The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2025

Plus, being in the field, I know there are magazines far better than mine (e.g. When a few weeks ago, Sony started discounting it, the device started to sell much better , so it seems to me a great decision that now they have applied a permanent discount. Im just behind the sacred websites Road To VR and Upload VR.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Live Monitoring of Premises Google has already experimented with VR goggles (known as Google Daydream) that helped people find their way and get new routes. It wasn’t long ago when Oculus, Google, and Sony had people vouch for VR headsets for playing immersive games. You sure can. It would be epic.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

A new leak coming from Twitter user choco_bit and published by online magazine 9to5Mac seems to point to the fact that the upcoming iPhone 12 Pro phone may feature a rear depth camera. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I know many people that have tried this T-shirt: it has been one of the most discussed gadgets of CES in the community, even if it had no visibility on the most important VR magazines. Click to read the thread on Twitter… it is worth it. Further references.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Some magazines reported this news as a sign of the failure of Meta’s strategy about the metaverse. Sony acquires Bungie and thinks about Capcom. Sony had to answer fast to Microsoft’s acquisition of Blizzard, and so it has acquired Bungie, the game studio behind the famous Destiny franchise. It’s basically a monopoly.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Founded in 2016 by ex-Google and Facebook engineers, 8th Wall puts a heavy emphasis on computer vision, machine learning and product development.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 Last year, Google also acquired North, an AR smart glass manufactures.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I thought it could have been great to give visibility to this very interesting magazine also in the West and at the same time ask them some questions on the current status of the VR market. So we agreed on a written interview on WeChat, which I report to you here below.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. In April of last year Abovitz landed himself on the cover of Wired magazine with what was dubbed the Magic Leap “photonic chip.” They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn. Near-eye Optics Basics.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 18, 2021

For the latter, Google is pioneering a “search what you see” use case to point your phone at objects to contextualize or shop for them. They include hip and tech-forward brands like Gucci, Nike and Sony Pictures. This includes social lenses (the most popular format to date) and visual search. link] Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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GizModo VR

MARCH 8, 2021

If the PocketBook InkPad Color was an attempt to bring the benefits of a tablet’s larger screen to e-readers so ebooks like comics and magazines are easier to read, the Boox Nova 3 Color is an attempt to bring the benefits of an E Ink screen to tablets. The results are a more capable and powerful e-reader, but with a… Read more.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple – CEO Tim Cook recently reiterated his excitement for the technology – are all heavily involved in the space. Talking to Japanese magazine Nikkei Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa discussed its ongoing R&D: “We are not turning our backs on new technologies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

Elijah Allan-Blitz is one of the first Virtual Reality directors for TIME magazine. He is currently developing VR episodic series for Felix and Paul Studios and for Google. Will has Produced VR, VFX, Animation and 3D projects for Fox, Sony, Warner Bros., Elijah Blitz | VR Director, TIME.

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Full Dive Gaming

JUNE 28, 2022

To date, Trigger has completed over 250 XR projects and more than 275,000 hours of XR development with clients such as Disney, Verizon, LEGO, the NBA, NFL, Nike, Sony, Google, and Molson Coors, along with premium entertainment IP including Spider-Man, Star Wars, Avengers, Jurassic World, and more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

Many magazines wrote that Meta is abandoning the “metaverse”, but actually, the famed M-word appeared two times in the statement that Mark provided his employees about the new course of the company. Google is discontinuing Google Glass, even in its Enterprise Edition which found some fields of application in the B2B sector (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

A new week has passed by, and it has been a quite good one for me: I’ve been featured again on Authority Magazine and I’ve launched a new series of videos on my Youtube channel where I answer the questions of the community. More info (Use Google Translate). Learn more (Use Google Translate). Happy Monday everyone! Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony aims at hybrid games for the PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has had a virtual summit with developers about its plans for the PSVR 2 because it is looking for content for its upcoming headset. Google Tensor chip is made for AI and AR. I always say that: don’t forget about Google.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Upload did it again: on December, 2nd, the big XR magazine has streamed a big showcase of many news about VR games. Mogura VR , one of the most important magazines about VR in Japan, has organized an event hosting a few important Japanese VR professionals to discuss the m**averse in Japan. Google details Project Starline.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

This startup just exited from stealth mode, is like Google Maps but for the interior of shopping centers, offices, and other closed environments. More info (Google Lens) More info (AR copy to Photoshop) More info (VROOM). Support this magazine by clicking the button here below: Donate to The Ghost Howls!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

The amount of the deal has not been disclosed, but Chinese magazine VRTuoLuo reports that it has been 5B RMB (a bit less $800M), while another Chinese portal reported the sum of 9B RMB, but then removed this detail from its article later on. Snapchat is so planning to compete with similar products like Google Lens or Samsung Bixby.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

All the magazines were saying “VR is dead”, and finding paying projects for my consultancy company was incredibly difficult. And even the press has positive impressions about the headsets they try: PSVR 2, for instance, was launched with good reviews even from mainstream tech magazines. The third is that I see the value.

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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! This is the 150th Week Peek! Iron Man VR demo has been released!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony shows prototype headset with dual 4K display. During the Sony Technology Day showcase, Sony has shown a prototype of a headset with two 4K micro OLED displays. This gives more power to Google Glass, that are not doing that bad in the enterprise environment after a total disaster as a prosumer device.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Asgard’s Wrath has been the main topic of all the VR magazines and the VR communities and I think that it is all deserved. Finally, we know the name of the new upcoming PlayStation: after years of brainstorming, Sony has finally come up with the original name of “PlayStation 5”. ARCore is the 8th most downloaded app on Google Play.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

I’m trying to solve this issue appealing to Google, but more than ever consider donating money on Patreon to sustain this blog , that takes me a lot of time and various expenses, to keep it alive. Thanks to the popular VR magazine Upload VR, that has organized the E3 VR Showcase, Virtual Reality has had its glorious moment at E3 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The news made headlines on all the most important magazines of the world, and many people that weren’t even aware of XR now have got to know that the mission of one of the most important companies in the world is to build “the metaverse”. Sony is reported to launch a mobile VR headset. Google is still into XR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 31, 2024

For instance, Sony is having a keynote on the 6th, and the teaser sentence is Create Infinite Realities. More info New devices are going to be announced at CES Next week, the CES, one of the biggest tech events in the world, is starting (and Ill be there!). DPVR is also going to unveil a new mystery product. From the trailer, it seems fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. Google will delay the release of Chrome 81 , the one that should have included WebAR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 29, 2017

We’re we too distracted by crap magazine covers and flip flops? 2:35 PM New York Magazine (Brian Feldman). This morning a friend I trust a lot told me Google Daydream is way nicer than anyone expects (that is coming October 4th). He will also serve as an executive producer on Sony’s feature film adaptation of Console Wars.

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