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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.25): Lots of new VR content previewed, Sony acquires Insomniac, Matrix 4 in the works and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Sony has acquired Insomniac Games. Sony has acquired Insomniac Games , one of the most talented game studios among the ones focused on Virtual Reality. The studio will so become part of the Sony Worldwide Studios. Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Someone made Google Lens work in VR.

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How Inworld AI Is Populating the Metaverse

ARPost

Gelfenbeyn was a co-founder of API.AI, which was purchased by Google and now exists as Dialogflow. Other members of the e-board have backgrounds including Magic Leap and Sony. In these virtual world environments, people are often more comfortable talking to virtual agents,” said Gelfenbeyn. “In

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world? What a time to be alive!

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Is this the end of the metaverse?

Hypergrid Business

Last Friday , AltspaceVR announced that will be shutting down its virtual environment in March. AltspaceVR was a consumer-focused immersive space that could be accessed either via the desktop or through a virtual reality headset. What about Meta, Google and Apple? (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) million in 2022.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

VRScout

Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony). Head mounted display: Used during the Gibson hack attempt, Dade wears a Google Glass like headset with a drop down heads up display.

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Meta Connect 2022 Mega Roundup: ALL you need to know in one single article!

The Ghost Howls

Youtube VR has proven to be the place to go to find interesting 2D and 360 videos to enjoy on a headset, and Meta has recognized this, so it is partnering with Google to bring it inside Horizon Home in a social way. Direct shaaring from Pico Video to Douyin (the Chinese TikTok). Photorealistic Avatars.

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