The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Image by Cloudhead Games). A PSVR version is in the works.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus).

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Bernard Marr

JULY 6, 2023

The future internet will provide us the opportunity to travel in a whole new way, whether that’s through fully-immersive virtual travel experiences or by supplementing our real-world travel experiences with cutting-edge technologies. Traditional theme parks will also incorporate VR and AR into their regular rides and experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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. PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. Douglas went away from Hollywood to create this super-studio with all the cutting-edge technology (like robotic camera systems, computers, etc…).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 9, 2017

Michael Abrash, chief scientist at Oculus, seems to agree: when he outlined his predictions for the next five years of VR last October, he focused on these three senses. Benson Munyan III, who researches smell and VR at the University of Central Florida, recalls driving out to his grandma’s house as a child. “And

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Officially he is a VR angel investor, but he is much more than this: he is also an immersive technologies enthusiast and an influencer that can really foster healthy debates about the main questions that we all have around these technologies. Some days ago, I have had the enormous pleasure of speaking with Eduardo Siman.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It was a nice ride, and now Gianni, that is an amazing developer, is working in a big company and I’ve started a new adventure in trying to establish a consultancy agency called New Technology Walkers. This is a problem of the technology and Magic Leap couldn’t do anything to make it better.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The immersive experience has multiple ways to present, such as VR games and VR videos. VR industry is a huge potential market, and many studios and individuals are attracted by this new technology. But people in Japan who have nine-to-five jobs can’t trip Florida without a plan. 10 Celebrate World Cup 2018 in VR 360 .

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

You come from a gaming background. So the GFR Fund is a seed stage fund that’s investing technology companies, disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, including VR and AR. I would assume because — it’s social media and gaming — you would be a direct competitor or something like Tencent.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

You come from a gaming background. So the GFR Fund is a seed stage fund that’s investing technology companies, disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, including VR and AR. I would assume because — it’s social media and gaming — you would be a direct competitor or something like Tencent.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

You come from a gaming background. So the GFR Fund is a seed stage fund that’s investing technology companies, disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, including VR and AR. I would assume because — it’s social media and gaming — you would be a direct competitor or something like Tencent.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

RiVR harnesses the power of VR and photogrammetry technology to create interactive, immersive training experiences. Alex has a deep understanding of the games industry, having worked on commissions for the likes of Codemasters, the BBC, and Ford Motor Company. Their ultimate goal is to enhance the way humans learn (I love that).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

RiVR harnesses the power of VR and photogrammetry technology to create interactive, immersive training experiences. Alex has a deep understanding of the games industry, having worked on commissions for the likes of Codemasters, the BBC, and Ford Motor Company. Their ultimate goal is to enhance the way humans learn (I love that).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

RiVR harnesses the power of VR and photogrammetry technology to create interactive, immersive training experiences. Alex has a deep understanding of the games industry, having worked on commissions for the likes of Codemasters, the BBC, and Ford Motor Company. Their ultimate goal is to enhance the way humans learn (I love that).

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

The Florida startup infamously raised billions in venture capital funding on the promise of bringing a new technological future to consumers, much more impactful than the launch of the iPhone. It’s a saga that has slowed the progress of an industry — hyped as the inevitable successor to mobile phones — to a crawl.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

That’s the kind of training opportunities VR training platforms like Immerse are able to offer with the technology at their disposal. He now oversees the delivery of all technology and VR content across the organization. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Justin: There is the key thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

That’s the kind of training opportunities VR training platforms like Immerse are able to offer with the technology at their disposal. He now oversees the delivery of all technology and VR content across the organization. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Justin: There is the key thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

That’s the kind of training opportunities VR training platforms like Immerse are able to offer with the technology at their disposal. He now oversees the delivery of all technology and VR content across the organization. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Justin: There is the key thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

That's the kind of training opportunities VR training platforms like Immerse are able to offer with the technology at their disposal. He now oversees the delivery of all technology and VR content across the organization. I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Alan: What are some of the examples?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

are able to offer with the technology at their disposal. He now oversees the delivery of all technology and VR content across the organization. So basically in the UK, they're a defense technology company, that work very closely with the armed services in the UK. I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

And all of this has been done by a little startup somewhere in Florida , not by a major company. In all these years, Magic Leap has created an insane hype towards its company , with fake videos (like the fake CG one where they played a shooting game in the office), super-secretive info, nonsense TED talks (really, WTF) and bold claims.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Currently VR First is boasting more than 50 projects in development at the labs, and not just games. In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). image courtesy VR First.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

for mixed reality lightfield technology that no one has actually seen (outside of a small number of people with ironclad NDAs), and is funded by giants like Google and Alibaba. Unity Technologies, developer of the massively popular Unity cross-platform game engine, raised $181M in their Series C round. MONEY MOVES & FUNDING.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Where do you start with building a course for technology that’s emerging? So we began with a kind of a core philosophy that was, the only way to learn anything really in it — and especially this technology — was to get hands-on and just start building things. Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Where do you start with building a course for technology that’s emerging? So we began with a kind of a core philosophy that was, the only way to learn anything really in it — and especially this technology — was to get hands-on and just start building things. Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Where do you start with building a course for technology that's emerging? So we began with a kind of a core philosophy that was, the only way to learn anything really in it -- and especially this technology -- was to get hands-on and just start building things. Alan: So how did you begin? Like, "Unity 101: here's how to make a model."

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Where do you start with building a course for technology that's emerging? So we began with a kind of a core philosophy that was, the only way to learn anything really in it -- and especially this technology -- was to get hands-on and just start building things. Alan: So how did you begin? Like, "Unity 101: here's how to make a model."

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