The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

First of all, because, letting us become pilots in the Star Wars universe being really immersed inside the action. 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. Oculus hardware vs software.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 18, 2023

So here you are a collection of the best news in immersive realities from the CES 2023, with many links to go deeper! Everyone I spoke with talked about an interesting event to attend for us XR people, and this shows that immersive realities are now in a quite mature status… to be niche technologies. Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Last year, Facebook announced that it was going to release in 2021 a new side content distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. Echo VR , the VR sports game available on Oculus headsets, is getting a ‘battle pass’ system called Echo Pass.

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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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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2024

Across VR gaming, Oculus Publishing Ignition is a new funding initiative for Quest 3 developers. VRChat released a developer update and opened submissions for Venice Immersive 2024. Magic Leap launched a companion mobile app for capturing third-person MR experiences.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

A lot has happened in the immersive space over the past 12 months. If it’s true what they say that time flies when you’re having fun, then 2019 must have been a really good year for immersive tech, because here we are gearing up for the holidays and I haven’t sent a single Christmas card. The Oculus Quest was a hit.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

But if I have to look at the numbers, some kind of AR is already mainstream : yes, the smartphone doesn’t provide immersive AR and people using it maybe don’t even know that it is called AR (maybe they call it just “filters”), but it is anyway augmented reality and it is of very common use now. Nu Eyes AR glasses.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days! And regarding the Quest Pro, he said that it has been rushed and that it has been released with interesting features like eye and hand tracking, but without seriously investing in them (e.g.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. It doesn’t preclude any other input system," one of Google's hand tracking experts, Andrew Eiche at Owlchemy Labs, told us earlier this year. " Apple Vision Pro Hands-On: Way Ahead of Meta In Critical Ways Apple Vision Pro is the real deal.

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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. And with each step, we are getting to a more immersive and natural experience… Hand tracking is great, it doesn’t require controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2020

Spatial works from the smartphone to the Magic Leap One. It is compatible with: Microsoft HoloLens Oculus Quest Magic Leap One PC VR headsets PC/Mac/smartphone/whatever through the web portal. Astonishing hands-tracking on HoloLens 2 (GIF by Next.Reality). Cross-platform.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)

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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

One of them is a new interest of investors towards immersive technologies: since the metaverse is the next big thing, now everyone is looking for a way to invest in it. Good news for us developers: Meta has updated the Oculus SDK, and now it is possible to implement voice commands and spatial anchors in our Quest experiences.

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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. At this moment, 300 people are secretly working on it, under the supervision of Clay Bavor, but many more will be hired in the upcoming months.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience. And after you try it, you can’t go back, because it is SO MUCH immersive, augmented reality really becomes your reality.

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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. Road To VR).

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Side Blockers make it very easy to see your keyboard & mouse in work-focused use cases, but nothing takes me out of immersive VR gaming more than seeing my bright carpet constantly below me. This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Keep in mind that Magic Leap One has a diagonal FOV of 50° and you realize why the word “only” is between quotes. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. What I loved was the idea of letting you use your hands to interact with objects.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

They want you to look at the television or the PC monitor in front of you and completely immerse you. GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. VR is inherently isolating.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there’s just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you’re actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

How we got really excited and involved in immersive was our background is documentarians, we ask always questions. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. Michael: That’s a great question.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there's just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you're actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

How we got really excited and involved in immersive was our background is documentarians, we ask always questions. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. With immersive, with volumetric, Light Field--.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there’s just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you’re actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

How we got really excited and involved in immersive was our background is documentarians, we ask always questions. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. Michael: That’s a great question.

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