The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A few weeks after I officially entered VR, the technology started being overhyped after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. After 2019, we had companies wo managed to survive just by doing virtual reality , and the enthusiasm started growing again, together with investments from VCs. There was a lot of enthusiasm and hope.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Considering that Facebook is very smart also in leaking misleading info (as it has happened with the “Monterey” headset ), this can also be a move from Menlo Park to create hype for the upcoming Oculus Connect 6 and the AR glasses that will be teased there. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! Games on Oculus Quest are selling really well.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2023

We picked as his role the one of a tech expert because it was a field that we know very well ourselves, but as its main expertise we didn’t pick the too obvious AI field, but virtual reality, because it was a growing field of interest in 2014 after Facebook acquired Oculus. ” “Can you improve the pixels of the Oculus Rift?”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

Various months ago, I got from Lenovo a Mirage Solo headset for a limited period of time to review it on my blog. So, here we are, entering 2019 with me fulfilling my promise to Lenovo and closing this series of “should you buy it? it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Image by Oculus). Other relevant news.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

Complete List of VR Headsets 2019 Updated: 05/2019 Virtual Reality (VR) invites you to explore alternative worlds as if you’re actually there. Google Cardboard. visit website Google Daydream View. visit website Google Daydream View 2. visit website Oculus Go. Field of view. Max Resolution (combined).

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2019

While to some Oculus’ announcement of the Rift S represents the newest and best version of a good VR headset, to others it’s a far cry from what they hoped Oculus would be able to deliver three years after the first Rift. SEE ALSO Hands-on: Oculus Rift S is a Better, Easier to Use Rift (with a Few Tradeoffs).

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Oculus Rift. Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Oculus Rift.

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Peter Graham

JULY 25, 2019

Two of Oculus’ headsets support the virtual reality (VR) browser, Oculus Go and Gear VR, and today a third has been added to that list, Oculus Quest. In 2019 Mozilla plans on rolling out support for the WebXR specification, multi-window browsing, bookmarks sync and SteamVR. There’s also more on the way.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

I take into great consideration what Mr.Riccitiello says because his predictions made in 2017 turned out to be true: he forecasted the “VR is dead” period and also the come back of XR in 2019. We all wondered what Adobe was thinking to do with Oculus Medium, after its acquisition from Facebook some years ago. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Announcement link) More info (News on my blog) More info (Error in one of the screenshots). More info (Use Google Translate). When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. Google Chrome now supports WebAR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” So, I googled around and found a workshop from a Unity event that taught how to do a Unity game. The blog & social media.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 27, 2020

When you think of creativity in virtual reality (VR) one app that’s surely going to come to mind is Google’s Tilt Brush. Originally released back in 2016 for HTC Vive, the app has made it to most VR headsets including Oculus Quest in 2019 but PlayStation VR was always notably left out.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

It’s a beautiful summer day and I’m quite happy because this week my blog has turned three years old ! Image by Oculus). He was the last Oculus founder to still work at Oculus. From now on, nothing of the old Oculus remains at the new Oculus. Oculus is no more, there is only Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Yesterday evening I came home at night after a long day at work and I opened my laptop to read (and share) some more news on the just-launched Oculus Link. pic.twitter.com/BupFCxSrTw — Valve (@valvesoftware) November 18, 2019. The Oculus Link was not important anymore… it could wait. It would really be amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

VR has got the attention of the mainstream thanks to Alyx and the commercials by Oculus. For every studio that made $10M on Quest, maybe 20 indie studios have worked on some VR games of theirs that they never published, or that went on Steam but no one cared about, or that were refused by Oculus. Gartner Hype Cycle 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. Oculus support at its best Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Thanks to a dirty hack developed by me and that you can find inside this blog post (I’ve put it open-source on GitHub!), Well, I’ve written various articles that can help you in deciding it : Exhaustive Vive Focus review ; Vive Focus vs Oculus Go comparison ; Vive Focus vs Oculus Quest preliminary comparison. Should you buy it?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. In 2019 AR startup Daqri has shutdown.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

So I’m sorry if in these days I’m not very active on social media and I’m not publishing many posts on my blog… I can’t really find the time. October, 9th 2019. This game made by Sanzaru Games together with Oculus Studio is one of the best and longest games ever released for virtual reality. Image by Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Having had the chance to play with it for some days , I can tell you that it is really an interesting product (I’ll write a review about it here on this blog, so register to my newsletter to not miss it!). Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, the community is still rioting about the Facebook login , and /r/Oculus should now be called /r/FacebookBannedMyAccount because this is the only topic people are talking about. Facebook will have its own Cloud Gaming Service, entering so the field of the future of gaming where other companies like Google (Stadia!),

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While discussing the earning calls for Q3 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that VR is taking longer than expected to become successful. Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon. Are you ready? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

The past week has been the week of the E3, and we had an insane amount of news regarding new upcoming Virtual Reality content, especially for the Oculus Quest! 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. For what games are you hyped?

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Oculus Rift. Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

According to the related blog post, the improvements are impressive: the new algorithm is able to: Improve overall the tracking quality Be able to cope with fast hands movements Be able to cope with scenarios with one hand occluding the other Detect new kinds of gestures of the hands. Meta releases hands tracking 2.0

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

Google Cardboard. visit website Google Daydream View. visit website Google Daydream View 2. visit website Oculus Go. visit website Oculus Rift. visit website Oculus Rift S. visit website Oculus Quest. Field of view. Max Resolution (combined). depends on smartphone. Positional Tracking. Release date.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Here is one more good straight ahead historical layout for folks who like a timeline with capsule summaries of key moments in the development process, from an excellent blog titled, Virtual Speech. It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be.

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CraneMorley

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Thank you for joining us on our second part of our 4 part blog series on which we examine a different type of Blended Learning strategies, and how you could start strategizing or implement these ideas onto your current training plans. If you would like to read last week blog series, please visit our blog series here.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 7, 2019

InstaVR Interviews is a blog series where we turn the spotlight on our customers. Theo and I then showcased the whole process at Dominika’s ‘My Queendom’ launch event, letting people see the build in Oculus Rift, Oculus Go and via the smartphone app. We download them as apps into all the headsets, including the Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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VRPlayin

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Google Translate, you will forever be my hero.). I was quite impressed by the use of early generation Pimax headsets for some of the rides, and this leads me to think that the solution may have been implemented or design when Oculus was still in its early DK2 days. Thank you for reading and see you in the virtual!

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole. Which still has its uses!

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