The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

This proves how the attention towards virtual events is rising , and this kind of entertainment medium is becoming always more popular. Real concerts and public events are not possible anymore, so most of the singers are finding a new way to express themselves and are so experimenting with digital and virtual reality events.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The authenticity of the audio and the nobility of the characters involved, combined with virtual reality means audiences can now relive with past with an intensity not previously possible,” says Peter Rippon, BBC Archive Editor. The experience is available now on the Oculus and Steam stores for Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive headsets.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A new BBC Virtual Reality experience takes you back to Berlin in 1943, at the height of the WW2 blitz. The authenticity of the audio and the nobility of the characters involved, combined with virtual reality means audiences can now relive with past with an intensity not previously possible,” says Peter Rippon, BBC Archive Editor.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

Virtual Reality and The Future of Remote Assistance for Businesses Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably been a part of at least one conversation regarding augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in recent years. Firstly, What Exactly is Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. HTC Vive at GameStop. So what’s next? Well, everything.

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VRScout

AUGUST 19, 2016

A big highlight of VRLA was Visionary’s unveiling of Mindshow , proof that virtual reality will bring our imaginations to life like nothing ever has. We’ve been working closely with the teams at HTC Vive and Google to get Tilt Brush into the hands of LA artists this year, starting with the VRScout Art Show at VICE back in March.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

One of the leading platforms for software development added improved support for Google’s upcoming Daydream VR platform. The new Google VR SDK 1.0 The company has updated its VR development site as well, where developers can read all the documentation for the new VR platform, and see sample applications and tutorials.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

FCC documents disclose some details of Project Aria. This is all we can extrapolate from the document: it is not much, but is already interesting. Snapchat is so planning to compete with similar products like Google Lens or Samsung Bixby. There are no disruptive new functionalities, but many welcome improvements. Image by Snap).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny. Upper view of the device.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 31, 2023

In my personal life, I am still enacting a personal boycott of Meta hardware and software but, as I said in an earlier blogpost , I am willing to give the company’s hardware a shake, to see how well it would fit into an educational environment, i.e. a virtual reality lab for faculty, staff, and student use in teaching, learning, and research.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Available on: SteamVR (HTC Vive & Rift), Oculus Home (Rift), PlayStation VR , Gear VR , Google Daydream , and PC. Available on: SteamVR (HTC Vive) or Oculus Home (Rift + Touch). Tilt Brush (HTC Vive). SEE ALSO Jimmy Fallon's 'Tonight Show' Debuts Virtual Reality Pictionary Segment with 'Tilt Brush'.

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InstaVR

AUGUST 4, 2019

August 5, 2019 – InstaVR Inc ([link] a virtual reality (VR) authoring, publishing, and analysis company, today announced that InstaVR is selected as SAP iO Foundry Startup. Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Foundry Startup.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! HTC announces Vive Pro Secure. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

There is an online documentation with the quick start guide and a full reference of the APIs, and then there is also a GitHub repo with many samples you can learn from. The SDK look a bit different than the ones made by Oculus and HTC, it reminds me a bit the SDKs made by Google for Cardboard and Daydream.

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VeeR VR

JANUARY 5, 2018

As one of the biggest events on the tech calendar, CES showcases the latest innovations in consumer technologies such as robotics, smart homes, TVs, electronic cars and virtual reality. Visit our booth for a first-hand experience on our latest product features and share your insights on the virtual reality with us.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

Beijing-based research organization recently released a study named “Experiment Report on the Impact of Long-Term Use of Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays on the Vision of Pre-teen Users” (PDF download). Study Results. The groups were changing on daily basis, after which the data was collected and finalized.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Image by HTC Vive). HTC teases a new headset. HTC has started the usual marketing operation it does for the launch of every new device. We don’t have further details about it, and if you try to enhance the above image, you just get a “Nice try” trolling label coming to view (gg HTC for that). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

For instance, I contributed to the little musical experience that Enea Le Fons has taken to a disco club during his 30 Days in VR experiment and I made the porting of the ImmotionRoom full-body VR system to the new HTC device. The Android pop-up asking the user for permissions during application startup (Image by Google).

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

10 years ago, the virtual reality industry was just getting started. Plenty of big companies understand they missed the initial tech boom of the internet for growing their business and do NOT want to miss out on the coming revolution from virtual reality. It is available for free through Google cardboard.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Helig died in 1997 at age 70.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google. While for the Mainland, I always need to fill a lot of documents.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

For the past few years, virtual reality meetings, events, and classrooms haven’t taken off the way that proponents expected, due to inconvenience, usability issues, bandwidth requirements, the need for high-end computers, and expensive headsets, new software, and more. Image courtesy 8Agora.). Image courtesy AltspaceVR.).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

If you consider virtual reality over the last few years, there has been increasing traction in the enterprise. By using AR-enabled smart glasses or mobile devices, technicians can share their live view, receive guidance, and access documentation hands-free.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

We're going to be talking about 5G, virtual reality and transportation. Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

We're going to be talking about 5G, virtual reality and transportation. Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. Its documentation consists of just a few pages as part of the Github project Wiki, which describe most of the operations provided by the API.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

We're going to be talking about 5G, virtual reality and transportation. Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses.

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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? 4) I don’t think at the end of 2017 there will be a virtual reality headset in every household.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And it was kind of in parallel to that.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And it was kind of in parallel to that.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And it was kind of in parallel to that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. And Jimmy Vainstein, who’s speaking from World Bank and how they’re helping to change the world, and document what they’re working on with World Bank through VR and AR and storytelling through that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. And Jimmy Vainstein, who’s speaking from World Bank and how they’re helping to change the world, and document what they’re working on with World Bank through VR and AR and storytelling through that.

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