The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. Their goal is to transform how users interact with XR solutions and applications.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured. Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion. We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine. We saw an opportunity to create a new category between the two with devices featuring AR viewers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. We now know that it will surely run on Quest, that you won’t have lightsabers but blasters, and that it is still in track for a 2020 release.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. Unity details its MARS solution.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2,

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Arguably the most important update, and something long awaited by the non-Beta community, was the activation of eye tracking. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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