The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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. Others have even threatened the safety of the employees. This is a small win for us.

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Upload VR

APRIL 22, 2023

Meta is opening up its online social worlds to teenagers in the United States and Canada. Meta's official policies have limited Horizon Worlds to those age 18 and older since it launched, as Meta switched from backing the service with a Facebook account to rebranding its whole operation and launching Meta accounts.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

Meta launches Horizon Worlds in Europe and promises graphical improvements. Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. Honestly, as much as I don’t like some practices by Meta, I think that all this criticism was a bit unfair.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

All of us have memories of Altspace, also because it was one of the first applications paving the way to social VR: I remember Altspace being one of the first applications reviewed on my blog. From now on, it will probably just rely on the partnerships with other XR players like Meta. Altspace is sunsetting on March, 10th. This is fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Quest 3 launch is approaching Meta is following a strategy for the launch of the Quest 3 that is very different from the one that it used for the previous headsets. All these official pages before the launch of a Meta headset are pretty uncommon. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for this tip!)

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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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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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Mashable VR

MARCH 16, 2022

Today, content comes in all shapes and forms (TikTok videos, blog posts, Instagram Stories, product descriptions, Facebook posts, etc.), Templates can be used for blog posts, website content, social media, and other marketing needs. There’s even designated blogging tools to take content to the next level.

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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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Mashable VR

MARCH 13, 2022

Today, content comes in all shapes and forms ( TikTok videos , blog posts, Instagram Stories, product descriptions, Facebook posts, etc.), Templates can be used for blog posts, website content, social media, and other marketing needs. There’s even designated blogging tools to take content to the next level.

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Mashable VR

MAY 11, 2022

You can use the templates for blog posts, website content, social media, and other marketing needs. Just choose one from the category and subcategory list, name and set a date for your writing, fill in custom details and preset tags, and let the AI generator do the rest. Need a variety of articles to drive traffic to your blog?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

More games are experimenting with Gorilla-Tag-like movement mechanics , and 2. Preteen accounts will have their social profile set to private by default and they still won’t be able to use Meta Horizon Worlds. I do not know what to think about this. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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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. Gorilla Tag reaches 1.5M Gorilla Tag is one of the craziest success stories in VR. players milestone.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector.

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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. Who is as excited as me?

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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. the unit will have a price tag of $199 USD per unit. Building on the successes of the HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0,

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Image by Meta). On October, 25th, the Meta Quest Pro has been officially launched , and the people who preordered it started to receive it. I think that part of the problem is a misunderstanding on purpose: Meta is selling the device as a prosumer one, but also as an advanced way to play games. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

Image by Meta). The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta. 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. Meta is all-in with dominating the field and is being very aggressive.

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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. That’s why for me the news of Roblox on Quest is so huge, and that’s why I’m convinced it is going to help Meta in having great Quest 3 sales these holidays.

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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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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 - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Hyper-realistic avatars like the Codex avatars by Meta could allow users to hide their identity or even make it possible for children to appear as adults. Services from Google and Meta lead their operations via ad revenues collected, focusing on ad targeting based on user data. Meta has taken several measures in this direction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products.

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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. But it represents Bytedance officially entering the consumer VR field, and challenging Meta. Image by Meta). Meta starts offering monetization tools in Horizon Worlds, but with a big toll. of the earnings will go to Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. More info (Google killed Project Iris — Road To VR) More info (Google killed Project Iris — Upload VR) Other relevant news Meta launches its gaming subscription service We were expecting it for a long time, and in the end, it came. That’s great news.

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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! Meta Quest Pro. Meta Quest Pro announcement video. Meta Quest Pro and controllers (Image by Meta).

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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. Image by Meta). This Meta commercial is a total what-the-f. Other relevant news. Image by Niantic). News worth a mention.

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