The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

I’m trying to do my best… I hope you’ll appreciate that Before leaving you to the news… I’m hosting a giveaway of Gang V keys… it is a cool VR battle royal game with strong GTA V vibes that has just been released in Early Access on Steam ! This game will attract many fans of the saga to the Quest, increasing its sales even more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. With the solution, users can leverage the following tools: FreeD plug-and-play capabilities for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Low-latency performance.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Vive Wave is a clear step forward in bringing together the highly fragmented mobile VR market that has growth up in China the last several years. Furthermore, its high-resolution AMOLED screen realizes the best possible VR experience, with low latency and unmatched clarity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

95% of the content is about the vision of the future “metaverse” in which we all are always in XR , we work, we connect with other people physically distant away, we attend events, we play multiplayer games, etc… all in XR. Luckily there is 5% of information there that I’ve actually found interesting. I mean, we all already knew this, Mark.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Roblox) Roblox Beta has been launched for Quest Some weeks ago I reported here the announcement by Meta about an upcoming launch of the popular gaming platform Roblox on Meta Quest. This week the application has been launched in Beta and is accessible via App Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It will be released in 25 worldwide markets, so it won’t be a China-only headset. Anyway, while in the West it will be sold as an enterprise device, in China it will target both enterprise customers and the mass market. The latency is really a lot less perceivable. Regarding the release date: somewhere in Q2 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

(Image by Cloudhead Games). Pistol Whip is going to be the next great VR game. Pistol Whip, the new game by Cloudhead Games, is slated for release on November, 7th for Oculus Quest, Rift and SteamVR. On the same day, an arcade version of the game will be released in LBVR locations through Springboard VR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages. I invite you all to see the video I’m linking below to see how this can be cool to give a new life to many old games. The game will also be released on Steam so that to please the current PCVR fanbase of Stress Level Zero.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. According to the leaker, the game was playable, but the overall quality was not that good. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In my opinion, these are the trends to keep an eye on: The continuous growth of the market Establishment of VR in enterprise settings Incremental technical evolution of devices Blurring of the line between AR and VR High-quality content (especially gaming) 5G over-hype Standardization given by OpenXR Others (LBVR, WebVR, SocialXR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today Tilt Five is launching its Kickstarter campaign for its innovative augmented reality glasses for tabletop gaming. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Using actual props in the game with Tilt Five (image by Tilt Five).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

This conveniently allows access to applications with low-latency, industry-grade GPU acceleration and streaming capabilities for multimodal use. CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Minecraft Earth was a game that had the potential of competing with Pokemon Go, but its shutdown has been announced some weeks ago because the lockdown has hurt its launch and adoption. NuEyes and Shadow Creator+Photon Lens should do something similar, while I guess that Rokid will focus more on China and Jio Glasses on India.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. They are known as the XR line of processors and the XR2 currently powers a few smart glasses in other markets such as China. In the world of XR, one of the most talked about terms is called M2P or Motion to Photon latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alan: 6D.ai I got to play it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alan: 6D.ai I got to play it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alan: 6D.ai I got to play it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

And I’m not only talking about some slow enterprise demos but also the shooter game HyperDash and the fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded where controller speed is critical. Device pairing and management via Vive Manager app (video from HTC China).

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it’s truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that’s coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. So you’re not seeing any lag, you’re not seeing any latency. They used to actually just build virtual experiences and it would use gaming engines like Unity and Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it’s truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that’s coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. So you’re not seeing any lag, you’re not seeing any latency. They used to actually just build virtual experiences and it would use gaming engines like Unity and Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it's truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that's coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. So you're not seeing any lag, you're not seeing any latency. They used to actually just build virtual experiences and it would use gaming engines like Unity and Unreal. Alan: It really is.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

In chapter 5 (Networking), Ball uses popular games such as Microsoft Flight Simulator to explain concepts such as network bandwidth and latency, and how game and metaverse companies work around such limitations. Alibaba, China’s second-largest company, committed a similar amount only two weeks later.

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