The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I’ve just been interviewed by XR Must and I’m visiting an amazing XR company (you’ll discover which one very soon…), so things are going well. Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). By the way, it’s a positive period, after all.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

Google is discontinuing Google Glass, even in its Enterprise Edition which found some fields of application in the B2B sector (e.g. Starting March 15th, Glass Enterprise 2 won’t be on sale anymore. What we don’t know is when it is going to happen, and if the new glasses will be for consumers or the enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The headset is also very small and lightweight thanks to the use of pancake lenses. This is the first newsletter of the Autumn! It is not my favorite season of the year, but it is going to bring with it many cool pieces of VR news, and many cups of hot chocolate, so I guess I will be very happy in the upcoming weeks…. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

You can see why at this LinkedIn post: [link] And now let’s dig into the most interesting pieces of XR news of the week. Two very important updates that are worth a mention are: the added support for MDM (Mobile Device Management) systems, that enable the use of Apple Vision Pro in enterprise settings. More info (VisionOS 1.1)

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2022

According to Sarthak Ray, a product manager at Meta, the ability to see and interact with the world around you through mixed reality opens up new opportunities for VR. This means that the headset has to do more than just provide a 2D video feed, according to a recent blog post on Oculus.com.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2023

Exactly one week ago, Apple announced the Apple Vision Pro, its first XR headset. It will be a shorter and maybe not-so-exciting newsletter, but I will be happy of having shed some light on other interesting pieces of news from this week in XR Stay tuned for my roundup about the Apple Vision Pro coming in the next few days!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I have to say that also from my personal experience, it is true: now it’s the time to harvest for us VR people. I work in the XR field since 2014 , and I’ve been able to follow almost all of its hype cycle. I work in the XR field since 2014 , and I’ve been able to follow almost all of its hype cycle.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

First come, first served, so don’t hesitate too much…. First of all, Resolution Games has not stepped back from being a partner of Facebook’s: 3 hours after announcing its retreat from the use of VR ads, Resolution games had made another tweet announcing that probably ads will be implemented in “Bait!”, Are you ready?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

It’s curious that actually in Italy we celebrate this in March… but who cares, whenever is the day, it’s always good to celebrate our daddies I’ll be very upfront with you: this week in XR has been very boring, so you won’t find super-news here below, but there are some interesting things that have happened in our ecosystem anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

This hasn’t been the most interesting week ever for XR, because we had no big news. The journal has been able to access some internal statistics by Meta, and especially three points are relevant: Across its lifetime up to October 2022, Beat Saber has generated over $255 million in revenues and was played monthly by 1.47

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a tradition of this blog to have a long roundup of the best XR news from CES every year. I hope it can be useful for all those people like me that weren’t able to attend this huge tech event in person. Well, this year, XR presence at CES was good. Could I make an exception for this year? Of course not.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

Ever since Ernest Cline’s book Ready Player One was released and then followed up by Speilberg’s movie version, VR enthusiasts have been seeking a metaverse experience where they can feel the virtual world around them, whether it be a hug from a friend, a playful punch in the arm, or even laser blast to the chest.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

My blog has just turned 4 years old and I’m incredibly happy about it! New Oculus Venues gives us a glimpse of Facebook Horizon. Oculus Venues, in case you forgot, is that VR experience that lets you enjoy some important event (like an NBA match) in a big auditorium together with many other VR users. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

More reports are coming out about Meta ahead of its annual Connect event. Recently, Meta handed out free Quest Pro MR headsets at the recent Roblox Developer Conference (RDC) 2023, an XR showcase event highlighting how the child-focused gaming platform is going fully immersive and expanding its offerings to suit new use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

It has just announced VISOR, a new high-end headset to be used together with its app. It’s been a bit of a crazy week for me, and I hope it has been a bit more relaxing for you. I just send you a lot of good vibes, hoping that this summery week will bring you sun, fun, and joy.

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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! I truly hope this can be useful for all of you in the XR community… How to read this post.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There are three main critics: The price is too high , like 4 times the price of a Quest 2 There is not a clear use case yet. Even if it is not part of the Italian tradition, probably Halloween is the right festivity for me, since I’m a ghost :). Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Happy Women’s Day to all the women in XR ! There are many women in XR I personally know and I’m honored to have them in my community because they are incredibly smart and passionate. There are many women in XR I personally know and I’m honored to have them in my community because they are incredibly smart and passionate.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. Kura promises to deliver lightweight AR glasses with astonishing features like 150° FOV, 8K resolution per eye, and outdoor use thanks to some breakthrough innovations they are working on. Hello Kelly!

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

You can sign up at the registration page here , with registration links periodically going live on a week-by-week basis. Check out the schedule below: Tuesday, March 31 – A Step Ahead of the Curve: Using Data Trends to Build a Successful VR Experience. Tuesday, April 14 – Working Remotely in VR using?Vive?Sync. Development.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But while you wait for the days in which you can relax a bit, enjoy this collection of the most interesting XR news of the week! A new week, a new set of rumors about the upcoming Apple Reality One, the most awaited headset in the history of XR. of the Metaverse : “Apple is always coming next year, every year”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Reality Processor” may refer instead to the architecture of the chipsets , which uses an M2 chipset as the main processing unit, an ISP processor for image analysis, and a third chip that is meant to connect the two. Now we have just to wait for the headset, which is coming “next year”… as we say every year. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

Luckily, we had not huge news about XR this week, so my work has been a little easier. Before I leave you to the big news of the week, don’t forget to register to NVIDIA GTC using my unique referral code: [link] ! I thank everyone that made my days so awesome, and I hope to meet you again soon! It was even featured on Google News.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

I’ve gone hands-on with Roblox Beta and I’ve come out with mixed impressions. On one side, it has so many available worlds in it, that it is basically providing a place with infinite content to all of us VR people. It’s the last of July, the weather is hot, and today I had a very hot day at work, too.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Today I’ll travel to the US to be a speaker at AWE , and I hope to meet you all there. I should be packing my suitcase, but instead, I’m here writing this newsletter so that you can enjoy the roundup of best XR news even this week. By the way, stay tuned on this blog to read about my experience at AWE!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” ” Usually, the question is very vague and doesn’t even define exactly what is the sector of XR of interest.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. March has just started… I hope it will be an amazing day for you and for all the AR/VR ecosystem! Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2024

Meta and others in the industry are ramping up for a busy 2024. For enterprise, the Menlo Park-based firm is deeply exploring potential use cases for industrial Metaverse solutions through its VR and MR headsets lineup. and 256GB devices cost $269.99.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

It’s been a fun 1st of April for the whole XR community, with many jokes and pranks being released in the wild. Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is coming on April, 20th. Among Us and Cities: VR will be featured in the Showcase , and also Tripwire Interactive , the studio behind Espire 1, hinted about its presence there.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Currently, Unity is the most widely-used gaming engine, used to create virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) experiences for individual developers and enterprises. Many with their own XR-related enterprises have hit back at the new pricing scheme. However, Unity’s introduction of a $0.20

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

This incredible week with the launch of many enterprise headsets has passed by, and now we go back to the usual business (pun intended). The Vive Focus 3 Business Edition is instead a complete overhaul of the Vive Focus aimed at making it the best enterprise headset on the market. HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

Senseglove is an “affordable” enterprise haptic glove and it has just been upgraded to a version that is much more comfortable and usable than the last one. The gloves are now fully wireless (do you remember the thick cables with the big box that I had to set up??) We had no big reveal, no breakthrough innovation showcased.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. In a recent blog post highlighting the firm’s ten-year immersive journey, the company teased that new smart glasses are incoming.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I host a new post by my friend and VR professional Rob Cole , who has already published many interesting posts on my blog, including a review of Pimax Sword controllers , a series of hack on how to modify the Valve Index , and his experiements in creating new innovative controllers for SteamVR. Bridge Crew (Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Tablet mode may be a reference to how to launch 2D Android apps because a Facebook employee has inadvertently revealed that employees can already use some 2D apps like GDoc inside the Quest. This week has not been very important for AR and VR: no major event has happened. Other relevant news. Image from NOLO).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

An XR immersive experience employs various elements that allow it to be as fully immersive as possible for commercial and enterprise end-users. XR developers can leverage features like spital audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

An XR immersive experience employs various elements that allow it to be as fully immersive as possible for commercial and enterprise end-users. XR developers can leverage features like spatial audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user.

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