The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

He clearly said that: “I don’t know how to more unequivocally state that we’re continuing to focus on Reality Labs and the metaverse”. And he’s not the only believer: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicated Mixed Reality as one of the top three trends to follow for 2024. the Avalanche cloud streaming service).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Also, the awareness has grown , because every gamer knew about Alyx, and so about virtual reality.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2020

Refer to the guide below for Mixed Reality headsets. Blender VR works through the OpenXR standard , for which a runtime has been implemented only for Windows Mixed Reality headsets and Oculus headsets. If the system meets all requirements, the Mixed Reality Portal should already be installed. Prerequisites.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m anyway linking a few of them here below, just for your reference. Together with the hardware leaks, we keep having the usual references to RealityOS found in always more pieces of code of iOS. Some people are interested in PSVR 2 as a headset to be connected not to a PS 5, but to a PC.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 31, 2023

ENGAGE XR Hosts Fatboy Slim ‘Eat Sleep VR Repeat’ Digital Concert This week, XR had a massive outreach moment when ENGAGE XR Holdings Plc hosted a virtual reality (VR) Fatboy Slim content. Microsoft is still working on its enterprise avatar system to optimize the service ready for a public roll-out.

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VRScout

MAY 11, 2017

Microsoft brought their latest mixed reality efforts front and center Thursday at its Build conference in Seattle. On top of partner device and price announcements that challenge the likes of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Microsoft also unveiled new controllers as part of mixed reality headset bundles.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Whereas now we tend to refer to the physical and digital worlds as separate entities, we are inexorably moving towards a blending of the two. At its annual I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California Google announced the launch of Tour Creator , a new tool that easily allows anyone to create interactive content in Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is the final newsletter of the year, so… see you in 2021, a new year that I hope will be filled with many interesting news about immersive realities! Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Asobo and Microsoft have worked hard for this and on 22nd, the VR patch has been released. Top news of the week. Image by HP).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You could theoretically even make an experience whose play area is as big as the one of a city (Microsoft once talked about “city-scale VR”). I would like to say that I personally made this discovery, but actually, it was told me by the great Microsoft MVP Lance Larsen. they are playable in a sports court or a warehouse).

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2018

That’s why Microsoft is currently in development on a solution that would actually link two standard VR motion controllers together to simulate realistic tension and pressure. This is possible thanks to what Microsoft is calling their “Summoning” input method.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2016

Nevertheless, this is part of what Microsoft is promising with its planned launch of Windows Holographic Shell which it’s promised will arrive in every Windows 10 installation via an update some time in 2017. Generally, MR refers to imagery formed from fusion of reality and virtual sources.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 4, 2017

AltspaceVR , the virtual reality social network that hosts events like stand-up comedy or presidential debate-watching parties, is now part of Microsoft. After a sudden shutdown due to a drop in funding in July, Microsoft obviously has now come to the rescue.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. According to NVIDIA , “CloudXR lets you leverage NVIDIA RTX-powered servers with GPU virtualization software to stream stunning augmented and virtual reality experiences from any OpenVR application. But, what is the cloud anyway?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Samsung, in partnership with Microsoft, today announced the Samsung HMD Odyssey —a Windows VR headset expected to have some impressive specs. The Samsung HMD Odyssey is a high performing headset designed to provide the most immersive Windows Mixed Reality experience. Microsoft refers to their VR headsets as “mixed reality” headsets.

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Slashgear

MARCH 14, 2018

It’s Pi Day, and Microsoft is marking the occasion with a selection of one-day deals including up to 31.4-percent The cut – a reference, of course, to the mathematical constant and irrational number that starts with 3.14159 and then just keeps on going – covers Windows notebooks from ASUS, Lenovo, Dell, and HP.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It allows architects and engineers to anticipate issues virtually (less expensive). Adding AR to this traditional workflow involves software from VisualLive and Microsoft Hololens. Bottom-Line Impact Much of the above was put into play in the construction of Microsoft data centers. This gives them additional perspective.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 17, 2019

Microsoft’s new piece of kit doesn’t disappoint, but the real excitement of its MWC announcement goes well beyond the hardware. Microsoft is in this for the long haul and will continue cashing in just fine without even touching the consumer market Click To Tweet. That’s the low-hanging fruit as far as Microsoft is concerned.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 10, 2018

MineLife VR, for example, manages to synthesize large, complex, and vast spatial data into a life-sized, interactive, virtual reality experience. The platform fuses complex geospatial and mine planning data into an interactive, 1:1 scale virtual reality replica of the planned, current, and future states of a mine site.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Recently Microsoft noted how MR represents the “ eyes and ears ” of AI. Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Some days ago, two developers have found references to “RealityOS” both in the Apple Store logs and in an opensource repo by Apple. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Virtual Reality is creating a rise in insurance claims.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Microsoft’s endeavour to support the virtual reality (VR) industry with a reference design headset which the likes of HP, Dell and others could build up never really took off. Windows Mixed Reality headsets weren’t bad but the sudden flood of them in late 2017 made for a confusing hodgepodge of devices.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 29, 2018

What is different about this is that apart from being more polished and integrating more collaborative features in one place via Microsoft Teams it also plugs into the company’s strategic focus on AI Click To Tweet. I was trying out the Microsoft Remote Assist feature, a HoloLens app (although the functionality also works on PCs.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There is even Microsoft Word! There is so a chance that LG is actually working on the Quest Pro 2, but it may also be that the CEO was referring to another headset. I guess we will have to wait until 2025 to discover what LG has in the works. May it be the SteamVR headset that it teased a few years ago and then disappeared?

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook came with the Oculus Quest 1 & 2 , then Microsoft with the Hololens2 with hand tracking capabilities; but there are limitations in dealing with occlusions and in tracking outside the camera’s field of view on the headset. Optimizing 3D models for Augmented Reality 3. VRFree System by Sensoryx Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Intel was actually quite ahead of its time when it showed off one of the first standalone VR headset reference designs, codenamed Alloy, back in mid-2016. Intel also supplied the processor in the first HoloLens, but Microsoft made a decisive jump to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon for HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. If it happens, it would also interesting to see what happens with the WMR reference design.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It seems that one of Apple’s shell companies has just registered the trademarks “Reality One”, “Reality Pro”, and “Reality Processor”. According to the usual analysts, this means that the name of the upcoming headset will be Apple Reality. There are hints about Fortnite coming to Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The day has come and finally, the sandbox to create games without coding that is Dreams on PlayStation has released a patch to be used with virtual reality. That is, from now on, creators from all over the world will be able to express themselves in virtual reality on PlayStation without any particular technical knowledge.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 6, 2016

The AR/VR platform wars have begun While the hype around virtual reality and, to a lesser extent, augmented reality, has been steadily ramping up, to date there haven’t been all that many actual device shipments. Two recent major AR/VR platform announcements from Microsoft and Google should help change that.

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XROM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In the last three months of the year, Meta's Reality Labs division achieved a significant milestone, surpassing $1 billion in revenue for the first time. It's worth noting that virtual reality (VR) headsets still represent a small portion of Meta's overall revenue, which continues to be driven by its advertising business.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. Meta introduced the feature two years ago to prevent people from referring to their phones during gameplay. The XR market may be experiencing a quiet before the storm.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Augmented Reality Trends (Part 2) Brief history Some important AR facts: 60s : Engineer Ivan Sutherland, created the SketchPad project, a system based on what is now known as computer graphics, and created a see-through to present 3D graphics (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). Augmented Reality References Helen Papagiannis.

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CraneMorley

MAY 31, 2022

million jobs worldwide will use augmented and virtual reality by 2030. These realities are not a sector for gaming specifically but part of the future of our daily life. What is Virtual Reality? Virtual Reality might be the easiest to explain and understand of all the realities.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API. Microsoft has already released an SDK for ray-tracing, supporting NVIDIA algorithms. You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. Please refer to Jensen’s “it just works message.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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