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Road to VR
JANUARY 3, 2017
Ramping up for CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Lenovo has revealed their newest entry into the world of VR, a yet unnamed headset sporting an impressive dual 1440 × 1440 OLED displays, a PlayStation VR-style halo strap system, and dual cameras that allow for room-scale positional tracking.
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. The big news of the week is that CES 2021 won’t be physically held in Las Vegas, but will have just a digital edition.
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The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 11, 2022
This hilarious tweet thread by Nima Zeighami shows you all the worst uses that have been of the M-word on the Las Vegas showroom. 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. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 9, 2019
This week, a new report by The Information seems to confirm that things are not going that well: notwithstanding the CEO Rony Abovitz being sure to sell 100,000 headsets the first year of launch (he thought about 1 million, but then executives made him lower the estimate), actually the company may have sold only 6,000.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 2, 2023
On the strictly technical side, this is what we always dreamt of for the future : an AI assistant that can help us wherever we are, using our contextual information to support us better. This is incredibly cool and useful, but comes also with some privacy strings attached. But the fact that Meta can see what I see feels a bit… cringe.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 10, 2022
And subscribe to my newsletter to not miss my upcoming CES roundup, which will contain all the news I’ve read about XR from Las Vegas! Image by The Information). According to The Information, Meta has just canceled XROS, an internal project for building a custom operating system dedicated to XR that wasn’t based on Android.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JANUARY 14, 2017
CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Image Credit: Microsoft.
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