The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But for now, I’ll just tell you what have been in my opinion the most interesting pieces of XR news of the week… Top news of the week (Image by KnightMD) Valve Deckard’s “Roy” controllers allegedly leaked The usual Brad Lynch with his team of data miners has found evidence of a controller codenamed Roy in the code of SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The first one comes from Google, and it is called Genie 2 , a foundation world model capable of generating an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D environments for training and evaluating embodied agents . For this reason, Apple may be working to make PSVR 2 controllers compatible with the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. One month after the reveal of a “next-gen VR headset for the Playstation” (whose name is not known, but I guess it will be PSVR2), Sony has revealed one important detail of its new VR system: the controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

After the announcement of the release date of the Apple Vision Pro, the whole community is just waiting for its preorders to open up this Friday. The headset will be sold in physical stores and on the Apple website. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple has only 60–80K units available at this time , so most likely they’ll go sold out.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2024

Vision Pro doesn’t have controllers, but it’s clear Apple will need to support immersive hardware input somehow in the future, if only for the greater precision it might bring to industry professionals. At least not in the near future. At least not in the near future.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ingress Prime is now getting a serious update thanks to an amazing new partnership with Niantic and Sony that will blend Niantic’s real-world AR technology with Sony’s latest audio hardware, a wireless headphone called “LinkBuds,” to immerse players even deeper into a game that uses both the real world and a virtual world as a playing field.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Sony, Lynx, and Xreal are building Android XR devices. But Google is building a platform it hopes will be the industry standard, and at least three other companies are already building devices to run it: Sony, Lynx, and Xreal. Read the details and our impressions here.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2024

Vision Pro doesn’t support motion controllers, however Apple published a new patent last month that describes an Apple Pencil-like device which could point the way for the company’s first Vision Pro-supported controller. Whatever the case, we’ll have our eyes peeled for anything Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Sony vs Samsung skirmish is nothing new. Both Sony and Samsung have clearly demonstrated an interest in extended reality over the years. Sony vs Samsung: The Headset Details We Know So Far Sony has been a lot more forthcoming with its XR plans, and what it wants to accomplish with its upcoming XR device.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

Sony's standalone XR headset for enterprise CAD now has a price and release month. The Sony SRH-S1, as it's now being called, will be available for businesses to purchase from January 23 for $4750, and will start shipping some time in February. The headset was first announced at last year's CES.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2025

And this is also the same category of people that Apple is targeting with the Apple Vision Pro. If Meta is making this prediction, in my opinion, the Quest 4 will have a lot of optimizations dedicated to movie consumption and will enter into a more direct competition with Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

But other partners like XREAL, Sony, and Lynx are working on new devices compatible with this operating system. Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2022

008, a respected Chinese supply chain analyst, Chinese hardware manufacturer Goertek will soon begin mass production of Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 headset. It’s been almost a year since Sony announced a “next-generation” VR headset for the PlayStation 5. According to a report by ????008, Image Credit: Future.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

In this Guest Article, studio head Denny Unger shares his thoughts on Apple’s entrance into the space. So let’s get the obvious over first; Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s first generation attempt at AR glasses using a Mixed Reality VR headset. Whether or not to include controllers to support legacy VR titles.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Apple doesn’t call Vision Pro a mixed reality headset, or a virtual reality headset for that matter. To Apple, it’s all spatial computing , which is fine—if not a little too vague. Apple is thinking different about how it couches Vision Pro; it’s more face-computer than VR headset. And we get it.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Apple headset may have been delayed again. A new week, a new set of rumors about the upcoming Apple Reality One, the most awaited headset in the history of XR. This week we got to know that Apple has just rebranded the operating system of the upcoming device from RealityOS (or rOS) to xrOS. Image by Sony). Matias Nassi.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

This has been the week when the preorders of the Apple Vision Pro have been opened and s**t just started getting real! I’m very curious about what Apple’s headset is going to bring to our ecosystem… and you? Of course, some people from all over the world made some tricks to buy it anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Only a minimum of the data should be shared with the online servers and most of them should be handled locally; the applications and the communications should be secure; the user must have all the control among what data of his/hers gets shared and what not. Apple way be working on a VR headset. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 26, 2024

The demand for Apple Vision Pro accessories is increasing now that Apple has finally announced an official release date for the device. If you were lucky enough to pre-order the headset before it sold out ( within 15 minute s) on the Apple store, you might interested in grabbing some accessories before your device arrives.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The same has happened with Apple, which is now offering bonuses to employees to keep them inside the company. Apple has performed very strategic acquisitions as well, and the news of the week is that Snap has acquired Compound Photonics to gain a key supplier of LCOS and Microled displays. Many great XR games are controlled by Meta.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Since Apple confirmed its entry into the extended reality market at WWDC 2023 in June, consumers have been clamoring for an official Apple Vision Pro release date. Advertised as more than just a mixed reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro could mark a new era for extended reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

A few days ago, Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that PSVR 2 will launch for $549. The bundle between PSVR 2 and Horizon (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). The company has also announced a charging dock for its controllers. Lateral view of PSVR 2 and controller (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2024

Sony’s new headset, officially dubbed the SRH-S1 “content creation system” combines a compact form-factor with novel controllers. The yet-to-be-priced Sony SRH-S1 is being designed as an enterprise headset. Sony also tells us it can be driven by a PC through a compressed video stream (like Quest Link).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 11, 2025

South Korean news outlet The Elec instead reports that Samsung will use Sonys new 1.35-inch inch 35523840 micro-OLED display, the same used in Sonys own SRH-S1 standalone headset. Sony also provides the screens for the Apple Vision Pro, but these ones for the Samsung headset would be from a new generation.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Reading the description, it is possible to see that the VR integration is a bit weird : there’s probably no integration for VR controllers (really??) Apple announces ARKit 4, amongst new rumors of XR headsets. More info (New rumors about Apple and XR) More info (Apple ARKit4). We all can’t wait. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Apple may announce its headset at WWDC 2022. A new week, a new rumor about Apple. This time it comes from Bloomberg, which predicts that Apple will announce its MR headset in June 2022 during WWDC , to launch it some months later, probably during the holiday season. (Image from the web). Learn about the m**averse in Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Apple claims the M4 has a 50% more powerful CPU an d 4 times more powerful GPU than the M2 chipset mounted on the Vision Pro, so an M5 chipset may give the new Vision Pro unprecedented performances for a standalone MR headset. Learn more (WowMouse Presenter) Learn more (My hands-on with WowMouse) Sponsored Area Phygtl Is Hiring!

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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. But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Apple Announces Vision Pro Image courtesy Apple The News Apple announced is Vision Pro headset in June of 2023 marking the company’s first public step into the XR headset space. Apple also boldly announced the headset’s staggering $3,500 price, despite a launch date set for nearly a year later.

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Upload VR

MARCH 25, 2025

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place on June 9 this year. The main event will be a free online livestream, and there will also be an in-person "special event" at Apple Park. UploadVR David Heaney Apple first announced visionOS, and the Vision Pro headset, at WWDC 23.

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Upload VR

JUNE 18, 2024

Sony's upcoming standalone headset running the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset is unlikely to draw in creatives with its limited field of view and finicky controllers. Sony Announces XR2+ Gen 2 Standalone Headset For Enterprise Sony is the previously undisclosed fifth company building a headset using Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony reveals the design of the PSVR 2. Finally, Sony Interactive Entertainment has unveiled the design of the PlayStation VR 2 headset. Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. And one has surprised me: the controllers will feature inside-out tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

According to a guy on Twitter that answered my post, Ultraleap should launch a new tracking controller this year. More info (Ultraleap teasing a new device) More info (Maybe a new sensor is coming) Has Palmer Luckey tried the Apple headset? Google Photos can also let you modify your photos with the powers of AI.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2021

A report from UploadVR , citing “multiple sources,” claims that Sony’s next-gen PlayStation VR 2 headset will bring a big jump in resolution, along with eye-tracking, IPD adjustment, and even head-mounted haptics. Apple has also been looking into the idea of head-mounted haptics to aid navigation in virtual spaces.

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