The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

From the nth rumor on the Apple headset to the announcement of the Pico 4 Pro in China, there have been a few things happening that you as an XR enthusiast can’t miss. According to Gurman, Apple is also investing in games, which will be an important part of the experience. This week we had quite a few interesting pieces of XR news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

My feed on social media is full of posts about the Apple Vision Pro, which has just been released a few days ago. So, as you can expect, a big part of this newsletter will be about Apple’s device, but actually there are also a few interesting pieces of news that regard other products and other companies.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Apple may announce its headset at WWDC 2022. A new week, a new rumor about Apple. Image from the web).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple aims at a $1500 Vision device Let me tell you what have been the main pieces of news about the Vision Pro I’ve found this week. First of all, Apple has updated the runtime VisionOS to version 1.1, bringing many quality-of-life improvements. More info (VisionOS 1.1)

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tomorrow is the big day of the Oculus Connect 7, which has now been sadly rebranded as Facebook Connect. Every year, Oculus has always made astonishing announcements during this yearly event, and we are sure that this year will be no exception to this rule. Oculus Quest 2. But what can we expect from it? Wireless Link.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Well played Apple. And this is possible because they both have big cash cows: Oculus has Facebook’s advertisement, and Valve has the Steam game store.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

AR is a widely used feature on smartphones now, while smart glasses are slowly growing, waiting for the big shots of 2023 (yes, Apple, I’m looking at you). The interest towards Oculus has grown up during the Holidays. More info (Subscriber count of subreddits) More info (Google searches for “Oculus”). More info.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden. The new mixed reality headset is expected to perform a bit like the Apple Watch: very slow sales in the beginning, to then increase them a lot at every iteration. In his vision, web3 and XR are nice to have but are not fundamental.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The consumer market without a Quest moment The biggest difference between the Chinese VR ecosystem and the Western one is the lack of the Oculus/Facebook/Meta/Horizon/whatever Quest. The Apple Vision Pro Still, I’ve met people who are developing content from Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. From it, ARKit has born, I guess.

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ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

The concern is that some studies measure how many people have experienced VR, but that could have been at a location-based experience or at a friend’s house rather than in their own home on their own hardware. Further, recent increasing adoption figures are largely driven by one factor: Oculus. When do people have regular access to it?”

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

Retention can be improved when focus is improved, which headsets can also help with, according to Esther Tang, a graduate student in UX studying XR at the University of Michigan. “[In In the same discussion (and other discussions throughout the day) Facebook’s ownership of Oculus also came up as a privacy concern.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Since it features no computational unit and no battery, it can be smaller and lighter than “shoebox” headsets like the Oculus Quest that must contain everything inside; Thanks to the use of pancake optics, the screen can be closer to the lenses , for a very compact design. Zoom on the 6DOF controllers. The importance of Huawei.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

Students and teachers of Ancient History, Classical Studies, and Roman Civilization will also find Rome Reborn® an exciting new learning resource. I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

And in 2019, we have seen a series of high-profile announcements from the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple, Huawei and YouTube, suggesting 2020 could be a breakthrough year for consumer XR. Different applications of XR notwithstanding, the gains from successfully leveraging XR are real and demonstrable. said the same for AR/MR.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. This is the fourth paradigm shift for Apple. So, what is Apple getting ready to announce over the next year? Eventually, I hear, Apple will even bring 3D to 2D monitors.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. The second one is a Chinese video comparing some technical characteristics of consumer Pico Neo 3 and Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR. Qualcomm announces AR Smart Viewer reference design.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You can see that the user is holding a Touch Plus controller (with the Oculus logo on the home button as some devkits have) confirming this. The “Applification” The Apple Vision Pro Since Meta is scared by Apple, I’m sure that Zuck will try to copy the same use cases Apple showed for its Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This offering could be the key to helping the tech giant preserve its market share, as innovators like Apple , Microsoft, and Magic Leap all increase their focus in the business world. Studies show that around 68% of organizations are ready to plunge their company into the metaverse soon, but few feel they have the right security strategies.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Apple Glasses Don’t Arrive in 2020. Though the successful case studies get disproportionate attention, panning back to the larger market’s resistance is required for a full view.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pico has also studied the headset to be balanced thanks to the battery installed in the rear of the headband and that counterbalances the front weight of the computational unit. It is called Pico MRC, exactly as we had Oculus MRC on the Quest… let’s say that naming is not where Pico has big fantasy… Accessories.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC. A vague rumor spread on Reddit this week: Oculus Del Mar could be a 4K headset, and it could have been launched at GDC. More info (Rumors on Oculus Del Mar) More info (One of the source articles on Reddit). Oculus and Valve could have been friends, but it didn’t happen.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014. With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area.

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Upload VR

JUNE 4, 2024

The S here is being used in the same sense as Xbox Series S, to mean a cheaper model, not in the same sense Apple used to use for iPhones. Quest 2 launched at $100 lower than the original Oculus Quest, so Meta discontinued it immediately. Why Is A Cheaper Headset Needed?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We’re already seeing Meta and Apple come out with mixed reality emulation tools of their own, letting developers test their apps in a simulated virtual environment, even without a headset. Do You Need to Build Custom Tools? Is building a handful of custom tools a requirement for developing adaptive Mixed Reality?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Pa… Pa… Pa…treon!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

Having studied computer vision and having tried developing a rudimentary AR engine myself, I can tell you that the stability of virtual elements is one of the most difficult things to accomplish. The big problem is jitter: virtual elements appear fixed in a position in space, but actually, they are not perfectly stable.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2018 we did a case study where people were invited to use virtual reality in a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) fashion. Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition. How do you imagine the Apple Glasses?

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

An MIT study about embracing digital technology reports that 63 percent of surveyed managers said the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to a “lack of urgency.” Apple completely turned the mobile age upside down in 2007, Microsoft shaped the way we work on computers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

I’ve taken time to study emerging technologies, including XR. How many stages have I spoken on, in front of groups of hundreds and even thousands of people with barely any black people in the audience. I’ve been in technology and liberal arts for over twenty years. I’ve come to know a lot of people.

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