The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. I know I’m a bit flying high with this, but let me dream a bit :).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. How To Prepare for Enterprise VR. percent YoY for 2023. Optimism in XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

Road To VR published some statistics comparing the sales of Quest and PSVR 2 on Amazon US over the holiday season, and the proportion of sold Quests to sold PSVR 2 is 30 to 1! 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”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Some updates on Meta products. Record VR games in VR format. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. In 2017, Apple released software called ARKit, which includes tools for software makers to determine how far away an object or wall is, if the phone is moving, or identify limbs in a human body, among other functions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. The only big name surviving in this field is Pokemon Go, but just because it has changed how the game works and it has already a very large and passionate userbase.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 17, 2020

But it also includes Disney, Google Earth, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple. He first got the attention of Microsoft when blogging about the detriments of 3D immersive universes like Second Life. Secretly working on something similar, Microsoft brought him in to help.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. Microsoft (enterprise) 4.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

The number one issue we’re hearing from retailers launching AR for eCommerce (Amazon, Build.com, Overstock, Wayfair…) is the management of 3D products,” explains the company’s Co-Founder and COO Mickaël Jordan. Lowe’s has another interesting VR deployment which allows shoppers to learn how to install their products.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

So you can look at a broken vase and ask the glasses how to fix it. In the month of October, companies will be able to use Mesh inside Microsoft Teams, so members of a company can meet in a 3D space (in VR or flatscreen) and interact together. This is incredibly cool and useful, but comes also with some privacy strings attached.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. Alex Kipman’s invention is a vision for the future of computing with the potential to change how we connect and collaborate,” said EPO President Benoît Battistelli. billion in 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

More info (Quest v55 performance boost) More info (Quest Pro getting better eye tracking) More info (The new taskbar capabilities of the Quest runtime) Hexa brings 3D visualization to Amazon pages Amazon has partnered with the startup Hexa to add 3D capabilities to its store pages.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The headset is already selling well, and it is currently the most-sold gaming console on Amazon. Let’s see if this launch is actually happening… More info Microsoft and its troubles with HoloLens According to an article on Business Insider, Microsoft has lost a total of more than $5 billion dollars with the HoloLens project.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

EST. QUICK LINKS: PlayStation 5 — $499 PlayStation 5 Digital Edition — $399 Xbox Series X — $499 Between Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard and Sony buying Bungie , 2022 is already panning out to be huge for video games. Credit: Microsoft. Credit: Microsoft. 24 at 12 p.m. Credit: Sony. Playstation 5.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 6, 2023

Given the fact that many companies, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, Baidu, and Amazon, are working on providing quantum computing services at scale via the cloud, businesses must now begin the process of switching or combining cryptographic approaches.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 1, 2024

AI Voice Assistants – Amazon Alexa and Google Siri, among others, can help by managing calendars, controlling smart home devices, planning journeys and interacting with other apps and services on your behalf. The post How To Achieve AI Success In Our Day-To-Day Lives appeared first on Bernard Marr.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

More info (Best Black Friday deals) More info (Cyber Monday VR deals) More info (Sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Other sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Rift S discounted on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 29, 2022

SAVE $10: Amazon , Walmart , GameStop , and the Microsoft Store all had the Xbox Series S on sale for $289.99 The smaller, all-digital version of Microsoft's machine has been readily available at most major retailers for several months now — and if you keep a close eye out, you can even find it on sale from time to time.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. See Also: How to Build a Location-Based AR Application. Artificial intelligence has been the most happening and hottest technology of this century.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Want to put your dollars elsewhere but don’t know how to export your well-curated Spotify library to another service? Mad about Spotify’s handling of the whole Joe Rogan situation ? We’ve got you covered. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Reading the lines of the interview, I immediately noticed how she’s competent, focused, and serious. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon. It will be released to selected partners in Q4 2021 and to the general public in Q1 2022.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2019

However, the newly-released Moverio application is only compatible with Moverio smartglasses, which are available through Amazon and Best Buy. Products like Google Glass and Microsoft HoloLens are too heavy, and their batteries do not last long enough. See Also: How To Smoothly Incorporate AR Into Your E-Commerce Strategy. “We

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Tablet mode may be a reference to how to launch 2D Android apps because a Facebook employee has inadvertently revealed that employees can already use some 2D apps like GDoc inside the Quest. was a lot of money?). This shows us that XR is the future of Facebook, but the present is still 2D social media and all its marketing power.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. Other relevant news. Image by HP).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR Content & Game Engine. Microsoft – NASDAQ: MSFT – VR operating system, VR platform, VR headset. Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR content. How to invest in these companies. LG – KRX: 0003550 – VR Camera & Headset. Unconfirmed. Apple – NASDAQ: AAPL – AR/VR headset.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 27, 2019

Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. “We’re incredibly excited to support this open call for ways in which technology can help art institutions engage new audiences,” says Mira Lane, Partner Director Ethics & Society at Microsoft. “We

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. More info (Zenith is releasing on January, 27th) More info (How to get started with Zenith). The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. How to design a chainsaw in VR. If you’re thinking “it is another Nreal Light clone”, well, yes it is. What a weird decision…).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. Microsoft admits display problems on HoloLens 2. Microsoft negated the issue, but now, after continuous reporting from users, it has been forced to admit it.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to a flash sale, that put it at the ridiculous price of $150, the Go has sold more than all other devices, and has even been #3 most sold device on all Amazon videogames category. More info (Oculus Go being best-seller on Amazon) More info (Oculus Quest sold out) More info (Oculus Quest vs PSVR Google search stats).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Meta Quest Pro has numerous optional accessories from Amazon, the Meta online store, and other vendors. Once you put on the device and adjust it to your needs, you can simply switch the headset on and receive easy-to-follow instructions on how to get started. Meta has a fantastic selection of apps and tools on its app store.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 14, 2022

Major League Baseball may have started in the 19th century and come of age in the 20th, but it is definitely no stranger to technology, whether it’s the cloud for storing and analyzing troves of data or figuring out how to customize and enhance fans’ experience.

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