The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of Meta, has shared a post on the company blog to underline the efforts made in XR by the company, and to hint about what will happen in the future. Japanese magazine Famitsu interviewed Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Hideaki Nishino and asked him many questions about PlayStation 5 and PSVR 2. Image by Meta).

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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! More info Quest Pro can now track your tongue In version 60 of its SDKs for Unity and native code, Meta has added the functionality of detecting how much you are pulling out your tongue.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

This is impressive Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Aerial View API instead lets you put inside your game (3D or VR) the 3D maps of the cities of the world, that is the 3D reconstruction of Google Earth. According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But not all the applications work well with hand gestures: for instance, most action games would suck with it. We have a couple of projects underway that are very exciting for us, in terms of creating some sort of game-type metaverse which can have collaboration with other parts of Sony,” Ryan added.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

It seems that the new players have found some other interesting games to play (or that are busy modding). 80% of Quest users don’t care about playing games on SteamVR and are only interested in playing on a standalone device. Image by Sony). It is not clear, and we hope that Sony will clarify his.(Theoretically

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Mashable VR

MARCH 30, 2022

TL;DR: You can save up to 90% on select games, bundles, and add-ons during the PlayStation Store's spring sale , which runs through April 27. SEE ALSO: PlayStation’s answer to Xbox Game Pass will evolve into 3 tiers. Credit: Sony. Save up to 90% on games, add-ons, and bundles. PlayStation Store Spring Sale.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Apple is also the owner of ARKit , a developer tool used by iOS developers to build mobile AR apps and games for iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). And both the journalists of Road To VR and Upload VR agree on the fact tha t it doesn’t represent an improvement for VR gaming yet. The result of all of this is that games run exactly as on a PS4 Pro, with no other advantage than faster loading times (thanks to PS5’s SSD drives). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Roblox) Roblox Beta has been launched for Quest Some weeks ago I reported here the announcement by Meta about an upcoming launch of the popular gaming platform Roblox on Meta Quest. This week the application has been launched in Beta and is accessible via App Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

I’m very tired because yesterday I was ironing out bugs on HitMotion: Reloaded together with the game designer Max until 3.40 According to the report, analyzing the orders made to the lens manufacturer, the two new headsets by Sony and Facebook should be released in 2022. This is impossible without Guardian.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

During its featured showcases, IGS Europe will also cover emerging XR technologies, including NFTs, crypto, blockchain, cloud computing, gaming, AI, and volumetric capture. Who is Coming? IGS Europe is hosting over 100 companies and speakers. IGS Europe will feature executives from many major XR firms and affiliated industry innovators.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2022

Of course not… Sony 3D Display. The first display I have been able to try has been at the Sony booth. I could play a bunch of small demos made with different engines, some about gaming, some with small volumetric videos, and I think that for all of them the 3D was of good quality. This is the picture of Sony 3D display.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Now you can play #VR FBT games anywhere in your house!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. Ubisoft is working on an AAA VR game. Sansar is on sale.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. 100+ games have exceed $1M revenue. The details of the deal are unknown.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

This kind of feedback can be interesting for instance during action games: when you are shot, you can get vibrations in the exact point of your body where you have been shot… and if you just got headshot, well, then you have to feel something on your head. Space Junkies is a great VR action game. Space Junkies is like that.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). It is now official: Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed on Instagram that the PlayStation VR 2 headset is going to launch in “early 2023”. Upload VR has reported that Capcom has revealed that the VR version of Resident Evil 8 will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show on PlayStation VR2.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. It comes in two flavors: one that works with physical disks and the other one with an internal hard drive to download games from the store.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Don’t forget to read the coverage about it on my blog… Before leaving you to the news, I have to publicly compliment Emerson for having given the most correct answer to my contest. This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

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). Meta has also released a small demo of a fitness game to prove how it works well. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2,

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

But at a certain point, Pico CEO Zhou Hongwei says “ We will launch a new generation of all-in-one product Pico Neo 3 in Q2 this year and continue to introduce global high-Quality VR games and applications.”. Maybe the release of the Quest 2 has forced them to level up the game. Sony announces new games for PSVR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info Get started with Apple Vision Pro development Unity has just released the tools to start developing for Apple Vision Pro and interested developers can already start experimenting with them. Who will it be… Sony or Meta? This game seems very interesting and in fact, some of its GIFs went viral on many subreddits.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

This is why all the most hardcore PCVR fans have insta-bought it: it could give games like Half-Life: Alyx a next-level visual realism. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

the GPU power of the previous model , and the comparison of the various games in their before vs. after versions is impressive. Finally with this chipset, games don’t appear just as flat colors anymore, but some real-time lighting becomes possible. Meta has also revealed that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is coming to Quest in December.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR. A game no one had ever hyped online. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. And the same happens with OpenVR!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room. I saw that there were people from Sony Interactive Entertainment. During the event, I was able to see (in streaming) Mark Zuckerberg live for the first time. There was a keynote by Neal Stephenson.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering. Pimax Crystal, as a high-end gaming VR headset, is currently not compatible with Tobii Ocumen.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is coming on April, 20th. Meta is back with its Gaming Showcase, and this year, it is going to be aired on April, 20th at 10 am PT. Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR.

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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. Finding some games to play. Doesn’t work with any games.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in. The idea is that if the phone is 5G, it could be used to play games from the Cloud.

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