The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. The Chinese VR ecosystem is very active and it is evolving pretty fast: this summer I have been in China and I met some cool startups that are working on software (e.g. 7invensun for eye tracking addons). 7invensun for eye tracking addons).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

The Pico Neo 3 was already sold as a consumer device in China, but recently my Chinese assistant Miss S reported that there was a big marketing push on Pico headsets on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok (always owned by Bytedance, of course). Bytedance and China. The logo of ??, the Chinese version of TikTok (Image by Bytedance).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2019

In Beijing, I have visited again my friends of 7Invensun , one of the worldwide leaders in eye tracking technologies. During my first visit , they showed me some cool prototypes: a prototypical eye tracking add-on for HoloLens and a prototypical Vive Focus with embedded eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Just the time to eat some homemade pasta and I got a cold, which mixed with the jet lag of the trip from China, means that I’m truly having some great days But nothing can stop me from writing the roundup of the best AR/VR news of the week for you, my lovely readers! But now some data about it is starting to be found.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Pico 4 Pro should feature next-gen functionalities like RGB passthrough, eye tracking, face tracking, and automatic IPD adjustment. More info (Pico teasing a launch in China) More info (Pico announcing the launch of the new device in the West). you have access to camera data). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

During the Chinese counterpart of the event, the V2EC, Vive has also announced two other interesting pieces of news: The 7Invensun Droolon F2, an eye-tracking add-on for the Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, coming soon for $299. PSVR2 may feature 4K display and eye tracking. Pico Neo 3 launch has been a success in China.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Yesterday was Chinese Lanterns’ Festival… my best wishes to you all, especially a big hug to all people that are still in China and are living very hard times… ??! And the fact that it features AR and eye tracking is for sure awesome. A lot of data that will be very useful to Facebook to create its Live Maps functionality.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico Neo 3 Pro, and its sibling Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye (featuring eye-tracking), are the latest enterprise headsets by Pico. They are the business counterpart of the Pico Neo 3 , the consumer headset that Pico is selling in China for around $400, hoping to kickstart a consumer VR ecosystem there. Pico Neo 3 Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

The Vive Pro Eye is the latest enterprise product by HTC, that is a Vive Pro with embedded the eye tracking by Tobii. It also enables better data analysis on what the user is doing (Eh Zuck, you want our eyes’ data… I know that!) The Vive Pro Eye adds to it eye tracking.

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VRScout

APRIL 18, 2019

Augmented reality (AR) patents protect technological elements and pieces of data such as video, sound, and mapping technologies that enhance the real-world experience. The glasses use eye-tracking sensors to gather “gaze information of the user in order to improve the quality of content provided for rendering on the head-mounted display.”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

It will work with PlayStation 5 and offer amazing clarity, next-generation haptics, and for the first time on a consumer device, eye tracking. Pico already dominates the VR landscape in China, where Meta can’t officially enter, and now it wants to be big also in the West. What will happen? Google Glass v2.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

The report found that Meta’s Quest 2 as well as China’s DPVR and Pico VR headsets were among the most popular devices in this category. Precise eye-tracking. Eye-tracking data is collected by an integrated eye-tracking system used for debriefing and behaviour analysis.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the listing, Pico revealed more details on the upcoming device, including 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF), eye tracking, and face tracking. In July, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr posted an open letter on his Twitter account accusing Bytedance of gathering data for the Communist Party of China via TikTok.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The leak came from China and talked about the Pico 5 product line going to feature the Pico 5, Pico 5 Pro, and Pico 5 Pro Max (yes, like the iPhones). Aero is not so small as BigScreen Beyond, but it features a higher resolution and supports eye tracking. It’s good to see the price of pro headsets coming down!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

These are its specifications: Qualcomm XR2 chipset 4K low-persistence 90 Hz Curved Display 3664 x 1920 resolution, 773 PPI 98° FOV 6GB RAM (2133 Mhz) / 8GB in the Pro Eye version 128GB/256GB storage Wi-Fi 6 connectivity USB-C 3.0 In the West, it will be sold only as an enterprise device. Demeo is the VR game of the moment. Take the survey!

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2018

ms, which leaves plenty of room for addressing data considering comfortable VR viewing typically has an upper limit of 20ms, a.k.a. Both the Japan-based JID group and China-based INT are presenting their respective VR display panels at SID Display Week, which are respectively a 1,001 PPI LCD (JDI) and a 2,228 PPI AMOLED (INT).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2024

billion, driven by investments in servers, data centres, and network infrastructure. To interact with virtual objects, BILT’s Vision Pro solution enables frontline workers to collaborate on digital twins using ultra-high-resolution displays, eye tracking, hand tracking, and voice commands.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2024

Apple’s outlined elements help to provide a spatial computing experience for users, including deep considerations for XR space, immersion, passthrough, spatial audio, eye tracking, hand tracking, ergonomics, and accessibility. These elements allow users to interact easily with 3D assets and XR applications.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 16, 2022

Numerous groups, from consumers, analysts, companies, and governments, are working to address these novel concerns over key issues such as biometrics, data, security breaches, privacy, and data ownership. XR Today: How can the average consumer protect their data and privacy on an XR device? What are enterprises doing to prepare?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Talking about AR glasses and smart startups producing them, another cool company to talk about is Lynx. But honestly, I would believe that only when I try it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some people also suspected that by abandoning the Facebook login, it will be less easy also to subsidize the price of the headset with the data, but honestly, I don’t think that there won’t be data harvesting on Meta accounts. Pancake 1C: 1600×1600 resolution, 2,999 yuan ($444), preorder August 26, shipping September (China).

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

” Very few major manufacturers have released sales data on their VR headsets, with Sony being the exception when they said that PSVR had already sold over 2 million units back in December 2017. Amazon does provide a good watermark for how any given product is faring, but it’s not everything, HTC says.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Zuck also didn’t address much the theme of privacy and how much data harvesting in VR could be dangerous. Probably the sentence “five years from now people will primarily think about us as a company harvesting data on the metaverse, rather than doing it on mobile phones” wouldn’t have sounded much sexy, so he avoided speaking about this.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

If you built an application without these patterns, the device was useless… an eye-tracking add-on was more practical than the NextMind dev-kit in a VR scene. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. million units. Decentraland hosted the Metaverse Fashion Week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2020

It is a 6DOF standalone headset with inside out positional tracking and magnetically tracked controllers. The word “Eye” stays there to remember us that this headset includes integrated eye-tracking out of the box. There is also a version of the Pico Neo 2 that doesn’t feature eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

In v1 it was only possible to enhance the central part of the frame, while in this new version, VRSS integrates dynamic gaze tracking, and will be able to move its high-quality region so that to make it stay where the user is looking. I also expect it to be consumer-oriented in China. I think it is pretty explicit.

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NVidia VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The China-based company’s software cloud platform, Mars , applies VR technology to project workflows. The management team of Ford’s design department is using VR at home to inspect and provide feedback on digital design data, including collaborative, immersive sessions with their team.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2021

The only advantage that new entrants may have is that people don’t like Facebook: while everyone loves Steam and its good lord GabeN, no one likes Zuck and many people are scared about how their data is treated by Facebook. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

And on the other side, it could be used for biometric authentication to perform payments in XR (where entering your card data is a true pain). Thanks to downward cameras, the device should be able also to offer legs tracking , for more realistic avateering. Remember: we are still in the early days. New info about IVAS glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. Be careful that I haven’t tried the Quest myself and in any case, the Quest has still not released and the Focus has only been released in China, so both devices could see future impredictable updates. The never-ending story.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

There’s been quite a lot of studies done in the last couple of years, and data developed, where the time for immersion — at this stage with the technology — is under 60 seconds. It’s trying to figure out how to expedite those clinical trials, and bring the data to the forefront faster. Alan: The Merge guys.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

There’s been quite a lot of studies done in the last couple of years, and data developed, where the time for immersion — at this stage with the technology — is under 60 seconds. It’s trying to figure out how to expedite those clinical trials, and bring the data to the forefront faster. Alan: The Merge guys.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

There's been quite a lot of studies done in the last couple of years, and data developed, where the time for immersion -- at this stage with the technology -- is under 60 seconds. It's trying to figure out how to expedite those clinical trials, and bring the data to the forefront faster. Bob: When did you go to China?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A talent show with virtual idols starts in China. They are most popular in the Far East of the world (Japan, China, Korea), but are becoming increasingly important also here in the West. They are most popular in the Far East of the world (Japan, China, Korea), but are becoming increasingly important also here in the West.

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