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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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2022

Controllerless hand-tracking has been available on Quest for years at this point, and while it’s a more accessible input modality than using controllers, controllers are still the main form of input for the vast majority of games and apps on the headset. Notably, we rely heavily on direct interactions.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) is hosting the 4th International VR Awards on November 12. Here, we’ll look at what the event will look like, how to register, and – of course – who the nominees for the VR Awards are. About the VR Awards. However, all have equal access to the VR Awards themselves.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It is not my favorite season of the year, but it is going to bring with it many cool pieces of VR news, and many cups of hot chocolate, so I guess I will be very happy in the upcoming weeks…. Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages. Top news of the week.

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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! Some immersive games will be available at launch: Game Room, What the Golf?, and Super Fruit Ninja.

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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! This deprecation includes the Mixed Reality Portal app, and Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR and Steam VR Beta.” But before, let me list the most important XR news of the past week. (PS

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

I’m incredibly happy about having been hosted by Sebastian Ang (MRTV), one of my favorite VR content creators, in his weekly podcast on Youtube! We spoke about AR and VR for 2 hours and we were having so much fun that we could have gone on for other 2 hours without problems! Top news of the week. I mean, we all already knew this, Mark.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR. According to Gurman, Apple is also investing in games, which will be an important part of the experience. These changes are already taking place, and surprisingly, Meta has fired also people from its most popular VR game studios.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In a previous blog post , I explained the underlying XR (Extended Reality) technologies that enable the Metaverse. WebXR Logo What is WebXR To understand what WebXR is, you need to first understand what Extended Reality is, luckily for you I’ve already written a blog post all about that? Gaming Aframe.io Examples of WebXR?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2023

Please join the alpha launch of the VRROOM platform today Jan, 10th at 8 pm CET and live with us an original VR concert with three emerging French artists! installs are a +27% increase over 2021, which is considered a great year for VR. VR is popular among Gen-Z, it is confirmed also by…. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

Today I want to answer a question that from time to time people ask me: is it possible to make a living out of AR and VR? Yes, it is possible to live by working in the AR and VR fields. There are many people that earn enough in the AR and VR field and that don’t need to have another job. The short answer is yes.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

AR Foundation is typically used for AR devices, e.g. smartphones, and it’s the first time to my knowledge that is employed with a VR headset. Between the lines, he said that when VR games will be able to gain 10M users , then Xbox could be interested in going virtual. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for this tip!)

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AR Insider

APRIL 15, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is impacting every industry, and the AR/VR space is no exception. Some AR/VR firms have seen dramatic increases in interest — especially those, like my company Imeve, who are focused on collaboration tools like AVATOUR which can lessen the impact of distance. And of course, Apple’s AR/VR strategy is both, and.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2018

Oculus Launch Pad was created to “ensure diversity of thought in the VR ecosystem,” and focuses on women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, and people from other underrepresented backgrounds, the company says in a recent blog post. Image courtesy Oculus. This will be Oculus’ third Launch Pad.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Oxymore musical VR experience we of VRrOOm have organized with Jean-Michel Jarre went great; someone posted a tweet where he shows he finished our game HitMotion: Reloaded ; and one of my readers made an amazing meme about my tutorials. More info (Report on The Verge) More info (News reported by Road To VR).

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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. The gaming community right now (Image from Giphy). The hype is creating awareness.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I’m in the middle of this crazy October in which everything is happening in VR and I’m overworking like crazy. It can let you play lightweight VR applications, and also mirror the screen of your phone , so you can for instance watch Netflix on a big virtual screen. By the way, it’s a positive period, after all.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

This week VR is dead again. Like an out-of-season VR Halloween. which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded). Sorry to inform you about that. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2,

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest gain PC VR market shares. The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). The first one is that PC VR usage is not dropping after Half-Life: Alyx. Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

I feel a bit weird because I’ve discovered yesterday that I’m the subject of nightmares for Celine Tricart , a well-renowned VR creator. Facebook has given up on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to focus on EMG-based wristwatches , which are considered a more practical path for input in AR and VR. Top news of the week.

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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. He said that Apple is going to “ make VR into something everybody wants before it’s something that everybody can afford ”, like the original Oculus The trademark XROS has been registered by a shell company owned by Apple.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Pavlov VR , the Early Access VR shooter from indie developer davevillz , has a new badge under the ‘VR Support’ category on its Steam page which now indicates official support for Oculus Rift. Davevillz says updates have been sparse because of the upcoming Battle Royale mode, slated for a 2018 release.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The motto of the event is “Go With The Flow”, and Upload VR has discovered that HTC recently has trademarked the name “Vive Flow” , so it can be expected that the new device will have that name. What is the device is not clear, considering that the trademark has been associated vaguely with “AR and VR products”. Image by IGN).

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ARVR

JUNE 10, 2022

After using oculus for Development, Playing games, socialising and for fitness. These are of my personal feedbacks on each category. Games: The first thing I did in Oculus was to play the over hyped BeatSaber. Gaming in any VR would give you an immersive experience and oculus joins the list of one among.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Today I feature a very interesting blog post about Virtual Reality anime by Fedotov Maxim. And if it is the case, don’t forget to join Fedotov’s VR Anime Society community! You could say the anime fans and by extension, Japanese gamers, always dreamt of what would it be like to live in their favourite series or games.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2022

It is a modular system that can track either only your legs to let you walk naturally in VR , or your full body for cool dancing performances in VRChat. Hello Tugra, it’s nice to host you on my blog. Briefly, I’m a Tech Savvy, VR enthusiast who has a background in Electronics Engineering and Product Management.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As it is tradition of this blog, I have prepared a big fatty roundup with all the news announced at the latest Facebook Connect 2. Read more about this news: Founder’s letter by Mark Zuckerberg: [link] Design blog on Meta’s logo: [link] Facebook spending $10B for the metaverse: [link] Integral keynote of Facebook Connect 2: [link].

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. The blog post is full of the usual fluff: it could have been written in 10 lines instead of a big wall of text. Image by Epic Games). Top news of the week. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2021

I had the great pleasure to interview SVP of VR at Sony Pictures Jake Zim on his experience with developing, producing, and launching VR games inspired by Sony Pictures’ movies Spider-Man , Jumanji , Groundhog Day , and most recently, Zombieland. Here at Sony Pictures, we publish VR games and experiences across all platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR. CES brought some interesting news about AR and VR. The WTF prize of this CES goes again to Shiftall for its “innovative” Mutalk device: it is a box that you put in front of your mouth to have a better social VR experience. Image by CTA).

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Mashable VR

MARCH 24, 2022

Debates over whether or not video games can be considered art feel like a thing of the distant past. Aside from awarding buzzy VR documentaries, like The New York Times' Snow Fall and the Canadian Film Board's High Rise , it even honored a website called Transom.org. movie that accidentally invented the alternate-reality game.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. In a recent blog post highlighting the firm’s ten-year immersive journey, the company teased that new smart glasses are incoming. How will Meta use this data?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The only downside of the Expo area is that, as many people complained, there is nothing “new” AWE is not the CES, so every company is here with products it has already announced… with the only exception being The 8th Wall that has launched here its game Summit Scramble. The 8th Wall Reality Engine. Image by The 8th Wall).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s since when I launched my blog that I always dreamed of interviewing someone from Oculus , and finally today this dream has come true. Thanks to the huge help of VR Intelligence, that is organizing the VRX event, I have been able to speak with Sean Liu, Director of Product for VR at Facebook !

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

More info Palmer Luckey has expressed his opinion on Quest Pro and Vision Pro In an interview with Peter Diamandis, the father of modern VR Palmer Luckey has expressed his opinions on the Apple Vision Pro and the Quest Pro. If you want to buy some PCVR games, I suggest you give it a read! This is very good to hear. It’s a decent deal.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Among other things, I have written a fantastic post about the VR concerts worth millions of dollars that Pico is doing in China ; I have been interviewed in a podcast by Moonbase ; and this Saturday I will be close to Turin (Italy) speaking at a science and technology festival about my work in immersive concerts. Other relevant news.

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