The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

In this article, I will just briefly explain the main news announced yesterday and give my opinion about them. and then I will detail the launched headsets in some more in-depth articles that will come in the next days. To me, it seems a choice similar to what Microsoft has done with Hololens 2. Quest and Rift S launch.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And there are booths of many important companies : Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Huawei, GoPro, etc… so this event has cool stuff to showcase. Markers can be used to define where to show virtual elements, and in the demo that I tried were used to show virtual Chinese artworks in a room; Leap Motion device on Realmax glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!),

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Authors’ opinions are their own. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Most of these lessons can be adapted to many countries you can travel to showcase your game to, so I think that if you are a VR indie game developer, you may find this article interesting in any case! I don’t think that people at Microsoft are crying because of this. Translate your game to Chinese. Knowledge is within peach.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 25, 2015

These tabs are important – reminding me of tasks I need to do, articles I want to read, and funny videos that I will never get around to watching. Two projects from Microsoft, Pivot and SandDance , demonstrate the power of dynamic movement between data visualizations to reveal patterns within data. External Memory.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. But Microsoft, thanks to innovative 2K displays, has managed to keep the same high-quality pixel density of the HoloLens 1, that is 47 PPD (pixels per degree). Resolution.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I know you wrote an article on PTC and GlobalFoundries using AR to transform chip manufacturing. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I know you wrote an article on PTC and GlobalFoundries using AR to transform chip manufacturing. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they're very insightful. You've written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I know you wrote an article on PTC and GlobalFoundries using AR to transform chip manufacturing. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft's best pivot ever. They're very factual.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I know you wrote an article on PTC and GlobalFoundries using AR to transform chip manufacturing. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. And I think the Quest -- I just read an article today -- the Quest has sold over half of all the VR headsets in the world last year.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. And I think the Quest -- I just read an article today -- the Quest has sold over half of all the VR headsets in the world last year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions. Header image by Leap Motion).

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. And I think the Quest -- I just read an article today -- the Quest has sold over half of all the VR headsets in the world last year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. More info (Article on Road To VR) More info (Article on Upload VR). More info (Road To VR article) More info (Upload VR article) More info (Karl Guttag’s article). Sony creates an AR headset for LBVR. New Rumors on Half Life VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is for sure great for giving people awareness of what AR is good at, and Microsoft can be happy about it. If you are into LBVR, or you want to dig into it, I sincerely advise you to have a read to this awesome series of articles. More info (Status of LBVR?—?part part 1) More info (Status of LBVR?—?part

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. When I read it, I was very happy about it: finally, AR is becoming mainstream!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Another week has just passed by and it was a cool one with many news and articles to talk about! UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini. Microsoft announces HoloLens Industrial Edition. Haaaappy February, amazing XR community!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

More info (Google Starline announcement) More info (Google Starline article on Wired). Plus, all this metaverse buzz may lead to an exploding bubble in the future; Jesse Damiani has written an amazing article about the future of music and live events by interviewing some Roblox executives.

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