The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR). HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2016

We really liked the look of Modbox when we first covered the SteamVR / HTC Vive physics sandbox title last year. See Also: Hands On: Modbox on HTC Vive Indulges Your Creative & Destructive Urges. A summary of the significant changes on their way next month are as follows: Haptic feedback! You won’t get that in real life!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Release date of Stride: Fates New gameplay video for Arizona: Sunshine 2 Rolling Stones pack for Beat Saber Trailer and Release date for Silent Slayer. Who We Are Push the boundaries of the virtual reality industry with us as we create a cross-platform, VR video streaming metaverse. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

Dexta believe that this advanced form of haptic feedback encapsulates a next step in the VR experience. You can see some of the examples of how this works in practice in the demonstration video above. In June 2016, we finished multiple Unity Demos to demonstrate what Dexmo is capable of. “You can touch the digital world.”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. Meta shows its work on haptic gloves. Sometimes Meta publishes interesting posts about its research work, and this week it has released an article detailing its project about building haptic gloves.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

A year later, the team had upgraded the platform to six players combating virtual reality zombies with assault rifles in the Unity-developed Outbreak game. It offers a top-down video of the player and shows where the other players are, so it’s easy to move away from them and not bump into anyone in the heat of battle.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Outside of experiencing HaptX Gloves first-hand, we’ve found that video is the best medium to communicate how they feel, what they enable, and why they’re special. When we announced the HaptX Gloves Development Kit last month, a video trailer was a key ingredient to spreading the word. Choosing an approach, building a team.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If this happens , Facebook is going to disrupt completely the market, because it would be a headset offering so much for so little price, destroying the competition with Pico and HTC. HTC ecosystem conference brings news in eye-tracking and positional tracking solutions. But this is just a speculation at this time. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded has just added support for LIV and bHaptics suit , and it is a total blast with haptic feedback! HTC is probably going to announce a new standalone headset this week. We all know that HTC is hosting an event inside the social VR platform ENGAGE and that it is going to announce a new product.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2018

But using such video conferencing systems is not enough yet, because some of these meetings regard discussing the features of some objects. Me trying the XCOL application with an HTC Vive Pro, while Sam is using a tablet and another employee a smartphone. Sam is presenting me the advantages of using VR Waibao virtual meeting solution.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by HTC Vive). HTC Vive Air is a design concept for a fitness-focused VR headset. You don’t even know how this made me happy!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Maybe he/she had tried just a cardboard somewhen or just watched some Youtube videos about someone playing VR. I can now see videos about VR also in meme websites like 9GAG, and this shows that VR has started entering mainstream consideration, but it is still far away from being the main topic of discussion. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. HaptX announces the new generation of its haptic gloves. Dubbed HaptX G1, they are much smaller and cheaper than the previous version, and so present an important evolution for all the haptics space. Follow me on Youtube!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

This is why I felt so honored when the company, now called UltraLeap, contacted me to have a preview of their new hands-tracking runtime, codenamed “Gemini” UltraLeap Gemini hands-tracking review video. UltraLeap Unity SDK. Playing around with Leap Motion/Ultraleap SDK in Unity is pretty easy.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Instead of showing people how the “metaverse” is now with very rough images (that easily become memes) or how it may be in the future with some fluffy videos, Zuck has used the best technologies from the Meta R&D department: Meta’s Codec Avatars. So this version is still meant to take photos, videos, and have phone calls.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

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. The expected price is around $900 There has been a lot of talk around the OWO haptic vest, a very lightweight T-shirt able to provide vibrational and electrical feedback directly on your skin.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Just to be clear: this is not a rumor or a patent, this is a scientific article with attached videos about the technology in action. The system is not perfect (the video also shows some conditions under which it doesn’t perform well), but the overall result is very good. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Sync.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. November 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video. This has been also confirmed by TESTED, which has been able to go hands-on with the headset and offer a very meaningful video about them (which I advise you all to watch). Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This doesn't much matter for watching traditional video content, as most of it is in widescreen aspect ratio anyways. That’s reason #1 that Vision Pro can't be practically used outdoors, and why the videos you see of people doing this are influencers chasing clout, not honestly depicting a practical use case.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Nothing works right — it’s easier to have a phone call or video conference. So far, none have seen the kind of explosive growth that Zoom has seen in video conferencing, but as the pandemic drags on, that might change. It supports videos, audio files, presentations, and 3D object uploads. The Prospect v2.10

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen some of the videos, I’ve seen what you guys are doing; holy crap. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal? Greg: Thank you very much, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen some of the videos, I’ve seen what you guys are doing; holy crap. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal? Greg: Thank you very much, Alan.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

In addition to hand tracking, UltraLeap is investing in mid-air haptics, which can create tactile feedback, providing a more realistic and engaging experience when interacting with XR content. The defining feature for this generation of headsets is video pass-through. Matt Tullis: It will be a great year for hand tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

In addition to hand tracking, Ultraleap is investing in mid-air haptics, which can create tactile feedback, providing a more realistic and engaging experience when interacting with XR content. The defining feature for this generation of headsets is video pass-through. Matt Tullis: It will be a great year for hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. That’s why the headset should be available by the end of the year, and my bet is that Apple is trying to have it ready before the holidays. But the big question is the “how”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

No grey zones like HTC did in the past. In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. Video) Learn more (Soccer game in AR?—?Volumetric

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