The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S. Are you ready for immersing into Taiwan? We all participants of the VR Visionaries tour in Taiwan (Image by Digiblock). When I tell people that I have been in Taiwan, the first questions that I get are “How is Taiwan?”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

However, their latest prototype, the Jarvish X-AR, steps the game up even further with a broad range of AR functions. Police officers in Taiwan are already wearing the first generation of Jarvish smart helmets, while on duty, to record their journeys, gather evidence and connect with police central command.”. Image Credit: Jarvish.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Otherwise, now the situation is more or less like before, with the exception of some places where there are still some Oculus devices in stock (for instance in Japan and Taiwan). A research project from Facebook (not to be released anytime soon) used “super-resolution” to reduce the computational power needed by games running on Quest.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. With the solution, users can leverage the following tools: FreeD plug-and-play capabilities for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. IQiyi recently released an app suite that makes its movies and games compatible with head-mounted VR devices.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Funding Roundup: InstaVR Raises $2M & iStaging Raises $5M Series A & Razer Creates $30M Fund To Invest In Games, Tech, and VR InstaVR , a San Francisco, CA-based virtual reality (VR) authoring, publishing, and analysis company, closed a $2M series A equity funding round. The round was led by The Venture Reality Fund. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Combined with aggressive price cutting through 2017, which saw the Rift & Touch fall from $800 to $400 in just over seven months, and an increasingly best-in-class library of games, Oculus seems to have significantly swung momentum back in favor of the Rift in the consumer space, and also prompted Vive to cut its price down to $600.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2019

As you may know if you follow me on social media, last week I spent my whole time in Taiwan , at first in Kaohsiung and then in Taipei. I entered the building with my Chinese assistant Miss S… and I have to say that that place is very beautiful … all white, with an enormous white hall (shared with Google!) It’s very modern and clean.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For the past five months, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill introduced by the Hong Kong government which would allow local law enforcement to extradite criminals wanted in territories outside Hong Kong, including mainland China as well as Taiwan.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

And the physical motions of the body itself was also very realistic, instead of the awkward foot-shifting you get in environments like Second Life and in some video games. The hand motions were connected to your hand-held controllers and looked natural and realistic. But what really stunned me were the facial expressions.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. The success of smartglasses in a consumer acceptable form-factor begins-and-ends with near-eye optics, and Digilens might be at least seven years ahead of any other waveguide OEM in the game. Near-eye Optics Basics.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

There was a company called LAI Games, which has been around for decades. They build arcade games. And now this year there was another company called VRsenal, that had an arcade game cabinet with– that was a VR based that was unattended, and it was running Beat Saber, which is obviously one of the most popular games out there.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

There was a company called LAI Games, which has been around for decades. They build arcade games. And now this year there was another company called VRsenal, that had an arcade game cabinet with– that was a VR based that was unattended, and it was running Beat Saber, which is obviously one of the most popular games out there.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

For VR demos, make sure you check the runtime requirements on their game pages.). ” The game is designed as a small preview of what the future of architecture might be – one where physical design is opened up to the masses in the same way that digital design is becoming more accessible than ever. jam/leapmotion3djam.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

There is not even an assembly kit like with Google Cardboards. When I went to the Vive Ecosystem Conference to launch our game “HitMotion: Reloaded” , I got in contact via Twitter with a guy called Noah Zerkin , that works in Shenzhen. So to have it, you have to buy the pieces and assemble it yourself.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

I mean, yes, it’s dead… I like to put on my dead Oculus Quest 2 to play dead beautiful games like InDeath: Unchained and have dead fun. The belonging of 360 videos to the VR realm causes more harsh debates than the dispute of Taiwan with Mainland China. We all wear Google Glasses every d… ah, no.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

This is super cool for us Youtubers to record gameplay video and comment them on the fly Ability to apply a live overlay of yourself taken from the camera of your phone superimposed on the images of the game you are recording (at the moment only for iPhones). Google unveils Starline communication solution.

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