The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2023

Two weeks ago, HTC itself finally talked about the device in an interview with The Verge, and teased some of its functionalities, announcing that the device will be officially revealed at the CES in Las Vegas on January, 5th. It won’t be a headset with hardware price subsidized by data harvesting.

Las Vegas 521

Las Vegas HTC Controllers Hand tracking 521

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

This hilarious tweet thread by Nima Zeighami shows you all the worst uses that have been of the M-word on the Las Vegas showroom. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props. Thunderbird) AR.

AR 544

AR Haptic Las Vegas HTC 544

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

And subscribe to my newsletter to not miss my upcoming CES roundup, which will contain all the news I’ve read about XR from Las Vegas! This tracker can be worn on the wrist, for a more accurate hand-tracking experience, or be installed on external props (e.g. Top news of the week. Image by CTA).

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Apple Simulation Las Vegas Haptic 319

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. It’ll just happen automatically.

Augmented Reality 100

Augmented Reality Gaming AR Machine Learning 100