The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

If you are from the EMEA region, and you use my special link to register for the conference and then you watch one of the event sessions, you will participate in a raffle to win an amazing RTX3080 Ti graphics card! :O. The post I’ve found today thanks to a tweet by Philip Rosedale shows one of these stories about the dark world of Ethereum.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Use the Metaverse to Unlock New Marketing Opportunities The metaverse is a virtual world in which users, represented by an avatar, can shop, socialize, take part in leisure activities and learn. Virtual reality developers can create a customized virtual workspace that will best suit your employees and the company management.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. According to IDC, both consumer and enterprise interest in virtual reality fell last year. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2020

Like many large-scale organizations, this was the first time that the VR/AR Association held their annual major conference online. Unfortunately, technical difficulties and a “decentralized” streaming format made the conference difficult to attend, let alone cover. This is definitely VR’s potential killer moment. “I

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Virtual reality is on the cusp of explosive growth. At VeeR we have rounded up the best minds you should be following in the virtual, augmented, and mixed reality space today. With over 600 episodes featuring interviews with the pioneering game developers, enthusiasts, and technologists driving virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In particular, the company has identified “productivity” as the third vertical where to push virtual reality, after gaming and fitness. Partnership with Microsoft. Highlights of the partnership between Meta and Microsoft. Meta and Microsoft worked together to integrate Quest Pro into the Microsoft ecosystem.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. However, in June 2020, a U.S. Mr. [link]. 9- Eddie Avil.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2019

And exploring a few of those possibilities is what I had the chance to do when I collaborated with Microsoft Education to write the Immersive Experiences in Education white paper we’ve published at the ISTE 2019 conference a few weeks ago. Mixed Reality technology is amazing but is it really useful to educators? Methodology.

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ARVR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Meta corporations and Microsoft almost simultaneously announced work on unified virtual worlds, and the focus on the “internet of the future” even led to the renaming of Facebook (but only the companies, social networks left their familiar name). Like physical world conferences, you can have VIP access to events.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

All these four awards are decided at the conference. Yamamura also presented the winner with a Sony Spatial Reality Display, a “glasses-free 3D display that will improve their workflow.” We are a very small team and the community and industry support for what we have built means the world (or the virtual world!)” .

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 24, 2020

billion from investors for its mixed reality headset, promising a light-weight, user-friendly device with high-end graphics and a powerfully immersive experience. The headset that finally hit the market was expensive and little different from Microsoft’s Hololens, which is also enterprise-focused. The company had raised about $2.6

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ARVR

AUGUST 12, 2021

Breathtaking virtual realities now exist, as isolated universes with little or no access to each other or to the outside world. It is also not clear what exactly counts as a virtual reality, or more properly, a virtual reality platform. In virtual worlds, Gravity can be altered?—?turned

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst.

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Steki Amusement

JUNE 13, 2022

Following Meta, Microsoft and Google’s entry into the metaverse, Apple, currently the world’s No.1 Recently, Apple demonstrated its Mixed Reality (MR) headset in testing to its board members. At the same time, Apple has accelerated the development of rOS (reality OS).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow. The move to 2018 by the Proto Awards comes when the emerging mixed reality industry is in a transitional period.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

For the past few years, virtual reality meetings, events, and classrooms haven’t taken off the way that proponents expected, due to inconvenience, usability issues, bandwidth requirements, the need for high-end computers, and expensive headsets, new software, and more. Image courtesy 8Agora.). Image courtesy AltspaceVR.).

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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. Learn more.

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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. Unity High Definition Rendering Pipeline is now compatible with Virtual Reality projects.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Conferences are returning to digital. Disney is working on glasses-free virtual installations. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

This article is a brief collection of readings, set in an overall commentary about virtual reality, primarily intended as a backgrounder for semi-old friends and colleagues who may be interested. Virtual Reality is a medium, or a media technology. The goal of Virtual Reality, VR, is the other end of the spectrum?—?full

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This “multi-year broad strategic agreement” to work together on XR platform development has been announced during the IFA 2022 conference. Zuckerberg performed the announcement together with Qualcomm CEO, and he explained it by saying: “ We’re working with Qualcomm Technologies on customized virtual reality chipsets ?—?powered

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 12, 2020

With just a few weeks before the event is set to kick off, the organization is bringing together a group of technologists with backgrounds in virtual reality, blockchain, hypnotism and immersive theatre to create a web of hacked-together social products that they hope will capture the atmosphere of Burning Man.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2023

After the conclusion of the Creativity Conference , many experts from across the immersive technology landscape have continued to share their insights on the future of the industrial metaverse. Hosted by Conference Director Maxim Jago , the Creativity Conference took place online 3 to 5 October. It was the same thing with tech.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

This is not the first time I see a similar box (I remember having tested something similar connected to the Vive Focus Plus at Vive Ecosystem Conference in 2019), but it is one of the first times that I see something similar to be actually released in the market. Doing marketing in virtual worlds can be valuable. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

This mention of AR confirms that Facebook is working on AR glasses, and in my opinion is also a hint to the fact that most probably they will be teased at the next Oculus Connect (the conference that, according to Oculus, should show the “future of AR and VR”). Decentraland, the blockchain-based virtual world, is performing pretty well.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

VR Days is a three-day conference and exhibition on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality content, creativity, and innovation, running from November 13th to 15th in Amsterdam. We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. How many exhibitors do you have this year?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

And I think it’s not over… we are just at the beginning of the spreading of this disease in the West, so I’m sure more conferences will be canceled or postponed in the upcoming weeks. IEEE has also been very smart and will host its VR Conference in Mozilla Hubs. That’s a disaster. HoloLens 2 is now being used by the Army.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

VR Days is a three-day conference and exhibition on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality content, creativity, and innovation, running from November 13th to 15th in Amsterdam. We have Brandon Harper, he's a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. All this and more on the XR for Business Podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

VR Days is a three-day conference and exhibition on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality content, creativity, and innovation, running from November 13th to 15th in Amsterdam. We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. How many exhibitors do you have this year?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. Image by Microsoft). Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. More info (News on Road To VR) More info (News on Upload VR).

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I originally got into covering OpenSim because I saw it as the most direct and likely path to an open-source, peer-to-peer, hyper-linked virtual reality metaverse. I don’t want to live in a metaverse owned by Microsoft or Facebook. I want to be able to create my own virtual world. Traffic exploded.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Road to VR: Last year, this event was called SEA VR and it was focused mainly on virtual reality. With HoloLens and Magic Leap we’ve seen a broadening of the conference to include augmented reality as well. Over time we think AR and VR converge into a world that the Microsoft folks call “mixed reality.”

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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). Room 134, North Hall.

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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 !). This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely. Avatar Chat.

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