The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

The first one is Altspace VR, one of the first social VR spaces of this new Virtual Reality era. In total, I counted something like 32 games, which is ok to start with, but then Sony should be fast in collecting more content to not make the PSVR2 players get bored fast for the lack of playable games.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll PlayStation VR selling more than 5 million units until now has proven that console players like virtual reality. In 2020 this trend will continue, and the more content will get released, the more people will start entering VR. The reasons?

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4. Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Righ HoloLens 2 users in the industrial & healthcare market can leverage the powerful interaction engine of Interhaptics to naturally manipulate virtual objects.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). The fun thing is that since it is a publication very focused on the Chinese market, outside China almost no one knows them.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The news is overly important because Alyx is already changing the virtual reality landscape for these reasons: It is increasing awareness towards VR a lot (all mainstream gaming media are talking about it); It is increasing sales of VR headsets a lot; It will probably show us new interactions in XR that will affect the UX of many games after it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). Image by Sony). Another great IP is now being bond with virtual reality, and this will be highly beneficial for the technology. Register now.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

While it might be called the Facebook Developer Conference, the event had become a platform for lots of virtual reality (VR) news, most notably during F8 2019 when both the Oculus Rift S and Oculus Quest pre-orders went live.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Five Boroughs of Igloo Vision According to Igloo Vision, its immersive spaces now include: Immersive visualisation room with floor projection : In a 5 x 5-metre space, Igloo Vision displayed 360 video, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free. Sony has answered this question in the weekend. The trend of virtual concerts is not stopping. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. On GitHub has appeared a new project called “Simple WebXR” aimed at letting you develop WebXR experiences inside Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

With this operation, Facebook secures another amazing development studio (after Beat Games), making sure that it will be able to provide high-quality games for its headsets in the future, and protecting itself from hostile acquisitions of other companies (like Sony acquiring Insomniac). 20 AR trends to follow in 2020. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

It may be a new standalone device : we know that HTC is going to launch a new headset this year: Mr. President told this to me during the Virtual Reality Day and has confirmed this in other various public interviews. Sony announces new games for PSVR. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. This is coherent also with the fact that Sony didn’t want to launch the PS5 and PSVR2 together, but we hoped for a shorter delay between one and the other.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the supply chain of headsets has been hurt , so in Q1 2020 there have been fewer sales than in Q4 2019 (and this confirms my impression of the spike in Steam not being due to 1M new headsets) and this trend will continue also in this quarter. Sony reveals finger tracking technology for controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. A bit of boomer humour about virtual reality. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. From these data, it is clearly readable that 2020 won’t be the “year of VR” , but will be a year in which VR will improve and grow, following the trends of 2019 (enterprise first).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I like everything that we know on the PSVR 2 device because it is visible that Sony Interactive Entertainment is putting a lot of effort into releasing a high-quality headset that is on par with what the competition is offering. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Best Collaboration Tool Sony Electronics Head of XR Business Development Thaisa Yamamura was “honored to present” the Auggie Award for Best Collaboration Tool. She also presented the winner with a 15.6in Sony Spatial Reality Display. The award went to Verizon for The Future of Training , an XR upskilling program.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. I’ve already started seeing this trend for the M-word. This week I have for instance read two articles blaming the meta.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. Mixed reality experiences that blend the real and digital worlds are going to really “wow” consumers of all types.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. Mixed reality experiences that blend the real and digital worlds are going to really “wow” consumers of all types.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). GENERAL TRENDS. I think the metaverse will follow a similar trend. The predictions by John Riccitiello are proving to become reality. Brace yourself.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Xu Chi, the CEO and co-founder of #Nreal, a trending mixed reality (MR) start-up. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures). 20- Renji Bijoy.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. More info (Apple iPad Pro featuring LiDAR sensor) More info (New iPad Pro demo applications) More info (New iPad Pro environment reconstruction video) More info (Depth sensors are the new trends for mobile). PS5 specifications have been revealed.

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