The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Tung-Yen CHOU’s In the Mist is a 360 video that premiered at Venice during the pandemic in 2021. You seem to have entered a forbidden zone and fallen into […] Tung-Yen CHOU’s In the Mist is a 360 video that premiered at Venice during the pandemic in 2021. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. Vive Hand Tracking SDK video review. The best hands tracking solution I have ever tried is still the one offered by Ultraleap , followed by the one of the Oculus Quest.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. China seems to be a promising market for VR video content. Chinese consumers will buy 40 percent of the 6.3

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Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

The sale runs until this Sunday, 19th April, available in the following countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, and South Korea. It’ll even support Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This means having AR and VR on the same device ; A 5G modem ; 8K videos playback at 60fps; Accelerated AI so that to be able to perform objects recognition and other cool stuff on the camera feed. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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VRWorld

APRIL 11, 2017

CyberLink is one of first software companies coming out of Taiwan that succeeded in becoming a major international player. With PowerDVD 17, their flagship movie and media player is bringing native support for 360 and 3D-360 video for VR headsets, Ultra HD Blu-ray video, as well as HDR10 format support.

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2016

One of the biggest dates in the consumer electronics and computing calendar, Computex is under way in Taipei, Taiwan this week and we’re already seeing some interesting news filter from the show. Here it is in action. This is one of the largest VR-dedicated investment funds to date.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Lead by National Taiwan University PhD student Po-Chen Wu during his internship at Oculus Research, the work presents a low-cost tracking and input solution with many potential applications in virtual and augmented reality. SEE ALSO Oculus Research Reveals "Groundbreaking" Focal Surface Display.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

On the downside, except for situations where people need to interact spacially with one another or with 3D models, the marginal improvements over video calls aren’t worth the inconvenience and expense of wearing a headset. I can do all that in a real-world meeting where I have my laptop in front of me, or in a video conference.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2020

At a special event in Taipei, Taiwan, HTC cofounder and former CEO Peter Chou today revealed the first products from the new startup XRSPACE. Like Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go, the headset only includes a single remote, which appears to have a touchpad and button array for basic input. Image courtesy XRSPACE. Image courtesy XRSPACE.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2019

Enjoy the video, or read the transcript below! Devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus, with their easiness of use, can really foster the adoption of VR among consumers and enterprise customers. Me trying a marketing experience employing virtual gloves and scent emission in Taiwan. I hope that as well]. 44:50 ).

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. If you’ve never watched Bob Ross smack his brush onto a canvas and instantly create a majestic evergreen, clear 27 minutes from your schedule and watch this video. ” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And so I think safety systems– and you know, one of the things I would expect is as inside-out tracking gets better and the cameras get better, if you get too close to an object maybe the pass-through video kicks on. There’s all these great viral videos out there about women screaming in these zombie shooters.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And so I think safety systems– and you know, one of the things I would expect is as inside-out tracking gets better and the cameras get better, if you get too close to an object maybe the pass-through video kicks on. There’s all these great viral videos out there about women screaming in these zombie shooters.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

I mean, yes, it’s dead… I like to put on my dead Oculus Quest 2 to play dead beautiful games like InDeath: Unchained and have dead fun. 360 Videos are not VR / Smartglasses are not AR. The belonging of 360 videos to the VR realm causes more harsh debates than the dispute of Taiwan with Mainland China.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

Videos about the experimental UX Leap Motion is developing have become pretty viral, because it is damn cool. Or because he’s been the first person attaching a Leap Motion to an Oculus DK1 with some duct tape, envisioning how hand tracking could be vital for virtual reality. Reference Design Issues. On the downtown 3 train.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

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. Oculus Quest gets v29 update. Kudos to Snap for it. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Bitmovin , founded in 2013, is based in Palo Alto, CA, and Klagenfurt, Austria, and provides video infrastructure for the web. Its co-founders know a bit about high-quality streaming: they created the video streaming standard that drives services like YouTube and Netflix – and makes up about 50% of peak U.S. MOVIN’ $10.3M

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