The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft. Image by Microsoft). Together with the HoloLens 2, Microsoft has also announced a new version of the Kinect, called Kinect Azure. HTC 5G streaming.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

While the HTC Vive continues to hold the majority share, the Rift is approaching striking distance. Steam is the de facto content platform for the HTC Vive though it technically supports the Rift too ; plenty of Rifters use both the official Oculus Home platform and Steam to play content which may not be available on the opposing platform.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Today’s virtual reality solutions don’t just include a headset, display, and motion controllers. There are no advanced “spatial computing” features like sensors or gesture controls. Instead, you use controllers to interact with a digital landscape. Think of the controllers you use with the Meta Quest 2 or 3, for instance.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has told in the past that this is a headset more consumer-oriented , but Sebastian Ang of Mixed Reality TV has reported that, according to a reliable source, the price will be 899. Top news of the week. More info.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

AWS’s Bedrock service allows Proto Hologram to select a range of avatar models, personalize private data sets and integrate additional AWS services. ” The Vision Pro headset is unique because it does not require a controller and relies on tracking technology to record inputs. .”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2022

After all, XR solutions are heavily dependent on the use of sensitive data. Like Meta, Microsoft has quickly emerged as one of the leading innovators in the XR space. As a giant in the technology space, Microsoft understands the value of keeping people secure in any digitised environment.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC launches Vive Flow headset for relaxation, priced at $499. After endless teasings and leaks, in the end, HTC has finally unveiled its headset: called Vive Flow, it is a lightweight device for media consumption. Top news of the week. Chipset : Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 Display Type : LCD Display resolution : 3.2K

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. UI controls. Oculus (Unity 2019.3

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VRScout

AUGUST 21, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Microsoft and Intel teaming up to influence the development of VR/AR with mixed reality headset Project Alloy. Deepak Chopra wants to guide your VR meditation and STRATA uses your biometric data as a control scheme.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Companies like Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, Lenovo, and HTC VIVE have entered the industrial XR space to create solutions tailored to professionals with complex requirements. They can also provide smart glasses to interact with data, manuals, and other visuals in the field.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 6, 2023

At this price, Apple’s primary competitors are the Magic Leap 2, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, and Varjo’s VR-3 — all enterprise headsets. Many of the world’s midrange enterprise headsets like the Meta Quest Pro, HTC VIVE Elite XR, and Pico 4 Enterprise are priced well below $1,500. to $180.87 in a matter of hours.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

While the second generation handsets from HTC and Oculus are getting shape hidden from the public eye, there are significant changes being announced or previewed for the upcoming Holiday season. Using HTC Vive immerses you in a virtual environment, but you can still feel the wire, ravel and worse. Gbps wireless data transfer.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The first is tethered to a proprietary controller with dual 6DoF cameras and a forward-facing 20MP RGB Camera. The solution is already real-time, working at 30fps, but on an NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU (it is a powerful GPU for workstations) using the data of 124 4K cameras. HTC is going to deprecate Vive Pro and Vive Pro Eye.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. Blockchain technology is a breakthrough for resolving privacy and data security problems that might affect a centralized metaverse. The decentralization layer. Closing thoughts.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2016

This project uses Kinect depth cameras to the fuse virtual and the real to produce real-time mixed reality footage with no green screens required, all using Microsoft’s depth camera Kinect. No mean feat. You can read in detail all about the project over at the team’s YouTube channel here.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. Another big problem for the appeal of AR glasses is the UX : voice interface is not suitable for public places, gestures are tiresome, and no one wants to take controllers around.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The coronavirus is also impacting the production of all the major VR headsets : we’re at the point that Valve’s customer service has no more left controllers to give to people for RMA. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

As usual, Jensen introduced it saying that it was the biggest generational leap ever released by the company (he always says so) The first GPU released of the Hopper family will be the H100 , targeted at data centers, that features impressive performances on AI tasks. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a good read , full of interesting anecdotes, like when it is written that Beat Saber became the testbench for the tracking of the Quest controllers , or that Asgard’s Wrath, in the beginning, was a tower defense game. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. Well played, Microsoft. More info.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

The enterprise-optimised platform performs seamlessly on many AR/VR/MR devices from headset vendors such as HTC VIVE, Meta, and Microsoft, allowing firms to leverage XR for a range of use cases, including remote guidance, training, and repair solutions. But they shouldn’t be used as a monitoring tool to check on people.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market is forecast to grow from $5.2 HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media. HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. Then, the price is a bit high , and this is very HTC. Top news of the week.

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Peter Graham

JULY 25, 2019

Ever since the launch of Firefox Reality by Mozilla last year the company has been gradually scaling up the project by adding new features and support of devices like Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. There’s also more on the way. This addition is expected this summer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Firefox Reality originally arrived for headsets like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Google Daydream just over a year ago, offering a web browser specifically built for VR purposes. Firefox Reality also supports 10 different languages, including Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

The controllers had already been unveiled, but at CES we discovered their name: “PlayStation VR2 Sense Controllers” No words have been said about the release date (that will be this year, by the way) and the price. Controllers specifications. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC).

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Doc-Ok

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Now that Vrui is working on the HTC Vive (at least until the next SteamVR update breaks ABI again), I can finally go back and give Vrui-based applications some tender loving care. First up is 3D Visualizer , an application to visualize and, more importantly, visually analyze three-dimensional volumetric data sets (see Figure 1).

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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. Anyway, the classical problems of WMR headsets, like mediocre controllers, remain.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? While in all past years the answer had always been “HTC Vive”, now the king is Oculus, with both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest getting the majority of answers (especially the Quest).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data. As the first company to offer such information, it means that Sony is not only happy with the figure, but likely confident that they’re well ahead of the competing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 30, 2020

The new toolset now includes the Inspect Tool so that users can view object-level BIM data on any element in a 3D model), the Visibility Tool to control layer visibility for SketchUp or Revit files, and lastly the highly requested Measure Tool for visualizing and annotating distance in a virtual space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. It’s still more or less the game of of Microsoft. It’s multimodality so that you do not need to throw away your devices, you can work continue working with them even if you buy several other devices from HTC, from whomever else.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft today announced that the company will be bundling its Windows VR headsets and motion controllers, and making them available for purchase this holiday season starting at $400. Image courtesy Microsoft. In the meantime, check out our deep dive reviews on HTC Vive , Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch. Acer headset.

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