The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2018

Let’s go in-depth now for the two headsets, showing you how is the boundary and how to remove that. Let’s see how to disable that. The visuals get obscured by a Google interface where a compass tells you the direction that you have to follow to re-enter the safe zone. Vive Focus. Image from know your meme).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Plus there is this sense of perceived “stasis” of the technology. As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

As the embodied XR technologies (VR, AR, and MR) have emerged out of their infancy over the past few years, the corresponding terminology and its correct application has become bewildering for many. Google’s real-time face and body tracking; Source: Google. What it does offer, however, is a glimpse of how the future might look.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

pic.twitter.com/L4tln5SM8I — Google VR (@googlevr) February 22, 2017. Google has made some neat technology that makes VR headsets "transparent" for Mixed Reality use. Next, we use an HTC Vive, modified by SMI to include eye-tracking, to capture the person’s eye-gaze from inside the headset.

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MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. Facebook, too, is working hard on inside-out technology and showed its Santa Cruz prototype last year using this more convenient approach to VR headset design. WorldSense.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What if I told you that smart devices such as your iPhone and Google Assistant aren’t just listening to you, but persuading and manipulating your actions as well? Projection mapping technology kept track of our movements as well as our heartbeats as we explored the room. Sounds like the plot to a cheesy 1980’s sci-fi movie right?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

After having detailed his vision for a better future where we all will wear an XR headset, Alvin has started introducing HTC’s vision for the Vive Focus Plus. This is how to set it up. As you can see from the price, it has been positioned in the West as an enterprise headset as all the devices by HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. What I really appreciated have been the lenses : I think that Google here used all its expertise on the field. Then, keep reading.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

However, the rapid evolution of VR technology in recent years means you don’t necessarily need to spend a fortune to get a great experience. How to Choose a Cheap Virtual Reality Headset Demand for VR headsets has skyrocketed among consumers and businesses alike in recent years.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A list of exhibitors (over 130 of them) and a map of the expo floor are posted on the AWE website, but what companies will be showcasing and how is a mystery until the floor opens on day two. Any immersive technology is better when you experience it yourself instead of just seeing it on YouTube, but this is doubly true for haptics.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Shen Ye, Global Head of Products at HTC, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programmes at Magic Leap , and Fraser Bowie, Chief Product Officer for NuEyes Technologies spoke at a panel discussion on the adoption of such technologies. HTC #HTCVIVE #VR #LBE pic.twitter.com/ia79RZZhlS. —

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I found out today that HTC now ships a tool to measure users’ inter-pupillary distances with new Vive VR headsets. When I say “tool,” I mean a booklet with instructions in many languages, and a ruler printed along one edge of each page: Figure 1: IPD measurement chart shipped by HTC with new Vives. Alas, not so fast.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

If Microsoft commits to building this platform and doesn’t abandon it (a la Google), it can become an incredible tool for us developers. Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. With a tweet, HTC has just teased the upcoming launch of a new device. Google stops selling Cardboard viewers.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The two-day event is essentially a mini-GDC, focused exclusively on VR headsets and related technologies. Making Daydream Real – Building for Google’s New VR platform. Nathan Martz, Product Manager, Google. Eye-tracking is a hot topic in VR right now, as it’s essential to the future of the technology.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2018

“Currently, these pilot programs will focus on training teachers and other instructors, as learning the particulars of any technology is a critical step in creating—and scaling—a program of lasting impact and value,” the company says in a blogpost.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The article ends with Facebook claiming that it cares about privacy, and wants to discuss the topics of privacy, security, and safety of this technology with all the community. More info (Volu official website) More info (The technology behind Volu). Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. As long as it works….

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

For example, Chinese technology company Easpeed developed “no-touch” hologram buttons for elevators, to avoid having to touch surfaces and lowering the risk of spreading COVID-19. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? For example, the Google Cardboard headset is only $20 !!! Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

I know how to be a successful journalist in this day and age). From monolithic manufacturers such as Facebook’s Oculus, Samsung, HTC, Google, and Sony, to the small, but hard working development teams that filled our platforms with content, the entire industry deserves to take a bow.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The technology can be so powerful, but it must be used the right way. I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. Facebook acquires Scape Technologies. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. Kudos to this guy, which has also released opensource how to recreate this device. It’s a decent deal.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

When a technology grows, it usually does that in steps: there is a technological breakthrough, then there are incremental innovations, then there is a new technological breakthrough, and so on. We were mostly all nerds playing with the technology and having fun with it. The big dogs are all coming.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Japan is a country always devoted to innovation, and at the forefront in some technological fields like robotics. That’s why it is very interesting to understand how is the XR ecosystem growing there. Image by HTC). This is very important for people like me that must be at the cutting edge of the technology.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

It shows how to do an AAA game for a standalone headset: it features something like 60 hours of playtime, fantastic graphics, an interesting story, and a lot of side quests. More info Vive discontinues Facial Tracker HTC has discontinued the Facial Tracker, the face-tracking device that worked with various PC VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Is Google collecting the pieces for an XR headset?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

Snapchat is so planning to compete with similar products like Google Lens or Samsung Bixby. This is very powerful because it means that while Google and Facebook will work on creating all the AI/ML algorithms by themselves, Snap can rely on the work of others and so grow its functionality in a faster and cheaper way.

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ARVR

JUNE 21, 2021

How to Celebrate Independence Day Safely With the Help of Technology The 4th of July is one of the year’s biggest holidays, and many people have been looking forward to it all year. Fortunately, many technologies exist to help us enjoy the holiday while adhering to precautions like social distancing and many others as well.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

A comment from HTC , just saying that it was up to compete with Oculus has had on Twitter something like 12K likes , and I think that HTC’s social media manager had never seen that number in his whole life. What other devices are so cheap, have the best games, a continuous stream of updates? The same on Twitter. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. That is, the Quest 2 and the Vive Focus 2 may be based on this technology. Why am I so excited?

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JUNE 30, 2017

The two day conference was packed with simultaneous, back-to-back presentations and workshops from industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, AMD, The VOID, IMAX, Two Bit Circus, Secret Location, Globacore, Quantum Capture, The Canadian Film Centre, and many more. The concept of virtual reality itself magnetizes a certain person.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! HTC announces Vive Pro Secure. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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JUNE 10, 2017

Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games and professor at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of the game industry’s finest speakers. Schell thinks that parasite VR systems, or lame experiences like Google Cardboard, are likely to be in the minority. Above: Google Glass was really socially awkward.

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