Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2016

Like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004), Jesus VR was filmed in Matera, Italy under the direction of Passion executive producer Enzo Sisti. ” Jesus VR will be available Christmas 2016 on all major VR platforms including Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

When a journalist of IGN Italy was trying to install the new Xbox Wireless Headset on the platform, he was greeted with an Italian message saying “The VR goggle must be updated”. Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store. (Image by Microsoft). As long as it works….

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Yesterday HTC has also unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC U12+. The Vive Focus and its friend the HTC U12+ phone (Image by HTC). Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

As for me, I’ve been flooded by worldwide requests asking how I am here in Italy. The coronavirus outbreak is getting worse here in Northern Italy. We have more difficulties in going to Milan, that is the economical heart of Italy, and now a red zone with all its region. and fostering the creation of Virtual ones.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

More info (AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta — Road To VR) More info (AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta — Upload VR) More info (TikTok influencers are using Meta smartglasses) The Samsung headset may be revealed soon According to a new rumor, the XR headset that Samsung is building with Google and Qualcomm may be revealed at the beginning of the new year.

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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 - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

EssilorLuxottica, a multinational corporation based in Italy and France, is already working with Meta on developing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. ” ‘Game-Changing’ HTC Vive Headset Coming Soon HTC has released a YouTube video about the impending release of a ‘game-changing’ Vive headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

Today, while I’m packing my stuff up to go back to Italy, I want to tell you a few words about my experience there, and if I think it has been worth going. I was not so sure I wanted to go, because from Italy to Austin is a long trip, but I decided to try this new adventure… and well, I’m more than happy of having done that.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. I think we’ll discover it “soon”. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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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). The answer is not so trivial.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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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. You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Among other things, I have written a fantastic post about the VR concerts worth millions of dollars that Pico is doing in China ; I have been interviewed in a podcast by Moonbase ; and this Saturday I will be close to Turin (Italy) speaking at a science and technology festival about my work in immersive concerts. Image by HTC Vive).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. The latest phones produced by Google and Samsung are still compatible with Daydream View and Gear VR headsets, but there has not been any new release of a mobile VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

I also used Google TiltBrush for sketching and Blocks to create low-poly environments for Vive Focus. Enea Le Fons speaking on how VR can help us escape our sedentary jobs (Image by HTC Vive). The cybernaut Enea will begin his new adventure tomorrow and will be at the Immersive Architecture event on June, 1st-2nd in Venice (Italy).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google has already abandoned all its VR projects (e.g. Top news of the week. The hype is rising….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. HTC Vive Focus and Lenovo Mirage Solo are two standalone headsets produced by Chinese companies. Introduction. Promotion measures.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

Where: Turin, Italy (and Online). We start our list of XR events in 2021 with AWE Asia because of the sheer size of the opportunities to explore and network. This event mostly benefits professionals, executives, and businesspersons who are interested in the current and future applications of XR technologies in their field of activity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Italy won the Tennis Davis Cup, and that was pretty cool to see (the match between Sinner and Djokovic was just incredible). This may be one of the potential names for either the upcoming mixed reality headset that Samsung is developing with Google or the name of future AR glasses. Will we meet there?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Additionally, significant technology and extended reality (XR) firms like Google and AT&T have provided Magic Leap funding since the company’s debut in 2010. Magic Leap debuted its device internationally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I’m still here in the US for some days after having attended AWE, planning to meet some interesting people before heading back to Italy. In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This is ridiculous, not only because the Pro costs a lot of money, but also because it is sold as a “work device” I don’t know how things work where Zuck lives, but here in Italy, a typical workday is 8 hours, not 2. If at Meta they just work 2 hours, I want to be hired there immediately.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Anyway, today should be a vacation in Italy, but here I am writing this roundup for you, so if you want to show your appreciation, don’t forget to make a donation on Patreon ! 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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

There are lots of grants around, and here we can participate in some research grants offered by Italy or European Union. Doing business in Italy is very hard now, but there are countries, for instance in Africa, that have not been much affected by the outbreak yet. Some countries are more “infected” than others.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

HTC releases eye and face tracking for Vive Focus 3. HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro. The eye tracker, instead, can be attached as a magnetic insert in the internal part of the device, and HTC claims it’s accurate to within 0.5°~1.1°

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2018

This surprised me because, in Italy, the most important people of an IT startup must speak English, because they needs this language to connect with abroad customers and partners. The project evolved over time and when in 2016 HTC released the Vive, they immediately thought about integrating VR into their solution. My envy intensified.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2018

This has been possible thanks to the kind support of Mister President and the whole HTC, that introduced me to these companies and let me visit them to discover a lot of things about the Chinese VR ecosystem. We have this even in Italy and I guess that there is one in all parts of the world. So, networking here is fundamental.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

HTC has launched a new headset, we have another confirmation of Apple glasses, we read about the first hands-on on Kura glasses, and many other things have happened! Image by HTC). HTC launches the Cosmos at $699. HTC has finally launched the HTC Vive Cosmos , its new flagship headset. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

As soon as you open the box, there’s a piece of paper saying that you have to download the companion app on your phone through Google Play or the iOS store. HTC has announced that will implement an Instant Play on its Focus device (maybe following my advice ) and I hope that Oculus will do something similar in the future.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. VIGAMUS Academy, Italy. University College London, UK. University of Florida, USA.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Jokes apart, before starting, let me send a big hug to all of you that are in quarantine because of the coronavirus and thank all the people that in these days have cared about me after having heard the sad news about Italy (Simon, David, Daniel, Suzie, Mark… John that has been so kind… Sebastian, and many others!). Yes, Android, Google.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I’ve preordered my basic $299 one (€349 in Italy) and it will arrive on October, 15th. This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. Rift line gets discontinued.

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