The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. Some surprises may arrive from Sony (I hope so, but I don’t believe so), but for the rest, I’ve mostly heard about news from secondary operators. Let’s see.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos will work with Vive Wireless Adapter. This week, HTC has not made another big reveal about the Vive Cosmos, so we’ll still have to wait to discover more about its price and its features. It’s more a logistic thing internal to HTC, so I think most of us can not care about this :D. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices. My friends at 7Invensun and HTC have organized a contest to develop VR applications featuring eye tracking. HTC announces Vive Pro Secure.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is a great headset, but tracking quality is a common complaint from users. Of course, patents aren’t confirmation of products, and even if Sony is planning to more effective means of tracking, who’s to say it’s for this iteration of PlayStation VR and the PlayStation 4?

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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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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

This document suggests that extended use of high-end VR headsets might improve or benefit the vision in preteen population, as explored by six researchers and contributors; Bao Yihua, Advanced Innovation Center for Future Visual Entertainment in Beijing.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

To put a concrete example, Unity engine support for OpenGL means that every game developed in Unity can run either in a Windows desktop computer, Linux, Mac or even an OpenGL-enabled console like the Sony PlayStation, with very little to none modifications, which is very good news for us developers. And the same happens with OpenVR!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Uniting the Industry Multiple companies, from Meta Platforms, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Microsoft, HTC VIVE, ByteDance, Sony and even massive telecoms like Nokia and T-Mobile are chipping in to increase adoption rates for spatial technologies. Startups, experts, and even researchers are equally contributing to its development.

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Delight XR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Add all Sony Xperia XZ variants and Xiaomi Redmi 3 to phone list. Fix Gaze Interaction when Gamepad connected on HTC Vive. Add recommendations feature for showing related videos and external links directly inside the player. Improve settings view interaction. Improve video source management logic. Fix Hub state saving. 2017-02-24).

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

The next edition of the glasses, codenamed Artemis, is instead meant for commercial distribution, but this should not come before 2027, according to some leaked documents. Plus, if Sony PlayStation is in financial trouble, it will focus more on its core business, that is PS5, and will reduce the expenses on experimental projects like PSVR 2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

We started seeing the first Oculus and HTC headsets this year. Since it’s professional equipment, a lot of rental houses are carrying it now, too, just like high-end cameras from Sony or Panasonic. VB: The Sony Pictures deal is hopefully going to create more fresh content. And Sony Pictures also includes Sony Music.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This is a well-documented fact. But you could also say the same of Sony. You could also say the say of HTC. Alan: I can’t even imagine; we’re going to run into a problem. There’s a deficit of 7-million trade workers a year in the US and that’s just the US. That would be essential.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This is a well-documented fact. But you could also say the same of Sony. You could also say the say of HTC. Alan: I can’t even imagine; we’re going to run into a problem. There’s a deficit of 7-million trade workers a year in the US and that’s just the US. That would be essential.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This is a well-documented fact. But you could also say the same of Sony. You could also say the say of HTC. Alan: I can't even imagine; we're going to run into a problem. There's a deficit of 7-million trade workers a year in the US and that's just the US. Kids don't want to [grow up to] be trade workers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. These optical windows were a proud design feature on the HTC Vive headsets, but are much more subtle on the Index equipment making them harder to identify.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Some days ago, in the Oculus Developer portal, have appeared some surprise banners warning developers about the documentation also regarding an “Oculus Del Mar” headset, for which there are “early developers”. “Oculus Del Mar” may be the next Oculus headset. After the leak was discovered, Oculus deleted everything.

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