The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One. Rear view of the Magic Leap One. Magic Leap. Magic Leap will work a lot in trying to have new compelling experiences on its marketplace.

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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

JULY 13, 2020

Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. Johnson will have the not easy task of deciding a clear route for Magic Leap, making the company become profitable in the enterprise market after so many failures in the consumer one. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Ready At Dawn was already collaborating with Oculus since various years, so this is not surprising. Nreal wins first round against Magic Leap in the IP theft trial. But Magic Leap has 30 days to appeal, and we are all sure that this is going to happen. Hands tracking on Quest gets always more interest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

First of all, he got some CAD files about it, and from those, it is possible to see that the device includes two front tracking cameras, one RGB camera to colorize the passthrough of the tracking cameras and a depth sensor that may help with scene understanding and hands tracking. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint.

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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2024

Missed this week's biggest VR games and hardware stories? With VR hardware, Meta confirmed Quest 3 has higher retention than previous headsets and is reportedly still planning to bring a cheaper Quest 3 to China via Tencent. Across VR gaming, Oculus Publishing Ignition is a new funding initiative for Quest 3 developers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest has been the rockstar of this event. Specifications. There is also a 3.5mm jack for earphones.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

But still, this is a pretty unique piece of hardware. It is also the most interesting because it introduces features like eye tracking, hand tracking, and especially a 2280×2280 per-eye resolution display that makes it compelling for professional use. Two are the main news to consider from this event.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 11, 2021

On more advanced headsets, ‘varifocal’ approaches dynamically shift the focal length based on where you’re looking (with eye-tracking). Magic Leap, for instance, supports two focal planes and jumps between them as needed. Oculus’ Half Dome prototypes do something similar, with support for a larger number of focal planes.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

No smearing, reduced mura; The lenses have been upgraded, using the ones engineered by Valve for the Index; The audio is conveyed through off-the-ear speakers , like the ones of the Valve Index; Comfort has been improved; There is IPD adjustment; There are now 4 tracking cameras. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

” To quantify that, Oculus has sold $100 million in content to date. The next step will be continuing to refine UX and inputs, like its new hand tracking. But I think what you’re starting to see is the hardware is getting out of the way. B ut it still requires you to use your hands.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

He said that Facebook still believes in the tech and will continue investing a lot in it, and this delay may even be an advantage for FB : since Facebook was not a hardware company, the fact that VR will take longer than expected means that the company will have more time to learn about hardware manufacturing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. Apple Vision Pro Hands-On: Way Ahead of Meta In Critical Ways Apple Vision Pro is the real deal.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The chipset is the central unit of the headset, it is like its brain , the hardware computing the images that you see, that gives hw acceleration for video encoding, computer vision, AI, etc… The more powerful the chipset, the bigger the brain of your headset, that so can have more features and offer more realism.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It makes sense for Samsung, which is great in manufacturing hardware, to partner with Microsoft , that is doing a good job in creating a platform for XR, to compete with the other companies. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. Continuing speaking about HTC devices, the hardware manufacturer Finch has announced the FinchShift controllers: two 6 DOF controllers that can work with all the headsets that are compatible with HTC’s Vive Wave platform. Everyone is hyped for the Quest (Image by Oculus).

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Do you want to read them? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Among the many features of this piece of hardware, there is the one that it is able to perform ray tracing. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The Oculus Rift S was Facebook’s only previous headset with a halo strap. It’s a welcome reversal after years of field of view stagnation in Oculus headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. This openness reflects also on the hardware side, where Pico has just announced a partnership with Ultraleap to bring its hand-tracking device to Pico via an adapter. 10 Years of Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Controller : Weight : 23g Tracking : 3DoF Connection : Bluetooth Controls : Touchpad, Click, Haptic feedback. Computing Unit: Weight : 170g Hardware Platform : Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Operating System : Android. The unit runs over a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Chipset , offering so more horsepower than the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no point if you have face tracking and it doesn’t work well… and the positional tracking alone is very difficult to provide well even for established companies (only Oculus’s one is very fluid) In the video they say confusing things like “R&D is cheap now” (really? Anyway, the message to Zuck has been sent.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware. Let me tell you my first hands-on impressions on it! Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. North Star AR headset. Pareal glasses, folded (Image by Pareal).

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: We actually did it.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: We actually did it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. We can track wands… this [shows a device in front of the camera] is our six degrees of freedom wand that comes with it.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. Alan: We actually did it.

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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. It may also feature eye tracking, that can be very important for some training applications.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. As hardware and software mature, awareness is driven by wonderful things like Pokemon Go. Instead of having to install applications to do this, it’ll be part of the OS and part of the hardware itself.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Kent: The focus of Oculus has been much more on gaming rather than productivity applications, but they still have a number different productivity applications that are coming out. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking.

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