The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

I don’t know if it has been an intended move or if it truly happened by chance, but in any case, the news about Horizon has been the most discussed one of the week. Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

ROSE , a minority-owned New York-based digital agency focused on AR, worked with XR platform 8th Wall to create a digital model of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge and augment every step with historically significant media and information regarding the civil rights movement of the 1960s. However, it also would have been limiting.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 12, 2017

Hands-on With IMAX VR in New York Virtual reality has always been a tough sell. As long as the experience was safe and the risk of motion sickness was low, most would enjoy diving into a virtual world à la the Matrix. Not because people didn’t want it of course. IMAX and AMC are looking to change all that.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

You could usually expect all the “new releases” to have been checked out for weeks after first hitting shelves. But now we are in the time of VR, where anything is possible and whatever you want to create or do can all probably be done in a virtual world. Once your done, just toss the tape on the floor and move along.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 19, 2023

While wearing a custom haptic jacket which sends vibrational feedback through the body, participants enter the Oculus headset to find a virtual world composed of 3D scanned sights and soundscapes of Berlin, China and New York.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Void covers very large regions with Optitrack cameras overhead to find the locations of people, controllers or other objects that are part of the overall story. When we got a look at the refined Rapture hardware from The Void, co-founder James Jensen noted the controller and headset are no longer covered with external tracking markers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

In a recent report from the New York Times, Meta revealed new AI features for its smart glasses product – that Meta developed using Ray Ban frames – following the firm’s promise of broader virtual assistant tools for the product range at last year’s Connect event.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2019

Neurable setup: as you can see there is a game that you play with a modified version of the Vive including an EEG (Image by Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times). There’s no way that people will wear sensors all over the body to simulate in a realistic way all the sensations of a virtual world.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

A great example of augmented reality is Pokemon Go, where pokemon were hidden like Easter eggs for users to find in the real world. As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

In what had to be the most physically jarring of all the projects on display, World And Place Evaporating was a unique project that utilized actual reflective surfaces to warp your perspective while in the virtual world. Soon after my controller became a music baton for me to conduct and draw musical patterns with.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

John Hermann, in a recent article for New York magazine titled The AI Magic Show ( original ; archived version ), wrote: In 2022, artificial-intelligence firms produced an overwhelming spectacle, a rolling carnival of new demonstrations. to a virtual world or social VR platform near you. Stay tuned!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The New York-based company Littlstar (which is backed by Disney) has released a VR-viewing app made for smart TVs , launching first for Sony’s Brava Android televisions. Available through the Google Play Store, the app allows users to navigate around the 360 degree content with their remote control.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

If you’re one of the lucky winners, you get a cash prize, masterclasses with VR filmmaking pros, and travel to the Creators Awards ceremony in New York– because what is a competition without an awards ceremony? In July, the Samsung Creators program is launching a competition in ten categories for VR/360 content creators.

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ARPost

JUNE 21, 2022

While entirely in metro New York City, the organization consists of over 70 centers and provides care for over a million people every year. With its no-risk, highly controlled environments, virtual reality is a natural fit. NYC Health + Hospitals and Health Scholars. However, the system utilized dedicated simulation labs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Some news on the metaverse. These are a few interesting articles I have found about the M-word this week: Zero10 and Crosby Studios have partnered to open in New York a physical pop-up store, where internally you can buy only digital clothes. News from partners (and friends). Try Party Pie.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

This year Flock (video above) will expand upon some of the concepts of Holojam with a multi-user untethered virtual world “designed to get people to move, shake, and flock together.” Neurable: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Control software with your mind. Facing Mike.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

One of them appears in a new video released today, showcasing a “Grand Hall” environment inspired by a New York hotel. I’ve been to other virtual worlds in beta stage before, but Sansar is taking it from another direction. “If It’s about you and what you want to do. That’s empowerment,” says Hyde.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 3, 2017

We are happy to present a chapter from Warcross, an upcoming book from Marie Lu, a New York Times’ bestselling author behind The Young Elites and Legend series. Before becoming a full-time author, Marie Lu spent time as an artist for video games, and this is her first book influenced by both games and virtual reailty.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

At Glimpse, DJ’s responsibilities include overseeing the production of all the VR and AR content, as well as leading efforts to locate new subsidiary companies. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup. NYVR is the second-largest virtual meetup in the world, with over 6,000 members.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

At Glimpse, DJ’s responsibilities include overseeing the production of all the VR and AR content, as well as leading efforts to locate new subsidiary companies. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup. NYVR is the second-largest virtual meetup in the world, with over 6,000 members.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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ARVR

MARCH 10, 2022

11 min read The technological as well as investment goal of metaverses is to connect physical reality with virtual reality, creating a digital space in which we can all come together and perform actions that affect both the virtual world of our avatar and the real and physical world. Are Metaverse NFTs Really Needed?

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Touchscreens, accelerometers, and a bevy of easy-to-use external controllers have given performers many options in how to control and shape sound and music. The impossibilities of VR are extremely exciting as anything in virtual space can be controlled by the performer and used to create sound and music.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2021

Triad was an instrumental partner in bringing Valve’s tracking technology to production , with the photodiodes used in SteamVR headsets, tracking pucks, and motion controllers produced by Triad’s factory and shipped to off-shore manufacturing partners building XR equipment for brands like HTC, Pimax, Varjo , StarVR, and Valve.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux , a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. She has shape-shifted across media types, spending time in everything from AOL and chat rooms, to MMOs, virtual worlds and social media platforms. Contributor.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Some teams have begun the process of integrating XR for Recruitment and Retention of new staff for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) training, employee counseling, conflict resolution, traumatic stress exposure strategies, and at the time of intervention, to improve Command and Control of operations (C2).

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ARVR

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. and control of the OASIS itself.” A #1 New York Times Bestseller which was adapted into major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So, a lot of people don’t actually know this — I think the international community knows this little bit more — Madison Square Garden, I think, is in the top five or top 10 most-visited, most iconic places in New York City. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world. I don’t know.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So, a lot of people don't actually know this -- I think the international community knows this little bit more -- Madison Square Garden, I think, is in the top five or top 10 most-visited, most iconic places in New York City. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world. And it's just your hands. I don't know.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So, a lot of people don’t actually know this — I think the international community knows this little bit more — Madison Square Garden, I think, is in the top five or top 10 most-visited, most iconic places in New York City. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world. I don’t know.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

I recently spoke at the retail show in New York, and they're very interested on the ROI in the retail environment. One of the challenges that we keep seeing -- and I'm seeing it right across the board -- is the facilitator controls; being able to control experiences, and know what somebody is in. Alan: Agreed. Definitely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

I recently spoke at the retail show in New York, and they’re very interested on the ROI in the retail environment. One of the challenges that we keep seeing — and I’m seeing it right across the board — is the facilitator controls; being able to control experiences, and know what somebody is in.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

I recently spoke at the retail show in New York, and they’re very interested on the ROI in the retail environment. One of the challenges that we keep seeing — and I’m seeing it right across the board — is the facilitator controls; being able to control experiences, and know what somebody is in.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Just that simple change really makes the immersion amplified by factors of exponentials, and then adding controllers or the ability to reach out and interact with things — maybe turn on the TV or touch something — that just adds a whole new layer. There’s one in New York. Alan: That’s the Void.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Just that simple change really makes the immersion amplified by factors of exponentials, and then adding controllers or the ability to reach out and interact with things — maybe turn on the TV or touch something — that just adds a whole new layer. There’s one in New York. Alan: That’s the Void.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. The Touch controllers feel like little magical half-doughnuts and are smooth and intuitive. VISUALIZE DATA IN VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

My favorite thing to do was work with all the other hardworking folks in our Seattle office and New York office, who were running around doing demos at conferences and events. “What do you mean you didn’t grow up with your own Finch controller? So I love that you bring that up, because the VR part is an anomaly.

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