The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0

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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. If you may be the right person, send me an e-mail to tonyvt AT skarredghost DOT com.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2020

This week in VR has been pretty explosive because of the announcement made by Facebook that will force VR people to have a Facebook account to use their VR headsets. At OC4, Zuck said that he wanted 1 billion people in virtual reality… inside Facebook (Image by Upload VR). New Facebook account policy.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

The Valve Index is for sure the big surprise for virtual reality in this 2019. After having only been behind the curtains for what concerns creating Virtual Reality headsets, Valve has finally decided to create its own device , and as you may imagine, it is a very special one. Is this VR 2.0? Not completely.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

If you follow the evolutions of the virtual reality ecosystem, for sure you know this name: it is a Finnish startup working on developing a headset that features human-eye resolution. Thanks to Road To VR for this explanatory GIF). Varjo makes human eye resolution VR headsets and brings those to the market this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 10, 2019

and I am so analyzing this headset from all the points of view. As one of the first developers for the Vive Focus Plus (since the 6 DOF devkit times), I am also able to evaluate all the pros and the cons of this headset with regard to its main competitor (as I did in this post ). To me and other people, this sounded completely absurd.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And of course, between a glass of champagne and a slice of panettone, there is still time for VR, so here you are a collection of best VR news of the past week! I’m talking about: inviting people in your Oculus Home, having a text chat with an Oculus friend, create events, share what you’re doing in VR on Facebook, and so on.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2023

2022 was a strangely slow year for VR. from independent studio Triband, as our 2022 VR Game of the Year. While the game is spectacular and completely, 100% deserving of the title, it also released in a year with a distinct lack of ‘AAA’ (or as close as VR can get to AAA) titles, which gave it more room than normal to shine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

I hoped that in this period all VR people were in vacation, so that I could relax a bit… instead this week there have been tons of interesting news and articles… even more than usual! The SIGGRAPH has shown some interesting AR/VR solutions. Discover the hottest XR topics of the week in this roundup post…. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

So I’m sorry if in these days I’m not very active on social media and I’m not publishing many posts on my blog… I can’t really find the time. And I also hope you will support me… we of NTW really need the support of all the VR community! Image by Upload VR). Asgard’s Wrath raises the bar of VR gaming. October, 9th 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is a software solution that lets you connect your Oculus Quest to the PC so that you can “transform” your Oculus Quest into a PC VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That said, inviting you to support this blog on Patreon , so that I can keep hosting these amazing articles, I leave you to Rob’s post, that is like a tiny book, on the journey of developing Project Caliper. The post is very long, but also super-interesting, especially if you are a maker or love DIY stuff. Enjoy your read. Introduction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

From headsets to haptic suits, there is going to be a lot of accessories and apparel in XR to chose from, including some that expand senses you didn’t even know were XR-compatible. Antony is an XR consultant and author of an amazing blog called The Ghost Howls. You’ve got VR headsets, AR headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

From headsets to haptic suits, there is going to be a lot of accessories and apparel in XR to chose from, including some that expand senses you didn't even know were XR-compatible. Antony is an XR consultant and author of an amazing blog called The Ghost Howls. You've got VR headsets, AR headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

From headsets to haptic suits, there is going to be a lot of accessories and apparel in XR to chose from, including some that expand senses you didn’t even know were XR-compatible. Antony is an XR consultant and author of an amazing blog called The Ghost Howls. You’ve got VR headsets, AR headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

And that eventually — that and a music blog and I was doing at the time — introduced me to the guy who started Splash House, which is a smaller music festival in Palm Springs. Alan puts it best in this episode of XR for Business: Sam Schoonover’s job with Goldenvoice is to create “wow” moments at music festivals like Coachella.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

And that eventually — that and a music blog and I was doing at the time — introduced me to the guy who started Splash House, which is a smaller music festival in Palm Springs. Alan puts it best in this episode of XR for Business: Sam Schoonover’s job with Goldenvoice is to create “wow” moments at music festivals like Coachella.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

And that eventually -- that and a music blog and I was doing at the time -- introduced me to the guy who started Splash House, which is a smaller music festival in Palm Springs. Alan puts it best in this episode of XR for Business: Sam Schoonover’s job with Goldenvoice is to create “wow” moments at music festivals like Coachella. Me as well.

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