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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.31): Facebook becomes Meta, Pimax teases Reality headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The news made headlines on all the most important magazines of the world, and many people that weren’t even aware of XR now have got to know that the mission of one of the most important companies in the world is to build “the metaverse”. With this new interest in hardware, it could start creating an ecosystem of its own.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.23): Facebook works on its OS, Oculus Link official cable released, Huawei VR glasses available, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware.

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All the best AR and VR news from CES 2019

The Ghost Howls

Continuing speaking about HTC devices, the hardware manufacturer Finch has announced the FinchShift controllers: two 6 DOF controllers that can work with all the headsets that are compatible with HTC’s Vive Wave platform. And it is also interesting that a hardware company like TPCAST is investing in a software solution.

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Is it worth going to WCVRI?

The Ghost Howls

In fact, there were some games, but most booths were showcasing hardware or enterprise solutions. The epic Noah Zerkin (the guy making the Leap Motion North Star headsets) at our booth to try the game! Many of them were seeking for enterprise relations. The best player of our game at our booth.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. At 6pm CET all the major VR magazines will already publish their reviews , but who cares again, I just want to play the game! These specifications are more or less in line with the ones of the Xbox One Series X, just slightly inferior.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

The Ghost Howls

In an interview with a Chinese magazine, HTC China (Mister) President Alvin Graylin has stated that in his opinion, Facebook may lose at least $100-$200 for each sold Oculus Quest 2 device. Considering that Quest has sold at least 3M units now, this means more than $300M of losses from the hardware sales for Facebook.

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All the most important AR and VR news from Facebook F8

The Ghost Howls

I’ve started reading reviews on the Oculus Go on my favorite magazines, that is Upload VR and Road To VR and I was surprised to read that both journalists expressed a quite negative opinion on the device. Markerless full body tracking : Oculus is now able to track completely your body using only the RGB camera of a phone.

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