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The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 27, 2021
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…. The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually.
VRScout
MAY 30, 2017
THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. HTC has announced a mobile headset called Link — which will only be available in Japan, works with HTC’s new U11 smartphone, and is not affiliated with HTC Vive. If you’re confused as to what this means regarding the boundaries HTC and HTC Vive, well– I am too.
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The Ghost Howls
MARCH 16, 2020
And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).
AR Insider
OCTOBER 31, 2019
The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. More info (PSVR bundles in Japan) More info (PS Camera adapter will be given for free).
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 10, 2019
Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Diver-X Half Dive is an interesting headset from Japan. This move resembles the one that Google had with TiltBrush: instead of killing the program, it is returning it back to the community, and this is for sure a good decision. More info (Xiaomi announces its smartglasses) More info (The news as it has been reported by Road To VR).
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