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. Learn more. Cognitive 3D.

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

After a relatively quiet summer — outside of the Oculus Quest release ! First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. Speaking of Oculus, a lot of headset news coming from their offices (more on that below). — we have a slew of news to start the Fall.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. of units more produced annually. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

All major companies have some stores of theirs (think about Amazon’s recent futuristic stores), but of course, Meta wants to specifically copy Apple in this. Oculus Quest Application SpaceWarp can give apps a +70% boost of performances. Samsung heavily invests in DigiLens to build its AR glasses. News worth a mention.

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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. Mostly they are about entertainment, marketing or training experiences. So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll

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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

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vive Tracker has been one of the best products ever launched by HTC and it has been used in many applications, either for leisure (think about full-body tracking in VRChat) or for professional usage (training with physical objects). Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. I think that this tracker can be very useful.

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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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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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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. If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole.

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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. If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

We were all expecting this since AR and VR are a bit in a transitional moment and the biggest brands (like Facebook and Apple) have their events through which they’ll announce their new devices, but for me, this lack of news was worse than the expected. We had a few interesting news, but nothing truly disruptive. Other news.

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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. If you look at someone like Apple, they aren't about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Using the term LBVR has a danger of being confused with the Location-Based VR market that is a general term for training, and simulation , the definition of entertainment shows this specific focus. Playing with the Oculus Quest 2 at home (Image by Facebook). Is LBVR dead? ” [cit.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Firefighters need to train like any other professional, and their training usually involves setting a mock set ablaze – which, as you might imagine, would be costly to reset. Today we have Alex Harvey, CEO and creative director at RiVR, a virtual reality training and visualization company based in the UK. Thanks, GoPro!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Firefighters need to train like any other professional, and their training usually involves setting a mock set ablaze – which, as you might imagine, would be costly to reset. Today we have Alex Harvey, CEO and creative director at RiVR, a virtual reality training and visualization company based in the UK. Thanks, GoPro!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Firefighters need to train like any other professional, and their training usually involves setting a mock set ablaze - which, as you might imagine, would be costly to reset. Today we have Alex Harvey, CEO and creative director at RiVR, a virtual reality training and visualization company based in the UK. Alan: [Laughs]Yes!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

It is more refined than the original Vive, but it has not that Apple-like approach that has the Rift. Also, the controllers were the ones of Vive 1 and being used to my Oculus Touch , I felt back to the nineties. Oculus Rift CV1 vs HTC Vive Pro. Coming from the Oculus Rift CV1, the Vive Pro felt absolutely ????

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? What are you guys seeing in the kind of learning/training space? Obviously, there's a lot of use cases around safety type training, as I mentioned. Allan: --kind of experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? What are you guys seeing in the kind of learning/training space? Obviously, there's a lot of use cases around safety type training, as I mentioned. Allan: I love that--.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? What are you guys seeing in the kind of learning/training space? Obviously, there's a lot of use cases around safety type training, as I mentioned. Allan: I love that--.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). 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. This means that all new devices by Samsung won’t support Gear VR, that is so condemned to die.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it's tracking you with cameras. Michael: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. And we put this kind of like Apple-esque music over it, and made this cute little commercial and it never saw the light of day. And Will.i.am

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

All the big names in tech are working on their own devices, including Apple, Sony, Samsung, and Google. This is a massive overkill, since the latest Oculus Rift Crescent Bay edition contains a 1440p display. However, Oculus does aim for content shown at 80fps! Even Microsoft decided to join the club. and 9 SD cards.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We see some really amazing products are being developed to in the education arena to help train people to not just do surgical procedures, but also to work as a team on difficult problem, how to deliver distressing news to a family or to a patient, how to interview a patient in an effective way. A large selection of training applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We see some really amazing products are being developed to in the education arena to help train people to not just do surgical procedures, but also to work as a team on difficult problem, how to deliver distressing news to a family or to a patient, how to interview a patient in an effective way. A large selection of training applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We see some really amazing products are being developed to in the education arena to help train people to not just do surgical procedures, but also to work as a team on difficult problem, how to deliver distressing news to a family or to a patient, how to interview a patient in an effective way. A large selection of training applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR’s great, because you can just swap out the phones. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. Anne: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR’s great, because you can just swap out the phones. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. Anne: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

But otherwise we're using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR's great, because you can just swap out the phones. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. Again, they're tetherless.

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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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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Previously she was one of the first employees at NextVR ( acquired by Apple ), a virtual reality company focused on live entertainment across music and sports. While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA.

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