The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

More info (Lynx R1 Launch post on Road To VR) More info (Lynx R1 Launch post on Upload VR) More info (Some more info on its special lenses) More info (Launch keynote) More info (Video that explains this kind of lenses) More info (Feedback on this kind of lenses) More info (Stan Larroque talking about the success of the sales). Let’s hope so.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The official video with the full announcement What I was looking for If you are a reader of my weekly newsletter, you know what I was looking for in this announcement. And the video trailer showed a guy playing with a gamepad and the Apple headset , like people playing with the Oculus CV1 at launch. What year is it? 2016 or 2023?

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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! Enea developing in virtual reality using Unreal Engine VR editor. 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

JULY 4, 2019

I’ve returned to Italy, but there is still so much I have to tell you about the Sandbox Immersive Festival in Qingdao! In fact, many videos on Youtube about Spheres are tagged as ASMR (that is something like a relaxing technique). Are you ready for some new reviews? Beautiful view of Qingdao at night. That’s it for today!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The damn coronavirus has arrived in my city in northern Italy, but I’m still alive and kicking, reporting you the most interesting XR news of the week! Facebook has anyway communicated that it will make anyway its announcements in those days, probably with online videos. At this point, I wonder if GDC may be canceled as the MWC.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

At the airport of Rome Fiumicino (the biggest in Italy), now there is a person going around with a big helmet able to detect even at a long distance the temperature of many people together so that to detect which ones may have a coronavirus infection. Unreal Engine 4.25 Enjoy Felix&Paul videos on Quest. In its latest 4.25

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. Me watching the video about Space Code being used by kids to pilot a little robot. He asked me about Virtual Reality in schools in Italy and I was like.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It talked about SIFT features and how the inventor used this kind of features to add 3D model of rabbits and teapots on top of a desk and over the hand in a camera video stream. A virtual teapot added to a real scene in a video stream. You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I think I’ll miss the joys of summer (and all the trophies that Italy has won), but at least I’ll be able to enjoy again some delicious hot chocolate Before leaving you to the news of the week, I’m happy to announce to you that I’ve been selected as a speaker for AWE US 2021 ! This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

With this digital edition, of course, we had nothing of this, and the CES was just a bunch of video announcements. What is cool, watching the video, is that the notifications that the smartglasses project are rendered on both eyes, so with these glasses it is possible to have a 3D display always in front of you.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s hot and the drought is creating some issues here in northern Italy. For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video. This has been also confirmed by TESTED, which has been able to go hands-on with the headset and offer a very meaningful video about them (which I advise you all to watch).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” Check out the video below to get a better idea how simulated field-of-depth and foveated rendering work. The company has already released their SDK which allows developers to integrate FOVE support for projects built-in Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We've just done one in Bologna in Italy. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too. Affordable.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Data miner Bast564 discovered it and shared a video about it online. Then yesterday the unthinkable happened: a guy shared online some pictures and a video about a Project Cambria headset and its box. Moved by curiosity, I wanted to give this world a look, but downloading the experience from Italy was too slow and I had to give up.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

While VR communities are full of posts like “ 360 videos are not VR “, 360 videos are still widely used for marketing. And this is even truer for countries that are not at the cutting edge of technology : what is new in Italy, is probably old in the US. You have to think about this when starting up your business.

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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. The short-term goal is to provide better tools to professional video creators , so Unity can compete better with Unreal Engine, which is already used in Hollywood productions.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

bHaptics video review. If you like videos, here you are my visual review on the bHaptics system , where I evaluate its features, highlighting pros and cons, and I also test the suit with Half-Life: Alyx and our game HitMotion: Reloaded ! 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

APRIL 16, 2020

Someway, Dino Audino , which is basically the Bruce Springsteen of film teaching books publishing in Italy (they released fundamental books from academics like Vogel, Katz as well as popular directors such as Maurizio Nichetti), knew about me and we met in Rome. There are many differences and some of them are quite complicated.

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