The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. It seems like an interesting technology, and I would love to try it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We already know that Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm are working on a competitor of the Vision Pro, which should be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Gen2+ and cost around $2000. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

Google and Waymo evolve NERF to cope with cities. Well, this week Waymo and Google have presented their work with Block Nerf, a variant of Nerf that is meant for large environments like cities. Quest Fitness Tracker “Oculus Move” is Getting Baked into Apple Health & Oculus App. Oculus, this is sexist… Funny link.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A few weeks after I officially entered VR, the technology started being overhyped after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. But it is undeniable that Facebook/Meta has been a force speeding up the development of immersive technology and one of the main drivers of the current positive situation.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

T he use of the Exynos chips makes me think even more that this is an old device : Samsung has recently announced that it is going to build its headset with Google and Qualcomm, so it is impossible that the to-be-released device doesn’t have a Qualcomm chip. Almalence plans to license this technology to headsets manufacturers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world. What is impressive is that using the technology acquired with another startup, which is The 8th Wall, Niantic has also teased that VPS will be available also for WebAR experiences. News worth a mention. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

After the hype about NFTs, crypto-sales, and the whole Web3 world, the technology seems to be going towards its trough of disillusionment, following exactly what the Gartner Hype Cycle predicts for every new tech. Google acquires Raxium. The technology of the company should be used to manufacture next-gen XR glasses. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

We all wondered what Adobe was thinking to do with Oculus Medium, after its acquisition from Facebook some years ago. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. Google Poly has recently shut down, leaving creators without an open and free place where to share their 3D creations with the other members of the community. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. And so on… Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence, has left Google to speak out about the dangers of AI. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. 1 billion of this money is planned in Germany, with €500 million for a new Technology Campus in Erlangen. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Now it’s called X and aims at becoming the Western WeChat.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. We invite all industry technology providers and stakeholders to join us in this meaningful program.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. In case there is another platform involved, e.g. Android, 30% will go to Google, and 25% of the remaining money (i.e. More info (Oculus Quest Store numbers) More info (Meta talks about content curation and revenues).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Somnium Space is one of the most important social virtual spaces built on top of Web3 technologies. Last week I shared with you a post highlighting how the tools to analyze user behavior on a PC or mobile (like Google Analytics) are totally inappropriate for XR, and so we need dedicated tools for that. a Rafflecopter giveaway.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Amazon is the only major tech company that has not revealed its XR plans, yet, but of course it can’t miss the next technological revolution , so we can expect it to try to launch its glasses, too. Learn more (New Technology Walkers) Learn more (HitMotion: Reloaded) Learn more (VRrOOm). Air Bridge manual leaks online. Some XR fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Because there is a confluence of technology and Silicon Valley in Hollywood that was coming together. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. Hrish: EastLabs is an early stage accelerator that I founded about eight years ago in Ukraine. Hrish: Sure. Alan: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Because there is a confluence of technology and Silicon Valley in Hollywood that was coming together. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. Hrish: EastLabs is an early stage accelerator that I founded about eight years ago in Ukraine. Hrish: Sure. Alan: Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Because there is a confluence of technology and Silicon Valley in Hollywood that was coming together. So we've launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It's on Steam and Oculus. Hrish: EastLabs is an early stage accelerator that I founded about eight years ago in Ukraine. Hrish: Sure. Hrish: It's 360.

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