The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. At Photonics West, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering Kevin Curtis has revealed some new interesting details on the upcoming Magic Leap 2. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

” Meta’s video, which it released during its Connect developer conference in October, is less a roadmap and more a marketing barrage—like a hundred Magic Leap ‘whale’ moments smooshed into one. To think, HTC and Oculus were once competitors back in the early days of consumer VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days! Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before. Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. HTC Vive and Penn State.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2019

At Sandbox Immersive Festival , I have been able to try some interesting hardware solutions. QR codes are very popular in China, and I found them a very easy way to connect people with the VR App. There was an LG booth at Sandbox Immersive Festival, where I could see people trying some VR headsets. Veer Chair.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The problem is that we had no idea about the release date for us western people because the device had been announced and released only in China. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Another interesting thing is that Pico is not copying Meta or Magic Leap in proposing inside-out tracked controllers : these ones still have a tracking ring. Pancake 1C: 1600×1600 resolution, 2,999 yuan ($444), preorder August 26, shipping September (China). You can now try games on the Oculus Store. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience. It is some kind of magic. Me trying the Realmax glasses in Nanchang, China… am I not supercool? It is just amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

You know that I’m very interested in the Chinese market… and in China, with WeChat you can do almost everything. Well, if you are in a company that wants to make marketing in China, WeChat is maybe the most important marketing channel that you can exploit. Oculus Summer Sale has arrived! WeChat now lets you create AR mini apps.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

So, here’s the full low-down on Microsoft’s newest immersive device: It’s all about the Cloud. More immersive. But that elusive quality of “immersiveness” is not about the field-of-view or pixel count so much as the way that the digital elements actually interact with you and the environment. Dynamics 365 Guides.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Keep in mind that Magic Leap One has a diagonal FOV of 50° and you realize why the word “only” is between quotes. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. The ability to use my own hands to interact with holograms, with such a huge FOV was very immersive.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. With HoloLens and Magic Leap we’ve seen a broadening of the conference to include augmented reality as well.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This shows the growing trend of European companies to try to create a new technological hub that can compete with the US and China for this new tech revolution. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. The Metaverse hype is growing strong also in China. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

NOLO and Arpara brings new headsets from China. It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. What surprised me more is the launch of the Arpara VR , a headset from a company I had never heard of before, not even in my travels to China. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

But if I have to look at the numbers, some kind of AR is already mainstream : yes, the smartphone doesn’t provide immersive AR and people using it maybe don’t even know that it is called AR (maybe they call it just “filters”), but it is anyway augmented reality and it is of very common use now.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

So here you are a collection of the best news in immersive realities from the CES 2023, with many links to go deeper! Everyone I spoke with talked about an interesting event to attend for us XR people, and this shows that immersive realities are now in a quite mature status… to be niche technologies. Of course not.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In her 20 years or 30 years working in immersion within Ford, they came up with what they called the Tenets of Immersion. How quickly and easily you can become immersed. So, when you walk in and someone puts a headset on you, how quickly do you go from standing outside the room, to being fully immersed? Bob: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In her 20 years or 30 years working in immersion within Ford, they came up with what they called the Tenets of Immersion. How quickly and easily you can become immersed. So, when you walk in and someone puts a headset on you, how quickly do you go from standing outside the room, to being fully immersed? Bob: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In her 20 years or 30 years working in immersion within Ford, they came up with what they called the Tenets of Immersion. How quickly and easily you can become immersed. So, when you walk in and someone puts a headset on you, how quickly do you go from standing outside the room, to being fully immersed? Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. Joonmo: Actually we partnered with a company called Pico in China and we use Pico's G2 device.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. Joonmo: Actually we partnered with a company called Pico in China and we use Pico's G2 device.

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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2024

With VR hardware, Meta confirmed Quest 3 has higher retention than previous headsets and is reportedly still planning to bring a cheaper Quest 3 to China via Tencent. Across VR gaming, Oculus Publishing Ignition is a new funding initiative for Quest 3 developers. Pico is holding an Easter Mega Sale with over 150 items discounted.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. Joonmo: Actually we partnered with a company called Pico in China and we use Pico's G2 device.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. If a family can afford spending the money for 4 Magic Leap Ones, they can play this board game together (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As SuperData’s lead XR analyst, Carter is responsible for the company’s reports on immersive technology. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As SuperData’s lead XR analyst, Carter is responsible for the company’s reports on immersive technology. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

He claims that the headsets and controllers have a “Made in China” tag, and this makes me think that Valve has now some Chinese partner that is actually manufacturing the most critical devices of the Index bundle, and this could easily explain their ability to ramp up the production…. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As SuperData's lead XR analyst, Carter is responsible for the company's reports on immersive technology. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Alan: Although Magic Leap did publish some photos of a model wearing the Magic Leap glasses the other day.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

and in China as well. Above: The Oculus Touch controls let you navigate independently with each hand in VR. Image Credit: Oculus. and the east coast in China. But recently both Google and Oculus have gotten behind it, and as a result we’re seeing accelerated adoption of web VR. It’s a joint venture with Youku.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

They just did a study recently — I’ll have to put it in the show notes — but they did a study of 3,000 youth in the US and China. And in China, the number one job was astronaut. Björn: And also, China used to be the workbench of the world 20 years ago; everybody was proud and rising up to get a good job.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

They just did a study recently — I’ll have to put it in the show notes — but they did a study of 3,000 youth in the US and China. And in China, the number one job was astronaut. Björn: And also, China used to be the workbench of the world 20 years ago; everybody was proud and rising up to get a good job.

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