The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The company got more than $10M of investment over the years, including important support from HTC Vive, which uses its spaces to organize the virtual events to launch its XR hardware. Most of the portals are “coming soon”, and among all the important companies, I could visit only the HTC hub.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Amazon has basically sent many brick and mortar traditions out to the retirement home. Due to the pushes by Amazon, even ancient traditions like going to the store on Black Friday have gone the way of Denver the Last Dinosaur. Well, Amazon is finally placing its hat into the kooky world of VR and AR with its new development platform.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

The device also hints at Metaverse support with Unity-native applications like Rec Room porting to the device. VIVE XR Elite Business Edition Drops More headset announcements this month, this time from HTC VIVE. This marks the beginning of a journey that will bring a new dimension to powerful personal technology.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

More info News worth a mention Information leaks on Vive’s inside-out Tracker There is a new leak about the inside-out tracked Vive Tracker that HTC teased a few months ago. It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes.

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AR Insider

JULY 24, 2020

Unity’s Tony Parisi reiterates that this capability is here today… we just need to make it scalable. But what about the ability for Walmart and Amazon to capture and distribute 3D models for millions of SKUs? The next few years will be about scaling up to Amazon-sized product libraries.

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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. You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Following a successful experience with Unity Hybrid Scaling for Apex Legends, Respawn decided to work with Unity once again on its new immersive experience. Unity helped with everything from matchmaking in VR, to voice communications for the development of the new game.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. WebAR will start to exploit its potential.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). Does your device works only with HTC Vive or is it also compatible with Rift, WMR, etc…? aGlass DKII is compatible with HTC Vive and Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image from Amazon). HTC is now selling certified refurbished Vive HMDs for $400. HTC has started selling again the OG Vive headset, but this time selling second-hand devices. If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

And since then, it has failed to build its own software development platform besides a fragmented series of integrations for game engines like Unity, nor has it built out its own suite of vital first-party applications beyond Horizon Workrooms. It's even possible that new entrants ike Amazon or Valve could change the landscape entirely.

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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. More info The Vive Focus Vision has been released HTC has decided to release the Vive Focus Vision the same week as the Quest 3S. Fingers crossed that it will help with the further adoption of XR. This gives me hope for the future.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others. He explained further, “Amazon is using Omniverse to visualise their warehouse, [a] giant robotic system, to help their workers [and] to simulate their fleet of AMRs. [We We are] creating a digital twin of the [Earth’s climate system].

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

Confirmed speakers are as follows: Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality, HTC. Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox. Maureen Fan, CEO, Baobab Studios.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

This night I woke up at 3am to participate in HTC Vive’s event on ENGAGE because I read that it was an “HTC VIVE LAUNCH EVENT” and I was super-confident in the launch of the Cosmos XR or at least of the Cosmos Play. Some of these key players, like ENGAGE, are companies in which HTC already invests into.

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Instinctively Real Media

APRIL 5, 2024

With multiple blockbuster movie credits to his name for his work on the likes of Wonka, Doctor Strange, Venom and Amazon Prime TV series, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Emil Nidal's career in virtual production, motion capture and real-time now finds him in the world of video games as Technical Animator

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. Not much, honestly.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. Is it marketing? Is it training?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. Is it marketing? Is it training?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity. HTC VIVE sold a couple million.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

An Amazon ad appearing on the streaming platform Peacock shows the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S and the caption: “Meta Quest, starting at $299.99”. Regarding the actual release date, we have also a rumor: someone spotted on the Australian Amazon page an entry about the Quest 3S and the availability date being October, 16.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Its userbase is superior to known PCVR headsets like the HTC Vive Pro and Pro 2 and most probably in the next weeks, it will also surpass the Pico 4. Read Graphic Designer Job Description Read Unity Developer Job Description Read Full Stack Developer Job Description Some XR fun Do you have a minute to read my opinion on the BigScreen Beyond?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago -- I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago -- we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by HTC Vive). HTC Vive Air is a design concept for a fitness-focused VR headset. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

Comparison of the speakers solutions in the Oculus Quest (left) and HTC Vive Focus Plus (right). The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. The Quest can be acquired in China from Amazon US , or from various resellers on Taobao.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Vive Focus 3 has an expensive cooling system that can keep the Snapdragon XR2 cold enough to perform its operations at the best temperatures (Image by HTC Vive). This is great news for us developers, because it means we can develop a VR app for Quest, Pico, and Focus using exactly the same SDK provided by Unity! Production quality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I’ll mention a bunch more: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm, Intel, Unity — you’re looking at these massive companies now, and they’re all betting big on VR and AR. Alan: Yeah? How was it?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I’ll mention a bunch more: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm, Intel, Unity — you’re looking at these massive companies now, and they’re all betting big on VR and AR. Alan: Yeah? How was it?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Later this year, we’ll expand our Vulkan support on Quest to include Unity and Vulkan validation layers for easier debugging.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Pimax 5K+ on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. It is highly probable that an HLVR game will be developed in the Source game engine, so a Unity game is not a possibility.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known. April 2016.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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