The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

While people prepare to go on vacation, the XR news starts becoming less than before… but I’m still here telling you which are the most important ones! But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Others are working on legal actions. The posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless. And for the same reason, Meta has also discontinued Dead And Buried and Dead And Buried 2. RIP Cute friend.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Gorilla Tag is coming to the Quest Store! The ultra-popular indie game Gorilla Tag is finally coming to the Quest Store! It was an absurdity that this game had not been admitted to the Quest Store yet, but finally Meta surrendered to reject humanity and return to monke. Image by Meta). Prepare to return to monke.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I hope you will receive them, either via e-mail or via your dreams… Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Specs of Quest 3 leak together with the price of accessories Some major leaks keep happening about the Quest 3: the latest one happened when last week UnboundXR published by error the listing of the headset and all its related accessories.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 26, 2022

Meta announced today that it’s raising the price of its Quest 2 virtual reality headsets due to increased production costs. Starting on August 1st, the Meta Quest 2 will cost $399.99 The company has also warned that it’s increasing the price for Meta Quest 2 accessories and refurbished units.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

More games are experimenting with Gorilla-Tag-like movement mechanics , and 2. More games are experimenting with mixed reality, which is the trend of the year. Big kudos to all the VR game studios involved! This is its description that I lazily copy-pasted: AR/VR creators, this survey is for you.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

On one side, it’s good that Meta is trying to educate children on how to have a pleasant VR experience, but on the other side, I’m not a big fan of Meta targeting children. This means that these glasses that are able to shoot photos and videos are most probably going to be launched at Meta Connect.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I know, I’m too honest… and this is not good for views on my blog. It is the home country of Sony, so PlayStation VR and Meta itself have clearly expressed its interest in penetrating the market. On November, 30th, finally, Nreal has launched its Nreal light AR glasses in the US with the support of Verizon.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

But the release of the Apple Vision Pro has completely shaken up the industry and now many players are focusing on launching a competitor of Apple’s headset. The news of the week is that also Meta is moving fast for its Meta Quest Pro 2 : Zuck is expected to fly to South Korea to speak with the CEO of LG to finalize the partnership.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta may be working on a very cheap Quest and very expensive Quest Pro 2 Thanks to Twitter user Lunayian , I got to read an article written by a Korean magazine with some very interesting rumors about Meta. I’m not so sure that this is the kind of content people are looking for.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s Monday again, so it’s time for a new roundup of the coolest AR and VR news of the week! It is called Oxymore, and the tickets to enjoy it are free, but limited. Image by Meta). Tech giants’ XR wars are undergoing, and there are no rules. The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta. Beat Games).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Now a new fascinating hypothesis comes from China about Tencent VR: Tencent may be in talks with Meta about becoming a distributor of Quest 2 in China. Meta could sell a lot of headsets in China , a market which it can’t enter because of the block of everything Meta-related carried on by the Chinese government.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to this new edition of the XR Week Peek, which this week will be a bit special because I will summarize here what happened during the Meta Connect, the event during which Mark Zuckerberg launched the Quest 3, the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and new techniques for data harvest… cough cough I mean, new AI services.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

Currently, they are suitable only for taking photos and videos and answering phone calls, but Meta is already working on the next models, which should also integrate AR features. The third one, which should add AR functionalities, is the one to keep an eye on. It turns out I was wrong.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

So many exciting things are happening and I’m thankful to you all for the support you are giving me. Image by Meta). On October, 25th, the Meta Quest Pro has been officially launched , and the people who preordered it started to receive it. More info (Meta Quest Pro starts shipping) More info (Meta Quest Pro review?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Maybe Marc will finally be able to track legs on Quest thanks to this… This new Tracker has currently no name, and no associated release date or price tag. It’s interesting to see that while Meta is making some steps back in his public talking about the M-word, other major companies like Epic and NVIDIA are still bullish on this topic.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 14, 2024

Meta Horizon OS, the operating system that powers intuitive devices like the Meta Quest 3 , is no longer exclusive to Meta’s devices. The move highlights Meta’s desire to position its technology as the “Windows” of the spatial computing landscape, opening the door to endless innovation. What is Meta Horizon OS?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. The firm’s latest software release, Gemini, supports immersive, interactive, and realistic AR/VR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. It seems that more than 300 people worked on the project, which was headed by Clay Bavor, the head of AR/VR efforts at Google.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

And Pico doesn’t plan to curate it like Meta, so its ecosystem should be much more open. In a piece of separate news, Pico’s parent company Bytedance has also announced the public beta of Effect House, the AR filters editor for TikTok. But it represents Bytedance officially entering the consumer VR field, and challenging Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! This way, by reading this article, you are sure you have not missed any one of the announcements made there.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Together with the area update, this means for instance that two teams of four people can play inside a warehouse a laser tag game in VR. It is basically an SDK to build outdoor shared experiences that exploit the AR Cloud. Very few developers are still betting on it.

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