The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. A thing I have appreciated about Meta is that it has canceled projects, but it has not fired anyone.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Technically speaking, it is amazing. Other relevant news. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. The spokesperson described the technology as a combination of inverse kinematics (IK) and machine learning (ML). That’s our current strategy.”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2021

Some days ago, Facebook has distributed its new Facebook Avatars system, promising many possible customizations, a machine-learning algorithm able to reliably reconstruct the pose of your upper body, and a visual appearance that is the right mix between realism and cartoon-style. New Oculus Avatars – Final Impressions.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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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. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. I learned how to do the coding. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Now the full stack of the platform has been made opensource, and it will be easy for tech-savvy people to install it on whatever machine they want. More info Mozilla Hubs changes its plans Mozilla has announced an update to the pricing plans of the open WebXR social platform Mozilla Hubs.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. you can feel when a drilling machine is on). Structure of the Unity SDK (Image by Senseglove).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. They are easy to learn and do not require any specific medical knowledge. Currently, the gold standard for BLSD learning is instructor-led courses.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . Automatic Time Synchronization : LooxidVR facilitates time synchronized acquisition of eye and brain data , as well as VR contents and interaction data (Unity event logs).

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. Is Oculus Quest killing PCVR?

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Like many other technologies, there is no perfect roadmap to learning XR. Nevertheless, I have tried my level best to come up with a generalized learning process for the same. Learn programming from YouTube, Udemy, Udacity and a thousand other free platforms. There are tons of online resources to learn these.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus).

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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. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But she’s not been the only one taking a similar decision: Vogue Business reports that Cult fashion boutique Machine-A and the Institute of Digital Fashion are launching an augmented store environment to promote the London Fashion Week collections of designers like Martine Rose and Richard Quinn. (PS

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. Oculus Link is coming soon. In the latest runtime of the Oculus Rift available on the Public Test Channel, there are already various mentions to the Oculus Link. Machines can now see through walls.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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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. We’ll discover it in some months… Learn more on: Next Reality Upload VR. Nothing that will shake the ecosystem.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for others to learn from. As far as production software, we were torn between our familiarity with Unity and the rendering potential of Unreal. We stuck with Unity for now, and hope to explore Unreal more in future explorations.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. It didn’t take them long to decide their legacy project, a 2D puzzle game called Fantastic Contraption that relied on creative thinking to build machines, could be adapted to VR. Learning New Skills.

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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! On HoloLens 1, whatever Unity application I run had framerate problems, while here all Unity applications worked like a charm.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

There are a number of companies now using machine learning techniques in order to analyze and make sense of these raw data streams. See Also: Facebook-like ‘Code of Conduct’ Governs Voice Communication in Oculus Social Alpha. Storing this type of biometric data and what it means could have some privacy implications.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. And the video trailer showed a guy playing with a gamepad and the Apple headset , like people playing with the Oculus CV1 at launch. The genius part has been mixing eye tracking with hand micro-gestures. What year is it?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Attempting to learn from history, our growth model is based on creating relationships based on tight pockets of friends that actually know each other.”. Itsme is currently closing their seed investment round and preparing SDKs for Unity and Javascript to let developers use avatars directly in their projects and products.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Thanks Oculus for having given us the Link functionality. the USB cable for Oculus Link) and the (rechargeable) batteries for the controllers. Create a TeamViewer account and add the Office PC as one of your machines , so that you can log in every time you want, and even reboot the remote PC without any risks.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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