The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Its userbase is superior to known PCVR headsets like the HTC Vive Pro and Pro 2 and most probably in the next weeks, it will also surpass the Pico 4. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. I cross my fingers, but I don’t have high hopes. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. And now here you are the link to donate: Support The Red Cross in Ukraine. I will leave you the link to do that below. Header image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. What a time to be alive!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

If this partnership is exclusive, Meta has just got a huge edge over its competitors like Samsung or Google. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. Here in Italy, I have no idea where to buy any smartglasses, but I’ve seen many shops selling Ray-Ban Meta.

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

But I think it’s not a good move for Meta, for the following reasons: It shows that it is “afraid” of HTC. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. The move has probably been done to better compete with the Vive XR Elite, which is going to be released now exactly for $1100.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Image by HTC Vive). HTC teases a new headset. HTC has started the usual marketing operation it does for the launch of every new device. We don’t have further details about it, and if you try to enhance the above image, you just get a “Nice try” trolling label coming to view (gg HTC for that). Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. HTC is also one of our investors. Hrish: EastLabs is an early stage accelerator that I founded about eight years ago in Ukraine. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. HTC is also one of our investors. Hrish: EastLabs is an early stage accelerator that I founded about eight years ago in Ukraine. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So we've launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. HTC is also one of our investors. Hrish: EastLabs is an early stage accelerator that I founded about eight years ago in Ukraine. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

HTC is shipping the Vive Focus 3. HTC has started shipping the Vive Focus 3, so we have started reading the first reviews about it. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. Google Poly has recently shut down, leaving creators without an open and free place where to share their 3D creations with the other members of the community.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Its huge investments are also attracting all the other major tech companies to enter the metaverse field, and Apple and Google will surely release some XR devices in the upcoming years because of that. We can object to lots of things about Meta, and you can also say that it is doing the right things but for the wrong reason (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

Google has great expertise in building operating systems, plus its Google Play store would have let Meta Quest become compatible with all its Android Apps out of the box. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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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

APRIL 18, 2022

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. HTC is teasing the launch of a new device : from the picture, it seems a box that can connect with Vive Trackers , maybe aimed at virtual productions for professionals.

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Road to VR

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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. LLC Technology Companies Development Center, Ukraine. Graz University of Technology, Austria.

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