The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Why and how has it started? For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

It’s a while that I don’t write something about entrepreneurship, so I thought it could be a good idea to give you some pieces of advice on how to be a good VR startupper. Me and my HTC Vive, obtained my the great VR man Nicolas Esposito. Focus on how to make money. Is it necessary to own all of them?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, I’m very grateful that everyone on the team has been very tolerant these days when I had some small network glitches during the group calls Take with you everything that is needed for an international trip (e.g. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 30, 2017

The two day conference was packed with simultaneous, back-to-back presentations and workshops from industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, AMD, The VOID, IMAX, Two Bit Circus, Secret Location, Globacore, Quantum Capture, The Canadian Film Centre, and many more. It’s not just the collaboration and support from government-backed groups.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It is one of the best AR glasses on the market (read my review here ) and it could be interesting to monitor its sales, to see how the market is receptive nowadays a similar AR solution. (Thanks Eloi Gerard for the tip). Image by Microsoft). Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. News worth a mention.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 11, 2018

No matter how desperately you want to buy Quest, you have to wait until Spring 2019. But you can have high-quality VR gaming experiences on your Playstation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive even on your IOS and Android phones. Developer(s) : Mojang, Microsoft Studios , Sony Computer Entertainment. Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then. Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

All passers-by found interesting to hear a weird Italian guy speaking in Mandarin, so a good group of people stopped at our booth just to hear me speaking in Chinese. We asked for help to our technical partner HTC Vive, that provided us a girl, Starry, that did this as a part-time job to earn some money while she studied at University.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Another XR developer, David Smith , noted how the Apple Lab he visited “checked everything off my list.”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I host a new post by my friend and VR professional Rob Cole , who has already published many interesting posts on my blog, including a review of Pimax Sword controllers , a series of hack on how to modify the Valve Index , and his experiements in creating new innovative controllers for SteamVR. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

While we wait for the OpenXR initiative by Khronos Group (working together with some of the biggest companies in the VR scene) to be released, we developers have very few options to develop multi-platform VR applications on PC. So, let’s start! Motivation. You may be saying “Come on! And the same happens with OpenVR!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

While talking on WeChat on the XR Story group, an XR professional in China, Alex of Simfinity, has clarified that the situation in China is not easy, but until now it has not been much worse than what usually happens during Chinese New Year vacations when factories close for 2–4 weeks. I think we’ll discover it “soon”. Great post.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

And so we dug in and figured out how to do it, because at that point it was very difficult to find people; you couldn’t just hire people off the street who knew how to create virtual reality technology. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. That’s currently how it’s happening.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

And so we dug in and figured out how to do it, because at that point it was very difficult to find people; you couldn’t just hire people off the street who knew how to create virtual reality technology. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. That’s currently how it’s happening.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2020

A video chat of a group of three friends over Skype (Image by Microsoft). On Youtube or Twitch, a stream can have millions of people watching it and interacting via a live chat; More easiness of use : most people already know how to use Skype, and can use it easily. Skype vs VR: 2D video is ok most of the times.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

And so we dug in and figured out how to do it, because at that point it was very difficult to find people; you couldn't just hire people off the street who knew how to create virtual reality technology. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. That's currently how it's happening. And so we do.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

So you can look at a broken vase and ask the glasses how to fix it. More info News worth a mention Information leaks on Vive’s inside-out Tracker There is a new leak about the inside-out tracked Vive Tracker that HTC teased a few months ago. This is incredibly cool and useful, but comes also with some privacy strings attached.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. Then you’ve got AWE, which is very kind of enterprise focused, how to make money? How many people are you anticipating this year?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. Then you’ve got AWE, which is very kind of enterprise focused, how to make money? How many people are you anticipating this year?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking. Though I’m primarily a PCVR user, I’ve used enough headsets like Quest, HTC Vive Focus, and Lenovo Mirage Solo to be familiar with the benefits of going standalone.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. Then you’ve got AWE, which is very kind of enterprise focused, how to make money? How many people are you anticipating this year?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? You can’t spend five minutes training them how to enjoy that two minute experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? You can’t spend five minutes training them how to enjoy that two minute experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? You can't spend five minutes training them how to enjoy that two minute experience. And who owns the process?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. They would focus on how to utilize the XR technology to improve education. We support the Google platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. They would focus on how to utilize the XR technology to improve education. We support the Google platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? How are you? So let's talk about what you're doing, and how did you get into this? Welcome to the show, Steve.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can't help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. They would focus on how to utilize the XR technology to improve education. So business is growing stronger and stronger.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? How are you? So let's talk about what you're doing, and how did you get into this? Welcome to the show, Steve.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 19 May 2015, and received critical acclaim. It is the sequel to 2014's Watch Dogs and was released worldwide for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in November 2016. Watch Dogs 2. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. Mass Effect: Andromeda.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? How are you? So let's talk about what you're doing, and how did you get into this? Welcome to the show, Steve.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? We’re still figuring out what we can do with VR and how to design for it. So we have a ways to go still.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. We found a really neat solution for virtual reality, but really more of a trainer for any size of group, that goes all the way back to old 3D screens.

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