The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Some immersive games will be available at launch: Game Room, What the Golf?, Probably What The Golf will become the game of the year 2024… I’m of course super excited for this launch because the hype created by this headset can reinvigorate the whole XR ecosystem. and Super Fruit Ninja. The PCVR space is literally on fire.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2021

This is shaping up to be one hell of a year for VR gaming. Whether you’re on the Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, or a SteamVR headset, you’ll find there’s plenty of VR gaming to look forward to over the next 12 months. So much so, in fact, we thought it easier to break down just a handful of our most-anticipated titles.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the US, you’ll be able to find Quest 3 online through Meta as well as its official partners, including Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart. On top of Asgard’s Wrath 2 , which is due out sometime this winter, the 512GB version includes a six-month subscription to the PS Plus-style game service Meta Quest+, valued at $108.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Buy on Amazon ($25) Lens Cleaning Pen Image courtesy CNBEYOUNG Apple hasn’t published a guide yet on exactly how to clean your Vision Pro. You can nab one for as low as $7 on Amazon, or a whole set with multiple brushes, wipes, carrying cases, the works. Available in clear, and black, red, blue, white, and grey.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Looking for the best free Quest games and apps? However, that won't go far if you're someone who's just bought a Quest 2 , Quest Pro or Quest 3 and doesn't have much budget left for paid games and apps. As such, we recommend searching through SideQuest or the App Lab Game List if you're keen to find more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. The Vive Ultimate Tracker is like a Vive Tracker, but it tracks its pose using two onboard cameras, not requiring any SteamVR base station. THREE TO ONE.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. Oculus Quest hand tracking – One of the most exciting reveals made during this years developer conference, Oculus has announced that native hand and finger tracking will be available on the Oculus Quest in early 2020.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It will also be available via Amazon and through select retailers in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan and France. Anyone who purchases a Quest 3 between now and January 27, 2024 will receive a free copy of Asgard's Wrath 2 on release, Meta's upcoming AAA VR game with a promise of '60 hours of exploration'. for gaming).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The new Unity Personal will also remove the famous Unity splash screen Successful games using Unity Pro or Enterprise can choose if paying per install or by a 2.5% The game is going to feature the three assassins Ezio, Connor, and Kassandra, for an adventure mixing parkour, melee, and ranged combat. Who else is excited by this idea?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. update”, is already directed in that sense, since it brings support for hand tracking and colocation. Preorders are expected to start on the day of the Connect, so on September, 27th.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

Hand-tracking. Hand-tracking first came to the original Quest in late 2019, offering users and developers a controllerless option for input on the headset. Today, both Quest and Quest 2 can connect to a PC to play PC VR games either with a cable (Oculus Link) or wirelessly (Air Link). But why would you want to?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But not all the applications work well with hand gestures: for instance, most action games would suck with it. We have a couple of projects underway that are very exciting for us, in terms of creating some sort of game-type metaverse which can have collaboration with other parts of Sony,” Ryan added.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Platforms: Can play Oculus games loaded wirelessly through the built-in app store, and can also be tethered to PCs.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. The headset also launched alongside Horizon Call of the Mountain , the first native VR game based on one of Sony’s major first-party IPs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game // Image credit: Ubisoft. He gives the example of Star Trek: Bridge Crew , a VR game that was made in collaboration with Ubisoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

First of all, let me wish a nice rest to anyone who has participated in the Global Game Jam, especially the ones that have proposed some AR/VR games! It will be interesting to see how the different headsets will sell after the release of the flagship game by Valve. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Every year I like to play the speculation game about what to expect from there… and every year I predict a lot of things wrong (like that year that I said that the Quest Link was not going to happen… shame on me). Tomorrow is the day the Meta Connect starts! This is a tradition I can’t skip this year, too.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Looking for this week's VR games and hardware news? Quest 3 and Pro can now use hand-tracking and controllers simultaneously , Meta's looking at neural wristbands , while Sony confirmed PC support is coming for PSVR 2. As for VR gaming, we reflected on PSVR 2's debut year as Sony announced Little Cities: Bigger!

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

We called it the “first great standalone VR headset” in our review , thanks to a reasonable $400 price point, full 6DOF tracking (which allows it to play games functionally on par with high-end VR headsets) and no PC required. And if you happen to have a gaming PC anyway, Quest also doubles as a PC VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. If the 10th is the wrong date, then all my bets are on the 19th of October because on that date by chance already two games are launching : The Wizards Dark Times Brotherhood and the 7th Guest.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Five titles will be free to those that purchase Oculus Touch, but two of those games have a ticking clock on them. The latter three titles will be free on the platform in perpetuity, however the first two games have a half life. Oculus Touch is a hand-tracked controller platform compatible with the Oculus Rift VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

This is impressive Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Aerial View API instead lets you put inside your game (3D or VR) the 3D maps of the cities of the world, that is the 3D reconstruction of Google Earth. According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Before starting with the news, let me remind you that until this week the candidatures for the job positions at VRrOOm for game developers and game/UX designers are still open, so if you want to work with me on virtual events and festivals, be sure to enroll! You can find all the job descriptions on Linkedin: [link].

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Innersloth has unexpectedly announced that the popular game Among Us is getting an official VR version. It will be developed with the support of Schell Games and have similar features to its 2D version: tasks to perform, sabotages, deceptions, emergency meetings, and sus people. Have I already told you that I love this game?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Roblox) Roblox Beta has been launched for Quest Some weeks ago I reported here the announcement by Meta about an upcoming launch of the popular gaming platform Roblox on Meta Quest. This week the application has been launched in Beta and is accessible via App Lab.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Join Dilmer Games?—? Manomotion Manomotion is a hand tracking and gesture control SDK for smartphones. Recently, there was a game jam hosted by Manomotion where developers can use the Manomotion SDK to develop unique XR experiences. The top 3 experiences will win Amazon Gift cards. Join Manomotion? —?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This is the biggest tracking area among the standalone headsets on the market, and while it is totally useless at home, having such a big area is important in entertainment locations because it lets players move around a big space to play their games. This could offer multiplayer colocated games with the same quality of PCVR games.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You can access the same games and apps on the Quest 3 that you’d use on the Quest 2. Both tools offer virtual reality experiences, with powerful graphics and immersive solutions like hand tracking. You can purchase them directly through the Meta website or through a partner retailer, such as Amazon.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking. At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Much as I’d enjoyed many experiences and games with the Vive and Index controllers, both had their own issues. Vividly presented images showed their striking new design with huge tracking rings and fabric hand straps, finished with a special blue coating advertised as being resistant to environmental contaminants.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It is a set of AR glasses strictly focused on tabletop gaming that works together with a 6 DOF controller and a special board made with retro-reflective materials. Minecraft Earth is the game that lets you live Minecraft in augmented reality on your phone all over your city. Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And it makes Vision Pro a suboptimal headset for any content where you're rapidly rotating your head, such as the few active games. Another smaller problem is that to drive this resolution, Vision Pro makes constant use of eye tracked foveated rendering. Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms.

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