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 ]”. My favorite from this week? Very cool, actually.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Really, it works with all platforms: PC, Mac, smartphones, PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest , even Cardboards! Soon Mozilla is going to host a complete guide on how to create and manage your Hubs instance in AWS so that to enable the biggest number possible of people to install it. Not just your room, but your custom Hubs infrastructure.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Creative applications like Oculus Medium, Tilt Brush and Ghost Paint are exposing artistry to computer users that’s much more visceral than ever before. Right now your Amazon shopping experience involves looking at a lot of low-resolution JPEGs of products.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. Tyler of VNN has decompiled the Unity code of The Lab (something that is pretty easy to do) and in the DLLs has found all the code of a shooter game that features various characters from Half Life. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link. I don’t know if it is the plan, but for sure it is a possibility.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. We all know how it is important to try XR to be convinced to buy it, and Apple has the commercial power to make this actually possible.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

First of all, analyzing the source codes, many developers could understand how to create a VR viewer. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR. Image from Amazon). Oculus Link is coming soon.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. score on the Oculus App Lab now. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store….

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And that means that every time you go to use Vision Pro you have to consciously think about how to best position this 353 gram anchor, around double the weight of a typical smartphone, and how to keep the cable out of the way of your left arm. He's what he said: "That’s a model we’ve definitely explored.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). This was quickly solved using a five meters long active USB 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. How to make a 3D model that sells well?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Simplification.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Simplification.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). Oculus is updating its Rift S and Quest offering. This has been an interesting week of news and updates for Oculus’s flagship devices. And finally, Oculus has deployed a new update to remove the annoying “Static Flash” bug that was taunting Rift S users.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

So there’s all these different paths you can go down and there’s all these different levels of learning, because not only are you learning to actually do family interviews, you are also learning about how to ask the right type of questions. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

So there’s all these different paths you can go down and there’s all these different levels of learning, because not only are you learning to actually do family interviews, you are also learning about how to ask the right type of questions. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects.

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Training New York Video Strategy 78

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

So there's all these different paths you can go down and there's all these different levels of learning, because not only are you learning to actually do family interviews, you are also learning about how to ask the right type of questions. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. We have to continually think about how to make content creation as easy and as inexpensive as possible to leverage these types of platforms. So you’re right there.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. We have to continually think about how to make content creation as easy and as inexpensive as possible to leverage these types of platforms. So you’re right there.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Since some of you risk being in the same situation I am in some days, I just want to give you some pieces of advice on how to prepare for the lockdown and make your VR business survive these harsh times. Thanks Oculus for having given us the Link functionality. If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I started working on VR versions of things, so they could reach in and grab the cables that they would have to unplug and plug in, essentially saving the IT techs time on the phone by training the employees as how to run their cafés. Amazon Sumerian. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I started working on VR versions of things, so they could reach in and grab the cables that they would have to unplug and plug in, essentially saving the IT techs time on the phone by training the employees as how to run their cafés. Amazon Sumerian. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I started working on VR versions of things, so they could reach in and grab the cables that they would have to unplug and plug in, essentially saving the IT techs time on the phone by training the employees as how to run their cafés. Amazon Sumerian. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises 60

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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Training Education Data Technology 78

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I feel like there’s going to be this great convergence at some point in terms of figuring out how to engage people within a story to help teach them these different concepts. We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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