The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Connecting people, making you joining a group, making you have new friends… is only what it does (very well) to keep you hooked to the platform, so that it can analyze your data and sell you better ads. Then they slowly kicked away all the previous executives from Oculus and took control of the company.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

Someone compared this news to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook , and I agree: Pico is a very smart startup, like Oculus was, and Bytedance is a very rich company that controls one of the most popular social networks, like Facebook. As it has happened with Oculus, this news is good and bad for Pico and VR in general.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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InstaVR

AUGUST 13, 2019

As mentioned in last week’s blog , the Oculus Ques t has blown away sales expectations since launching three months ago. The Oculus Quest, in particular, is a great vehicle for delivering VR experiences. So what use cases do Enterprise clients have for InstaVR + Oculus Quest? VR for Training Using Oculus Quest.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

SAMSUNG AT VIDCON: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The age of high-end, commercially available virtual reality began on March 28 with the launch of the Oculus Rift. The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units.

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AR Insider

JUNE 4, 2020

For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. This timing prompted Spatial to launch on Oculus Quest and make its PRO tier free. Oculus Quest support likewise follows the device’s growth , especially for shelter-in-place use. Here’s the deep dive.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Through comprehensive media services (mainly including media coverage, expert consultation, data research, and event and public relation management), it helps entrepreneurs with idea incubation, financing, strategy consultation, and publicity. and covered more than 80% of the XR pioneers as communities members.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

No one wants to work every day with a faulty input: as Michael Abrash said during one of the Oculus Connects, no one would work with a mouse that works only 90% of the time… imagine if every ten clicks, one would be misdetected… you would probably throw your mouse out of the window.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Having a Microsoft account means losing anonymity , and also have more data about our behavior tracked by a company that already has control of all our PCs. The community does not forgive its privacy scandals, nor its data harvesting practices. Do you want an example? SuperNatural). The same doesn’t hold for the other companies.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As you would expect, hard data is a commodity that many are after, and sadly I have to keep this for our paying clients. They have seen some amazing business post first wave (feeding off the “Stir Crazy” entertainment boom) and have also seen new LBE VR sites opening (see YULLBE as one example). Is LBVR dead? ” [cit.

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InstaVR

MARCH 15, 2020

Combined with a 360-degree camera or 3DCG software, faculty or students can create VR apps in minutes that can be distributed via web, mobile app, or head-mounted VR system (Oculus Go, Quest and Rift S). It’s generally incredibly well-received by students. Learn More. This severely limited access to the technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For example, creating and processing 360 videos creates a lot of data. Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition. For 360 video we use Oculus Go, because a Vive Index would be an overkill.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Palmer Luckey, the 24 year-old founder of Oculus, has gotten embroiled in a political controversy. A PRETTY PENNY FOR THE OCULUS HAND CONTROLLERS. Both shows are interesting experiments in serialized content and will be distributed exclusively on the Hulu VR app, which is available on the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 25, 2019

But for the purpose of educating potential future InstaVR users in education, here are some major examples of clients leveraging InstaVR to create impressive VR applications. If you have some time, it’s worth visiting our InstaVR Interviews page to read the actual interviews with higher education VR practitioners.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market is forecast to grow from $5.2 The virtual and augmented reality industry is just starting to take off. billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020.

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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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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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InstaVR

MARCH 15, 2020

Combined with a 360-degree camera or 3DCG software, faculty or students can create VR apps in minutes that can be distributed via web, mobile app, or head-mounted VR system (Oculus Go, Quest and Rift S). It’s generally incredibly well-received by students. Learn More. This severely limited access to the technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy. pic.twitter.com/6yFD2FfHta — TikTokComms (@TikTokComms) January 6, 2021.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Resolution and data bandwidth requirements represent one of key obstacles that break the illusion of immersion in VR content. FOVAS claims to deliver ultra high-resolution (up to 100 Megapixel) quality VR video stream, while cutting data delivered by up to 70% overall. On the level of awareness, what does it means to look real?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

Rome Reborn® VR is a series of apps and videos that present individual tours of the city, including, for example, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the imperial fora, the imperial palace, the Pantheon, and the entire city seen from the air. While the results of the data capture–led by Prof. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. “The beauty of our PPT system and the new plug-ins is that they take the orientation data from the game engine.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Four years after the original Oculus Quest headset arrived, the Meta Quest platform offers an impressive range of experiences that caters to all interests. We played on Oculus Quest 2, but it’s crossplay between Quest 1, Quest 2, and PC VR headsets with cross-buy on Rift and Quest. Looking for the best free Quest games and apps?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We’ve seen these systems at Target checkout lines, bins at Home Depot, Michaels, and Barnes & Noble, for example, meaning that as you look for presents this year for loved ones it would be easy to pick up one of these headsets at practically any retailer, and give them as a stocking stuffer. Oculus Rift.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Learnings Of Early Access From ‘Raw Data’ When? Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift are popular solutions that enable this form of immersive experience (in conjunction with a number of controllers and sensors). Augmented Reality supplements your view of the physical world with additional information which may originate from online data streams, cameras or sensors.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Two examples are 0Glasses and Am Glasses : they try offering a similar product at a cheaper price (e.g.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Alan: One of the tools that I think we’re just starting to see come online is eye tracking and motion tracking, where we’re really able to get data points about humans that we’ve never had before. Let me give you a few examples. I mean, we collect a lot data, but we need to have the tools to analyze it.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Either way, what this means is a computer somewhere else in the world can change the data on the cube, or show users what my street looks like. So developers can leave data literally on any surface or, even, the air around you. One such example is I saw a volumetric football service that is being prepared for the device next year.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today’s episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As their chief analyst, Rogers specializes in turning data into actionable intelligence, tailored to the needs of businesses who are just starting to explore the space. In today’s episode, he chats with Alan about what all the data can mean. You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com.

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