The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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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…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

How to Choose a Cheap Virtual Reality Headset Demand for VR headsets has skyrocketed among consumers and businesses alike in recent years. Depending on how you plan to use your VR headset, ensure the solution you choose works seamlessly with the software you will use. By 2029, experts predict the market will be worth around $203.35

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

First, he said, I was going to use a generation older hardware from internal prototypes that likely would be improved upon in practically every way before its release as a reference design to developers and eventually to consumers (Google hopes at least HTC can achieve consumer release in 2017 with its first standalone headset).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? You may think that so they want to launch the PSVR 2 before the PS5, and it may be, but actually, if this device truly wants to be next-gen, it can’t be compatible with the rather old hardware of PS4. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

A leak by the famous leaker WalkingCat shows some pictures of the HP Reverb G2, which is the result of a collaboration between HP, Microsoft, and Valve. There’s a speech at AWE held by Microsoft and HP on 28th , so this may be a good moment for the launch. Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention. It’s all very cool.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. HTC Vive Fallout 4 Bundle. Microsoft ‘Mixed Reality’ Headset Discounts.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

VR, for example, allowed some of our customers to focus on pilot training to start to train flying in formations which was not possible with previously used displaying hardware (i.e., Our customers are looking for any means of how to provide the trainee as much realistic experience as possible so devices providing physical feedback (i.e.,

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Well, now he has amazing hardware, a very good operating system, a profitable store, some of the best XR games, full control of the user accounts. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business. The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

They may be AR glasses or smartglasses, but what is sure is that Niantic is working to support AR hardware within its platform. And I’m not only talking about the hardware, but also the software. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. Well played, Microsoft. It is a player to keep an eye on for sure. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Both Apple and Google already have very popular stores , they have full suits of tools (think about the Google Docs suite) and entertainment channels (think about Apple TV), and they have enormous expertise in building hardware and operating systems. And they are entering it to dominate it. This is the moment of the truth for Meta.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook came with the Oculus Quest 1 & 2 , then Microsoft with the Hololens2 with hand tracking capabilities; but there are limitations in dealing with occlusions and in tracking outside the camera’s field of view on the headset. Optimizing 3D models for Augmented Reality 3. Introducing the new AR-media platform & plugins 4.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 21, 2017

Pallister added, “It feels like the current set of hardware has tipped us over a point where people can feel a magical experience but it is really only just the beginning of the types of experiences depicted in those fictional works.”. Pallister, by contrast, wants to learn how to juggle in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Actually, there is no much more to say apart from what we already knew about the Index : the visuals are astonishing, especially because of the 120 Hz refresh rate; the audio is a next-gen one; the controllers allow for a new kind of interactions; the headset is very comfortable; there is a very handful guide on how to setup it on Steam website.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2021

Let’s discuss how to do so properly, as well as cover some of the paths you should consider pursuing in 2021. Image Credit: HTC Vive. Don’t simply rely on text editors such as Microsoft Office or Google Docs to do the job – make your CV as readable as possible. VR & AR career paths to consider. Network in your spare time.

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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. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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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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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. The Unity XR: How to Build AR and VR Apps Specialization course at Coursera offers three shorter courses about VR and AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

Think about it for one moment: someone has made a Beat Saber clone in one day, without knowing how to code. What is a bit disappointing is the price, $1500, that anyway is inline with other enterprise hardware, the quite strange design and the fact that it doesn’t support controllers, but only hands tracking. This is impressive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

HTC – TPE: 2498 – Headset, Content Delivery Platform (non-gaming). AMD – NASDAQ: AMD – GPUs, CPUs and other computer hardware for VR. Microsoft – NASDAQ: MSFT – VR operating system, VR platform, VR headset. How to invest in these companies. Discovery Communications – NASDAQ: DISCA – VR Content. Unconfirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It is intriguing that many companies are already experimenting with this new chipset, and one of these partners is Niantic, that is thinking about going the AR hardware route after all its hard work on gelocalized AR games like Pokemon Go. It for sure knows how to take Medium to the next level. HTC won’t announce anything big at CES.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

The enterprise-optimised platform performs seamlessly on many AR/VR/MR devices from headset vendors such as HTC VIVE, Meta, and Microsoft, allowing firms to leverage XR for a range of use cases, including remote guidance, training, and repair solutions. Alex Howland: A key challenge that remains is accessibility.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 10, 2017

On top of that, Schell predicted that most interaction with VR worlds will be done through handheld controllers like the Oculus Touch, or the controllers for the HTC Vive VR headset. Schell said that Microsoft’s HoloLens glasses are too dark, so that you can’t see the eyes of someone wearing them. We have to overcome that problem.”.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself). Photo from Microsoft.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

This could enable Meta to generate a valuable income source and services for its XR hardware ecosystem, competing with Apple’s Vision Pro offerings. Thanks to the time and capital invested by Meta, the industry took slow but careful steps towards what audiences have today: a growing choice between major XR hardware vendors.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). First of all, Peter Chou, ex founder of HTC , has launched his startup XrSpace, with his first VR headset Mova (that you can see in the header image of this post), together with its social XR platform Manova.

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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 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

They have some great capabilities in terms of hardware. Among such are HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. . This piece of hardware displays a 3D hologram overlaid on the real world. The most famous example being Microsoft Hololens. . Source: Microsoft “What is Mixed Reality” [link]. What does this mean?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Instead, it will try to detail how to use a VR API at a lower level in order to understand how all those engines make use of it to enable multiplatform VR applications by obtaining tracking information from an HMD and any additional trackable device, rendering a scene from both eye’s viewpoint so to achieve stereo vision, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. Great post.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

We have no clue of when it will be released, but if you remember, last week Youtuber Eric For President revealed that some sources of his talk about a September reveal for the “VR hardware we want” from Facebook. Some reviews of VR hardware. If you love technical hardware details about XR devices, I recommend you read this article!

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