The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile Not a great evolution from Microsoft. According to Samsung, it should come in 2028.

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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. A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. Microsoft has answered the report saying that “HoloLens is doing great” , and Alex Kipman has tweeted not to believe what you read on the internet.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). pic.twitter.com/6yFD2FfHta — TikTokComms (@TikTokComms) January 6, 2021. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Remember that Sony owns very famous IPs, so it may launch some exclusive games with VR support that get lots of visibility in gaming magazines. We all know how Samsung is able to deliver beautiful home electronics devices, and it is a company that has also past experience about VR headsets (Gear VR and Odyssey+ were both good VR goggles).

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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. For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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ARVR

APRIL 27, 2022

Microsoft recently announced that it will be launching its own enterprise Metaverse in 2022, and users will be able to access business tools like MS Excel and PowerPoint on it (yeey, great news ha!). Samsung , Coca-Cola , Gucci , Nike and many more. I hear you sayin’ not so far, HOLD ON!

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Should it primarily be running on the latest and greatest Samsung and Pixel devices with high-performance AR features, or should it be less intensive to run on more devices? From a software engineering standpoint, Microsoft Hololence’s development is based on the Microsoft technology stack and Azure Cloud.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And in early 2019, acclaimed futurist Kevin Kelly of Wired magazine fame wrote an entire feature entitled Mirrorworld which attempted to consider a broader description that mentions IoT and other technologies in the Convergence but lacked a description of how these technologies would work together.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. And if they have these features from Microsoft, they won’t need to get them from Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

The same analyst, though, added an important note to these statistics that has been ignored by many magazines: “shipping times remained unchanged 48 hours after pre-orders opened. And he’s not the only believer: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicated Mixed Reality as one of the top three trends to follow for 2024.

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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. But a new report in Korean magazine “Daily Korea” states that Samsung may not be in a hurry to release its headset anymore, because Meta canceled its Quest Pro 2 plans with LG, and Apple is postponing its Vision Pro 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

” That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare. And now we have virtual reality.”

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare. And now we have virtual reality.". By Walter J.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

” That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. The consumer electronics companies like Apple and Samsung and to some extent Google and Microsoft, along with companies like Amazon, are jumping nto healthcare. And now we have virtual reality.”

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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! Image by Microsoft). So many memories… who was there already in VR with me?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Thanks to Upload, this job is easier: the online magazine has compiled a list of suitable USB cables and extension cables so that to guarantee an optimal image quality on your Quest. Microsoft now sees VR as a high priority for Flight Simulator. You know, Microsoft only adds VR when people ask for it…. Some news on VR content.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. Even a small amount is very important to keep this magazine up and running. Then please, make a donation on Patreon!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And the one thing that always struck out for me -- dating back to some of the first times we were at the training magazine conferences with TechLearn and then DevLearn -- when people would come by our booth and see what they did, they just kept repeating, "Oh my gosh, mobile! Just in time!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And the one thing that always struck out for me -- dating back to some of the first times we were at the training magazine conferences with TechLearn and then DevLearn -- when people would come by our booth and see what they did, they just kept repeating, "Oh my gosh, mobile! Just in time!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. Samsung is one of the most famous suppliers of components for electronic devices (e.g. Samsung Odyssey+).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And the one thing that always struck out for me -- dating back to some of the first times we were at the training magazine conferences with TechLearn and then DevLearn -- when people would come by our booth and see what they did, they just kept repeating, "Oh my gosh, mobile! Just in time!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. Some months ago, some important magazines leaked that Microsoft might have abandoned the HoloLens project. According to a new leak, Microsoft scrapped the plans for a HoloLens 3, and also the collaboration with Samsung has been brought to an end.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon. Some weeks ago, Elon Musk won the headlines of all tech magazines detailing the work of his startup Neuralink. Samsung gets a patent for an AR contact lens.

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