The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It is simple: imagine that you have little money and can’t afford to buy a full VR rig, but you can only afford to buy a Samsung Gear VR or an Oculus Go , for instance. You launch both apps, and they will connect through Wi-fi (the PC and the HMD should stay on the same Wi-Fi network of course). It has been great!

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OCTOBER 29, 2016

Google Daydream Is Weeks Away. Daydream, Google’s mobile VR ecosystem for Android, is almost here. Just a week after Google and Oculus shared their news, Valve was ready to show something new for SteamVR. Samsung’s anticipated new smartphone, the Galaxy Note 7, ended up being a disaster for the company.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

This is the first day of this sunny season (if you live in my same hemisphere of course), and I hope that you won’t have any Summertime Sadness like Lana Del Rey, but you all will enjoy the sun, have some relax, and forget for a moment all the hard times we are living in. Happy VR Summer!

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NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Their phones can be used for some low-end VR, via the Cardboard platform from Google, but they haven’t had anything of their own to match the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View headsets. ” Google’s ARCore to compete with ARKit. It supports iPhone 6S or later models. Nougat.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

In fact, he cycled the entire length of the UK over the course of this dreary, dismal winter season and beyond. To do this, he was using an inexpensive bluetooth cadence monitor paired with his exercise bike and Samsung’s Gear VR, running his own app named CycleVR. Well, he sort of did. Now, Puzey says he has actually done it.

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JULY 7, 2017

We’ve got great new apps from the BBC and Google and there’s some cool content for Gear VR, too. Blocks, from Google. Blocks is Google’s shot at getting everyone involved with VR content creation. Time to get stuck in. If you missed the previous entry of this list you can see those new releases here.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Imagine it as the Google Docs for 3D artists, a set of tools that let people involved in CGI work on the same scene collaboratively at the same time, even if they are at the opposite sides of the world. There are many use cases, of course, all devoted to enterprise customers. Samsung terminates its XR services.

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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. Focused, acute pulses simulate sharp points; broader, more distributed ones can simulate sensations like dipping into water. Weight is tougher to simulate in VR.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

When coupled with a low cost viewer, such as Google Cardboard, a basic VR hardware stack is accessible at a fairly low cost. In addition to the low-end Google Cardboard, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Samsung Gear VR and most recently Google Daydream, provide a variety of viewers with different capabilities and price points.

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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. Of course, indies won’t be super-happy of this decision, but unluckily this is how business works. Vive Focus comes to the west. Me while trying the Vive Focus with Alvin Wang Graylin. Epic Siren demo.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The white light of the real world was visible out the bottom of Daydream View both for myself and a couple family members who tried the new $80 mobile VR headset from Google. Google says the fit was designed to “work for a majority of faces.” Daydream doesn’t plug into the headset — it just straps in.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Of course, it would be almost 600 years before the birth of modern VR technology and VR headsets). In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications. In 1994, they released the Sega VR-1 motion simulator arcade attraction which tracked head movement.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Google drops support for Daydream. With a communication that has surprised no one, Google has dropped support for the Daydream platform, which won’t be supported in the upcoming Android 11. Phones stopped to be compatible with Daydream , and Google never released a new viewer after the second version of the Daydream View.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

It’s a healthy week of new releases across both Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear, with a combination of free and premium experiences you shouldn’t pass up. It goes beyond gaming with new comic books, travel experiences and, of course, more horror. Who could live without VR horror? InMind 2 VR.

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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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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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OCTOBER 6, 2020

I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: The other thing we can do is we can also send those virtual photographs to Google ads as well. Alan: Really?

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: The other thing we can do is we can also send those virtual photographs to Google ads as well. Alan: Really?

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: The other thing we can do is we can also send those virtual photographs to Google ads as well. Alan: Really?

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Gabe has over a decade of experience leading experiential product teams and has designed immersive software products for a diverse roster of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Samsung, Nike, AT&T, and Verizon. Gabe: So retail is one really powerful vertical, of course architecture. Gabe, welcome to the show.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Gabe has over a decade of experience leading experiential product teams and has designed immersive software products for a diverse roster of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Samsung, Nike, AT&T, and Verizon. Gabe: So retail is one really powerful vertical, of course architecture. Gabe, welcome to the show.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Gabe has over a decade of experience leading experiential product teams and has designed immersive software products for a diverse roster of Fortune 100 companies including Google, Samsung, Nike, AT&T, and Verizon. Gabe: So retail is one really powerful vertical, of course architecture. Gabe, welcome to the show.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

Up for award of Outstanding Original Interactive Program : Back to The Moon by Google. Originally released November of 2017 for the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR, Disney’s first foray into VR was much more than a simple promotional tool for the Disney Pixar animated film, Coco. Coco VR by Disney Pixar.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Of course, this would have been a much bigger deal in a world before Quest Pro and Quest 3, which have lenses with an eyebox so wide that it doesn’t really matter if your IPD is set slightly wrong. The catch of course is that only one person in the room can see it. But Google said no, he claimed.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Sure, there had to be a good reason why, they didn’t have infinite money, but as the head professor of the games courses had just purchased a $50k simulator chair basically on a whim, I figured I might just ask. Almost exactly five years ago, the hot thing I could think of to control virtual worlds was the early Emotiv EEG headsets.

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JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2018

Well, of course, Scott is not a VR experience, but he is a very well-known Virtual Reality journalist. I didn’t know that: Google has still to coordinate with OEMs and so at the moment there is no ARCore-compatible tablet. A Samsung Odyssey and a haptic vest: this setting makes VR more realistic. Scott of Road To VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you Google “Lockheed Martin Hololens”, there’s a picture of some people wearing a Hololens in a NASA shuttle training simulator, and she’s there in the picture. Alan: Of course we will. Kathryn: Oh, yeah, she’s great. She’s so enthusiastic, and she knows her stuff. Kathryn: Yeah.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: Well, it is fun in a way. Alan: Sure.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you Google “Lockheed Martin Hololens”, there’s a picture of some people wearing a Hololens in a NASA shuttle training simulator, and she’s there in the picture. Alan: Of course we will. Kathryn: Oh, yeah, she’s great. She’s so enthusiastic, and she knows her stuff. Kathryn: Yeah.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He's worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you're saying is you've created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Welcome to the show, Christophe, it's a pleasure to have you here. Alan: Sure.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: Well, it is fun in a way. Alan: Sure.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: Well, it is fun in a way. Alan: Sure.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Of course, from there the path was very long and arduous and still is. I mean, in many cases, you can simulate things with AR that you’re not able to do with a regular website or any other application. Yes, of course we have a lot of things that we still need to develop and improve, but the basic foundation is there.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

But we since branched out to cover other areas, like eSports, game streaming, and of course, augmented/virtual/mixed reality. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. He was able to drive it. Which is crazy.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

But we since branched out to cover other areas, like eSports, game streaming, and of course, augmented/virtual/mixed reality. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. He was able to drive it. Which is crazy.

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