The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. Samsung will do the same. Mobile headsets. Mobile headsets are dying.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. HTC has released some interesting statistics on the VR market. 5G is coming to Italy.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Italy won the Tennis Davis Cup, and that was pretty cool to see (the match between Sinner and Djokovic was just incredible). This may be one of the potential names for either the upcoming mixed reality headset that Samsung is developing with Google or the name of future AR glasses. Will we meet there?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Yesterday HTC has also unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC U12+. The Vive Focus and its friend the HTC U12+ phone (Image by HTC). Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Italy, Canada, and China together to create an amazing video about these VR glasses! This remind me of the initial choice that HTC took when it released the 6DOF tracking add-on for the Vive Focus : in the end, it was never released and the company just launched the new Vive Focus Plus. I strongly advise you to watch it here below.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). The answer is not so trivial.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Unluckily, probably I won’t be able to get the Apple Vision Pro, first of all, because I’m in Italy, and second because it would be a pretty hefty investment for me to buy a Vision Pro and a Mac to develop for it. Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2018

So, last Saturday night we all went to the Apollo Club in Milan (Italy), to participate in the RRRiot night , a clubbing event that is slightly exclusive and is attended by creative people. ” The idea was crazy enough that we all immediately said yes.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

I’m back in Italy, and finally, I can eat again some good pasta… even if I will miss ?? Samsung will manufacture the chips for Facebook AR glasses. According to the Korean outlet “The Electronic Times”, Samsung will manufacture the tracking chips that will be used by Facebook AR glasses. HTC keeps updating the Vive Cosmos.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. I’m curious to see how this will turn out to be.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. VIGAMUS Academy, Italy. image courtesy VR First. University College London, UK.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

I have to warn you that there is not the USB cable, nor a battery charger , so be sure to have one in your office: I use the battery charger and cable of my Samsung smartphone and they work like a charm. Oculus Go costs only $199 (€219 here in Italy, because of VAT) for the 32 GB version and $249 for the 64 GB version. The headset.

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