The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. The result was the one of having Alex Kipman as if he was really in front of you , a fantastic immersive feature for an XR event. HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 Last year, Google also acquired North, an AR smart glass manufactures.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The event, hosted by AIXR, aims to recognize outstanding achievements in VR technology. This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. VR Hardware of the Year. What Is AIXR? VR Lifetime Achievement.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whether you’re attending the show or just scoping out the news and events from home, we’ve got you covered. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. On the hardware side, we don’t expect much news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Do you want to know the best XR events of 2020? Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. The good news for Valve don’t end here.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

We’re hearing this since many years, but now the sensation is that we’re coming close to the moment when the prophecy will come true: the rumors are intensifying and the software (ARKit) and the hardware (depth cameras, 5G) designed by Apple are all converging to the glasses solution. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Dubbed “The Metaverse Primer”, it describes all the various aspects of the metaverse, from hardware to software, not to mention networking and monetization. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

Well, in VR, you don’t need to, because all three dimensions are present at once, right in front of you; Eye hydration, eye exercises, daily headset disinfection and a polyphasic approach to VR immersion were keys to long immersions with current hardware. Enea while meditating with a Vive Focus on. And if not, why? Tell my readers about it!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? News from partners (and friends).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. This is likely to change before the release date.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. Virtual events. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Some hardware accessories have been announced for this headset, like a fitness 3DOF tracker for the feet, and a dedicated router for wireless streaming. The annual GTC event for NVIDIA has been a blast. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. Other relevant news. Image by NVIDIA). News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Moreover, Web3 is sustained by increasingly powerful hardware like smart glasses. As AR hardware designers work to increase smart glasses’ connectivity, portability, and usability. Also, firms like RealWear and Arvizio offer hardware-agnostic solutions that prompt cross-platform industry 4.0 work procedures.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The promise of Augmented Reality hardware has been immense, but so have been the number of misses. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different? Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. Somnium Space gives detail on its new hardware. It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to look back at what has happened in 2021. I like this approach.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables. A very interesting article on CNET highlights some of the experiments that Google has made with 1D glasses, smart tattoos and other cool stuff.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Recommended: Google Chrome. Recommended: Google Chrome. From Unreal community plugin creator getnamo , NexusVR is a space between worlds, where you can move between different VR experiences. It even includes a sandbox mode featuring a variety of custom signs (e.g. Requires: Webcam. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Build away!”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Because of the damn coronavirus, always more events will be held online. Apart from the AWE that has become an online event, as I’ve highlighted in my intro, also Oculus Connect 7 and Gamescom will transition to a fully digital version for 2020. Of course, the hardware you use must provide access to this software solution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The event also kicked off a series of stellar keynote speeches, workshops, product demos, and other feature presentations for the global tech industry. He stated rooom also aimed to offer products across verticals, rather than salespeople showcasing devices at physical events.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. Where OpenVR stands between our application and the hardware (Image by Valve). You may be saying “Come on!

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: Yeah I think… well, pretty much everybody… So I would say, Google is leading the way with this, with Google Lens being able to take your phone out, open the camera, point it at a pair of shoes, and it will tell you exactly where to buy those shoes instantly from your phone. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: Yeah I think… well, pretty much everybody… So I would say, Google is leading the way with this, with Google Lens being able to take your phone out, open the camera, point it at a pair of shoes, and it will tell you exactly where to buy those shoes instantly from your phone. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading.

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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 for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They've created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware's useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Let’s start from the beginning: on Tuesday, Meta announced the Meta Connect, a one-day event set for October, 11th , in which Meta is going to reveal its latest advancements about XR and the Metaverse. So Snap is a company to keep an eye on for what concerns glasses, and it is cool that is working on a new version of its hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It makes sense for Samsung, which is great in manufacturing hardware, to partner with Microsoft , that is doing a good job in creating a platform for XR, to compete with the other companies. It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. Snapchat has just had its Lens Fest.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Before starting with the summary of the news of this amazing week, let me invite you all to subscribe to the FREE Awe Nite Florence Event that will happen this Thursday at 5 pm CEST and that will feature amazing hosts like Pico, VisionAR, and JoinPad! Here you are the link to the event, subscribe now!

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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. This significant cross-hardware update has caught the attention of the industry.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

The OSVR goggle – called the Hacker Development Kit – has seen several major hardware improvements. VR arcades, for instance, might use custom hardware or professional tracking systems. Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. We saw exponential growth in participation in OSVR.

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