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! Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2018

At Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple announced a new avatar system, dubbed ‘Memoji’, the company’s next step into the world of iPhone X animated emojis mapped to a user’s facial movements. Move over Samsung AR Emoji , because Apple looks to have gotten the cutesy Pixar-vibe down pat.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

After having seen the teaser of the Quest 3 and especially the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro (about which you can read my opinion here ), I’m always more convinced that we have entered into a new phase of XR history. Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

This seems to hint that the two companies are going to build a new XR headset together, which according to the rumors will be the Quest Pro 2, which would be aimed at competing directly with the Apple Vision Pro. This could be useful to let Meta answer to the movies available on the Apple Vision Pro because of Apple TV.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 29, 2017

For every Nintendo there is a Sega and for every Apple there is a Microsoft. There are a handful of major players already cutting their teeth in VR including Google, Sony and Samsung; but the two titans sitting at the top of the heap are Oculus and HTC. Oculus/Apple . For every Facebook there is a Twitter.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Horizon World is more or less what we all expect from it: a clone of RecRoom with intuitive and simple creation tools, that at the moment let you just add basic geometric shape and some logic. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. Samsung is one of the most famous suppliers of components for electronic devices (e.g.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

Recently, a big piece of news in the XR industry was the announcement that Samsung would enter the XR device marketplace. According to recent reports, the upcoming Samsung headset will have a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a ToF sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking features.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. This is the fourth paradigm shift for Apple. So, what is Apple getting ready to announce over the next year? A new set of tools for developers to build all of this.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It is the first step towards the Infinite Office solution that FRL wants to offer in some months , transforming the Quest into some kind of work tool (or trying to do so). Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. Apple is working on Micro-OLED displays.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

WebVR is a “code once, work on multi-platforms answer” to VR, hence it has proven itself to be a cost-efficient tool for developers to build quick VR or AR prototypes and launch products. Mozilla took the lead in pioneering WebVR, launching its A-Frame VR content authoring tool in 2015, along with its MozVR resource.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. Facebook releases the Oculus Quest 2. Even if with the Quest 1 was possible to play Oculus Go games, this support has been abandoned on the Quest 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Top news of the week. Image by Engadget). Let’s see….

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The new update for Oculus Quest brings with it some interesting features, like the tracking of the Apple Magic Keyboard, some updates to the UI, and a new menu for hand tracking. Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile. Linkintosh is the tool Mac VR devs were looking for. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. For sure some surprises: we don’t know anything about the 2nd gen of XR that Oculus has in mind. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. I think that this tracker can be very useful. Road To VR. Further references. It is very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

First, they acquired Oculus and said that nothing would have changed for the startup, and they promised Palmer that no Oculus Rift would have required a Facebook account. Then they slowly kicked away all the previous executives from Oculus and took control of the company. Then they absorbed Oculus into Facebook.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You can point to Oculus of course, and many Facebook acquisitions that followed. And then there’s Apple’s many smaller acquisitions and acqui-hires as it continues to assemble its top-secret AR mystery box. That led to Dekko and Samsung — the former he founded and admits was early to AR. Early Mover.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

The working group, that includes all the major XR companies (Oculus, HTC, Intel, NVIDIA, Valve, etc…), facilitated by the Khronos group, has finally agreed on a set of specifications, after having listened to all the feedback that come after the release of the version 0.9. Oculus wants to make people control AR headsets just using the brain.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2016

First, Nate Mitchell announced during his Oculus Connect 3 keynote that Oculus will be supporting the WebVR ecosystem with the React VR framework and a VR-enabled browser called Carmel. There’s been a couple of key developments in the evolution of WebVR during the month of October. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Apple has just caused big troubles to its ad model with its restrictions on iOS , and some rumors say that Android wants to implement similar restrictions on data gathering in the upcoming months. Apple may announce its device in 2023. Like every week, I have a new rumor about the Apple AR/VR headset. SuperNatural). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Other relevant news.

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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. Image by Oculus). Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Apple glasses. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews). In 2019 we’ll see more strategic acquisitions by Apple and more rumors about an incoming AR glass by Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

If they saw the potentials of it, we started to define what exactly the need was to then produce the tools they needed in a POC base… a bit big POC … in the end, it turned out most of the time in a fully functional training part. . For 360 video we use Oculus Go, because a Vive Index would be an overkill.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Oculus Rift. Samsung Gear VR. Oculus Touch. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Fortunately, the PC can be tested for compatibility before the purchase via a SteamVR Performance Test application or HTCs ViveCheck tool. Samsung Odyssey Controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

Thanks to Snapchat and Instagram, and its new tools to create filters, like Spark AR, we’re seeing an explosion of the production of this kind of content, that are a new way for people to express their creativity. It will be a great time for us, as when there was the Oculus Share, and every experiment could have big visibility easily.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

They are offering two different tools: Frame Studio , which allows anyone to upload simple, static-overlaid image frames that will appear in Facebook camera to their friends or a Page’s fans. Rachel Franklin, Head of Social VR, came on stage to announced Facebook’s first social VR app, Facebook Spaces , available now in beta on Oculus Rift.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. schools are already using Nearpod’s interactive learning tools, and the added cash will help grow their virtual reality offerings. Over 10,000 U.S.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As ‘platform agnostic’ player, we’re sure to see apps available for headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and Oculus Rift. Company founders come from senior product and engineering leadership roles at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Lucasfilm.

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