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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Samsung Partners With Google & Qualcomm For New XR Hardware During today’s Samsung Unpacked event, Samsung announced plans to create new ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) hardware in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. Both used the same OLED displays as the original Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Though it’s Facebook’s newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company’s most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Released earlier this year, Oculus Quest has entered the fray and made a big splash. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the device of the moment. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. If you want to watch a video review of the Oculus Quest 2 instead of reading my post, you can do it here! Opening an Oculus’s box is always an experience before the experience for the user.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Google-owned Owlchemy Labs is the studio behind both games, which are currently available on Meta Quest, PlayStation VR, SteamVR, and even Pico headsets. Job Simulator was a launch title for the original HTC Vive and remains one of the highest selling VR games of all time. UploadVR confirmed Job Simulator will be priced $19.99

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AUGUST 6, 2020

According to the test conducted by VDC Fellbach, HTC Vive Cosmos’ inside-out optical system consistently shakes out as the least accurate of the bunch. Note : This article refers to the stock HTC Vive Cosmos , and not Vive Cosmos Elite, which ships with a SteamVR tracking-compatible faceplate. How It Was Measured.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that several of his campaign officials would be holding a press conference at the Philadelphia Four Seasons Hotel in response to the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential Election. pic.twitter.com/2c5KQKQwgC — coopertom (@thecoopertom) November 9, 2020. Ha ha ha OMG!

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MAY 11, 2023

During its I/O 2023 conference, Google said it will share more about its 'Android collaboration' with Samsung on 'immersive XR' later this year. Samsung revealed in February that it was partnering with Google and Qualcomm to develop XR hardware, with Qualcomm providing the chipset and Google handling "the software".

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. As VR hardware continues to compress in price and powerful smartphone based systems like Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s mobile VR Daydream platform gain steam, it’s expected that 50% of worldwide revenues will be generated by VR/AR hardware sales according to the report.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

This game made by Sanzaru Games together with Oculus Studio is one of the best and longest games ever released for virtual reality. It is clear that we are looking at a game that raises the quality bar of VR gaming , thanks to the talent of people at Sanzaru Games and the high budget offered by Oculus. October, 9th 2019.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Oculus Quest. More than 60 Oculus developers have reached $1M+ revenue. Estimates based on this data suggest between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Quest 2 units sold in Q4 2020 alone. Estimates based on this data suggest between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Quest 2 units sold in Q4 2020 alone. million new VR users on Steam in 2020.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

But it still believes that consumer VR software could grow from $407 million in revenue in 2016 to $14 billion by 2020. Oculus will hit 355,000; HTC Vive will be 420,000, and the Samsung Gear VR on mobile will be 2.3 By 2020, that percentage will fall to about 41 percent as enterprise, media, and other categories rise.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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JULY 6, 2023

In February Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling the system software via a new variant of Android. Google is handling the software for Samsung's hardware. Both used the same OLED displays as the original Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro.

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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 Oculus). The Oculus Quest is now one year old.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. The Tracker is good, but since HTC has never had competition in the field, i t has always been the same since the launch year. A reality check on AR in 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. It will be available on all major headsets through Steam on March 2020, with preorders already open now. Oculus Link is here.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Owlchemy Labs has something to celebrate, as the Google-owned VR studio announced that its tongue-in-cheek parody simulator game Job Simulator (2016) has officially broken the one million unit sales mark. SEE ALSO 'Job Simulator' Surpasses $3 Million in Sales, Becoming "most popular VR title to date".

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2020

Many Oculus Rift and even Quest owners know well that SteamVR supports both headsets seamlessly. I spoke with a source with direct knowledge of the Oculus SteamVR integration who told me that the integration is solely the work of Valve. SEE ALSO Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and 'Revive' Dilemma. Image courtesy Valve.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Today is no different with White Elk Studios confirming that Covert won’t be arriving just yet, pushing the launch back by a couple of weeks for PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift. The first was Eclipse: Edge of Light for Google Daydream which the studio recently brought to PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Let’s be honest: no one made correct predictions for 2020. But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! 2021 won’t be the year of VR. I know, we all feel like this. The Quest will still be the king.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 1, 2016

52 Million VR Headsets by 2020? Analysts are saying there could be as many as 52 million headsets sold by 2020, made up mostly of the recently released HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. Curiously, it leaves out Google Cardboard because it is a throwaway product.) Are you ready?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 Valve teases SteamVR 2.0. No availability.”

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

It will be available on Steam for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and Windows MR owners. The title is also promised to become available on Oculus, Viveport, Itch.io, and Google Play, though there are no estimated release dates for those versions at this time. Image courtesy FLOAT LAND.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

HTC has launched a new headset, we have another confirmation of Apple glasses, we read about the first hands-on on Kura glasses, and many other things have happened! And all of this when in 10 days there will be the Oculus Connect 6, where there will be announced something cool for sure… I’m rather thrilled while I write this e-mail!

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Along with Firefox Reality comes Mozilla Hubs , the web-based social VR platform, both of which are said to arrive on all Pico headsets sometime in Q1 2020. At the time of this writing Firefox Reality has yet to launch on Steam for PC VR headsets as it was previously announced in April 2019.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

billion and in 2020 it has been predicted to achieve $22.9 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. billion, the next year it increased to $3.6

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The report examines the market size and revenue of consumer VR hardware and software from 2016 and forecasts growth through to 2020. The report suggests that premium headset shipments like Google Daydream will see more growth over light mobile headsets. Google Daydream will sell the most premium headsets in 2017, getting 6.8M

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APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 ! Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Remember that Oculus is going to release Infinite Office and an AR SDK , so Valve had better replying to this move. It is not without some little problems, though: the game doesn’t support VR motion controllers , and this is very weird for a VR game in 2020; the skyboxes look blurry; the game has big problems to run on Index for some users.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The games listed as Free League Pass Games are marked with an asterisks (*); these will be free for US users to watch, and will be available for social viewing in Oculus Venues ( Quest , Go ). The NextVR app is free and available on Gear VR, Google Daydream, Microsoft VR headsets, PSVR, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). Specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

This week, the damn coronavirus has caused the cancelation of three super-important events: GTC (that will be substituted by the streaming of the sessions), SXSW and Google I/O. More info (GTC canceled) More info (SXSW canceled) More info (Google I/O canceled) More info (Facebook & working from home).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

18, 2020, and will ship starting in late January. For instance, Beck is an athlete that prepared for years for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 that have then been postponed to 2021 with much of her frustration. HTC is going to deprecate Vive Pro and Vive Pro Eye. HTC is so guaranteeing continuity while deprecating the headsets.

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