The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. million late last year with help from the likes of HTC, certainly seems to be doing that. VRChat also aims to offer deeper user customization with integration with Unity. The VRChat team, which raised $1.2

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. Meta adds video recording settings on Quest, at least for developers. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

I have written a little blog post about my participation there. On Reddit, I have also been able to watch the video of an indie developer showcasing its game Cradle Of Sins made with UE5, and another developer publishing a tutorial on how to get started with UE5 for PCVR. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you can essentially create a video that places you straight in the action—one that better communicates the immersion of a VR game than a simple first-person screen capture. image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

More info (FRL Official blog post) More info (Road To VR reporting and commenting the news) More info (Ctrl+Labs’s Dino Game Early Demo) More info (ETH’s experimental wristband). As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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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. SenseGlove video review. Have fun watching this review video. I know that you love my unboxing videos, so here you are my full unboxing of the SenseGlove gloves! What is SenseGlove?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. This means mainly two things: Livestreams and blog posts where the companies make the announcements that they would have made during the event. MRTV has reviewed the Pimax Artisan.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

It is now compatible with: Almost every codec UHD, 8k, and 12k playback All projection types i.e. fisheye, cube map, equirectangular, and cinema All stereo modes i.e 3d SBS, 3d tb, flat, 180, 190, 200, 220, 360 Check it out! Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). 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. You can read the Job description here. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. 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 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. Intel Labs can now transform a video in a 3D scene. More info (VirtuosityTech wanting to port old VR games) More info (Gameplay video of Dactyl Nightmare). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. Recorded or not, the result was so cool that videos of Ignite conference became viral in all the XR community. Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR). HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers.

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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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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the company’s own blog post , Senior Vice President of New Technologies Group, Josh Walden, stated the acquisition granted Intel with “low-power, high-performance SoC [System on Chip] platforms” that would help to accelerate its computer vision services. Read more on UploadVR. Bitmovin just raised $10.3 Read more on UploadVR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said. Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For sure you all know HADO: even if you don’t remember the name, you have for sure seen one of those viral video where people with an AR headset on the head throw fireballs each other. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This means having AR and VR on the same device ; A 5G modem ; 8K videos playback at 60fps; Accelerated AI so that to be able to perform objects recognition and other cool stuff on the camera feed. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

So it seems that the user will be able to see the videos he/she is recording, with the actual AR filters already applied in real-time. I mean… HTC controls five other social VR experiences in its XR Suite, it is weird that now it is partnering with a competitor company. I’ve seen the video about it, and it is pretty cool!

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Release date of Stride: Fates New gameplay video for Arizona: Sunshine 2 Rolling Stones pack for Beat Saber Trailer and Release date for Silent Slayer. Who We Are Push the boundaries of the virtual reality industry with us as we create a cross-platform, VR video streaming metaverse. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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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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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Outside of experiencing HaptX Gloves first-hand, we’ve found that video is the best medium to communicate how they feel, what they enable, and why they’re special. When we announced the HaptX Gloves Development Kit last month, a video trailer was a key ingredient to spreading the word. Choosing an approach, building a team.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. Since VRidge and our Unity Core Assets both take advantage of OpenVR, it’s possible for you to build and test your project using this minimal setup. See the full guide here or watch this video: 3. Additional latency.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2018

If you follow my blog since some months ago, for sure you know that I love the Aryzon headset. The app features videos with 3D animations that make immediately clear what are the steps you have to make to have your cheap AR headset ready to be used. I found the assembly incredibly easy.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If this happens , Facebook is going to disrupt completely the market, because it would be a headset offering so much for so little price, destroying the competition with Pico and HTC. HTC ecosystem conference brings news in eye-tracking and positional tracking solutions. But this is just a speculation at this time. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen. When watching Vermeulen’s videos, you can see that in some of his experiments he is using VR controllers in an AR environment. In a blog post entitled Prototyping future AR in VR , Vermeulen breaks down the VR headset he uses to create his unique AR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. Graphics Card : NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater CPU : Dual-core with hyperthreading or greater Memory : 8GB+ RAM Video Output : DisplayPort 1.2 or greater CPU : Quad-core with hyperthreading or greater Memory : 8GB+ RAM Video Output : DisplayPort 1.2

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. This is why I felt so honored when the company, now called UltraLeap, contacted me to have a preview of their new hands-tracking runtime, codenamed “Gemini” UltraLeap Gemini hands-tracking review video. UltraLeap Unity SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

HTC is shipping the Vive Focus 3. HTC has started shipping the Vive Focus 3, so we have started reading the first reviews about it. Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. LIV now lets you shoot mixed reality videos with just a phone. Other relevant news. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. This is also confirmed by the views on my blog, that from the vast majority come from America. Plus Huawei headset is compatible only with Huawei phones, while HTC is more open.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Instead of showing people how the “metaverse” is now with very rough images (that easily become memes) or how it may be in the future with some fluffy videos, Zuck has used the best technologies from the Meta R&D department: Meta’s Codec Avatars. So this version is still meant to take photos, videos, and have phone calls.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. Dean: Yeah.

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