The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2023

I heard a rumor about this device coming during my latest trip to China, and it’s cool to see that it is finally happening. Oppo MR headset Picture of the just announced Oppo MR dev kit The first one is a new mixed-reality headset by Oppo. When not used, the Monocle can sit inside its cool charging case.

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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. Simulators made by Vrgineers range from portable trainers for military missions to classroom simulators that adjust to support all major platforms. ft) cable, DisplayPort 1.4,

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. Top news of the week. HTC launches Vive XR Suite.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 23, 2023

trillion – more than the combined economic output of China and India combined. To discuss how this is going to happen – and how businesses and organizations can make sure they don’t miss out – I was recently invited to take part in a panel discussion hosted by Microsoft. AI, on the other hand, could generate up to $15.7

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

One of them is that China is now the biggest market for XR , followed by the United States. More info (IDC Report) More info (IDC Report about China). These actuators are very tiny and can grow and shrink to simulate the texture of an object touching the hand. worldwide in 2019–2024 to reach $136.9 billion by 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Microsoft HoloLens and GE. GE Healthcare handles the process for manufacturing most of its complicated medical equipment in China. Working with Microsoft , GE decided to upgrade its training experience to introduce a Mixed Reality educational environment via Microsoft HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Two creative XR things worth watching. More info (Nikk Mitchell) More info (KAWS).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). I’ve met Noah 2 times in China, and for two times I’ve been able to appreciate his amazing technical competence (he’s a genius, really) and his passion for XR. 3 Headsets come from China with love.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). to play simulation games) or if you don’t need to play games where controllers tracking is fundamental, like competitive shooters.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. Omniverse doesn’t only care about the synchronization (a bit like if it were a visual Git), but it also provides services like AI and physical simulations. I think it is pretty explicit.

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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. The Metaverse hype is growing strong also in China. The Metaverse hype is present also in China, and many Chinese companies are working on projects related to virtual worlds.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Simulating any potential area, whether it be on a racetrack, or in a design studio; being able to change the environment. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator. A lot of companies focusing on it. Alan: What do you try it?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Simulating any potential area, whether it be on a racetrack, or in a design studio; being able to change the environment. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator. A lot of companies focusing on it. Alan: What do you try it?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Megadodo Simulation Games). Thanks to Sebastian Ang of MRTV (one of my favorite VR YouTubers), everyone can now watch the CEO and CTO of MegaDodo Simulation Games (the company behind the project) talk about this new device, their company, and even showing a prototype. Other relevant news. Even Half-Life: Alyx is 25% off!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Simulating any potential area, whether it be on a racetrack, or in a design studio; being able to change the environment. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator. A lot of companies focusing on it. Alan: What do you try it?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. Huawei this week has announced a new pair of smart glasses, available in China for around $270. Some shower of realisms on the Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. Huawei releases AR maps in China.

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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. Thanks to RTX, that is supported by Direct X’s Ray Tracing API DXR, that have been announced by Microsoft in the same days, we can have real-time photorealistic renderings.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. For simulators, design experiences and other kinds of similar usages, it is a blast. A talent show with virtual idols starts in China.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. The Verge).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

And that’s when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Our hope is to break even this year. Alan: Excellent.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

And that’s when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Our hope is to break even this year. Alan: Excellent.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. Brazilian startup Mespper has just expanded its ecosystem that runs across Brazil and China. And new compatible platforms are arriving…. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

We’ll stay strong, and united we will win as China has just done . And you can get all the attention to details they had in every aspect of the game : for instance, the teleporting is not a classical teleporting, but it simulates your movement from the starting point to the end point and then makes it very fast. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

And that's when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Our hope is to break even this year. Alan: Excellent.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. The South China Morning Post reports that Bytedance is growing the number of Pico employees and it is also moving some senior managers from Bytedance to Pico.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Alan: When I was in China, they have VR kiosks in a lot of the malls and some are attended, some are unattended. I think the seated motion simulators are pretty safe. It was a 6DOF simulation machine. Bob: Yeah, look, I think that there’s a lot of bad motion simulation out there in VR, which triggers motion sickness.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Alan: When I was in China, they have VR kiosks in a lot of the malls and some are attended, some are unattended. I think the seated motion simulators are pretty safe. It was a 6DOF simulation machine. Bob: Yeah, look, I think that there’s a lot of bad motion simulation out there in VR, which triggers motion sickness.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

For instance, the piece video on China Daily where Tim Cook says “I am incredibly excited about AR […] stay tuned and you’ll see what we have to offer” has become viral and everyone is talking about it, while actually, it doesn’t convey any info. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

CEOs means a lot for a company: think about how Microsoft has changed going from Ballmer to Nadella. The only thing truly worth a mention is the support for 5G connectivity; Huawei has actually put on sale in China its smartglasses. This Area 51 VR simulator shows you what the US government is hiding to us! Funny link.

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Steki Amusement

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Since 2015, China’s greatest contribution to the global virtual reality (VR) industry has been the discovery of offline VR experience stores. At present, the egg chair is the main product form, and multiple VR equipment has been combined, such as treadmills, heavy machine guns, racing cars, simulators, etc. About VR Theme Park.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

and in China as well. and the east coast in China. With what’s going on from Project Tango and Microsoft, there are definitely big players in this space. If you were to draw a map of valuations, the east coast of China has the highest valuations, then Silicon Valley, and then New York. It’s a joint venture with Youku.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Probably after this money, we’ll see a launch of Nreal headsets also in China Ndreams raised $35M to expand its game development and publishing businesses. Cosmonius High was one of the most awaited games of the year because it is developed by Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind big hits like Job Simulator. Some news on content.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

So when they’re talking to Chinese company Shin, which is one of the largest creator of a theme park in China. So they– sunshine actually invested in them, and also they had a big agreement for the contents of distribution in China. Last week I was at the Florida Simulation Summit. Alan: That makes total sense.

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