Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2023

You can find a list of officially supported controllers here , although many other non-listed Bluetooth controller also work, like an old Google Stadia controller. Supported controllers include all Xbox One S and Xbox One X controllers, PS4 and PS5 controllers, and some later-generation Xbox One controllers. So, what’s the big deal?

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Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2021

A message uncovered by IGN Italy when plugging in a pair of wireless headphones into an Xbox Series X/S caused a stir in the VR community, as it seemingly alluded to some level of VR support baked into Xbox consoles. Microsoft says however that the error message was inaccurate, and that VR for Xbox is still not a happening.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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VRScout

JULY 29, 2020

Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Australia and Japan. You can download the free companion app via the Apple App Store and Google Play. FORM’s AR smart goggles are available now for $199 at formswim.com and on Amazon in the U.S., Image Credit: FORM.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

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. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

Where: Turin, Italy (and Online). This event mostly benefits professionals, executives, and businesspersons who are interested in the current and future applications of XR technologies in their field of activity. The event will take place on the Hopin platform , same as the VR/AR June Global Summit. When: October 17 – October 21.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I’m very happy to talk about a very important event that will take place very soon in my city of Turin (Italy): the VIEW Conference. This is a list of some of the talks that have immediately caught my attention : Google Spotlight Stories team has always been able to create amazing short movies in VR (Image by Google Spotlight).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m back in Italy! Just the time to eat some homemade pasta and I got a cold, which mixed with the jet lag of the trip from China, means that I’m truly having some great days But nothing can stop me from writing the roundup of the best AR/VR news of the week for you, my lovely readers! But now some data about it is starting to be found.

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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. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

So the next 2–3 weeks are going to be crazy for me, so sorry if I will make the comments on the newsletter a bit shorter than usual. On the personal side, I’m a bit devasted by the flood that happened in central Italy.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 20, 2022

First launched in March 2021 (but not entirely as a new streaming service, we'll get to that), Paramount+ will also debut in Asia by launching in South Korea in June, with Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria set for late 2022, and India in 2023 in partnership with Viacom 18. The global expansion of the service outside the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. Both Facebook and Google have decided to double down on AR effects inside calls. Meet and Portal double down on AR effects.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2016

Like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004), Jesus VR was filmed in Matera, Italy under the direction of Passion executive producer Enzo Sisti. ” Jesus VR will be available Christmas 2016 on all major VR platforms including Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and the HTC Vive.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 16, 2016

Furthermore, the game has now been localized for Spain, Germany, Italy and France, with more localizations to be made in the coming months. You can also now watch a new 360 degree video for the game above, which helps to capture some of the immersion that VR provides when viewed through a Google Cardboard unit. Read more here.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Additionally, significant technology and extended reality (XR) firms like Google and AT&T have provided Magic Leap funding since the company’s debut in 2010. Magic Leap debuted its device internationally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

When a journalist of IGN Italy was trying to install the new Xbox Wireless Headset on the platform, he was greeted with an Italian message saying “The VR goggle must be updated”. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store. (Image by Microsoft). Xbox VR support has been leaked, or maybe not.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. If you are in an industrial environment where a smartglass can improve the productivity of your company, you may be interested in knowing that now Google Glass 2 is available for direct purchases for $999. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Maybe reading these lines you have in your head the same thought that came into mine when going to Lenqiy website: “But… ahem… Space Draw is a clone of Google Tilt Brush and Space Block is a clone of Google Blocks… ehm… why have you developed them??” Then I asked if he had questions for me.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

More info (AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta — Road To VR) More info (AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta — Upload VR) More info (TikTok influencers are using Meta smartglasses) The Samsung headset may be revealed soon According to a new rumor, the XR headset that Samsung is building with Google and Qualcomm may be revealed at the beginning of the new year.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

I was able to find and install it fine in the US, but colleagues in Canada and Italy both were barred from even finding the app on the Gear VR store. And while Hulu VR is also available on Google’s Android Daydream and PSVR platforms, those versions do not yet support social viewing.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Verge started referring to them as the new “Glassholes”, the term that was invented to describe people wearing Google Glass in public, when that device was popular. I understand the fun of doing stuff with passthrough: when the Vive Focus came out, I did some stuff like that, too. There are many other examples of that.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

This startup just exited from stealth mode, is like Google Maps but for the interior of shopping centers, offices, and other closed environments. More info (Google Lens) More info (AR copy to Photoshop) More info (VROOM). It can be very important for indoor navigation, or to let you explore a shopping center before going there.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. On a separate news, Facebook has hired Joshua To, a previous key AR/VR director from Google who worked on AR/VR projects like Lens and Daydream and that will help FRL in its AR efforts. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 6, 2018

I’m back in Italy. If you don’t know who Charlie Fink is, well, open Google and start looking for some of his online posts. My vacation in China has finished and I’m in my home country again. He is an awesome writer and regularly writes amazing posts on Forbes regarding AR and VR. “This book is out of date.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Google releases the Objectron dataset. In this case, you may be happy to know that Good Guy Google has just released Objectron, a big reliable dataset that you can use to train your system to recognize some kind of objects , including photos, videos, and all the ground-truth camera data that you may need.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. These will be complicated weeks, and I hope that we’ll be able to go through them together.

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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. You can read the interview by clicking the links here below! Interview in Italian Interview in English. Some XR fun. Here you are some cool memes about the new Facebook login policy!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 1, 2022

We had the president and the vice president of Women in Film and TV from Italy. YI HALO Camera (Image by Google). You can imagine it was really intense because it was the first time we were doing it. It sold out. We had international broadcasters. We had people from events organizations. We had sound specialists.

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ARPost

JANUARY 12, 2022

You may not be able to travel to Italy to see it in person, but thanks to detailed VR museum tours organized by Musei Vaticani, you can see each fresco in crisp detail. To make it more accessible to the general public, The British Museum partnered with Google Arts & Culture.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

Google AR Cloud Streaming. Google has partnered with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles… do you know that Fiat is from my city in Italy?) In this version, the Jeep has 4K textures and tens of millions of polygons, and it gets rendered on Google servers and streamed very fast to your smartphone. Pollen Robotics.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. Coronavirus impacts headsets production and kills F8 and GDC. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. The details of the deal are unknown.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

They’re launching today at $300 direct from Ray-Ban as well as official online retailers in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Italy and Australia. Examples of smartglasses include Google Glass, North Focals, and a number of devices available from Vuzix.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). The answer is not so trivial.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

The latest phones produced by Google and Samsung are still compatible with Daydream View and Gear VR headsets, but there has not been any new release of a mobile VR headset. The first VR theme park in Italy has shut down, for instance. Mobile headsets. Mobile headsets are dying. Producers are just guaranteeing compatibility.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

I also used Google TiltBrush for sketching and Blocks to create low-poly environments for Vive Focus. The cybernaut Enea will begin his new adventure tomorrow and will be at the Immersive Architecture event on June, 1st-2nd in Venice (Italy). How do you answer to people that have said that you have just done something ordinary?

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 17, 2017

Craft , which is based in Italy, is celebrating with a party and building competition. You can find more information about the grid on their Google Plus and Twitter pages. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it.

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