The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2022

After the review of the Huawei VR glasses we did together, this time I interviewed him and FXG’s CTO Wilson Li about the incredible work they’re doing with VR videos in China. FXG has released a professional 180 VR camera able to record 12K (6K per eye) videos and is collaborating with Pico in the realization of VR concerts.

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VRScout

JULY 29, 2020

An official reveal trailer published back in June has since confirmed these initial reports, offering us our first look at Resident Evil Village in action. They only speak of “normal” enemy types in this test, not of the “werewolf” like creatures we’d spoke on, and that was shown in the trailer.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2023

Exactly one week ago, Apple announced the Apple Vision Pro, its first XR headset. Today, I want to turn the spotlight on the news that have been obscured because of the hype about the Vision Pro. I’m leaving you below a selection of good posts that can give you an overview of this new headset launched by Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Tokyo Game Show, one of the most important gaming events in the world, is happening these days. I’m a friend of theirs (I’ve also interviewed them some time ago), and we like to help each other, so this year I’ve become one of the few selected Media Partners of the event. Video trailers were everywhere.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

I’m in that situation where I don’t know if being happy or not: on the one side, having some fresher air is welcome, but on the other side, this means that the Summer is beginning to end, and this makes me a bit sad. The first huge leak we had this week was a full unboxing video of the device.

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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). The first one is that PC VR usage is not dropping after Half-Life: Alyx. The Weeknd has nailed its concert on TikTok. The Go is go-ing away….

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

More info (Leak announcement video by Brad Lynch) More info (Summary of leak on Road To VR) More info (Summary of leak on Upload VR). It’s like its 357th one. More info (Lenovo Thinkreality VRX) More info (CloudXR on ThinkReality VRX) More info (Headset launch video). Other relevant news. Image by Lenovo).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

I’ll link the ones I’ve personally liked the most… for the other ones, you can watch the whole video of the showcase, or go directly to the Upload website and look for all the posts of June, 14th. As of things to keep an eye on, I found it interesting to see two trends: 1. I do not know what to think about this.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2023

As for Lamina1, he said that he established it because he wanted to see good creators get properly rewarded. Oppo MR headset Picture of the just announced Oppo MR dev kit The first one is a new mixed-reality headset by Oppo. … but it sounds very good for fitness and healthcare applications.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Improved ad targeting based on VR data would primarily benefit VR developers, but you would be surprised how reticent Meta is to export new data for advertising decisions due to privacy tensions. I wonder if VR remains one of its most important use cases. From the videos, it looks wonderful.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Do you remember this post of mine from one year ago when I showed you that it was possible to do some kind of “hacking” of the Oculus Quest using the adb command line tool? A video version of this article… if you want you can watch the video… otherwise, go on for all the textual explanation!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

After the announcement was made, the game development community (including the VR one) didn’t just backlash, it totally rioted against this decision. The new iPhone 15 was launched, and its high-tier models can shoot spatial videos for the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2023

Playing is very easy: people can buy the tickets on the app (there are discounts for bulk purchases, of course), then go to the location and play the games. Every game can award coins and other collectibles, and with these ones, it is possible to have some goodies at the cinema. Business-wise, this is great.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The official video with the full announcement What I was looking for If you are a reader of my weekly newsletter, you know what I was looking for in this announcement. Interactions, as we will see, are made with micro-gestures, so we had no person making big movements in the air like on Quest trailers so that the actors looked classy.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In the release date trailer last week we saw how Bonelab will give players a way to quickly jump between avatars which will change their size, appearance, and other attributes like speed and strength. The game will attach stats to those avatars just like the pre-installed ones. Image courtesy Stress Level Zero.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

First of all, one of the leakers affirms having found the info from a Chinese video on BilliBilli, but then some Chinese people saw the same video and said that it said nothing that was contained in the leak. This is fair, and this is why a good chunk of the community answered positively to these new terms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 18, 2023

Virtuix is one of the first VR startups I got to hear about when I started with VR. I still remember their first trailer with Palmer Luckey trying their device. You can find my interview with Jan (whom I thank for his availability) in the video here below. So those were the good times. 0:00) Thank you. We were early.

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VRScout

MARCH 2, 2020

Released last November for the PlayStation 4, Hideo Kojima’s next-generation walking simulator Death Stranding proved to be one of the most interesting as well as divisive games of 2019, earning mixed reviews from both players and critics for its unique albeit often-frustrating gameplay. Well too bad!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Welcome back to the last completely human-written newsletter that remained on Earth! You can be sure that this article has been entirely crafted by some breathing meat… for the good and the bad. Apple WWDC is where the Apple Reality headset may be announced, and it is taking place on June, 5th. This feature is not new.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2020

Despite the visually breathtaking graphics and captivating sound offered by modern video games, sometimes you just can’t beat a good old fashioned board game. During one part of the gameplay trailer, you can see an ocean-based map that includes a ship floating above an underwater cave system littered with aquatic monsters.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 ! I mean, they went on stock, and then out of stock again in few hours.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Here you are my review video of the game: if you prefer videos to text, this is what you should watch! I was reading some articles on Upload VR (as it happens every week) and I came to find a report from Gamescom, where the journalist was talking about the games he tried there. What The Bat? “What The Bat?”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

It’s interesting to notice that when Google will announce its device, we risk having an XR market that will propose again on the immersive market what is already happening with mobile phones: Apple and its walled garden on one side, and Google with its own Android ecosystem on the other side.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

It has been one of my favorite newsletters about XR and I admit I have “stolen” sometimes some news from there. Mathew is now going on a new professional adventure and will stop curating that newsletter, and I just want to write these few lines to say how I am grateful for the good job he did in informing me and all the XR community.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. And then I had an idea.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Launch video of Pico 4. It is the first headset that implements the ski-goggles design and it looks incredibly polished from the available images and video. Thanks to the use of pancake lenses, it is also quite small , so it looks more natural than a shoebox when you see it on the face of someone. Controllers. AR Passthrough.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It is a pity because the research it was funding could have had great applications for people with disabilities , and for these reasons, Facebook plans to opensource all the products of this experimentation , so that the research community can carry on its efforts and use it for people that may need it (good job, Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

Freeform collaboration app : will let users work on virtual whiteboards together while in mixed reality. Work apps : Pages word processing, Numbers spreadsheet and Keynote slide deck apps, as well as iMovie and GarageBand for video and music production. In his video, he manages to try the device and found it quite ok.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 19, 2023

The teleportation could be triggered by putting my two hands one next to the other, while making the thumbs and the indices of the two hands to touch, and then flicking at the same time the two indices so that they touched the two thumbs. It is mainly like a 360 video, with a comic-like style in black and white. One of the two.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2021

Machizzle – video + gameplay review! If you don’t like reading too much text, I’ve made a video with my first impressions on Machizzle , plus my first 15 minutes of gameplay! You can find my video here below: Otherwise, keep reading for my usual textual review. The official trailer of the game.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The first one is that the bond between me and VRrOOm has become a bit more official , and we’ll keep innovating the virtual events sector together for a while. The second one is that we of New Technology Walkers have just launched our fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded for Vive Focus 3. News worth a mention. Image by Lynx). More info.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

Otherwise, feel just free to reach out to me and send me good vibes, I appreciate the same Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta announces Segment Anything Meta has announced “ Segment Anything”, a computer vision system driven by AI that can segment whatever object in a scene. Good luck, Mojo Vision!

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

It's easy to be dubious of a video game movie adaptation, considering their shaky history. It's far from perfect, but still a good time at the movies with Tom Holland. Directed by Ruben Fleischer (of Zombieland fame), this adaptation stands on its own as an origin story for our pal Nate. But Uncharted is alright.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Skydance Interactive and Skybound released a new gameplay video for their upcoming VR game, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, which is slated to arrive late next month. If you’re looking to see some of the character interactions, definitely check out the first video linked above.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2017

AMC Networks is one of the most popular American basic cable and satellite television channels currently in circulation, due in large part to their impressive catalog of groundbreaking original programming. Breaking Bad , The Walking Dead , Into The Badlands , Better Caul Saul , Mad Men , the list just goes on.

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2019

Communicating what it feels like to use VR to someone who has never done it before is one of VR’s major marketing challenges. A good VR ad, whether for Quest or some other headset, is good for the industry at large since a basic understanding of what it’s like to use a VR headset remains a challenge for taking VR mainstream.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

First Hand Trailer. First Hand is a small application that Meta has developed and released on App Lab. Here follows my opinion on this application. My gameplay video of First Hand. I’ve tested it for you, and I want to tell you my opinions about it, both as a user and as a developer. First Hand. The application.

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