The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC launches Vive Flow headset for relaxation, priced at $499. After endless teasings and leaks, in the end, HTC has finally unveiled its headset: called Vive Flow, it is a lightweight device for media consumption. I send you good vibes so things go well for you too! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

Anyway, in these two weeks, even with some difficulties, I’ve managed to work quite at the same pace that I had in Italy , and we are going full speed ahead in improving the platform (some news about it is coming very soon…). While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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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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JANUARY 3, 2023

Magic Leap debuted its device internationally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. The developer pro model comes with all the same features but also includes developer tools, sample projects, enterprise-grade features, and a monthly early access programme for software testing.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

actually, he was in my city (Turin, Italy) because here there is an epic guy that is living 30 days inside virtual reality! That’s why HTC couldn’t do anything but accepting his proposal. He actually used the Unreal VR editor a lot and most of the scenes he has made have been developed or at least refined with this tool.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either. News from partners (and friends).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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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. We are still waiting for in-device tools, though. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. HTC has just announced its new phone, the Desire 22 Pro, and defined it as a “metaverse phone”.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

It’s curious that actually in Italy we celebrate this in March… but who cares, whenever is the day, it’s always good to celebrate our daddies I’ll be very upfront with you: this week in XR has been very boring, so you won’t find super-news here below, but there are some interesting things that have happened in our ecosystem anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Another busy week has passed by, and here in Italy we just got the news that lockdown measures will start to loosen from next week, but the road to go out as we wish is still long. We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Pre-release versions of beta tools such as Reality Composer, Create ML, Apple Configurator, etc… ?—?Engineering You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

Because using VR is currently more tiring to be used, 2D is more effective… I forced myself to develop in VR for VR in order to push the boundaries of the currently available tools, test unreleased hardware and explore short and long-term effects of repeated extended immersions, not because it is more convenient.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

One is the configuration tool , that lets you configure, debug and check the device as you wish. Marek has also showed me a tool to compare the visuals of other headsets to the one of the XTAL and I can say that the difference is really noticeable. The other one is the modular tracking technology.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In addition to the free Trials on Tatooine virtual reality experience for HTC Vive, the studio released a 360-degree video that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Bredow was recently in Milan, Italy for the VIEW Conference. Disney’s ILMxLab has been busy of late.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. In my opinion (but this is pure speculation), HTC will tease a new Vive Focus this year , so that to answer to the Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

We VR enthusiast know about virtual tours a lot, so we may think that it is already a saturated market, but actually it is not (and by some tests that we did in Italy, I can confirm that). The Vive Pro Eye is the latest enterprise product by HTC, that is a Vive Pro with embedded the eye tracking by Tobii. Vive Pro Eye.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

We had to adapt to a new way of living, and even in the regions where now the virus is under control (like here in Italy), all the industries that made business by many people collecting together (e.g. The coronavirus has lead us to a “new normal”, where things are all different from before.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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. SideQuest is the tool used by thousands of people every month to sideload unapproved applications on their Oculus Quests. I think we’ll discover it “soon”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

But in the enterprise space, it has always been behind the competition of companies like HTC or Pico. The COVID-19 crisis has made many companies realize how AR and VR can be a fundamental tool for smart working (e.g. And this adoption requires enterprise-oriented tools and devices. Tools to scale your VR practice.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

As I said before, apart from other tech giants, no one is going to challenge Facebook on its own terrain : Pico, HTC, HP, Pareal, Skyworth, Shadow Creator… all these companies are going to try offering something different. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. Will they succeed?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

While in Italy we get ready for the “Phase 2” of the lockdown, I write the best AR/VR news of the week just for you! Mozilla Hubs is an opensource online VR meeting tool, that lets you meet other people using whatever device by just clicking on a single link. Image by HTC Vive). HTC is now selling Vive Cosmos Elite headset-only.

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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). More info Get started with Apple Vision Pro development Unity has just released the tools to start developing for Apple Vision Pro and interested developers can already start experimenting with them.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! Adobe releases AR authoring tool Aero. Adobe has finally released its Adobe Aero tool. There are already various tools that claim to let people create AR applications without coding, so you may wonder why I am giving that much importance to this news. The hype is rising….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g. If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC. – Development tool software. 7invensun for eye tracking addons).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

For instance, there are lots of new headsets being released by hardware companies: just in the last year, there have been the Oculus Quest & Rift S , HTC Vive Focus Plus , HP Reverb , Valve Index , Acer OJO 500, and HoloLens 2 … just to mention the most popular ones. Is it necessary to own all of them? Prioritize your expenses.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Anyway, today should be a vacation in Italy, but here I am writing this roundup for you, so if you want to show your appreciation, don’t forget to make a donation on Patreon ! Meta starts offering monetization tools in Horizon Worlds, but with a big toll. Meta has started offering some beta monetization tools inside Horizon Worlds.

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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

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 Vive Focus can be the new tool to transform every man in a Casanova. ” The idea was crazy enough that we all immediately said yes.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. This tool is not available to creators, yet, but Meta is launching in preview a game made with them, called Titanborne. But the big question is the “how”. For what purpose?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2018

I’ve also seen an HTC Vive sold off-the-shelf in a tech shop). ” Again, situation is better than in Italy, but it is still not ideal. The first one that I’ve tried was an installation for four people using HTC Vive VR headsets. Me during the installation procedures of my first HTC Vive experience here in China.

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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 will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2018

This surprised me because, in Italy, the most important people of an IT startup must speak English, because they needs this language to connect with abroad customers and partners. The project evolved over time and when in 2016 HTC released the Vive, they immediately thought about integrating VR into their solution. My envy intensified.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I’m still here in the US for some days after having attended AWE, planning to meet some interesting people before heading back to Italy. In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Today is a special day in Italy when families prepare the Christmas Tree, so I decided to publish a very special post that is a big gift to the whole XR community. These optical windows were a proud design feature on the HTC Vive headsets, but are much more subtle on the Index equipment making them harder to identify.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This is ridiculous, not only because the Pro costs a lot of money, but also because it is sold as a “work device” I don’t know how things work where Zuck lives, but here in Italy, a typical workday is 8 hours, not 2. If at Meta they just work 2 hours, I want to be hired there immediately. Adobe and Autodesk.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

The facial interface TACTAL made my HTC Vive more heavy on the front , and being quite thick and rigid, also made the headset slightly more uncomfortable and reduced my field of view. My HTC Vive with installed in the TACTAL facemask. A final mention goes to the fact that now it is summer and here in Italy it is quite hot.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I’ve preordered my basic $299 one (€349 in Italy) and it will arrive on October, 15th. This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. Rift line gets discontinued.

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