The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

This doesn’t surprise me because in China many people told me that they were waiting for Oppo to make a move with a VR headset. HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. HTC is one of the best companies when it comes to XR for enterprise and it’s good that it is expanding its offering in the field.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Pre-release versions of beta tools such as Reality Composer, Create ML, Apple Configurator, etc… ?—?Engineering Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

FRL Research (the previous Facebook Reality Labs) has just published a blog post detailing the amazing research it is doing on audio for Facebook’s future AR glasses. HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. Remote XR collaboration tool Spatial ( read here my review about it ) has just released its 1.7

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

This is incredible and will help the development of better AI algorithms (also for AR and VR) Omniverse is going to add new tools for developers so that development teams can work together in the creation of games using the integration provided by Omniverse, which merges the work of everyone out of the box. million units. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Chinese giant Baidu (The Google of China) has announced its XiRang platform aimed at building the metaverse. The last feature is the one that makes me happier, because it shows that Meta is doing its best to add more parental control tools for the Quest and solve its “kids issue”. When two people quarrel, the third one… Funny link.

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NVidia VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Learn how the latest GPU-powered VR tools are taking people to places they can’t physically go, and see how these technologies can bring us together. If you want to bring people together in a virtual meeting, VIVE Sync is just the tool. Check out more tools and solutions that can help you work virtually , anywhere.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

DISCLAIMER: Before starting, I would like to acknowledge you that since some weeks Niels Bogerd has become a Patron of this blog. This way your gloves are powered and can communicate with your PC; Setup of the HTC Vive system. SenseGlove video review. As you can see, the hardware setup is not plug and play.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

One of them is that China is now the biggest market for XR , followed by the United States. More info (IDC Report) More info (IDC Report about China). Some of these companies are using Zoom, some others like HTC are using VR tools (like ENGAGE) , while others like OnePlus have used AR made by Blippar. billion by 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

Various months ago, I got from Lenovo a Mirage Solo headset for a limited period of time to review it on my blog. ” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. Then, keep reading.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

I have still to write the review here on my blog (eh, I have a backlog of at least 10 articles! :O), When I visited HTC’s Headquarters in Taipei, I didn’t only get some exclusive info on the Vive Cosmos , but I have also been able to try the Vive Pro Eye. It is a high-quality easy-to-use product for virtual tour creations.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

It’s a beautiful summer day and I’m quite happy because this week my blog has turned three years old ! This would mean that it has sold more than Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, and HTC Vive Focus all together. If you don’t know it, it is a creative tool offered by Facebook that lets you create easily AR filters (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. Here you are the integral interview that I had with Kelly Peng, asking her everything from Kura to the differences between the US and China (Kelly comes from Xi’an), not to mention her life as a startupper.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

NOLO and Arpara brings new headsets from China. What surprised me more is the launch of the Arpara VR , a headset from a company I had never heard of before, not even in my travels to China. More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached HTC is having RMAs issues with the Vive Pro 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a tradition of this blog to have a long roundup of the best XR news from CES every year. HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. Could I make an exception for this year? Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Prior to VeeR, I worked for Sierra Ventures, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley and led the Chinese investment in Ximalaya.FM (largest audio content platform in China at 6 billion dollar valuation) and Social Touch (largest social media SaaS company in China) which both successfully exited. You are very active on Quora.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

This is the week of this blog’s birthday and so I’m publishing a very special post, that I’m going to split into two parts. Me and my HTC Vive, obtained my the great VR man Nicolas Esposito. At the same time, we are creating our mixed reality fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded , that is made in collaboration with HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

The South China Morning Post reports that Bytedance is growing the number of Pico employees and it is also moving some senior managers from Bytedance to Pico. It is official news instead that Pico is partnering with Qualcomm on “XR hardware, software, developer tools, and technology road maps”. Donate for good.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The 3D printed version soon arrived from Ninja Prototype in China, I faced it with industrial-strength Velcro to mount aftermarket Vive face cushions which worked well, but fitting the wide gasket had the unfortunate effect of further reducing clearance for a headphone cable if wanting to use separate audio headphones.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

This is the current SteamVR controller pricing in GBP (shipping to UK) at the time the article was written: HTC Vive controller (2018) single £193 includes free shipping and tax HTC Vive controller (2018) pair £386.00 Ltd was founded by Robin Weng and associates in Shanghai, China in 2015. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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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 device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2020

I’m very glad to host in this blog his professional impressions on this VR accessory , that it’s very informative for all the VR community. Shipping Index with a single gasket was odd , considering Valve’s earlier collaboration with HTC which had seen the Vive shipping with both narrow and wide face gaskets in the box. .

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Today’s article is one of the most beautiful published in this blog in 2022. They offered several small amounts of cash, some dubious cryptocurrency, and parcels of virtual land in two different metaverses, but nothing that would fund the pre-production work and production tooling / assembly setup. Image by Rob Cole).

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Bytedance has huge money, has behind it a powerful and rich government, can sell its headsets in China, and so it has all the means it needs to compete with Meta. Meta starts offering monetization tools in Horizon Worlds, but with a big toll. Meta has started offering some beta monetization tools inside Horizon Worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Image by HTC). After some weeks of silence, HTC has started again to rise the hype for its upcoming flagship PC VR headset, the Vive Cosmos. HTC has not confirmed nor denied the price, but 90% of cases when this happens, the rumored price is true. Other relevant news. Vive Cosmos release is close and it may cost £700.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

No grey zones like HTC did in the past. And in fact, the prosumer Pico 4 Pro that has been announced in China for consumers won’t be sold in the West. More info (Pico launches Pico 4 Enterprise) More info (Pico 4 Pro not sold outside of China) More info (Pico 4 Enterprise vs Quest Pro vs Vive Focus 3). Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Let’s see how Xiaomi’s latest headset is illustrating the growing leading role of China in the VR industry, and its particularities compared to the Western market. Two out of the four HTC Vive X accelerators in the world are located in China, in Beijing and Shenzhen. Prelude: Xiaomi Mi VR Reveal. Reason Two: Investment Fever.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Alan: When I was in China, they have VR kiosks in a lot of the malls and some are attended, some are unattended. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. Out-of-home entertainment locations, I would say HTC is probably the leader. Bob: I wrote a blog post about that.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Alan: When I was in China, they have VR kiosks in a lot of the malls and some are attended, some are unattended. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. Out-of-home entertainment locations, I would say HTC is probably the leader. Bob: I wrote a blog post about that.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Is that what we’re seeing here?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Is that what we’re seeing here?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Alan: You think it's following a similar trend to mobile cell phones?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. The first tests with it have been pretty successful.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Other relevant news. It’s the right time to raise money for XR ventures, so if you have a startup…. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

During the interview we talked about practical stuff, like if HTC is working on a new product, and when we can expect to see lightweight AR glasses on the head of everyone. A lot of things have changed in your life since the last time we met: your role in HTC, the country you are in… So, how is life now?

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