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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

who first immigrated to Japan over 25 years ago. Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) teams for Japan. What are the software and hardware platform used by HADO?

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Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

Road to VR

There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. Nintendo basically has a singular MO, and it does it well: create broadly accessible hardware to serve as a vehicle for its exclusive swath of family friendly games.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library.

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HTC announces XR Suite and teases the future of collaboration and workplace

The Ghost Howls

Actually, I have been pretty disappointed because there has been no hardware launch , but my lack of sleep has been rewarded by the announcement of a new software platform by HTC and also by HTC publicly showcasing some prototypes I made in the last weeks. It is like Google here. In Taipei they’re investing a lot in software now.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. A good and bad pieces of news about Quest Pro hardware. It is not enabled to be used that way, but it is interesting that hardware-wise, it could work as a big joystick. Other news. It’s very cool.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR….

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