The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

The reason is the one I’ve already reported in this newsletter a few weeks ago: after the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung has been caught a bit off guard by the announced features and it is now trying to power up its headset so that it will be able to properly compete with Apple’s device.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 9, 2024

However, the report noted that as sales declined, the average selling price increased by over $1000, partly due to Apple Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro Driving Sales Prices Ramon T. The report also showed how Apple has quickly advanced to the second top-selling vendor, overtaking industry veterans such as ByteDance, Xreal, and HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. The rise of enterprise. Will they succeed?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2024

Kit-Chong explained, “the government has made efforts to develop virtual banks and upgrade services in the past few years.” The news comes after the UK bank NatWest announced that its retail banking app is now available on Apple’s Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

HTC VIVE announced on Thursday it will sell its XR Elite mixed reality (MR) headset as a premium bundle for gaming. Steam remains one of the premier destinations for cloud-streamed content, not just for gamers, but for governments and enterprise users. Those interested in cashing in on the deal can do so by 30 September this year.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Is Apple working on Smart Glasses? This week, Apple was found to have supplied the U.S. Apple has filed several patent requests for its Vision Pro technology and a smart glasses-style HMD. These headsets are designed to cater to different end-users, ranging from aviation to government to defence.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 24, 2024

HTC VIVE Pro 2 – Best refresh rates Building on the success of the original HTC VIVE Pro, the HTC VIVE Pro 2 combines comfort and performance in a relatively affordable package. There are also three options, including a Focal option with boosted mixed reality capabilities and a Secure edition for governments and business users.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

This week has circled Apple, the legacy consumer hardware innovator shocked audiences in many ways when it debuted the Vision Pro, fairly stealing headlines as hyped ramped during the event’s leading months. Apple Debuts Vision Pro This week the news finally broke. Perhaps Apple will go the way of Meta’s reputation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 6, 2023

ARuVR , an award-winning supplier of virtual and augmented reality training solutions, and Apple, a major innovator in the computing space, have both reached new heights with its cutting-edge immersive technologies. Enter the Apple Vision Pro: The Game-Changing Headset? A screenshot of Apple’s Vision Pro productivity suite.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

At the same time, Apple having always mediocre graphics cards on its laptops and its closed ecosystem have not helped much either in keeping this VR support alive. Not to mention the fact that Apple has always said that it is not interested in VR, but only in AR. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Sync.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 28, 2022

Microsoft, Disney, Sony Interactive Entertainment, NVIDIA, TikTok owner ByteDance, Apple, HTC VIVE, Nextech AR, and many others have begun exploring potential metaverse solutions, sparking an industry-wide exploration of use cases, applications, technologies, and ecosystems.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2024

Apple Vision Pro Rolls out in Australia Cam stated that Apple is engaging deeply with Australian audiences. However, there are not many conversations on Vision Pro in enterprise currently, with HTC VIVE and Pico leading the race in the region. The area shows a lot of consumer interest. We are literally less than a week in.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 19, 2023

The decision follows the US government’s total $1.75 The news comes just a day after a Bloomberg report revealed Apple had indefinitely postponed plans for its augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. Setbacks Across XR Headset Manufacturers The news is one of the latest setbacks for Microsoft’s military project.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? We’ve made demos with them to our early clients like some big corporates and government agencies, and now we’re going to send them small batch by batch. You watch it and then tell me what you think about it in the comments!).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Perhaps the most well-known instance of the decentralized metaverse is Decentraland , a decentralized virtual world that runs on the Ethereum blockchain and is governed by a DAO whose policies may be altered by voting. The human interface layer. Closing thoughts.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

Supporting that trend is a broad scope of heavyweight companies debuting XR devices this year, most notably the Apple Vision Pro, which is driving the productivity and workplace solutions market forward. HTC VIVE is currently providing their devices for North Dakota Classrooms, and Meta recently gave thousands of Quests to Kentucky Schools.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

As the Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico 4 Enterprise, Lenovo VRX, and, most recently, the Varjo XR-4 walk the extended reality (XR) runway, a gradual but measurable uptick in renewed consumer interest in all things immersive builds momentum.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Uniting the Industry Multiple companies, from Meta Platforms, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Microsoft, HTC VIVE, ByteDance, Sony and even massive telecoms like Nokia and T-Mobile are chipping in to increase adoption rates for spatial technologies. Imagine an internet where only Apple computers can connect to the web.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Also, it’s interesting to note that out of the last 5 VR devices that entered the market, all from major VR vendors (Meta, Pico, HTC, Lynx and Sony), 4 of them support hand tracking. As we move forward in 2023, many predictions are being made about the industry, but much depends on Apple’s release of their headset.

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VRWorld

APRIL 14, 2017

Following the ban on completion of Tianhe-2 supercomputer in 2014 , Chinese government did not double down, but decided to put semiconductor industry as one of top 3 national priorities, and started to infuse over a quarter of trillion U.S. Zhaoxin Semiconductor is a joint-venture between Shanghai Municipal Government and VIA Technologies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. Maybe the Apple Watch will be good for something. The game had high-quality art and design. How do companies survive?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Moreover, Apple recently made a huge splash in the XR market with the Vision Pro, an XR device which leverages eye and hand tracking for its spatial computing input system. The device does not use controllers at all, instead, Apple believes that with the XR revolution comes increased usability and accessibility via hand/eye-based inputs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 27, 2023

Previously, the company faced immense setbacks after Apple changed its privacy policy , shuttering out Meta’s ad targeting facilities on iOS and Mac devices. It will also launch the Meta Quest 3 ahead of the Connect 2023 event in September to compete with the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2022

Everyone remembers when he launched the iPhone and disrupted the mobile phones market, but few ones remember when he was kicked away from Apple and founded a company that never succeeded (NeXt), almost running out of money. Very rarely success is linear, very often it is a curve going up and down.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

You showed us that the tracker is different because HTC Vive has also released this update. Because I tried it with an HTC Vive and a PC two years ago. Heck, I think probably the Apple Vision Pro with some of what people are doing, extending with Steam will work with that. Tony: Yes, that will be cool. How is the situation now?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. I looked on my right, and I saw a virtual bottle on a barrel, together with some apples. Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

During the interview we talked about practical stuff, like if HTC is working on a new product, and when we can expect to see lightweight AR glasses on the head of everyone. A lot of things have changed in your life since the last time we met: your role in HTC, the country you are in… So, how is life now?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Bytedance has huge money, has behind it a powerful and rich government, can sell its headsets in China, and so it has all the means it needs to compete with Meta. He complained about having to obey platforms and their taxes (clearly hinting at Apple), saying that he had a different vision. 124 apps made more than $1M on Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This is the idea that Apple piloted in its AR[T] walks, where digital works of art were placed around cities such as Tokyo, San Francisco and New York. If there’s an elephant in this virtual room, its name is Apple. It seems likely that it’s not a question of whether or not Apple brings out some form of AR wearable, but when.

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