Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2018

” Posting on his personal blog , Luckey is critical about the overall usability of the headset, calling it “less of a functional developer kit and more of a flashy hype vehicle that almost nobody can actually use in a meaningful way, and many of their design decisions seem to be driven by that reality.” than Consumer AR 1.0.

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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. The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Microsoft is rolling out development kits for the first VR headset made by Acer later this month, but in a blog post announcing that news, it dropped an even juicier detail. Tagged with: GDC , microsoft , project scorpio.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses. It’s interesting to read that our friend Thrillseeker has helped in the testing and refinement of the game Platformer with Gorilla-Tag inspired movement “Toss!” who’s there?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 6, 2017

His book, “ Beginning Windows Mixed Reality Programming: For HoloLens and Mixed Reality Headsets ,” is available now. ” And for a detailed tear down of components in the Acer Windows VR dev kit, check out this blog post from Shachar Weis.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Honestly, from my experience with similar simulators (the one for the HoloLens was great, too), I can tell you that these pieces of software are nice to verify the overall logic of the application, but they can’t give any insight about its UX and usability. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 19, 2017

In a recent blog post on the official Wizards of the Coast website, company President Chris C s elaborated on the company’s forthcoming ‘moves’ in the digital space. “The dream, the dream for me, on AR—when I first saw the HoloLens demo I thought, oh my god, yes,” Stewart said. That’s amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Our software and hardware engineering and research teams have used a variety of equipment that rides on top of our in-house developed technosports platform , ranging from the HTC Vive Pro and its motion detectors, the (now unfortunately defunct Myo) sensors, the ZED stereo cameras, and Microsoft’s HoloLens.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

Rony Abovitz also went on to publish a short blog post giving what he describes as a “glimpse behind the scenes at Magic Leap.” Crucially, however, the display was fully transparent, and the field of view was significantly wider than what you get with HoloLens. Tagged with: finger food , Magic Leap , waveoptics.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). Blogging is something very important for me… I don’t care if only one person is reading me, if that person likes or finds useful what I post, then it’s fine.

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on Quora Read Mark Metry 's answer to Can I convert a normal blog/website to a virtual reality website? on Quora Powerhouses and Rising Stars Read Mark Metry 's answer to What games/simulations would you show to people in the HTC Vive and Hololens to demonstrate the potential for VR/AR/MR in corporate learning?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft has also announced a partnership with Niantic , and they even showcased a “Prototype of Pokemon Go with HoloLens 2”. In the end, it is interesting to read on Wired that according to Kipman, the demand for HoloLens 2 is 4–5x the one for HoloLens 1. Gorilla Tag is the last VR phenomenon. But we’ll get there.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — CNET) More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — Hand Tracking) Sony to make PSVR 2 compatible with PC To celebrate the first anniversary of PSVR 2 , Sony has written in blog post in which it talks about how it is improving the content catalog its users can access.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Magic Leap managed to stimulate a lot of hype for its headset, which should have revolutionized XR and instead turned out to be just a HoloLens clone. The idea of the team is to take the best of Echo VR and Gorilla Tag and create an e-sport that can make people bond in VR like they did with Echo. It’s the end of an era.

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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. For a consultancy on HoloLens, we borrowed one. Here on my blog I am experimenting with different income sources (Patreon, Adsense, Amazon Affiliate, Sponsored Posts, etc…).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you have ever used HoloLens, they are exactly like the HoloLens widgets. Augments are 3D widgets you can add to your room in mixed reality, and they can be just beautifications, like trophies from Beat Saber, or little utilities, like a little virtual screen that shows to you Instagram reels.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. If you want to support my blog in informing the AR/VR community, consider making a donation to it on Patreon! The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. The geo-coordinates can be tagged with an augment content and triggered once the user reaches a specific point.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

The waveguides used in Microsoft’s HoloLens, are of Nokia’s design, modified with the housing turned upright, with the micro-displays placed above the eye. In 2006, while working at Ogilvy, he launched the blog GigantiCo to discover what had come of VR and explore the emerging AR industry.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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