The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny. Upper view of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Intel Labs can now transform a video in a 3D scene. More info (VirtuosityTech wanting to port old VR games) More info (Gameplay video of Dactyl Nightmare).

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I think that everyone has read at least once “Half-Life 3 confirmed” somewhere on the web in the comments section of some article or video. There are various videos and meme about Valve not being able to create the 3rd episode of anything, and Valve itself loves to play on this. Header image from Google Images).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

VR magazines have published this week many pieces of advice for new Quest 2 owners. But if Apple won’t abandon the project as Google did with Tango, and if companies like Samsung will start copying Apple (as it seems) in some years we could all have better phone-based augmented reality and 3D scanning may become a commodity.

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ARVR

JANUARY 25, 2021

Some of the most popular VR brands like the HTC Vive and Oculus already offer controllers because they offer users tactile feedback. VR Will Become More Accessible While there are cheap VR headsets like the Google Cardboard, they offer a low level of interactivity and are most suited for watching 360-degree video.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some magazines talked about thousands of people laid off, but Bytedance refuted that the scale of the operation was that big. More info Google may still be working at Project Iris Some months ago a rumor claimed that Google had stopped working on Project Iris, its project devoted to the creation of augmented reality glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Things do not go better for Gear VR’s competitor Daydream View : at the recent launch of the Pixel 3, there has been no mention of virtual reality… and Google has just stated that Pixel 3 is Daydream compatible (with the old model of Daydream view, of course) when journalists asked the question after the event.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Available On: HTC Vive ( Steam ). I don’t remember him from the first film, and while I haven’t seen the second one yet, a cursory Google search reveals nothing. Reloading is simple, you just lower your weapon and click, you get another magazine from your infinite pile of ammunition. Publisher: Starbreeze Studios.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. Credit: Unsplash. Virtual Reality is used for entertainment purposes like games and in more serious fields, like healthcare.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

On the other hand, developers only have to write the code once and it will work on all devices (Oculus, Vive, HTC, Google Cardboard, etc.) WebXR Examples WebXR Room I recently created this simple application using the WebXR Device API developed by Mozilla on the Unity video game engine. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

This era ended with the launch of the first consumer-oriented PC VR headsets: the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift CV1. Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon. Google also owns popular services like the G-doc suite or Gmail. The interface of the Lenovo Mirage Solo, designed by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2018

I suspect that that component is an inside job by HTC to boost the sales of Vive headsets to A-frame developers. Find manliness again and spend hours digging into Google and Github trying to find a solution. Other Google searches. Look for a solution on Google. Probably he’s busy doing other stuff for Mozilla.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

Valve has shared more details and gameplay videos about Alyx. This week, we had tons of materials and news coming : First of all, Valve has released 3 new gameplay trailers, plus one long 9-minutes gameplay video made in partnership with the popular magazine IGN. 2 Weeks left to the great day of Half-Life: Alyx.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Can this count as AR having become mainstream? Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen. When watching Vermeulen’s videos, you can see that in some of his experiments he is using VR controllers in an AR environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. Bob: You know, I guess from my perspective; I’m a longtime video gamer. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. I just went to PAX East on Friday, up in Boston.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. Bob: You know, I guess from my perspective; I’m a longtime video gamer. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. I just went to PAX East on Friday, up in Boston.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. Bob: You know, I guess from my perspective; I'm a longtime video gamer. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Alan: Today's guest is a good friend of mine, Bob Fine.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. ARCore   — ARCore is an AR SDK released by Google in 2018 for building augmented reality experiences. Google recently launched Immersive view in Google maps to augment virtual content over map data.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. I don’t publish often, and my videos are not the best ones you can find… but you can still find on my channel some interesting XR content. Follow me on Youtube! Learn more. Some XR fun.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

IKEA, the well-known furniture giant, offers a kitchen configurator accessible on HTC Vive headsets. It is meant to be used with Google Cardboard?—?one For example, Vera Bradley (a popular American bag company) released a virtual shopping project on Google Daydream that lets customers preview its products (beds, quilts, etc.)

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

I don’t remember in-world meetings the way I do phone calls, or even video calls. Virtual worlds and video games do create the feeling that you’ve gone somewhere else. Not even when you do a video chat with someone. Though the video doesn’t make it clear why he has to start from scratch every day.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Because I think it's a big shock, when you explained to me how the magazine that we get, some of the photos in there aren't real photographs, they're renders. If you take the IKEA catalog, then it's much, much, much less, because most of the time we also do video sessions in those. And I've gone through the magazine, I can't tell.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Because I think it's a big shock, when you explained to me how the magazine that we get, some of the photos in there aren't real photographs, they're renders. If you take the IKEA catalog, then it's much, much, much less, because most of the time we also do video sessions in those. And I've gone through the magazine, I can't tell.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Because I think it's a big shock, when you explained to me how the magazine that we get, some of the photos in there aren't real photographs, they're renders. If you take the IKEA catalog, then it's much, much, much less, because most of the time we also do video sessions in those. And I've gone through the magazine, I can't tell.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A new HTC headset may come in 2021. A comment of HTC China President Alvin Wang Graylin makes us understand that HTC is going to launch a new VR headset in the first months of 2021 , and that it “will be better than what is available on the market”. And all of this is something I don’t like. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

I’m trying to solve this issue appealing to Google, but more than ever consider donating money on Patreon to sustain this blog , that takes me a lot of time and various expenses, to keep it alive. Thanks to the popular VR magazine Upload VR, that has organized the E3 VR Showcase, Virtual Reality has had its glorious moment at E3 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Another big kudos comes from the fact that Snap is clearly showing all the limitations of the device in its communication : in all photos and videos, you can spot the limited FOV of the device, something that instead all the other AR companies try to hide. Google unveils Starline communication solution. Kudos to Snap for it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Asgard’s Wrath has been the main topic of all the VR magazines and the VR communities and I think that it is all deserved. HTC is working to solve the issues of the Vive Cosmos. This week HTC has started addressing all the issues that have been criticized by the community. ARCore is the 8th most downloaded app on Google Play.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 29, 2017

8:23 PM @Papapishu ✔: My HTC Vive review: Good immersion. We’re we too distracted by crap magazine covers and flip flops? 12:26 PM @the_rami ✔: The whole situation with Oculus and Luckey just makes me so sad that I want to escape into some sort of HTC Vive-powered virtual reality. 2:35 PM New York Magazine (Brian Feldman).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Before starting, I remind you that if you find what I do useful, you can donate to my magazine on Patreon to express your appreciation. I was pretty shocked to see the video of The Walking Dead on Upload VR and not being able to spot many differences between the two versions. And now, let’s go. Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. Google will delay the release of Chrome 81 , the one that should have included WebAR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2019

The app is available for both VR and AR , and is compatible on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Android and IOS. The app uses volumetric video captures rather than computer animations. We can select a video on the web, enter the URL and the app will crop out the background leaving an AR hologram of the model from the scene.

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