The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. The best place to start when interested in developing augmented and virtual reality experiences are the several free and paid online courses, tutorials and certification programs. Both are free to download and try.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Of course, in addition to serving as technological showcases, games are one of the most popular forms of modern entertainment and can be a great way to unwind when we can't face another spreadsheet or Zoom meeting. However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Although VR hardware is growing at such a scale, immersive firms are doubling down on scaling extended reality (XR) developer talent pools to match the demand for VR software. Although, the US Army hit a roadblock in August when it slashed funding towards developing a Microsoft-powered XR training solution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As a leader in industrial-grade VR/XR software and hardware, Varjo already has an outstanding reputation in the enterprise landscape. This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2. Starting at $3,990, the base model is almost half the price of the previous generation XR-3.

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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. Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. Oculus announces Hardware Reports.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I’m a man, so of course, I don’t cry, but “a friend of mine” had his eyes become very wet while watching it. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. Great post.

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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. None of these features are particularly impressive or innovative (e.g.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

“I’ve known people in the game industry who have backgrounds in ethnomusicology, physics, history, and of course, geography. When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense. The Changing Hardware and Demographics of Games.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Of course, after the announcement, a lot of questions started coming to my mind , especially regarding the use of these new graphics cards with regard to VR and AR. Of course, they haven’t revealed to me any secrets, but it has been interesting reading some details anyway. RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Apple is behind the ball here, with the advancements in spatial and mixed reality AI.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker. It seems to me a great piece of hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Of course, this doesn’t mean that VR is mainstream yet, because we have to verify what have been the actual sales numbers and also what will be the retention of these new users in 3–6 months. Somnium Space gives detail on its new hardware. All the above cues are proof that Quest 2 sold well this Christmas. I like this approach.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. This would be my second test of hardware from Pimax, following last year’s Sword controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And then, of course, you need to manage. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And then, of course, you need to manage. Affordable.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by '99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And then, of course, you need to manage. So this was before Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Of course, there would be privacy concerns in enabling the passthrough to everyone, and yes, the current world vision is mediocre (black&white and distorted). Of course, Oculus Connect 7 is the one that interests us the most. Basically, projects that give value to the device and to Microsoft in general. Why does this matter?

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The promise of Augmented Reality hardware has been immense, but so have been the number of misses. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different? Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Of course, it is not the best VR experience, and of course, it is terrible for gaming, but in the enterprise, it has still value and will probably have for at least one-two years. In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Of course, its FOV was restricted because there are not in the market displays with so many pixels and such a big size For HDR there was Starburst, an HMD able to deliver 20,000 nits , much more than the 1,000 ones of a commercial HDR TV. These scholarships will be offered by XR Bootcamp, which already offers high-quality courses about XR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. Where OpenVR stands between our application and the hardware (Image by Valve). You may be saying “Come on!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Of course, all the community is interested in them, because they could mean a revolution in augmented reality, that is currently based on devices that have a tiny FOV window, or that have a wide FOV but unsatisfying quality of the visuals. But we were motivated, so we started studying the problem. The official computational unit runs Android.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. Of course, my rabbit should hide behind the couch.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. Of course, my rabbit should hide behind the couch.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The reason the company was started was because, like I said, all these use cases were so obvious, especially after being in the space for a long time, that I saw all this amazing commercial potential that was only being unrealized because the technology wasn’t good enough. Of course, my rabbit should hide behind the couch.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. But then you look at Unreal. And we pushed an update that allows you to do that, without having to code.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. But then you look at Unreal. And we pushed an update that allows you to do that, without having to code.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

But of course, it’s not adapted to VR. It’s really about creating a great experience for the developers, of course — they make money — but at the end of the day, who we are prioritizing is the user. We’re targeting also, of course, premium VR. They’re still trying to sell hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

But of course, it’s not adapted to VR. It’s really about creating a great experience for the developers, of course — they make money — but at the end of the day, who we are prioritizing is the user. We’re targeting also, of course, premium VR. They’re still trying to sell hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. But then you look at Unreal. And we pushed an update that allows you to do that, without having to code.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

But it’s an experimental project, so of course, it has issues. Considering that Quest has sold at least 3M units now, this means more than $300M of losses from the hardware sales for Facebook. Microsoft confirms (again) it wants to build consumer HoloLens. Discover Huawei 6DOF VR glasses devkit.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

After laying the groundwork with history and definitions in the first four chapters, in Part II of his book Matthew Ball discusses in seven chapters the various components which he feels go into the building of a metaverse: networking, computing, virtual world engines, interoperability, hardware, payment systems, and blockchain technology.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The event has not featured any important hardware announcement, because it was all focused on declaring the new shift of focus of Facebook. Zuckerberg has basically made a pitch for the press and the investors about Facebook’s new course. Of course, also the price will follow suit, but we don’t know what is the possible range.

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