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All the best AR and VR news from CES 2019

The Ghost Howls

Thanks to it, the user was able to see a volumetric video streamed via 5G in very high quality. And from what I have read on the various magazines, it is on the right path : most of the problems that were present at CES 2018 have been fixed and so the Pimax is on the right path to becoming a usable headset. at 120 fps.

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Valve shows Knuckles prototype controllers v2

The Ghost Howls

In June 2017, Valve showcased some photos and videos of these controllers, but after that moment, we had very few info about them. It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. Until today. Valve Knuckles v1.3, Oculus Touch Controllers. Knuckles EV2.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

In a new interview given to a New Zealander magazine, Gabe Newell talks about the work that Valve is doing with Brain-Computer Interfaces. The software is very famous , and some videos about artists drawing with it have become so viral that even mainstream people have seen them. Other relevant news. Image by OpenBCI).

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.31): Facebook becomes Meta, Pimax teases Reality headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I still can’t believe this… some years ago I even thought 10K was an impossible target for me… in the end, I’m just a guy writing technical walls of text, publishing badly edited Youtube videos, and making jokes about porn in VR… but here I am with 20,000 written next to the count of my followers.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. 90% of people getting a Quest for Christmas are new users for VR; Facebook has released 3 videos related to the 3 talks that it should have performed at GDC. Another great UX post by Leap Motion. Keep that in mind.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Another big kudos comes from the fact that Snap is clearly showing all the limitations of the device in its communication : in all photos and videos, you can spot the limited FOV of the device, something that instead all the other AR companies try to hide. Watch a throuh-the-lens video of Tilt Five glasses. Kudos to Snap for it.

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All the most important AR and VR news from Facebook F8

The Ghost Howls

I’ve started reading reviews on the Oculus Go on my favorite magazines, that is Upload VR and Road To VR and I was surprised to read that both journalists expressed a quite negative opinion on the device. of videos) is too short to do something meaningful. You can see the announcement in this video. The reasons?

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