The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, for instance, has been helped a lot by the fact that it is the pre-installed browser on all Android phones. No one can compete now. Let me show you what are some of them.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For the past five months, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill introduced by the Hong Kong government which would allow local law enforcement to extradite criminals wanted in territories outside Hong Kong, including mainland China as well as Taiwan.

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ARPost

MARCH 16, 2023

Meta unveiled its Infinite Display system for VR Optics and the Meta Quest Pro with full-color mixed reality, while Google announced the launch of Immersive View for Maps and other updates aimed to make search and maps more immersive. Sony also unveiled its new PlayStation VR headset.

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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 - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. This raises the question of how much they can really do and when, or if, the government should step in. About the “Thinking Ahead About XR” Report.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The collective includes Google, HTC Vive, Acer Starbreeze, Oculus, Samsung, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. While seeking to educate consumers, governments, and industry about VR’s potential, the association wants to get ahead of challenges with developing and deploying the technology responsibly.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g. Introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

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. While the community protests against Facebook in the West, it seems that in China the government is working for a real name policy in gaming. The same on Twitter.

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. Section 508 would only apply to XR experiences produced by the federal government.

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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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It also works directly with governments and key organisations to outline best practices in the US and other key global sectors with collaboration and insights from research. The organisation also hosts some of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Meta Platforms, HTC VIVE, Accenture, Google, Microsoft and many others.

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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. The infrastructure layer. The seventh consists of technologies that make previous ideas a reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 5, 2022

Popular XR headsets today usually run a version of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), namely devices like the Meta Quest 2, Pico Neo 3, HTC VIVE Focus 3, Vuzix M400, and the RealWare HMT-1. However, AOSP is not compatible with Google Mobile Services (GMS), which is what most Android-based MDM solutions operate on. The Way Forward.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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ARVR

JUNE 21, 2021

to create virtual experiences through HTC Vive headsets and tools like the Google Tilt Brush. For those who may not be familiar with Google Tilt Brush, it is one of the first VR experiences of its kind and caliber, allowing its user to create 3D paintings within a virtual space. Macy’s is partnering with VirtualRealityRental.co

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. The never-ending story. Thanks to Miss S. This is a big point for Oculus Quest.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I don’t want to give too much away, but essentially Jonas (our hero) is a computer hacker, and accesses a government database that acknowledges the existence of aliens. He’s a hacker and unwittingly accesses a government database. Josh Hassin: The film is really more of a teaser than a full narrative.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

According to the executive, he said that the President of Madeira Island and its Government had supported the VRARA amid efforts to attract new technology firms and talent to the region, which currently hosts over 2.5 million tourists annually and hosts 250,000 residents. . Conference A-List Attendees.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 28, 2019

” An early beta version of VRJAM:X was first revealed at the UK Government’s annual innovation conference, Createch several months ago, attracting the attention of the International Association for Broadcast Media VRJAM confirms. As VRJAM announces further updates in the future VRFocus will let you know.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

And part of the RiVR Link (“ classroom in a Box ”) offering a turnkey VR solution, and Google Expeditions platforms. Some aspects of VR promotion had changes since our previous feature – Google though still heavily committed to the education sector had dropped its investment in VR headsets to focus on the content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! HTC announces Vive Pro Secure. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre. HTC, one of the most important companies in the VR landscape, has now a new boss: Yves Maitre. This Area 51 VR simulator shows you what the US government is hiding to us! CEOs means a lot for a company: think about how Microsoft has changed going from Ballmer to Nadella. Its peculiarity?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The local government is trying to push it to make it become a very big hub for the VR industry , and that’s why it is organizing such a big event. Even with the organizers of the event, I have to speak mostly in Chinese (hence my headache) and use a lot of Baidu Fanyi (the Chinese counterpart of Google Translate). Hands-on Droolon F1.

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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. But then you see Facebook and Google and all the platforms right now — they’re all working an AR platform.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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. More and more vendors will target consumers, both with full-fledged AR glasses and with devices more like Google Glass for information display (e.g. for fitness).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

This is the current SteamVR controller pricing in GBP (shipping to UK) at the time the article was written: HTC Vive controller (2018) single £193 includes free shipping and tax HTC Vive controller (2018) pair £386.00 Google searches are very revealing. Image provided by Rob Cole). Testing with popular software.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And there’s a really interesting thing for the listeners, if you Google the “Snowden leadership framework”, it’s a Harvard Business Review article, it was back in the 90s. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. But he did sit with the problems. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 30, 2017

The two day conference was packed with simultaneous, back-to-back presentations and workshops from industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, AMD, The VOID, IMAX, Two Bit Circus, Secret Location, Globacore, Quantum Capture, The Canadian Film Centre, and many more. It’s not just the collaboration and support from government-backed groups.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And there’s a really interesting thing for the listeners, if you Google the “Snowden leadership framework”, it’s a Harvard Business Review article, it was back in the 90s. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. But he did sit with the problems. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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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. In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google. But the more you stay there, the more you notice that there are differences.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” The government spent millions and billions of dollars on it at different levels.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” The government spent millions and billions of dollars on it at different levels.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." The government spent millions and billions of dollars on it at different levels. Alan: Absolutely.

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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. In case there is another platform involved, e.g. Android, 30% will go to Google, and 25% of the remaining money (i.e. HTC Vive is going to launch… a box.

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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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