The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. And don’t forget that it will surely be launched together with amazing VR games from Sony and its partners’ IPs, so I’m quite sure this headset will have its success.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

It’s interesting to see that Neurable is still around and kicking: a few years ago there was a bit of hype around it when it created an EEG-based “mind controller” for the HTC Vive. Having haptic sensation on the palm is very important to increase the sense of presence when you are holding a tool in your hand.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

UltraLeap Tobii Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI UltraLeap Dedicated to transforming the way users share valuable data with XR solutions and applications, UltraLeap has produced a host of powerful technologies for the hand and eye tracking sector. Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

To ensure the experience is immersive and realistic, virtual reality systems leverage a combination of infrared LEDs and motion sensors, cameras, and screens, which allow a headset to gather relevant information and present it to the human eye. True virtual reality doesn’t simply fill your field of view with new information.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

We get to see a VR headset, facial tracking gear, haptic gloves and bodysuit, and most importantly for Wade’s sprinting, an omnidirectional treadmill. How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? How close are we to walking around a Ready Player One world? Driving and Flight Simulators.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2022

The wearer is allowed to take several steps forward before the boots are activated so they can better acclimate to their virtual environment. “As Then there are games that do away with hardware altogether.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

From zero gravity chambers to organic gaming consoles, Hollywood has been dreaming up some of the biggest and best ways to implement virtual reality for decades. To qualify the list, these movies had to be using technology with the goal of inducing presence, whether that be in a game world, dreamscape, or recording of reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

HTC has launched a new headset, we have another confirmation of Apple glasses, we read about the first hands-on on Kura glasses, and many other things have happened! Image by HTC). HTC launches the Cosmos at $699. HTC has finally launched the HTC Vive Cosmos , its new flagship headset. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

And especially, they have much better finger sensing (they can now detect how your index finger is bending with great precision) and have very advanced haptics , which can give high-definition haptic feedback in different portions of the hand. So if you just want to play VR games, you had better buy a Quest 2 or a Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The day has come and finally, the sandbox to create games without coding that is Dreams on PlayStation has released a patch to be used with virtual reality. The community can play the games you created, and can also remix them and create better ones upon them. And other members of the community now can expand that game.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Keep in mind that this won’t mean that we will have games that are the double more beautiful than the ones of the Quest , though. There are various reasons for that: In the beginning, many games will be porting from the Quest 1 , so they won’t exploit completely the XR2 chipset; The headset runs at 90Hz and has a 4K display.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Image by Epic Games). Travis Scott rocked a virtual concert on Fortnite. If you thought that Marshmello’s party on Fortnite of some months ago was the peak of virtual events, you were wrong.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

In addition to hand tracking, UltraLeap is investing in mid-air haptics, which can create tactile feedback, providing a more realistic and engaging experience when interacting with XR content. There has also been an increase in content as we see more and more games supporting hand tracking, both on consumer headsets and in VR arcades.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

In addition to hand tracking, Ultraleap is investing in mid-air haptics, which can create tactile feedback, providing a more realistic and engaging experience when interacting with XR content. There has also been an increase in content as we see more and more games supporting hand tracking, both on consumer headsets and in VR arcades.

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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. This was the best feature for me: it was really like all of us were in this virtual environment, all together. Its hope is to create an excellent VR ecosystem in 2-3 years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It’s still more or less the game of of Microsoft. It’s multimodality so that you do not need to throw away your devices, you can work continue working with them even if you buy several other devices from HTC, from whomever else. It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

So, basically, you connect with a USB cable your Quest to your PC, and you can play PC VR games, on the Oculus Store, Steam or Viveport. In the meantime, the headset sends the pose of the headset and the controllers to the PC , so that the PC can render the frames and execute the logic of the game for the next frame. Why not wireless?

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And it makes Vision Pro a suboptimal headset for any content where you're rapidly rotating your head, such as the few active games. It’s a significant feature that makes virtual objects seem as if they’re really in the room with you. And as a polishing touch, your hand and arms get relit to match any virtual environment you’re in.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Another aspect of the tool is to allow the creation of custom experiences and adjusting of the virtual environment using a library of virtual objects and virtual locations — it comes with 1,200 3D objects by default, and also allows users to build and customize new objects and features. The Prospect v2.10

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Mixed reality (MR) filmmaking (not to be confused with mixed reality headsets) is a technique that super-imposes a real-world VR user into the virtual environment, creating an eye-catching blend of the physical and digital. LIV is a tool that merges game engine environments with green screen footage captured through a live camera.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. There are, broadly speaking, two game engines that are used for this. So, yeah, we’re very proud of what we do. Alan: So, okay — let’s get right into this.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

And then when I had to start earning a living, I built upon… I had been a reviewer in my spare time, of the early microcomputer video games. I’ve been also writing some consumer games mags. We’ve got Playdium and we’ve got the Rec Room, and you go there and you play some racing games, right? Kevin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

And then when I had to start earning a living, I built upon… I had been a reviewer in my spare time, of the early microcomputer video games. I’ve been also writing some consumer games mags. We’ve got Playdium and we’ve got the Rec Room, and you go there and you play some racing games, right? Kevin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. There are, broadly speaking, two game engines that are used for this. So, yeah, we’re very proud of what we do. Alan: So, okay — let’s get right into this.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

I had been a reviewer in my spare time, of the early microcomputer video games. I've been also writing some consumer games mags. We've got Playdium and we've got the Rec Room, and you go there and you play some racing games, right? It was a hard drug, and a hard taskmaster. I've got into reviewing and evaluating arcade machines.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The way that VR works, you can both be in the same virtual environment, working on the same virtual engine, and actually doing call-outs and instructing each other. But there's one that I'm particularly proud of, because I feel like it is really a game-changer in the industry. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The way that VR works, you can both be in the same virtual environment, working on the same virtual engine, and actually doing call-outs and instructing each other. But there's one that I'm particularly proud of, because I feel like it is really a game-changer in the industry. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The way that VR works, you can both be in the same virtual environment, working on the same virtual engine, and actually doing call-outs and instructing each other. But there's one that I'm particularly proud of, because I feel like it is really a game-changer in the industry. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The way that VR works, you can both be in the same virtual environment, working on the same virtual engine, and actually doing call-outs and instructing each other. But there's one that I'm particularly proud of, because I feel like it is really a game-changer in the industry. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And I never even thought about neural nets for vehicles using virtual environments to train the neural net. And the user experience in the Quest is gonna be better than pretty much any other competitor that’s out there at this point.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And I never even thought about neural nets for vehicles using virtual environments to train the neural net. And the user experience in the Quest is gonna be better than pretty much any other competitor that’s out there at this point.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And I never even thought about neural nets for vehicles using virtual environments to train the neural net. But the user experience on the iPhone is arguably better than the Android. Alan: Yeah, I think it's just going to get faster and faster.

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