The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. A lot of data that will be very useful to Facebook to create its Live Maps functionality. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). Google is also a company that is investing a lot in AR and VR (Image by Road To VR).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Furthermore, AR can aid technicians in troubleshooting and performing maintenance tasks by overlaying step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and relevant data onto physical equipment. The technology can additionally offer real-time visualizations of equipment, displaying relevant maintenance data, service history, and diagnostic information.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

In this first post we will be describing what OpenVR is, what it may be useful for and finally, we will go through a little OpenVR application to demo some of the core functionality of the API in what respects to interacting with a VR system (get connected devices, get tracking data, etc). You may be saying “Come on!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Learnings Of Early Access From ‘Raw Data’ When?: Survios came out swinging with the pre-release version of Raw Data and ended up with big success , so they’re definitely a team you should listen to if you’re considering this route for your VR game. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. “The beauty of our PPT system and the new plug-ins is that they take the orientation data from the game engine.

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The Ghost Howls

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The platform also supported legacy data for previous standard operation procedures (SOPs) and other VR content. This avoided fully redesigning content and combining old and new data. Such platforms provided live data for face tracking, including facial expressions, eye movement, and other features.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There’s the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There’s the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There's the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. When you open the box, camera's inside, but there's also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So going back to 3D and computer graphics, the thing is to be able to do this, we have to handle a lot of 3D data. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Because you've seen it before and it actually fills in the data.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So going back to 3D and computer graphics, the thing is to be able to do this, we have to handle a lot of 3D data. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Because you've seen it before and it actually fills in the data.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So going back to 3D and computer graphics, the thing is to be able to do this, we have to handle a lot of 3D data. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Because you've seen it before and it actually fills in the data.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Data miner Bast564 discovered it and shared a video about it online. HTC releases eye and face tracking for Vive Focus 3. HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro. How will the “Google Analytics” of the metaverse be? after the 9-point calibration process.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. The HTC Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset. Now HTC has changed its mind, and the Play has become an enterprise headset.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

That’s why Mozilla, the makers of the popular FireFox web browser, are advocating their open source JavaScript API WebVR platform and HTML framework A-Frame to make it easier to design internet-based VR apps that run within cheap smartphone headsets or the more powerful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

The winner of this analytics is the Playstation VR, with a revenue share of 30% of the total VR market , compared with Oculus’s 25% and HTC’s 22%. These are the most important data contained in the report: Oculus is now the leading platform for developers. Google launches AR Live View for Maps. The time has come.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Surgeons can train repeatedly with customized modules to improve their efficacy, skills, and data retention.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video — which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that’s for 8k cameras — and then being able to overlay the data that you need. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video — which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that’s for 8k cameras — and then being able to overlay the data that you need. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video -- which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that's for 8k cameras -- and then being able to overlay the data that you need. So it's not a matter of, "hey, let's do a POC!"

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. I find Starlight an AMAZING project on the research side , and I think that all these technologies Google has developed for it may be re-used in other XR projects.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. But there’s a lot going on. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. Alan: Really?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. But there’s a lot going on. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. Alan: Really?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So if you want to know more about this, it's brainxchange.com and just look for EWTS, or just Google "Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit". So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. But there's a lot going on. Every industry, pretty much. Alan: Really?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The data collection from XR headsets to offer targeted ads has to continue somehow. Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team.

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