The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today I’ve played around with Oculus Quest , trying to hack it a bit via command-line tools (ADB), hoping to activate some cool features. Oculus Go was codenamed “Pacific”, instead. Oculus Assistant. I’ve made some interesting discoveries, and of course, I want to share them with you, the VR community!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

GDC has historically been a key event for both Facebook/Oculus and Sony, with major announcements and previews of what would come from each company’s VR ventures throughout the rest of the year. In years past, GDC was used by both Oculus and Sony to reveal the latest versions of new VR headsets and content.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

A little more than three months after the launch of Oculus Quest, the company’s first fully tracked mobile VR headset has 100 games & apps to call its own. Though all under the same brand, the Oculus Quest, Rift, and Go headsets each have separate content libraries. out of 5 stars for the more than 850 Oculus Rift apps.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Oculus Connect today where he announced that the Oculus Store has now sold over $100 million worth of content to date. Zuckerberg maintains that the Oculus Store—which provides content for Rift, Quest, Go, and Gear VR—has topped $100 million USD combined.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Coming to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets on Steam and Oculus Home, you can take part in the dimension-hopping adventure starting Thursday, April 20th for for $29.99. — Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) August 30, 2015. . — Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) August 30, 2015. image courtesy Adult Swim Games.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Coatsink , the studio behind VR titles A Night Sky (2017) and Augmented Empire (2017), announced they’re bringing their first mobile VR title, Esper (2015), to PlayStation VR, Oculus Go and Xiaomi Mi on June 29th. Esper will launch on Oculus Go, PSVR and HTC Vive for $8.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Two images showing a seemingly consumer-ready box containing Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming standalone VR headset, found its way to Reddit and Twitter recently, possibly indicating that launch is right around the corner. The first wave of Oculus Go dev kits cropped up at the end of November last year.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Los Angeles-based White Elk Studios , a team founded by former members of the God of War team, and Oculus Studios today announced a new co-op game called Covert. The couch co-op game is said to feature asymmetrical gameplay that will let one player play inside either an Oculus Go or Gear VR while the other user plays outside of VR.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

Nate Mitchell, Facebook’s Head of VR Product, and the last of Oculus’ co-founders, has announced that he’s leaving the company. Mitchell announced his departure on the Oculus Subreddit on Tuesday. After 7 incredible years, I’ve decided to move on from Oculus / Facebook. Thanks for 7 amazing years.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Holiday shopping season is here and we’re tracking the best Oculus Go Black Friday 2018 deals. Oculus Go Deal Baseline. It’s important to understand the nominal price point for the Oculus Go so that you know what kind of deal you’re getting when you see a sale. Oculus Go (64GB) – $250.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Though the studio doesn’t deal exclusively in VR games, about half of Coatsink’s work has been either fully self-developed VR titles or acting as a publisher on VR titles, most of which had the backing of Oculus Studios: Esper (2015). Esper 2 (2015) – Oculus Studios. A Night Sky (2017) – Oculus Studios.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

According to NintendoLife , back in 2015 Oculus offered to contract Sakurai to create a VR game, but ultimately he declined, citing the medium’s small audience size.

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APRIL 21, 2017

On April 12th, Oculus Medium received the 1.1 Medium is Oculus’ flagship creative tool for the Touch motion controllers, recognised for its intuitive sculpting and modelling features. The Oculus Medium “Large Update” is here! Publié par Oculus Medium sur mercredi 12 avril 2017. The post Oculus ‘Medium’ 1.1

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MAY 5, 2017

Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. At the start of 2015, that made a lot of sense.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The VRX event series launched in 2015 and focuses on strategic business and tech opportunities as virtual and augmented/mixed reality take hold in enterprise and consumer entertainment. See Also: XR Industry Insight Report 2019-2020 Released, Featuring Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Intel, Nvidia and More. . Kathryn Bloxham. . +44

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JULY 29, 2017

Following this week’s news that AltspaceVR, one of the first social VR platforms, is shutting down , Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who is no longer with the company, queried the community to ask if he should seek to save AtlspaceVR from closing. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey on stage at Oculus Connect 2015 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2017

The studio’s 50 staffers are encouraged to apply for new jobs within Oculus. The news was announced by Oculus Thursday afternoon in a blog post by Oculus VP of Content Jason Rubin. The post Facebook Shutting Down Oculus Story Studio appeared first on VRScout.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Sanzaru Games has been working closely with Oculus Studios since the early days of the Oculus Rift. And while the studio has three other VR games to its name, none of them come close to the scale of Asgard’s Wrath —in fact, Oculus believes that the game is the largest VR production to date. A Toybox and a Sketch.

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VRScout

JANUARY 17, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg gave testimony during a lawsuit with ZeniMax about the real cost of Oculus. The Facebook CEO knows exactly how much his company paid for Oculus, clarifying the higher purchase price at a Texas courthouse. ZeniMax alleges that Oculus created their Rift VR headset from misappropriated trade secrets.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2020

Originally released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 back in 2013 followed by the PC in 2015, GTA V has since gone on to become one of the highest-grossing video game titles of all-time, due in no small part to Rockstar’s GTA Online service and lucrative microtransactions, referred to in-game as “Shark Cards.”

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JULY 13, 2018

Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company’s career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. The post Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

JANUARY 27, 2021

According to Schell Games, I Expect You To Die has generated over $6 million in revenue across all platforms (Oculus Rift/Rift S, Oculus Quest/Quest 2, SteamVR, PSVR), which isn’t all that surprising considering the overwhelmingly positive reception from both players and critics. We can’t wait for the community to play it.”.

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JUNE 6, 2017

With SteamVR and the Vive on their way to Mac, eyes turn to Oculus, but the company isn’t ready to commit to MacOS. Then in mid-2015, the company “paused” their support of MacOS (and Linux) in order to focus on the impending launch of the consumer Rift headset with Windows as the only compatible platform.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Wizards of the Coast partnered with now-defunct social VR platform Altspace VR in 2015 to bring the actual D&D tabletop game to VR for the first time officially. It was only on the platform for a few years however, and was gone long before Microsoft shut down Altspace VR in March 2023.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Oculus Story Studio, the company’s internal production studio tasked with creating ridiculously polished cinematic experiences, first announced they’d be winding down production last summer. Oculus Story Studio co-founder Edward Saatchi and Pete Billington, director of Wolves in the Walls, join as co-founders of Fable Studio.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

In a move that in some ways parallels Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, TikTok parent company ByteDance is looking to buy Pico—the VR headset maker behind headsets like the standalone Neo 3 and G2 4K—according to a report by Bloomberg citing a source “familiar with the matter.”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Embark on an epic pint-sized quest September 23rd on On Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport. After five grueling years of development, critically-acclaimed filmmaker Jon Favreau ( Iron Man, The Mandalorian ) is finally set to launch his long-awaited dream-like VR adventure Gnomes & Goblins later this month on Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A purportedly leaked Quest 2 box reveals new games coming to Oculus Quest like The Climb 2 and Jurassic World: Aftermath. Originally released on Oculus Rift in 2017, The Climb by Crytek remains one of the most rated games on Oculus Rift and was successful enough the get ported to Oculus Quest in late 2019.

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Cats and VR

JULY 12, 2016

Save the date for Oculus Connect 3, coming to San Jose, California, October 5-7! more than 50 technical talks and opportunities to experience new Oculus hardware and content. oculus.com/en-us/blog/announcing-oculus-connect-3-and-rift-availability-update/ Applications open to attend OC3 at 9am PST, August 2. https://www3.oculus.com/en-us/blog/announcing-oculus-connect-3-and-rift-availability-update/

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APRIL 6, 2020

Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The free update includes all supported platforms, including PC ( SteamVR , Oculus PC ), Xbox and PS4. Before today, Horizons cost $30 on top of the base game’s $30 price tag.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. This is despite the fact that new sales for the DK2 ceased in late 2015. The data suggests 6.5

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have. We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. The day is finally upon us — the Oculus Touch launches tomorrow.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Tilt Brush co-creators Patrick Hackett & Drew Skillman joined Google in early 2015 after the company acquired the duo and their application. The app eventually made it to Oculus PC, Oculus Quest, WMR, and PSVR, and even had a recurring cameo on The Tonight Show. Both have remained with the studio since.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s been a while since we last wrote about Julius Horsthuis, a visual effects artist who authored a series of fractal 360 videos for VR which are simply mind-blowing—both now and back in the good ol’ days of the Oculus Rift DK2 when we first experienced them.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

Due to launch “soon” on Oculus Quest, Nock looks like Rocket League played with bows & arrows instead of cars. Today the studio announced their next VR project called Nock— as in ‘ nocking an arrow ‘—and it’s “coming soon” to Oculus Quest.

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