The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. Some months ago, some important magazines leaked that Microsoft might have abandoned the HoloLens project. According to a new leak, Microsoft scrapped the plans for a HoloLens 3, and also the collaboration with Samsung has been brought to an end.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The main XR magazines talk about a very solid headset with good processing power and amazing visuals , with the passthrough being an improvement over the previous models, but still not perfect. Meta refused to answer any questions, and this makes me think that the game may have been abandoned or at least been in an uncertain situation.

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ARVR

JULY 26, 2022

Do you remember the excitement back to 2021… At any moment, both Apple and Meta were poised to launch full-blown AR headsets for the consumer market, Samsung teased a compelling AR glasses video, Snap was actually starting to ship an AR device, (albeit only for developers), and even Niantic was said to be working on glasses of their own.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

The same analyst, though, added an important note to these statistics that has been ignored by many magazines: “shipping times remained unchanged 48 hours after pre-orders opened. It indicates that demand may quickly taper off after the core fans and heavy users place their orders”. A far future, but an exciting future.

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ARVR

JULY 20, 2022

Last year, Snap acquired WaveOptics for $500 million, Meta acquired ImagineOptix, and Samsung acquired DigiLens shortly after it had valued itself at $500 million in its D round. The obvious question is, if this is at all real, they why have they not been snapped up by one of the large players in the industry.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 9, 2020

iPhone 12 pro and Samsung Galaxy S20 iPhone 12 Pro: With ARKit just about any modern iPhone or iPad can be considered an AR gift. The new phone is starting at $999 Samsung Galaxy S20+5G: For Android users who want to get in on the AR upgrades the new Galaxy boasts the Depth Vision Camera. New Smart Phones?—?iPhone

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2017

The popular fashion publisher teamed up with VR agency Visualize and Samsung for the project in an effort to “open up the world of virtual reality to the tech-savvy female consumer, one style destination at a time.”. The first episode in the series featured yoga, lounging in a hotel room, and a lot of day drinking. SI Swimsuit Edition in VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2017

But now that the landlady has sold the house where it all started, CLR has turned to VR, or specifically, AltspaceVR, a social VR platform which established itself on early Samsung, Oculus, and HTC headsets back in 2015, and now supports all major VR hardware including Daydream.

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ARVR

JANUARY 25, 2022

It works with brands like Samsung and Pepperflow to enable 3D and AR product visualization in their shopping flows. was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Samsung VR sets take diners on virtual reality trips that complement the dish they are served. The Impact Of AR/VR On the Food Industry was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

I’ve never seen anyone sleeping in front of Zuck’s house… The marketing power has already been very important in XR: when Quest 1 launched, its features were comparable to the ones of some of its competitors, but all the magazines and the people in the community just talked about Quest, totally overshadowing the other headsets.

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ARVR

AUGUST 20, 2021

With some big, global brands like Google, Facebook, and Samsung stepping their foot in the virtual reality space, and large investments pouring in, it is evident that virtual reality is here to stay. Goldman Sachs, the investment banking company, envisages an $80 billion growth for the virtual reality industry by 2025.

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ARVR

JULY 6, 2020

Using a 360 Camera Using a personal 360 camera like the Insta360 S or the Samsung Gear 360 is super easy. was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Remember that Sony owns very famous IPs, so it may launch some exclusive games with VR support that get lots of visibility in gaming magazines. We all know how Samsung is able to deliver beautiful home electronics devices, and it is a company that has also past experience about VR headsets (Gear VR and Odyssey+ were both good VR goggles).

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ARVR

APRIL 27, 2022

Samsung , Coca-Cola , Gucci , Nike and many more. What’s common for these brands is that they all enjoy early mover advantage in the metaverse space. This new shopping in the metaverse trend will hit fast before you know it!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It doesn’t require root (don’t trust the warning on its website) and it is free to be used for 5 minutes of consecutive streaming, otherwise, you have to pay $10; MirrorOp sender on my old Samsung Note 4: pressing Play will start streaming of your screen data.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

is rebooting the LIFE brand for a new era, bringing the compelling stories you would expect from the iconic magazine to life in virtual reality. LIFE VR is available as a free app download and its programming is also expected to be distributed across VR platforms like the HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Upload did it again: on December, 2nd, the big XR magazine has streamed a big showcase of many news about VR games. Mogura VR , one of the most important magazines about VR in Japan, has organized an event hosting a few important Japanese VR professionals to discuss the m**averse in Japan. If you may be interested, follow me.

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ARVR

MARCH 29, 2021

a key focal point in the iPhone’s horse-race against Samsung and Google flagships. was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

Major tech giants like Samsung, Google, Apple and Nvidia are the chief contributors to VR market and at the same time the chief researchers that can help explore more versatile use cases of this impactful technology within the next few years. If you are a game developer in unity or even just a beginner do give VR development a try!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

VR magazines have published this week many pieces of advice for new Quest 2 owners. But if Apple won’t abandon the project as Google did with Tango, and if companies like Samsung will start copying Apple (as it seems) in some years we could all have better phone-based augmented reality and 3D scanning may become a commodity.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! So many memories… who was there already in VR with me?

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

On April 19, 1965, in anniversary issue of Electronics magazine, director of research and development at Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon E. If we take Samsung’s 10nm SDRAM into account, the process lead over Intel stretches by 18 months, which is practically the length of the original Moore’s Law.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

All the YouTubers and VR magazines talked about it, and it seems that the game is very fun. Samsung is still working on AR glasses and its new internal prototype seems to be called SM-I120. Beginning November 18, Quest 2 will be discounted at $349 for a limited time, and it will include Resident Evil 4 VR in addition to Beat Saber.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

When it comes to mainline carriers, only Australian Qantas offered Samsung Gear VR headsets to its First Class passengers (on select flights). Until today, VR was put into service only on limited number of flights by French tourist airlines XL Airways and Corsair. However, it seems that Qantas stopped with this innovative program.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

The amount of the deal has not been disclosed, but Chinese magazine VRTuoLuo reports that it has been 5B RMB (a bit less $800M), while another Chinese portal reported the sum of 9B RMB, but then removed this detail from its article later on. Snapchat is so planning to compete with similar products like Google Lens or Samsung Bixby.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

“Apple has invented the glasses of the future” is probably what journals and magazines will say the day of launch, and all the various HoloLens , Magic Leap , etc… will be forgotten by mainstream media.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I thought it could have been great to give visibility to this very interesting magazine also in the West and at the same time ask them some questions on the current status of the VR market. So we agreed on a written interview on WeChat, which I report to you here below.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In an interview with a magazine (quoted by Upload VR), he said the following sentences: One of the things [Steam Deck] represents is the battery-capable, high-performance horsepower that eventually you could use in VR applications as well. It is not a direct confirmation, but a hint that points in that direction.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

Samsung Gear VR expected 3.5 Kevin Kelly, Co-founder of Wired Magazine, stated in a recent interview with author/blogger Tim Ferriss that, “No one is an expert in VR,” simply because the medium is so new and unexplored. Gen Z is the the most passionate segment in VR. Average time spent in headset is 25 minutes.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The magazine has had access to a letter written by Jason Rubin in 2018 in which he lays out his idea of the m**averse. Samsung heavily invests in DigiLens to build its AR glasses. Samsung has to lead a new round of investment into DigiLens, which is now evaluated at more than $500M. Some news on content. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

I know many people that have tried this T-shirt: it has been one of the most discussed gadgets of CES in the community, even if it had no visibility on the most important VR magazines. The second one I selected is from Samsung , and in this case to show what I wouldn’t like to have in an AR windshield. It is very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta may be working on a very cheap Quest and very expensive Quest Pro 2 Thanks to Twitter user Lunayian , I got to read an article written by a Korean magazine with some very interesting rumors about Meta. I’m not so sure that this is the kind of content people are looking for.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon. Apple has already announced its App Store for the Vision Pro , and I can bet my ass that when Google and Samsung will announce the new headset, it will be associated with a new Android For XR operating system and an XR Play Store store.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Should it primarily be running on the latest and greatest Samsung and Pixel devices with high-performance AR features, or should it be less intensive to run on more devices? Because of this, it becomes more difficult to deliver a consistent experience across many different Android devices.

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