The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. New important events have been canceled because of the coronavirus…. This is so sad.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

The Quest software is tailored at consumers, and for instance, when you open it, the first things that you see is a list of games. As you can see, there is no way to have fun buying games on the store, but your can only launch the applications approved by your company (Image by Oculus). Yes, but only if you are relevant to Oculus.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Microsoft’s surprise new VR headsets, revealed last week and expected to ship next year, remain something of a mystery right now, but we should find out more about them in December. We’ve reached out to Microsoft to confirm that this is the case. ” We wouldn’t expect them to be livestreamed. .”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

As you can see, only 22% of VR games are profitable now or in the short term. According to an article on Forbes of some months ago, if you have a VR game, the best strategy at the moment is selling it for an upfront cost : there are not enough customers to make revenue models based on advertisements or IAPs to work.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

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. Now imagine two of those 90° prisms set side by side. In this configuration one can turn an image 180°. While DigiLens’ work for the U.S.

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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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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). Microsoft confirms (again) it wants to build consumer HoloLens.

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