The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by VRTUOLUO) A leak shows a prototype of the Samsung XR headset We finally have a leak of the Samsung headset that makes us see something about it. The report talks about Samsung wanting to target the $1000–2000 range, which in my opinion risks being neither expensive nor affordable.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ. But there is not only Samsung: XR2 Gen 2 is going to be integrated also by Immersed’s Visor, a new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a headset that is still undisclosed. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. It can come also in handy if the Apple Watch has to become an input system for Apple XR headsets… PS A final piece of news is that Epic is evaluating native support for Vision Pro for its Unreal Engine! Others have stopped using Unity Ads, Unity’s main source of revenue.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

More info Samsung is still on track to deliver its headset Samsung’s president of mobile experience, TM Roh, has spoken with CNET about the XR strategy of the company. Then he talked about the ecosystem and the fact that Samsung wants to create an open ecosystem around XR where many partners can operate in.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. I’m curious to see how this will turn out to be.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. LLC Technology Companies Development Center, Ukraine. image courtesy VR First. HTW Berlin, Germany.

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