The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. That’s why Avi Bar-Zeev in a tweet on this topic talked about “the illusion of control” of our data : actually, Facebook already had it all. Zuckerberg wrote in a letter some years ago that he wants full control of the XR platform.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. support in Unreal Engine and plans to update the engine for the 1.0 Today the group announced the release of OpenXR 1.0,

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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. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

According to a release shared with ARPost, the name change had to do with “disputes regarding the Nreal mark” (probably how similar it was to “Unreal”). XREAL also announced Beam , a controller and compute box that can connect wirelessly or via hard connection to XREAL glasses specifically for streaming media.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. I came to the US when I was in high school, so I don’t know well the XR ecosystem in China , but HTC is our investor and is helping us in understanding more of the market there.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Our software and hardware engineering and research teams have used a variety of equipment that rides on top of our in-house developed technosports platform , ranging from the HTC Vive Pro and its motion detectors, the (now unfortunately defunct Myo) sensors, the ZED stereo cameras, and Microsoft’s HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In addition to the free Trials on Tatooine virtual reality experience for HTC Vive, the studio released a 360-degree video that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Disney’s ILMxLab has been busy of late.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

If we sum the market share of the Oculus Rift CV1, Rift S, and the highlander DK2, we obtain that now Oculus controls 50% of the market on Steam. Unreal Engine is adding Vulkan support for Oculus Quest and Unity fill follow later on this year. The newest Steam Hardware Survey shows how Rift S has now more or less 8% of the market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. It was great to see that the device would be controlled using our hands, instead of external controllers, meaning that it is far more intuitive for people to use and should ensure success when the product is released.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking. But I do expect to see that the Quest is going to have a lot of applications. Alan: It’s really exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you've got these 6DOF controllers. I've had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking. But I do expect to see that the Quest is going to have a lot of applications. That's the headset that has no tether, no wires.

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Industry Augmented Reality AR Technology 60

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking. But I do expect to see that the Quest is going to have a lot of applications. Alan: It’s really exciting.

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