The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I hope to be wrong, of course: maybe Valve has just accelerated to launch its device before Apple may finally release its one. The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The headset takes inspiration from the Varjo VR-3 premium VR headset and removes its famous retina-resolution display and also hands tracking via Ultraleap, making it become a VR headset more similar to the other ones in the market. Aero still features an impressive resolution and pixel density, and also integrated eye-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2019

Holo4Labs is a solution developed by Poland-based company Solution4Labs (together with its parent company TenderHut and its partner SoftwareHut) that aims in improving the efficiency of scientific lab workers thanks to Microsoft HoloLens. Holo4Labs aims exactly at solving these and other problems exploiting Microsoft HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Backed by technology giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, this environment has the potential to change many aspects of people’s everyday lives. The solution allows INTERPOL offices to interact with each other through avatars in VR, take training courses, and manage various forensic investigation tasks.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Microsoft has officially stated that Minecraft Earth , that has been in beta for Android and iOS in carefully selected worldwide locations in the past months, is now ready for its launch. Keep an eye on it. Google is doing it again. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And of course, between a glass of champagne and a slice of panettone, there is still time for VR, so here you are a collection of best VR news of the past week! Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. More info (Firefox Realities update) More info (Google Chrome 79). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). More info (Oculus Go being best-seller on Amazon) More info (Oculus Quest sold out) More info (Oculus Quest vs PSVR Google search stats). Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Of course, not everyone wants to—or can—be on their feet for long periods, and plenty of immersive entertainment, like watching movies, is sedentary. Eye tracking will enable more realistic interactions with both NPCs and human avatars, along with detailed analytics, heatmapping, and privacy concerns. Sensory additions.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. Of course, indies won’t be super-happy of this decision, but unluckily this is how business works.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. But of course, I understand that is not a piece of good news for the reputation of AR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Of course as usually happens in every important event, the company has made various important announcements and statements and I think that is important that you get to know them. It is a work in progress, of course… so we have to give ML time. Support for the development of local and remote multiplayer applications; Iris login.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vive Tracker has been one of the best products ever launched by HTC and it has been used in many applications, either for leisure (think about full-body tracking in VRChat) or for professional usage (training with physical objects). Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership (Road To VR). Road To VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

It’s printed on premium paper and it’s priced high like a textbook at fifty dollars – of course it’s filled with an hour of animation – so it’s not a normal book and it doesn’t adhere to book economics. Is this a job for Google Glass? So convergence is beginning, right? What did it enable?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

It’s printed on premium paper and it’s priced high like a textbook at fifty dollars – of course it’s filled with an hour of animation – so it’s not a normal book and it doesn’t adhere to book economics. Is this a job for Google Glass? So convergence is beginning, right? What did it enable?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development. And I think the next big one is going to be clothing, which I know Google has made an investment in.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Kura promises to deliver lightweight AR glasses with astonishing features like 150° FOV, 8K resolution per eye, and outdoor use thanks to some breakthrough innovations they are working on. We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Microsoft Capture Studio is offering such services scanning celebrities and performers for entertainment and education purposes. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. They continue to support and collaborate with outside companies, of course — you’ll probably be able to use Google Maps on the Vision Pro, for example — but I wouldn’t expect the competitive atmosphere to change much.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. The old Reverb was already a great headset, with a 2K per eye resolution that was above all the other headsets on the market (with the exception of Pimax, of course).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Every year since when I entered VR, someone says that “this will be the year of VR” and then of course this never happens. And a big company like Google could also afford to sell it at the same price as the Quest 2, hoping for a future domination of the VR ecosystem. OpenXR will finally be implemented.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

The Glimpse Group is a company designed with the specific purpose of cultivating entrepreneurs in VR, AR, and of course, XR. The big entities; the Googles, Microsofts, where we would hold our event, as well as the whole investment community. So we’re now the, I believe, the second-largest VR meetup in the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

The Glimpse Group is a company designed with the specific purpose of cultivating entrepreneurs in VR, AR, and of course, XR. The big entities; the Googles, Microsofts, where we would hold our event, as well as the whole investment community. So we’re now the, I believe, the second-largest VR meetup in the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. And the nice thing about Khronos -- now I'm in there, so of course I'm a little bit partial in this -- but it's a group where anyone can join and everybody has an equal vote.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. And the nice thing about Khronos -- now I'm in there, so of course I'm a little bit partial in this -- but it's a group where anyone can join and everybody has an equal vote.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

For instance, tracking stability : on Magic Leap, the “holograms” appear as trembling a bit, while on HoloLens, they’re damn fixed. When I’ve tried HoloLens , I was really impressed by this, because I know how it is hard to make no-jittery augmented reality and Microsoft has really done a terrific job in doing this.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

And of course, they're also a Canadian company. But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. We tested things with eye tracking for a variety of reasons. And of course, they're also a Canadian company.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

And of course, they're also a Canadian company. But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. We tested things with eye tracking for a variety of reasons. And of course, they're also a Canadian company.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. And the nice thing about Khronos -- now I'm in there, so of course I'm a little bit partial in this -- but it's a group where anyone can join and everybody has an equal vote.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development. And I think the next big one is going to be clothing, which I know Google has made an investment in.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development. And I think the next big one is going to be clothing, which I know Google has made an investment in.

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