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. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Making Daydream Real – Building for Google’s New VR platform. Nathan Martz, Product Manager, Google. Jason Finder, Software Engineer, Google. November 2nd, 3:30pm. Standford, Level 3.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. It’s a crazy time to be alive.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. The controller too is very comfortable and does its job very well. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I’ve not been there, but as always, I have read tons of materials, so that to provide you a satisfying summary of the most important news from that conference (but this time I promise you I won’t write as much as for the Oculus Connect 5 !). Some of the most notable points are: 2 Controllers support. MagicScript.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

But there are many other challenges with balancing interactivity and narrative that Apelab CEO & Sequenced producer Emilie Joly explained to me at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality conference in April. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. ” Here’s a trailer for Sequenced. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. This is also confirmed by the Wired article, where the journalist states that he has been able to see the conference in preview before the general audience. Google stops selling Cardboard viewers. Image by OceanX).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. The 3D interface in visionOS that users can naturally control with hands, voice, and eyes, makes for a hands-free experience. What more would we expect from Apple?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. On a separate note, the Quest 2 has just been updated to Runtime v44, which brings additional parental control tools, plus finally many customization options to record videos on the device.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

In the same conference, Jio has also announced various other projects, and among which the most interesting are: 1. Google’s investment for a 7.7% Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables. We now know how the Oculus logo has born… probably the next controllers will be made out of liquorice. Register Now.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Alex Lee (Google).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. He took our midi controller and made a keyboard out of it, but it looked nothing like a keyboard at all. And at the time, there was nobody.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. He took our midi controller and made a keyboard out of it, but it looked nothing like a keyboard at all. And at the time, there was nobody.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. He took our midi controller and made a keyboard out of it, but it looked nothing like a keyboard at all. And at the time, there was nobody.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. Universal mapping of gestures to handle input across devices including controllers and hand tracking.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. More People Exposed to more VR Applications in More Places Trends Just a few years ago, the biggest VR-centric conference of the year had 500 attendees. A goggle is better with an eye tracker, a hand controller and a haptic device.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. It’s an important conference for virtual/augmented/mixed reality and some may say it is the most important conference. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. Google has some easy tools. But there’s a lot going on. Alan: Really?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. It’s an important conference for virtual/augmented/mixed reality and some may say it is the most important conference. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. Google has some easy tools. But there’s a lot going on. Alan: Really?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. It's an important conference for virtual/augmented/mixed reality and some may say it is the most important conference. So if you want to know more about this, it's brainxchange.com and just look for EWTS, or just Google "Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit".

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