The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. The most important info shared Friday is a (weird) video with the external new design of the device. HTC has immediately answered that 899$ is a too high estimate of the price. Magic Leap is suing nReal.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. This week we had a full reveal of the headset, the controller, and the computational unit in a video that reveals all their external details. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. News worth a mention. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. IKEA releases IKEA Studio.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. You don’t even know how this made me happy! Top news of the week.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Magic Leap VP Product Marketing and Developer Programs, Lisa Watts, presented the Auggie for Best Enterprise solution to Avataar. Alvin Graylin, HTC China President, presented the Auggie for Best Head-Worn Device. Gauld returned to the stage with the Best Creator Tool trophy still in hand. Best Enterprise Solution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft. Image by Microsoft). Together with the HoloLens 2, Microsoft has also announced a new version of the Kinect, called Kinect Azure. HTC 5G streaming.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Image by HTC). HTC has revealed new info on the Cosmos. Every week, HTC is revealing new info on the upcoming Vive Cosmos. These are interesting specs, that make the Cosmos the best headset that HTC has ever released. Vive Video 6 DOF Lite is now available. This breaks immediately the magic.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

In a Youtube video, he revealed some juicy details, like: The cost of the glasses is $499 + prescription lenses; They are connected to the iPhone, that does all the heavy lifting; They were planned for a “one more thing” announcement for Q4 2020- Q1 2021 , and for release one year later. (Image by Techgenyz). We’ll see…. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

So it seems that the user will be able to see the videos he/she is recording, with the actual AR filters already applied in real-time. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. It seems that this test has been a success, and so now Microsoft has won now a bigger contract to carry on the project: $21.88B (!!)

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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). Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. Not to be outdone, Microsoft finally confirmed that the not-so-secret Project Scorpio (an excellent codename decision) is bringing high fidelity VR to Xbox. E3 + VR = <3.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some days ago, I published on Youtube the video of my unboxing of the Realmax Qian glasses. RealMax Qian Video Review. I have prepared a cool video review about the RealMax Qian , talking about how it is in all its aspects, and showing some through-the-lenses footage. Are you ready to discover more about Realmax Qian?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business. More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic). Intel Labs can now transform a video in a 3D scene. The same on Twitter.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Companies like Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, Lenovo, and HTC VIVE have entered the industrial XR space to create solutions tailored to professionals with complex requirements. XR resolves this with on-demand video and relays schematics directly from a wearer’s headset to troubleshoot equipment.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. HTC is celebrating the new year with a $100 discount on the Vive Cosmos running from 1th to 10th of January. Microsoft SharePoint Spaces to launch in the first half of 2020.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. Inside-out tracking has remained for years an elusive key to the success of AR, but it seems like Microsoft has made a game-changing stride with HoloLens. HoloLens’ sensor cluster has a whopping 11 elements.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Trainees could use Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap headsets, as well as tablets and smartphones for the platform. With the immersive kit, workers could overlay manuals, holograms, and video guides on physical aircraft repair walkthroughs. The 10-week course instructed aviation staff on using its Manifest platform.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Product Manager, Mixed Reality & HoloLens, Microsoft ; Kerim Ispir, COO, RE’FLEKT ; and Juergen Lumera, Automotive Service Solutions, AR Product Management & Innovation, Bosch. Main Stage: AR Collaboration – Goodbye Video Conferencing | Jacob Loewenstein, Spatial. Main Stage: 6DoFemale Panel.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

Youtuber Mike VR Oasis has also published a video of the passthrough vision from the Index. HTC Vive Cosmos will work with Vive Wireless Adapter. This week, HTC has not made another big reveal about the Vive Cosmos, so we’ll still have to wait to discover more about its price and its features. Microsoft is shipping Azure Kinect.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And there are booths of many important companies : Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Huawei, GoPro, etc… so this event has cool stuff to showcase. And last year there were tons of people… I have seen some videos that were a bit shocking… people were so many that it was almost impossible to enter! Me with a Droolon F1 inside an HTC Vive Cosmos!

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

More sharp eyed readers of this post can see the pixel grid on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, and this is where Varjo hopes to make the difference. This is further combined with video-see-through (VST) technology for unparalleled AR/MR capabilities. ” – quote from the Press Release.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. Even if they are not general-purpose glasses like Hololens or Magic Leap, these glasses feature inside so many technological innovations that made all we of the tech communities fall in love with them, and with their creator Jeri Ellsworth.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. In terms of XR, Apple is introducing spatial video recording for the latest iPhone model.

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VRWorld

JULY 14, 2016

With the introduction of Google Cardboard and the Daydream VR platform, Oculus and HTC discrete VR headsets and GearVR headsets for even smartphones like the Samsung’s Galaxy S7, the first tentative steps towards virtual reality gaming are being taken. Virtual Reality Gaming isn’t coming, it’s already here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: You know, I guess from my perspective; I’m a longtime video gamer. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Alan: Slicing fruit in VR is magical, and the fact that they have the haptic feedback to the controller is just… [implied Chef Kiss].

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: You know, I guess from my perspective; I’m a longtime video gamer. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Alan: Slicing fruit in VR is magical, and the fact that they have the haptic feedback to the controller is just… [implied Chef Kiss].

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here you are the full video of the interview. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). And here you are the full transcript, for text lovers like me: Hello Jeri! The Vive Wands.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

left, plays the new video game “Eagle Flight VR” during an Ubisoft news conference before the start of the E3 Gaming Conference on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Image Credits: TechCrunch When HTC began imagining life after the smartphone, it looked a lot like VR. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc.,

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: You know, I guess from my perspective; I'm a longtime video gamer. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. You're right, it is a magical experience. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2.

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