog posts, Instagram Stories, product descriptions, Facebook posts, etc.), Templates can be used for blog posts, website content, social media, and other marketing needs. There’s even designated blogging tools to take content to the next level. £30.60

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2023

But, as I’ve learned very hard in my life, “a startup is all about money” and smart contact lenses are a product for the distant future , so Mojo needed big investments to carry its project further. I’m personally very happy to see this project of an XR headset with an open ecosystem finally come to life. Funny link / 1 Funny link / 2.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 13, 2022

Today, content comes in all shapes and forms ( TikTok videos , blog posts, Instagram Stories, product descriptions, Facebook posts, etc.), Templates can be used for blog posts, website content, social media, and other marketing needs. There’s even designated blogging tools to take content to the next level. But for $39.99

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Mashable VR

MAY 11, 2022

And for a limited time, it’s 91% off for life. You can use the templates for blog posts, website content, social media, and other marketing needs. You can use the templates for blog posts, website content, social media, and other marketing needs. Need a variety of articles to drive traffic to your blog?

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Blogs and industry publications by the organization are free to access to anyone. This Year’s Categories. This year, the VR Awards will be given for thirteen categories to be judged by over 70 judges. Alyx , Valve’s contribution to the Half-Life series. Asgard’s Wrath , the action RPG by Sanzaru Games.

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ARPost

MAY 10, 2023

Two New Games 8th Wall doesn’t do so much in the games category – again, games still work better as full apps for now. I’m not a huge basketball fan and Pokémon is a chapter of my life that closed a long time ago, but I’ve had my Dot Erin for a few days now. We do believe that AR can help make the world more interesting and fun.”

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Mashable VR

MARCH 15, 2022

The findings are a preview of blog posts that Wag! Across a few different categories, pet parents seemed to express a desire for more information prior to getting a dog. It's also worth noting that among those who are returning to in-person work, 76 percent are nervous about " pet care challenges " ahead.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. In the past, all headsets of the same category had similar form factors and use cases: gaming, fitness, and lightweight productivity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

I think that for the first time we have really a device that can be more interesting than a Quest for certain categories of people. I invite you all to see the video I’m linking below to see how this can be cool to give a new life to many old games. It’s been a very interesting GTC. Bonelab is coming on Thursday. Funny link.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

OpenSim grids typically fall into one of two categories. They might break even on costs, or accept donations, or just cover the server expenses themselves because OpenSim is cheaper than renting land on Second Life. On the one hand, there are commercial grids. Then, after that, all their interactions are in-world. AviTron did not.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Meta is so now working on satisfying the needs of two categories of customers: consumers and prosumers , a clear pivot from the consumer-only launch of Quest 2. There are rumors about Half-Life: Alyx possibly coming to PSVR 2! I guess the idea of subsiding the Quest till success has proven to be not viable. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. The blog post is full of the usual fluff: it could have been written in 10 lines instead of a big wall of text. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless. The End-Of-Life (EOL) will occur 12 months after, on the 21.09.2024, when all Wikitude services will be shut down and stored data will be deleted. This is a small win for us.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 14, 2024

Those of us who are veterans of Second Life (and I have been a part of SL since spring of 2007) tend to forget the steep learning curve which tends to perplex newbies, and often leads to many of those new users to give up somewhere along the onboarding and orientation process, walking away from SL and never coming back. Let’s dive in.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 26, 2023

This article highlights another set of these tools, which have the potential to make life easier in a range of different ways. The sheer range of applications and platforms covered here also demonstrates how quickly AI is developing and diversifying and its potential impact on all aspects of life.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

The first one is that PC VR usage is not dropping after Half-Life: Alyx. Thanks to its great quality, and the fact that it was bundled with Half-Life: Alyx, the headset has sold very well, and it is now more used than the Rift CV1 on Steam (it now has 14.5% Learn more (Launch blog post) Learn more (Sample video). More info.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 7, 2023

The Second Life Destination Guide has had an overhaul! My answer is always the same: Second Life is the perfect model of a mature, fully-evolved virtual world, with a vibrant ecosystem and a still-thriving community, which many newer metaverse companies would be wise to study, learn lessons from, and (in some cases) emulate.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It was not a perfect day because I also had some work-related issues to cope with, but it’s part of life when you are working with cutting-edge technologies I’m curious to know how the holidays are going for you, so answer this post letting me know how life is going for you! I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

I’m not there (I’ve still never been to CES…), but as usual I will follow the news and report it on this blog, so stay tuned! The problem is that the device is coming out now, when the Valve Index is at the end of its life, and its first reviews are pretty negative.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

There are most probably many more people that failed doing VR games than the few ones whose success the big stores highlight in their blog posts. I have verified this myself too: thanks to the blog I run, and the various communities I am in, and my participation in many XR events, I get many requests for collaborations.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro.

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2017

Second Life studio Linden Lab launches open beta for Sansar , a VR world where you build and monetize your own VR content. Of course, what Sansar offers that Second Life never could is the ability to build from within VR. The post Start Building Your VR Second Life in Sansar appeared first on VRScout. Anything is possible.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Answer: if people go to a platform just to make money, that platform is not going to succeed) Are today’s virtual worlds so different from Second Life? I think this new price offering satisfied the needs of all categories of users. Answer: no) Do we really need 50,000 people to stay together in the same shard of a virtual world?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

The VR experiences Inside COVID19 and Felix & Paul Studios’ Space Explorers: The ISS Experience have been nominated at the Emmy Award in the Outstanding Interactive Program 2021 category, up against two other non-VR titles. Let’s hope one of the two will win! Read this comparison of AR frameworks. They see me bloggin’, they hatin’.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

I’m also working on a cool tech prototype and I will share it with you very soon in the next few days on this blog. Kuo now sustains that Apple told the manufacturers that the device may sell 7–10M units in its first year of life. Be sure not to miss it! Next week I’ll also be at AWE. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. Check out the best experiences of 2022 which won the various categories clicking the link here below. (PS pistols).

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 11, 2022

While examples of the second category are few in number, there has been an explosion of projects announced in the first category over the past couple of years. Projects without NFT land, but with an associated cryptocurrency (e.g. Sensorium Galaxy and NeosVR ).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

It is remarkable that there was no “VR category” this year, but VR was just a tag that games may have. More info Steam Next Fest showed interesting VR games Steam Next Fest has just finished , but it was interesting because it offered free demos of cool VR games like Hellsweeper VR, Davigo, or Stack.

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 14, 2022

While examples of the second category are few in number, there has been an explosion of projects announced in the first category over the past couple of years. Projects without NFT land, but with an associated cryptocurrency (e.g. Sensorium Galaxy and NeosVR ).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2021

This means we can have a distinct category of interaction and entertainment that is VR, as supposed to be just a subset of gaming. Michael Abrash said something that resonated with me: he said he was going to dedicate the next 10 years of his life to working on VR. You should be here for the next 10 years of your life.

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AUGray

JUNE 19, 2023

It highlights advantages and provides real-life examples for each category. Real-life examples demonstrate the effectiveness of XR in preventing machine downtime across various industries. The post Preventing Machine Downtime through Improved Maintenance Practices in Machinery Manufacturing appeared first on Augray Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I loved how they thought about making the life of us content creators easy, making us focusing only on one platform and then giving us for free all the other ones. In case you want to privilege other categories of users, e.g. making something for VR headsets and then port it to mobile AR and PC, it is not possible.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This makes sense considering that gaming is a very successful category of XR content. The content announced at this event hasn’t been stella r: there is no “Half-Life: Alyx” type of game that can attract the masses. We now know that there will be more attention to gaming regarding the content that will be developed for this headset.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This period I am busy as hell… it seems that life has decided that everything should happen to me in these last months of this year. NASA is using AR and VR a lot, and it has just released a blog post highlighting 9 ways it is using immersive technologies on the International Space Station. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. The game has also strong Half-Life vibes , and in the gameplay video that has just been released, they are clearly visible. There’s a lot to say about me, but I think you are more interested in the weekly roundup of news, so….

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

She thought "electro-pop" and "blog haus" described more musical genres than the culture as a whole. Two years later, an aesthetics documenter named Dalia Barillaro created a Facebook group called Indie über-sleaze, and CARI created an official aesthetic category of the same name on its website. But she needed a name.

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