The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2019

Today at GDC, after a lot of rumors, Oculus has finally unveiled the successor of the Oculus Rift CV1: the Rift S. It s sales were still solid, mostly because of the low price and great content catalog, but it was time for a refresh and that’s why Oculus has now announced the Rift S. Oculus Rift S. Appearance.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Star Wars: Squadron is the new AAA VR game we are all waiting for. Out of the blue, EA has announced a new amazing game called Star Wars: Squadron, developed by its studio Motive. This game has born with VR in mind, and people with VR and Desktop PC can play together. The Upload VR Showcase gave us many news on VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Meta announced interesting games at its Quest Gaming Showcase. On April, 20th, Meta had its Quest Gaming Showcase , an online event where it announced the most important upcoming games for Quest for the next 12 months. Half-Life 3 for Quest) and not even updates on the most awaited games for Quest (e.g.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. Who saw this coming except everyone? ″ OLED displays.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. It comes in two flavors: one that works with physical disks and the other one with an internal hard drive to download games from the store.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is coming on April, 20th. Meta is back with its Gaming Showcase, and this year, it is going to be aired on April, 20th at 10 am PT. Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. And if you happen to have a gaming PC anyway, Quest also doubles as a PC VR headset. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus also launched Rift S in 2019, its second-ever tethered VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

There has been no game-changing news from this week, but we had some interesting things to look at the same. Or better, maybe it’s not totally merit of HTC, it is mostly the fact that everyone is hoping for a good headset that can compete somehow with the Oculus Quest , even just in the prosumer segment.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. All are already included in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Mark Zuckerberg has been incredibly smart in entering this field before all the others, so now he already has a strong headset with a great content catalog around gaming.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The entire industry owes it a debt of gratitude for what it’s pioneered with room-scale and hand tracked controllers. However, a good majority of that content is unfinished, early access, and lacking the level of polish that its competitors at Oculus and Sony are providing for their respective platforms.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Next week, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) will be getting underway in San Francisco and this year’s show should be a big one for VR. This year, the gaming PC your friends all said you’d “never use” is now happily humming away, powering your eighth straight hour of Space Pirate Trainer without a bathroom break.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Sony is reported to launch a mobile VR headset. Pikmin Bloom is the latest game by Niantic.

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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 ]”. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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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. Image by Sony). News worth a mention.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

What We Know: In our world its easy to forget sometimes that Sony is much more than just a gaming company. What To Expect : This year at CES, as with previous years, Sony is expected to focus primarily on its ever-expanding catalog of televisions. Oculus (Facebook). — What do you think?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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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 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. This is good news also for the developers: 120 titles on Quest store have made more than $1M , and 8 even more than $20M, proving once more that some studios can make a living out of VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. Sony makes some of the coolest VR accessories of any company out there. See Also: VR Gaming for Adults. To make the headset more versatile and more affordable, the headset can be purchased separately from an optional base station that allows room-scale tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which was considered the biggest acquisition in gaming history. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming. This was expected… the game was already amazing on Steam. I hope for this second scenario, of course.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). But at CES, a new game for it has been announced: Horizon Call Of The Mountain, a game from the exclusive Horizon IP that has been built for the ground-up to showcase the innovative features of the PSVR 2 headset and controllers. Headset specifications.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Earlier this month we saw a slew of new Oculus Touch game announcements. Many of these new VR titles, which benefit from funding or publishing (or both) by Oculus, will launch exclusively for the Rift and Touch. Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus. There are games that work ok like Project Cars for controller.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

PSVR 2 may have inside-out tracking. This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens. This integration is still very rough, and so: It works only with Oculus and WMR headsets (because it requires an OpenXR-compatible runtime); It just lets you see your model , not also modify it.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 6, 2019

Here, Oculus Quest is the wild card. It could have an Oculus Go-like effect of making VR cheaper and more accessible to more people, but with higher-end positionally-tracked VR. One of Quest’s marks of quality for example is how well Oculus was able to optimize performance with limited specs. Smooth and Fun.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 21, 2020

And for folks who want to escape from home virtually if they can’t do it in real life, Valve’s Index VR headset returned to shops for sale last Monday — though it sold out in just 30 minutes due to the hype around the Half Life: Alyx, a VR-only sci-fi game which will be released on March 23. told Hypergrid Business. .

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At Facebook Connect this week , Facebook has: Released the powerful Oculus Quest 2 , powered by Snapdragon XR2, and with a 4K display. While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g. Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Upload VR Showcase has been full of announcements about VR games. Upload did it again: on December, 2nd, the big XR magazine has streamed a big showcase of many news about VR games. This one has been richer than the previous one, and we had both news on existing games and announcements of new upcoming titles. Image by HTC).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

This may seem like an obvious statement, but the truth is the industry at large has heard very few comments from either HTC or its partner company Valve on the subject of content compared to Sony and Facebook. Sony recently released the Playstation VR with 50 games of its own, many of which were produced by experienced development studios.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Notice that we have to be very careful about this news: it doesn’t mean that we had 1M of new headsets sold because of Alyx: that wouldn’t be realistic given the estimated sales of the game (around 1M in that period, according to SuperData), and the limited production of headsets due to the pandemic. A rumor about Oculus Go 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has been interesting to watch the reportages of Alex VR and Skeeva from the show floor , where they met many game studios and had meaningful interviews with them. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Since April, the high-end VR market has been a contest between two main champions: the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. On October 13, however, a third fighter entered the ring: Sony’s PlayStation VR. Although the Rift and Vive have enjoyed a six month head start on the PS VR, Sony has the opportunity to catch up quickly.

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