Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Now in its 3rd year, the annual Proto Awards have shadowed Oculus’ developer conference Connect since the first event, with an aim to celebrate the best that this new immersive industry has to offer. Held at AVALON in Hollywood, CA, the event featured nominees vying for recognition across 17 categories, and one special award.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). 1” is not the new name of a son of Elon Musk, but it is the (questionable) name of a new opensource AR headset by Combine Reality, based on Leap Motion’s North Star reference design. CR Deck Mk.1”

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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. The first night there, while we were having dinner, I asked Michael (one of the organizers of the event) if people speak well English there. It was just WONDERFUL.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Motion Controller. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. Oculus Rift. Samsung Gear VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

If you can’t perform streaming, plan B is having a gameplay video; Teaser trailer video of HitMotion: Reloaded that we took to Nanchang. Speaking some Chinese will help you in surviving in most contexts, from buying things at the supermarket to talking with the organizers of the event. Just keep calm and think.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Motion Controller. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. Oculus Rift. Samsung Gear VR.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California. For those of you that will not be able to attend in San Jose, California you can watch the event live streamed in virtual reality on your Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

You may wonder why I am saying this: well, spend some minutes to watch this video and you get immediately the reasons. It is a square one, so it seems that the system takes the undistorted view of one eye, exactly as the Oculus Go does when recording a video. Better integration with HTC phones. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

If you missed some of them, don’t worry because I’ve got you covered and in this post , I’ll summarize all the most important XR news from the F8 event. Someone says that due to recent Facebook problems with the data privacy scandal, they preferred to delay the launch of new products to a future event (maybe OC5?),

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

It has already some AR features since it lets you add AR filters to your video stream. HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre. HTC, one of the most important companies in the VR landscape, has now a new boss: Yves Maitre. CEOs means a lot for a company: think about how Microsoft has changed going from Ballmer to Nadella.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

AWE has finished, and it has been a cool event (you can read some of my articles about it here , here , and here ), and now I’m spending a few days here trying to have some relevant meetings. Tomorrow, June, 5th, Apple will most probably launch its Apple Reality Pro headset. So I’m almost sure it is going to happen. For what purpose?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Alan: HTC's got their enterprise division.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem. Concurrent with the expansion of the OSVR community, the capabilities of the software platform have grown by leaps and bounds.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Why not wireless? Why hasn’t Oculus gone for the jackpot releasing a fully wireless streaming solution?

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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! Kudos to Snap for it.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Nreal is one of the most popular companies in the field, having won over several well-known investors like Qualcomm, short video app Kuaishou, video streaming app iQiyi, and GP Capital. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. 7- Alvin Graylin. 8- Eddie Lou. 16- Vinay Narayan.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

90% of people getting a Quest for Christmas are new users for VR; Facebook has released 3 videos related to the 3 talks that it should have performed at GDC. Some of them talk about tools to organize virtual events or virtual meetings, and that can be very useful for your professional lives.

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