Mashable VR

JUNE 16, 2022

You may remember Samsung Pay, a mobile payment service the company launched in 2015 and has slowly expanded since, as well as Samsung Pass, an app that lets you save biometric info such as fingerprint or face recognition data for logging into apps and websites. SEE ALSO: Payment apps collect and share your data.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 15, 2021

On Monday, Germany, France, and Italy became the latest countries to suspend their rollout of the vaccine over concerns that it may increase the risk of blood clots. The covid-19 vaccine jointly developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University is once again running into trouble. However, many experts and regulators say… Read more.

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Last quarter, EON Reality’s office in Bologna , Italy collaborated with Confindustria to host a conference with multiple national and international manufacturing companies. Extensive adoption and implementation of technology across the vast manufacturing sector continues to change the way businesses design, produce, and distribute goods.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

HoloLens is currently only officially available in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It will also provide data statistics, workout plans, and social workout connectivity with other users. Formerly titled Project Phoenix, previous data from US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filings revealed the standalone device used an Android Q OS and Qualcomm processors, among others.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since we come from the same area in Italy, you know how difficult it can be to talk about myself. We decided to not put any barrier to the access: no ticket, no registration required, no data collection. In parallel, we will host the first XR Data Classification Roundtable. Still, I’m a bit of an old nerd.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m back in Italy! But now some data about it is starting to be found. It’s not much, but if this data is starting to surface, probably very soon we’ll discover more info about it via patents or hardware certification websites. The model should be codenamed “SM-I120” and its battery has just been certificated in South Korea.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This is a “Torello”, a typical fountain of my city of Turin (Italy). Of course, the detected data needs some filtering , and personally I would wait for every detection to be considered valid for various frames before accepting it as valid. I guess that I will consider this SDK for my AR consultancy job.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2022

On Thursday, April 21st, in Italy there has been the first edition of the On|Metaverse Summit , an amazing hybrid event of which I have been a co-organizer. On|Metaverse Summit has been the first international event on the “metaverse” organized in Italy. Suzanne Borders talking about data visualization and analysis in XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Making some calculations, it is possible to estimate that the per-eye resolution is around 2064×2208, a value that was leaked a few months ago from some data miner (Samulia). From the page, we have learned something new: the resolution is 30% more than the predecessor. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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EON Reality

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

By utilizing the AVR Platform effectively, ITC ILO will be able to test their solutions with their target audience and directly gather data in a cost-effective way, as the testers will only require an internet connection and a smartphone. We had a great immersive learning and co-creation day at EON Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I’m back to Italy after my trip to Helsinki! But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. Is snow following me? Anyway, let’s have a look at the most relevant XR news of the past week! THREE TO ONE.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. It is less “scary” (it just reads the data of your muscles), it has more possible applications (you can use it for all the purposes you use a hand at the moment), and it will be usable in just a few years. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Plus it adds the complication that it is based in China, and while I love China, I also know that there is a bit of data war between the West and the East, which complicates things even more. The pre-orders for the beta will start on April, 15th (at 12 pm) in Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, and France, and a few weeks later in Italy and UK.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The first startup that I interviewed has been AnotheReality , that is an interesting VR company in Milan, Italy. For people that have not tried VR yet (like happens a lot in Italy), they are great, but expert people that have already experienced VR lots of time, notice that there are still things to be improved. AnotheReality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

What a fun thing, this is the power of the intern… no, sorry, of the metaverse. (And if you were wondering, yes, I’m very happy about the two amazing gold medals that Italy won yesterday at the Olympics!). Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 31, 2023

Specifically, it's entirely reliant on the data it can access, which in this case, is the data it's been trained on. All of our interactions, including the data we input and the output it generates, are considered fair game for its own systems to ingest, store and learn from.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 19, 2022

Starting this month, the center will highlight climate action steps for individuals and add new data visualizations for country-specific emission levels. SEE ALSO: What does it mean to decolonize your donations? The company also added interactive wildlife conservation experiences for users of its virtual reality system Meta Quest.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

But while nature burns, democracies large and small, old and young, from Brazil to Italy and many more, have chosen to elect populist governments that deny climate change is even real, and who openly advocate racism, misogyny and intolerance, as well as a general contempt for institutions such as a free press. Brazil, U.K.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

And may also increase the scrutiny level on the Quest platform by the American authorities, because Meta/Facebook has not a reliable history of management of users’ data, you know… and when kids are involved, people become very sensitive. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. Some of the most relevant data are about the c ompatibility of the AR platforms: on top, there is web AR, with 3.06 billion) and ARkit (1.25

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

It’s curious that actually in Italy we celebrate this in March… but who cares, whenever is the day, it’s always good to celebrate our daddies I’ll be very upfront with you: this week in XR has been very boring, so you won’t find super-news here below, but there are some interesting things that have happened in our ecosystem anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m back in Italy! The first is that the headset is just at the beginning of its life, some pieces of content like Beat Saber are not available yet, so this initial data is spurious and over time Beat Saber will be the most sold game again. My time at SXSW has been great, but now it’s time to be back to the usual routine.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Hypergrid Business Data.). Kitely Market data). The raw data for this month’s report is here. The Wolf Territories Grid is the largest grid by land area, with 26,832 standard region equivalents, followed by OSgrid and Kitely. Total OpenSim virtual land area in standard regions over time. A list of all active grids is here.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If you were wondering, we in Italy do not celebrate Thanksgiving, but I would love one year to participate in its celebration hosted by an American family. I hope that you all American friends have celebrated it with your families and have eaten a lot of turkeys (or whatever vegan alternative), enjoying good times with your peers.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

Thus, all remote workers can easily share data stored on their existing devices during Spatial meetings.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 15, 2023

Hypergrid Business Data.). Kitely Market data — total listing, variations, and exportables. The raw data for this month’s report is here. This is an excellent example of how OpenSim’s infrastructure can be deployed in such a way as to lower costs and improve performance for users. Image courtesy Kitely Market.).

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EON Reality

AUGUST 6, 2019

The use of these technologies offered by EON Reality allows those who participate in the project to fully identify with their work, make better decisions, drive certainty in design through immersive visuals, data, and recalculating all the variables (if necessary) without neglecting the details.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. This is for me a quite solid number, considering that the app is in beta, and is available only to VRChat Plus subscribers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A lot of data that will be very useful to Facebook to create its Live Maps functionality. Anyway, WebVR experiences won’t have access to hands-tracking data, but the hands’ data will be converted to two emulated fake controllers. I had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last month’s data show even a slight growth of connected headsets. These people must preferably stay in Italy, but we are also open to remote collaborations. The first one is that PC VR usage is not dropping after Half-Life: Alyx. It seems that the new players have found some other interesting games to play (or that are busy modding).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. Cix has spread the news about the fact that: If you delete your Facebook account, you also automatically delete your Oculus data, games, and all the rest.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Since its inception, Sundance’s New Frontier programming block has featured an incredible lineup of experimental content, incorporating everything from AR, VR, and AI, to big data, biotech, facial recognition, and even rocket travel. How are your likes, shares, selfies, and devices being used against you? NEW FRONTIER SHORTS.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

actually, he was in my city (Turin, Italy) because here there is an epic guy that is living 30 days inside virtual reality! so that he could take things to the public stage only when he had enough data and material, with a lot of preset stuff to give for free to the community. VR can help us in creating a new universe, so join us!

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