Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2021

A message uncovered by IGN Italy when plugging in a pair of wireless headphones into an Xbox Series X/S caused a stir in the VR community, as it seemingly alluded to some level of VR support baked into Xbox consoles. Sony has generated over two billion dollars in revenue with PSVR hardware and software sales.

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VRScout

MAY 15, 2022

Just recently, Able traveled to Venice, Italy for the premiere of her solo exhibition DALL’ANIMA at the 59th Venice Biennale during the sixth edition of Personal Structures: Reflections. To fall back on the question of where XR will “land,” Able says, “I do not believe that XR tech will ever land, but will continue to evolve.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

That said, like other companies we’re expecting some additional impact to our hardware production due to the Coronavirus. We’re taking precautions to ensure the safety of our employees, manufacturing partners and customers, and are monitoring the situation closely.” United States. Netherlands. South Korea. Switzerland.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The main characters look good on Quest hardware but comparatively, the human designs look odd and feel particularly rough. Gargoyle Doyle was shown at Venice Immersive in Italy. My biggest concern so far is the uneven visual quality. Still, this could change before the final version. I’ll be interested to see what changes.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To deliver the best software experience for watching movies in Bigscreen , we also had to build the best hardware with Bigscreen Beyond.” Second wave shipments will begin in Q4 2023 in Canada and Europe including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, and Belgium.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2021

The Pico Neo 3 is rather affordable, has a store with pretty good games, and has basically the same hardware as the Oculus Quest 2. The Pico Neo 3 is coming to China with interesting titles in the Pico Store like SuperHot, Synth Riders, Red Matter, and more! Image by Pico).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m back in Italy! Anyway, if the leak is true, it means that we are starting to have hardware leaks, which usually happen when a product is in the production phase, or close to it. Let’s see… if we’ll keep having always more hardware leaks, then this is the case. And luckily for you, I have one.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Preorders are available in the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and The Netherlands. It lets you jump into VR as soon as you want, without having to worry your headset might not be charged and updated, or that your controllers might need new batteries. It ships from November 21.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2022

Countries not included in Meta’s list of supported regions can’t buy VR headsets directly from Meta, although residents can import hardware from elsewhere and access the digital side of the platform without issue; supported regions include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, (..)

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2020

COVID-19 has now spread to 114 countries and territories, with China, Italy, Iran, and Korea seeing the greatest number of cases so far. Big players like Oculus, Sony, and HTC have used the event to showcase their latest VR hardware and content. E3 has long been among a handful of key conferences for the VR industry.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Microsoft says the HoloLens Commercial Suite is “[i]deal for organizations,” and includes the Development Edition hardware, plus a warranty and enterprise features “for added security and device management.” image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) startup Bigscreen revealed its first major hardware offering: the world’s smallest headset, the Bigscreen Beyond. European markets include the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, and others. It is available to buyers across the United States and Canada.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Inflation here in Italy is ramping up, and the impression I have is that we are entering into a recession phase. It has been a watershed moment, because before this week many people were skeptical about Mojo Vision since they thought the hardware was cool but there was no way it could work safely inside a human eye. Don’t wake me up!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

So the next 2–3 weeks are going to be crazy for me, so sorry if I will make the comments on the newsletter a bit shorter than usual. On the personal side, I’m a bit devasted by the flood that happened in central Italy. Anyway, it had its share of problems: it was kinda messy and also very heavy for the hardware of the computer to run.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Magic Leap is developing an AR industrial hardware solution that projects immersive imagery on real-world locations to assist end clients with various tasks. The immersive hardware firm also wants to provide an avenue for adopters to access Metaverse applications, one of 2022’s most hyped tech-buzz words.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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Upload VR

MARCH 3, 2023

The 256GB Quest 2 price cut takes effect on Sunday in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the US.

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APRIL 29, 2022

On Thursday, April 21st, in Italy there has been the first edition of the On|Metaverse Summit , an amazing hybrid event of which I have been a co-organizer. On|Metaverse Summit has been the first international event on the “metaverse” organized in Italy. I think we all worked very well together as a team.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 13, 2022

Hardware distributor Insight is handling the release of the Magic Leap 2 and in September, the device will drop globally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Saudi Arabia. The firm is making the Magic Leap 2 product commercially available on September 30 this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

In the long and troublesome travel back to Italy from AWE, I’ve lost the last flight and so I’m currently here writing my newsletter from the lobby of the hotel where I spent the night :|. Probably the biggest of them has been Qualcomm announcing the public release of Snapdragon Spaces SDK and its related hardware DK.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2018

In a week here in Italy will start a very interesting VR-related event called Immersive Architecture. You are organizing a very important XR-related event here in Italy called Im-Arch, can you tell us what gave you the idea to start it? Maybe the hardware is not ready yet, but it will be. Tell my readers whatever you want!

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

Hardware, too, has evolved significantly this part year, with the long-awaited launch of Magic Leap and the release of the Oculus Go , which means that it is now possible to have untethered, six degrees of freedom experiences in a headset costing under $200. There’s little doubt that the medium is growing up fast. Brazil, U.K.

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VRScout

APRIL 18, 2018

Thanks to new more comfortable hardware releases like the HTC Vive Pro and tetherless HTC Vive Focus, people are spending more consecutive time in VR than ever before. Enea Le Fons, an immersive developer based out of Italy, has been eager to find out with his recent “30 Days In VR” challenge.

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EON Reality

JUNE 15, 2020

In order to ensure equal access for the schools — and potentially future users throughout China — the VR and AR learning experiences will all be utilizing the AVR Platform’s hardware-agnostic capabilities to be used on existing tablets and smartphones rather than relying on expensive headsets. ” Dan Lejerskar Founder of EON Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2019

If you are the owner of an Oculus headset and advise a friend of yours to buy an Oculus device, he/she gets a discount on the hardware and you get credit to buy games on the store. So now I will be able to get some extra credit also from my lovely Italy.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

TPCast pre-orders are available in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK. Many distributors are quoting late October shipping dates.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That’s probably the most important feature of the event: people from all over the United States are coming, and also people from all parts of the world are coming (I just got here from Italy), and this is amazing if you want to enlarge your community. It’s better on the business/marketing/hardware side.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The real pity was the little presence of hardware manufacturers: I enjoyed a lot trying some cool VR motion chairs, treadmills and such at Gamescom , and I hoped to see many of them at Games Week, too. The first startup that I interviewed has been AnotheReality , that is an interesting VR company in Milan, Italy. AnotheReality.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m back in Italy! It’s not much, but if this data is starting to surface, probably very soon we’ll discover more info about it via patents or hardware certification websites. This battery is very small, and measures 45mm x 45mm, but this doesn’t help us in understanding the whole dimension of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. More info (PwC research) More info (Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Counterpoint Research) More info (Moss and Gorn selling more than 1M units). Top news of the week. Digilens and Luxecel present innovations for AR lenses.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. VC Matthew Ball has written a de-facto whitepaper on the Metaverse on his website.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

EU-based Amazon retailers including Amazon Germany, Italy, France, and Spain still haven’t published pricing or release information. In the course of a week, two German electronic stores—MediaMarkt and Saturn—posted online listings of Touch, citing a €199 price with a November 21st delivery date.

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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. Considering that game engines know about hardware products far before their official release, I found reliable that Apple was talking with them about future features. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I’m back to Italy after my trip to Helsinki! More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Because Spatial is hardware-agnostic every colleague doesn’t need to have a Magic Leap 1, they can join a meeting from a Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus Quest, Android/iPhone mobile device or desktop (just without the fancy spatial computing). Or they can return the entire package with no further fees or obligation.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

I was able to find and install it fine in the US, but colleagues in Canada and Italy both were barred from even finding the app on the Gear VR store. Unfortunately the Rift version of Hulu lacks the social/multiplayer of the Gear VR version, which is a little odd given that the Rift is powered by significantly more capable hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Pico Neo 3 Link is more or less the same headset as the Pico Neo 3 Pro : Pico claims to have applied some small modifications and improvements, but the basic hardware specifications remain the same. Promotional image of the Pico Neo 3 Link (Image by Pico). On May, 24th, the preorder period will end, and the device will start to be in stock.

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