The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2025

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google acquires HTC Vive engineers for $250M Completely out of the blue (at least from our eyes), Google decided to acquire some XR-related engineers from HTC Vive (together with a non-exclusive license on some HTC IP) for the whopping amount of $250M.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Road To VR) More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Upload VR) Google lays off people in the AR Hardware division Like many tech companies lately, Google is performing a round of layoffs in its hardware teams. This does not mean that Google is not still committed to AR, though.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 21, 2016

If you have the Samsung Gear VR, one of the hottest holiday gifts, you can get closer to the action right now; NextVR is producing one NBA game per week. With fans and alumni all over the country, popular college football teams such as Penn State, Notre Dame and the University of Miami are just a few who are jumping into this new arena.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

But bringing things even closer to viewers is always the goal and that’s exactly what the NFL aims to do in its latest partnership with Google. However, it’s worth pointing out that YouTube videos can easily be downloaded and/or accessed on other headsets anyway.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2016

At XBiz Miami 2016 , a business to business convention for the adult industry, VR was one of the hottest topics that leaked its way into every conversation. XBiz Miami VR Panel. In the same report, it also claims that 3 out of 4 headset owners own a mobile VR viewer such as the Google Cardboard or Samsung GearVR.

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