The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. The main trigger can give adaptive force-feedback, applying a different force on the index finger depending on what is happening in the game. Image by Microsoft).

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes. AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry, though it does not have participation from major players with developer conferences of their own.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It is intriguing that many companies are already experimenting with this new chipset, and one of these partners is Niantic, that is thinking about going the AR hardware route after all its hard work on gelocalized AR games like Pokemon Go. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Leap Motion) on the same headset. I’ve just had my first day in Nanchang, China.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless. What will happen next? Top news of the week.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. I saw that myself when I tried out Qualcomm’s new wireless stand-alone VR headset prototype at the Game Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

This is what the homepage of Oculus website shows now (Image by Oculus). As we were all expecting (also thanks to the amazing speculations of the Best Buy guys on Reddit :D), Oculus has launched both the Oculus Quest and the Rift S during the keynote of the F8 event , that happened at 10AM PT. Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!) The Oculus Connect 6 is coming!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. So, thank you very much.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. So, thank you very much.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. But it’s still incredible enough to give a taste of where it’s headed.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021! All the Quest ecosystem is healthy: more than 60 games had revenues beyond 1M dollars , and now the number of reviews on games on Quest have exceeded the ones for Rift. Image by Facebook).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He's been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he's covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. first of all, I guess you've been in the games world for a long time. But now we pretty much cover the gamut of tech news and game news.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. So, thank you very much.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. Brand new customers can expect to pay $32 for the full game.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Last week I told you that most probably I wouldn’t have written a Week Peek this Sunday because I’m very busy showcasing our game at the WCVRI exhibition in Nanchang. But the Daydream project never took off, and its competitor Gear VR, thanks to Oculus money and branding has always performed better. Do you like horror games in VR?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Alan: Yeah, it is-- it's a game changer. Varag: Yeah. Varag: Wow.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Alan: Yeah, it is-- it's a game changer. Varag: Yeah. Varag: Wow.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Alan: Yeah, it is-- it's a game changer. Varag: Yeah. Varag: Wow.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Microsoft confirms (again) it wants to build consumer HoloLens. Other relevant news.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. The Venture Reality Fund has looked at over 5,000 startups in the space and invested in 40, including Beat Games, acquired by Facebook, and Rec Room, the first VR software Unicorn.

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