The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Carrying a price tag of around 2 billion dollars, the plant in Arizona will primarily serve to package chips produced by TSMC at its Fab 21 nearby. Huge Packaging Facility The planned facility will reside in a huge manufacturing campus covering 55 acres near Peoria, Arizona. and 3D packaging technologies.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The news comes as the Chinese tech giant aims to develop a premium rival to the Apple Vision Pro. Additional apps like Arizona Sunshine 2, YouTube VR, VRChat, and others have also been posted to the Pico Store. Osawa said the VR headset project, codenamed Swan, was “still largely experimental and conceptual.”

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GizModo VR

MARCH 25, 2021

On Wednesday, the Arizona State Senate was supposed to vote on Arizona HB2005 , a controversial bill that would’ve dramatically changed how both Apple and Google’s app stores work. But per a Verge report, the vote never happened. Despite being listed on the senate’s agenda, the bill was skipped without an explanation.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 20, 2024

On Wednesday, we noted our favorite newly released platform favorites for Quest, PCVR, and Apple Vision Pro. But one hardware release stands out as the most significant by far: Apple Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro Review: A Heavy Portable Cinema & Monitor At $3500, Apple sets huge expectations with Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It also features a big library of video content (thanks to iQiYi main business) and a catalog of seriously good VR games like Arizona Sunshine, Swarm, Mercenary: Silicon Rising, Zombieland: Headshot Fever. Apple AR/VR headset may rely on a nearby iPhone to work. News worth a mention. Image by Lynx).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro offers an incredible hand segmentation A leaked screenshot from an Apple Vision Pro devkit shows how the Vision Pro is able to show almost perfectly the hand of the user above virtual content. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 8, 2024

government, TSMC in turn will be adding a third fab to their Arizona project, with its investment in the region soaring to more than $65 billion. This move not only signifies the largest foreign direct investment in Arizona but also marks one of the biggest support packages that the U.S. With this latest round of support from the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As for the suggestion engine, it is always been a problem since the Gear VR times, when people started receiving nonsense notifications like “Since you liked Arizona Sunshine, go playing Hello Kitty Word 2000” and published them on Reddit so that we all could have a laugh.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

With Apple Vision Pro out in the wild, it’s likely that Meta’s Quest Pro line will evolve to become more of a direct competitor. Apple’s Bar With Vision Pro, Apple was clearly not aiming to make an affordable headset. But what could a Quest Pro 2 look like if Meta wanted to go toe-to-toe with Apple?

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The game includes Walkabout's first course, Tourist Trap, with Cherry Blossom, Seagull Stacks, and Arizona Modern listed as coming soon. Of course, Walkabout is also available on the Quest Store , Steam Store , PlayStation Store , and Apple App Store.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro may have a very slow start The same Ming-Chi Kuo, who probably woke up with a lot of pessimism that day, has also expressed doubts about the widespread success of the Apple Vision Pro. This would mean that Apple’s XR offering should rely for 3 years on a very expensive headset with very low sales.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro may be out in January According to the latest report on Bloomberg, Apple is still on track to release the Apple Vision Pro at the beginning of this year. I hope we will meet there and have fun together! Outstanding move. Good luck with that.

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MARCH 30, 2024

Apple's WWDC24 promises a showcase of visionOS enhancements, a new Apple Pen reportedly supports Vision Pro, iPhone 15 Pro can now capture higher quality spatial videos , while Apple's headset is coming to China. Owlchemy Labs also told us they feel " vindicated " by Apple Vision Pro's approach to VR.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 30, 2022

Arizona now views Apple Wallet's ID feature as legitimate ID, so knowing how to set it up will be crucial as other states follow Arizona's lead.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 13, 2023

ByteDance's main hardware focus now is the development of a high-end Apple Vision Pro competitor incorporating "cutting-edge technologies", a project which Osawa reports is codenamed Swan. Pico does plan to release a refreshed version of Pico 4 however, Osawa writes, but he doesn't give any detail of what changes this new model will bring.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of the consequences of the launch of Unity 6 is that Unity also finally released to the public the Unity beta package to develop for VisionOS, so that finally all of us Unity developers can start developing for the Apple Vision Pro, trying our prototypes on the emulator. Great job, Vuzix.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It will be interesting to see how many headsets PlayStation will sell at this price, considering that the previous discount led to a big spike in sales Pico 4 Ultra comes with Pico Motion Trackers , three games, and one month of VRChat Plus all included in a big bundle Target is offering in the US the Quest 3S at $299.99

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Mashable VR

MARCH 23, 2022

Apple just took another step on its one device quest. Arizona is just the first state of many that Apple said it has queued up for its digital IDs — a promise that brings with it its own set of potential privacy concerns.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Motorola Phones will soon be usable in VR via Quest's Horizon OS, the non-pro Apple Vision headset is reportedly targeting $2000 pricing, and we shared our hands-on impressions with the Vive Focus Vision. We'll bring you our full review soon but in the meantime, we assessed its hand tracking quality compared to Quest 3.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 9, 2024

Amkor to Build Advanced Packaging Facility with Apple in Mind Amkor plans to build a $2 billion advanced packaging facility near Peoria, Arizona , to test and assemble chips produced by TSMC at its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona. government signed memorandums of understanding worth about $1.5

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Game developers are also preparing for it: popular games like SuperHot, Red Matter , and Arizona Sunshine will publish new updates to take in count the new horsepower of the Quest 2. Shipping will start tomorrow in the US and the next days in the rest of the world. Many people are getting ready to receive their new toy.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Younger readers might not know, but there was once an annual tradition in which Apple would release a new iPhone, old iPhones would suddenly start performing poorly, and users would speculate about a conspiracy to get them to buy the shiny new thing. It turned out that a conspiracy, of sorts, did exist, and Apple has… Read more.

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Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I spend hours out front every week cataloging what goes past (I have the new over-the-ears headphones from Apple and usually use them outside while walking around talking to dozens of people all over the world building the future –they absolutely rock, by the way). So, could Apple “beat” Tesla? Can Apple match this?

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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 7, 2022

TSMC this week held its Arizona fab 'first tool-in' ceremony, where alongside celebrating its first US fab, the company also announced major expansion plans for the production facility. Companies like AMD, Apple, and NVIDIA are set to run orders through Fab 21 phase 1 to produce their advanced chips in the U.S.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Major firms like Apple are sending staff to stores across the USA to train staff using its new MR headset. Apple Preps Retail Stores for Vision Pro Debut Apple is preparing for the release of its Vision Pro device, which was announced earlier this year. On the other hand, as market competition rises, pressure also increases.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

More info (Galaxy Glasses trademark) More info (Galaxy Ring trademark) News worth a mention (Image by The Information) The Apple headset may not require an iPhone to function According to the latest rumor about the upcoming Apple headset, the device won’t need an iPhone to work, but it can be used and configured independently.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 27, 2022

The former Alaska governor and disastrous presidential running mate is in the Big Apple to sue the New York Times for libel after it insinuated that her rhetoric was tied to the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, which left six dead and Rep. Gabby Giffords with massive brain injuries. While she’s around, Palin … Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Now the Metaverse is gaining newfound traction from enterprise clients, companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are reinforcing XR as a serious technology for various use cases. During its WWDC event, Apple showed how clients could use first-party productivity applications on the Vision Pro product.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

It features the store by iQiYi , and this makes it launch together with games like Fruit Ninja and Arizona Sunshine. Apple releases new interesting research on Nerf. There is a lot of hype on Apple’s research on Neural Radiance Fields, and their ability to reconstruct 3D scenes. The starting price tag is 2,999 yuan (~$440).

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Digital Trends

JUNE 6, 2022

At , Apple showed off some major updates and changes coming to Apple Wallet. Following the in Arizona and Colorado, the company expects 11 more states to follow suit. Currently, the states working on integrating Apple Wallet as a legitimate form of ID are already integrating it into TSA checks at select airports.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 17, 2024

Volumetric 6DoF platform Gracia is now on Quest 3 App Lab with a resolution boost, while Fly is essentially Google Earth VR on Quest and Apple Vision Pro. Elsewhere, VRChat now has hand-tracking support on PC. With VR Gaming, Meta finally confirmed that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on Quest is "on hold indefinitely."

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Between Arizona Sunshine Remake , Maestro , Just Dance VR , Undead Citadel , Vendetta Forever , Phasmophobia on PS VR2, Frenzies , Into Black , Exploding Kittens VR , Metamorphosis VR , Clawball , Airspace Defender , and more, you aren't lacking options. Here are our monthly upcoming highlights.

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Digital Trends

JULY 29, 2020

The investigation follows another being led by the Texas attorney general.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Here's what you may have missed: Following Apple Vision Pro 's recent launch, it's been a quieter week for VR. Virtual Desktop got an update, YouTube's planning an Apple Vision Pro app , WebXR sites are creating cross-compatible destinations for Vision Pro and Bigscreen Beyond released a VRChat-themed storage can.

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Next Reality - News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Apple announced support for mobile driver's licenses and state identification cards in Apple Wallet back in 2021, and Arizona was the first state to jump on board in 2022. Fast forward to now, and only eight states let you add a driver's license or state ID to Apple Wallet on your iPhone and Apple Watch.

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