The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Meta’s latest headset is competing with major contenders such as the Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, as well as HTC VIVE’s Focus 3 and Flow Enterprise headsets. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 also remains an industry heavyweight in the rivalry for the classroom and enterprise. XR on the Rise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? But of course, I hope for a full reveal . While in all past years the answer had always been “HTC Vive”, now the king is Oculus, with both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest getting the majority of answers (especially the Quest).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. And I have to say that this strategy is paying off. My piece of advice is, if you have to travel here for a short time, to buy or borrow a Pico 4 (or an HTC device) to use for work , because Quest may be more difficult to use.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is a perfect strategy, that makes NVIDIA able to offer very comprehensive end-to-end solutions (e.g. Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. Microsoft finally enables Research Mode on HoloLens 2. Even Apple uses modified ARM chips.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And since I’m here, of course I’m spending also some time to try some cool stuff before the exhibition starts on the 19 th (after that, I will be forced to stay at my booth). But it was delicious, so the “yes yes” strategy is paying off. Me with a Droolon F1 inside an HTC Vive Cosmos! If you come here, be prepared. Vive Cosmos….

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta launched Quest 3 The main piece of news of the week is of course the launch of the Meta Quest 3 at the Meta Connect. The last big feature is of course mixed reality: Zuckerberg defined the Quest 3 as the first consumer mixed reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This acquisition signs a new course for Facebook strategy in XR: after having just partnered with external studios for the development of its top-notch exclusive titles (e.g. The consumer spending will increase and the dominant form of media consumed will be games, of course. I really hope so….

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Alan: HTC's got their enterprise division.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

While the company had originally collaborated with HTC to create the Vive, this time around Valve opted to handle everything on their own. But it’s also made for an awkward relationship between Valve and HTC who are now positioned more as competitors than partners. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy Valve. Vive Cosmos.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Florian: Sure, of course. Florian: [laughs] Without ISAR, of course not. In future it should also run on VR devices like Oculus, or HTC Vive, or any other. laughs] Florian: Of course, Alan, sure. Of course! And I'm really excited. Let me take a bit of time and I will tell you how things started. No problem.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Florian: Sure, of course. Florian: [laughs] Without ISAR, of course not. In future it should also run on VR devices like Oculus, or HTC Vive, or any other. Florian: Of course, Alan, sure. Of course! On your website, you've listed partners, Microsoft Mixed Reality Partner, AWS, Deutsche Telekom or T-Systems, Oracle.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Of course, since he has not an Apple HMD, the only thing he could obtain was the screen splitting in two on his phone, showing that view that we XR developers know very well. More info (Apple AR headsets FOV) More info (Apple patent on retinal projection) More info (Robert Scoble’s thoughts on Apple’s strategy).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

This seems crazy to me: HTC has always been blamed for its high prices (well, $1400 for the Vive Pro was a bit too much…) but the Vive Focus Plus , that is an enterprise device, costs $799… $200 less than the Business Quest! To me, it seems a choice similar to what Microsoft has done with Hololens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7B. The biggest news of the week has been the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft for $68.7B. With it, Microsoft acquires many popular games like Overwatch, Starcraft, Call of Duty, and even Candy Crush. Other relevant news.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Here the applications began to once again focus on simulation for the workplace — the “workplace” in this instance being, of course, space. The first metaverse that gains real traction is likely to be the last,” Oculus exec Jason Rubin wrote in a 50-page internal document laying out the strategy. “We

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). Compare that to the HTC Vive that has like 40 giant infrared lights that strobe constantly to synchronize everything and spinning lasers with infrared light… and then the Kinect that has this huge laser illumination system, so those systems work totally different than ours.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. It needs to have a strategy to survive. I’m generally an optimist, of course. It focuses on media, AR/VR, and A.I.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. Of course, this theory has its problems, too: TVs can be watched by many people together… but spending 12,000$ to make a family of 4 people watch TV together seems a bit too much.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS. My background is in film. Steve: Yeah.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Ellsworth: I’m another huge Star Trek nerd, and Star Wars of course. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS. My background is in film. Steve: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? 1) I believe the virtual reality market will continue to have steady sales reaching over 2 million HMD’s between Sony, HTC and Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. So as they listen to the users, they just tried to change the strategy a bit, and now are more focused on the AR-based authorizing tool.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. So as they listen to the users, they just tried to change the strategy a bit, and now are more focused on the AR-based authorizing tool.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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