The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Microsoft Flight Simulator is now compatible with VR headsets : not only the HP Reverb G2 as initially teased but all the headsets that are compatible with OpenXR , so basically all the most famous devices. Google lets now everyone contribute to StreetView. Donate to this blog.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

Zuck’s genius move before Google I/O I was kinda shocked reading this piece of news, but I was also quite happy because I’m all in for open platforms, and seeing finally Meta breaking the walls of its walled garden is for me a good thing. And with the operating system comes also Meta’s store.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The team responsible for Hubs recently announced its shutdown in a blog post , stating that its last day under Mozilla will be on May 31st, 2024. This includes shutdown of Hubs ‘ demo server, managed subscription, and community resources.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Microsoft would like the U.S. government to adopt media rules that would force big tech companies to share profits with newspapers when they link to news content, according to a new blog post by Microsoft president Brad Smith. And the entire concept is controversial, to say the least. Read more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form. without limitation, Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Valve, Steam, HTC)”, venture capital, or crowdsourcing. Oculus is aiming to reduce the barriers to entry into VR development for small teams. “If

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Apple Intelligence on the Vision Pro would be a big deal, and especially it would let Apple compete better with Google , which made the integration with Gemini one of the best features of its Android XR operating system. Microsoft will still provide the Azure cloud, but all the hardware and software should be provided by Luckeys startup.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Google drops support for Daydream. With a communication that has surprised no one, Google has dropped support for the Daydream platform, which won’t be supported in the upcoming Android 11. Phones stopped to be compatible with Daydream , and Google never released a new viewer after the second version of the Daydream View.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Actually, this week, Microsoft’s new mixed reality VP Scott Evans said that Microsoft is carrying on many innovations in various technological fields, and it is expecting the right time to release an update of the HoloLens. Google may be working on a bracelet and a ring for its glasses. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Or maybe “relaxed” is not the right word to use, considering the little drama on Microsoft’s headsets. Top news of the week (Image by HP) Microsoft officially drops support for its Mixed Reality headsets Microsoft has just released the infamous Windows 11, version 24H2 update. I think this speaks a lot.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2018

There, you’ll be able to pick up rare specimens from the London’s Natural History Museum and take you “behind the scenes to explore areas usually closed to the public,” a Sky blog post states.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Today I inaugurate a new column of this blog called “The Ghost’s Spotlight” in which I try to put the spotlight on some interesting VR projects that I tried or that I got to know. Microsoft Maquette. Microsoft Maquette is the ultimate VR tool by Microsoft to prototype fast in VR. The Great C.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

More info (FRL Official blog post) More info (Road To VR reporting and commenting the news) More info (Ctrl+Labs’s Dino Game Early Demo) More info (ETH’s experimental wristband). As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 23, 2024

Snapchat has introduced ‘Snapchat Camera for Chrome’ that enable users to add AR Lenses to their webcams using a Google Chrome extension. The internet tech blog, Engadget, which has been following Snapchat’s AR progress closely is unsurprised by their revival because it says they have “long been ingrained in Snapchat’s identity”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. What is even more interesting is that this device will be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 13, 2021

About two weeks ago, millions of Google Chrome users were signed up for an experiment they never agreed to be a part of. Google had just launched a test run for Federated Learning of Cohorts—or FLoC–a new kind of ad-targeting tech meant to be less invasive than the average cookie. In a blog post announcing the trial,… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2025

But there are some substantial differences: for instance, while before you were forced to use the device management solution by Meta , now you can integrate Horizon Managed Solutions with third-party MDM solutions like ArborXR, ManageXR, or Microsoft Intune. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

More info — Use Google Translate! I don’t know for whom this is “affordable”, maybe Tim Cook, Bill Gates, or people that have sold both kidneys… More info Microsoft completes the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard After many months of legal disputes, Microsoft has finally received the green light to acquire Activision-Blizzard.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Don’t forget to read the coverage about it on my blog… Before leaving you to the news, I have to publicly compliment Emerson for having given the most correct answer to my contest. More info (LivingCities on Forbes) More info (Official launch blog post of LivingCities). The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

As it is a tradition of this blog , I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! Vive Wrist Tracker official announcement blog (HTC Vive) HTC announces Wrist Tracker for $129 (Road To VR) Bi-manual hands tracking working flawlessly on Focus 3 thanks to the Trackers (Twitter). Further references.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 4, 2022

Microsoft is suspending all new sales of its products and services in Russia amidst the invasion of Ukraine by Putin's forces. In a blog post , Microsoft's president & vice chair Brad Smith also said the company's stopping "many aspects" of its business in Russia "in compliance with governmental sanctions decisions."

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. The same on Twitter. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. More info (Use Google Translate). Axon Park has written on its blog a very long and detailed article on VR training. More info (NVIDIA) More info (AMD).

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

As I sit at my desk typing this blog, I have 15 Chrome tabs eating up 790MB of memory. I also have 17 Microsoft Edge tabs open, which take up 535MB of memory. Complaints about the resource-hogging Google Chrome… Read more. Aside from those two extra tabs on Edge, I have the same webpages open, yet Chrome is hogging more memory.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. This means mainly two things: Livestreams and blog posts where the companies make the announcements that they would have made during the event.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Microsoft has announced plans to bring support for WebVR to Edge, which succeeds Internet Explorer as the default web browser in Windows 10. See Also: Microsoft ‘Holographic Shell’ Aims to Immerse You in Windows by 2017. See Also: Google Shows HTC Vive Running at 90 FPS in Chrome with WebVR.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Earlier in May, Google casually dropped in a password security blog that it planned on automatically enabling 2FA on Google Accounts. At the time, Google didn’t give any idea of what that timeline would look like other than “soon.”

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GizModo VR

APRIL 8, 2022

Google is joining Samsung in offering parts for the Pixel smartphone through iFixit. The company announced in a blog post that it would make parts available for the Pixel 2 through Pixel 6 Pro later this year. Read more.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In a previous blog post , I explained the underlying XR (Extended Reality) technologies that enable the Metaverse. WebXR Logo What is WebXR To understand what WebXR is, you need to first understand what Extended Reality is, luckily for you I’ve already written a blog post all about that? Microsoft Azure’s Mixed Reality API ).

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. What about Meta, Google and Apple?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

The company switched to an enterprise model , but apart from a rebranding and an assistance service it is not clear what it actually means, especially if compared with the enormous enterprise offering that Microsoft is giving with HoloLens (Azure services, integration with Teams, etc…). NASA can work 90% faster thanks to AR. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. More info (Blog article about new Oculus For Business) More info (Official page of Oculus For Business with consumer Quests).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Additionally, Microsoft has included AI-powered avatars for people using its Teams platforms, enabling people’s real-time interactions in meetings. Conclusion Concluding, companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and many others have integrated ChatGPT 3.5 into their services and platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. PLEASE DONATE FOR MY BLOG! Funny link.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 17, 2020

But it also includes Disney, Google Earth, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple. He first got the attention of Microsoft when blogging about the detriments of 3D immersive universes like Second Life. Secretly working on something similar, Microsoft brought him in to help.

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