The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Microsoft). When a journalist of IGN Italy was trying to install the new Xbox Wireless Headset on the platform, he was greeted with an Italian message saying “The VR goggle must be updated”. More info (Official Nreal website with purchase link) More info (Post on Vodafone DE blog). News worth a mention.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 31, 2023

Specifically, it's entirely reliant on the data it can access, which in this case, is the data it's been trained on. For example, Microsoft has admitted that it monitors and reads conversations between Bing and its users. Many companies (and at least one country – Italy ) have banned the use of ChatGPT due to concerns over privacy.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I’m also adding a bonus video that shows you that you can use Microsoft Maquette to create immersive movie storyboards in an easy way. My friend Chris Koomen at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has made an amazing sample to use Oculus + hands tracking for the training of pilots. Great post. I think it is an idea that is worth exploring.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This week, the company has announced it is going to hire additional 10,000 people to help in developing the m verse , and all these new hires will happen in the Europen Union , and in particular, inside Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland . VR training goes big with Accenture and Bank of America.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. Some numbers about VR training. Axon Park has written on its blog a very long and detailed article on VR training. More info (NVIDIA) More info (AMD).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

When you buy a headset like Oculus Quest, it is meant for consumer usage, and theoretically speaking, you can’t use for commercial purposes (exhibitions, training applications, VR cinemas, etc…). Customers don’t have to go through the Oculus Home interface, look for sideloaded apps menu to launch the training app.

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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). If OpenAI wanted to slow down to have time to understand the consequences of this new type of AI, Microsoft would already ready be to hire all the talents of OpenAI and carry on AI developments by itself.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Now the Metaverse is gaining newfound traction from enterprise clients, companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are reinforcing XR as a serious technology for various use cases. This unique combination will usher in a new paradigm in training, directly impacting readiness and lethality. The future is now the T-7, powered with ATARS.

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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). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. VR headsets will become MR ones.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

As for me, I’ve been flooded by worldwide requests asking how I am here in Italy. The coronavirus outbreak is getting worse here in Northern Italy. We have more difficulties in going to Milan, that is the economical heart of Italy, and now a red zone with all its region. HoloLens 2 is now being used by the Army.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We work both with the area of productivity increase, predominantly using augmented reality, but also with learned trade; training using virtual reality. We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy. Alan: So basically what you’ve done is you’ve templatized the creation of virtual and augmented training.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We work both with the area of productivity increase, predominantly using augmented reality, but also with learned trade; training using virtual reality. We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy. Alan: So basically what you’ve done is you’ve templatized the creation of virtual and augmented training.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We work both with the area of productivity increase, predominantly using augmented reality, but also with learned trade; training using virtual reality. We've just done one in Bologna in Italy. Alan: So basically what you've done is you've templatized the creation of virtual and augmented training. I'll give you an example.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. It comes with already included the training to detect 400 categories of objects. Great times ahead for augmented reality!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! So, Microsoft has made whatever it could to make the limited FOV more acceptable and we have to appreciate that. The headset is very light and balanced (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

Is that VR event in the mountains of Italy really a good opportunity? Maquette by Microsoft). Is that call with that unknown Indian guy that contacted you on Linkedin because he wanted to talk about “possible collaborations” useful? Mostly not, there will be few people. Do you have to demo VR to anyone you know?

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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. Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024.

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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. I think the name ARIA is a mix of AR and AI , because the glass goes around collecting data for the AI, and since ARIA means also “air” in Italy, it can be a suggestion about the fact that it is used outside the lab.

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