The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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Upload VR

MAY 27, 2022

Two days ago redditor /u/technicalthrowaway posted a screenshot appearing to show an ‘Enable Avalanche (Alpha)’ option appearing in the Experimental features tab of their Quest 2’s settings, writing the following: I pressed it, it said “finding server” for 20 seconds or so, and then loaded oculus home.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Oculus may be be closing out 2016 with a bang with the launch of its Touch controllers, but HTC is going to kick off 2017 with something special: a peripheral that makes its Vive headset wireless. The latter category is quickly gaining interest, with major players like Oculus recently showcasing their own solutions.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Superdata, a market research company, continues to downgrade its 2016 virtual reality sales projections ; beginning the year at $5.1 VR Consumption, 2016.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Owlchemy Labs , the studio behind the critically acclaimed VR game Job Simulator (2016) , however recently revealed an ingenious way of watching and interacting with users in VR which may be as simple as pulling the smartphone from your pocket. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Supports "Arena-scale" Tracking and Multi-room Guardian.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. I imagined this must have been like when Oculus just started out. Cas & Chary Present. I loved seeing this. Office Vibes. Image courtesy Cas & Chary.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

During the last few years, web developers have tried to integrate virtual reality experiences on websites, starting in 2016 with the first WebVR API, but leaving aside the important segment of augmented reality, which is why WebXR was born. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtual reality. The latency of the input was also quite impressive. The prototype now uses its own tracking system which in early testing seems impressively robust.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2024

R1 Chip For Ultra Low Latency To fuse the input from all these cameras, sensors, and microphones together, Apple developed a custom chip called R1. The gap between the pixels is just 7.5 microns, which should mean no "screen door effect" of any sort.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Crowded networks at events can cause problems for some wireless systems; today’s wireless solutions sometimes mean additional latency, reduction in visual quality, and range restrictions compared to being directly attached to a back-mounted PC. In an ideal world, VR headsets would be self-contained, comfortable, and unobtrusive.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. The company went on to raise an $11 million Series A investment in 2016 , and now plans to open pre-orders for their first headset, the FOVE 0, starting on November 2nd.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Virtual Desktop (2016) , the app that lets you view and use your desktop computer in VR, is finally making its way to Oculus Go and Gear VR this week. Once Oculus Quest, the company’s upcoming 6DOF headset, launches next year, a version of the app will be available then too.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

See Also: Oculus Research Collaborator Talks Tracking Facial Expressions While Wearing a VR Headset. Project creators are promising ten custom-built applications and games delivered to backers in the first 6 months after the estimated Dec 2016 delivery date.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2020

While the headset isn’t bad, competitors on both sides (Oculus’ Rift on the low-end and Valve’s Index on the high-end) seemed to offer better value propositions considering their price and performance. As for the controllers, Cosmos Elite uses the same Vive wands as the original Vive that launched back in 2016.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2019

At Oculus Connect 6, we had the opportunity to try out many of the new things announced at the event, as well as check out the latest work by developers and creators working in the VR space. Vader Immortal – Episode II is now available for $10 on the Oculus Quest and Rift platforms. Oculus Link. Oculus Hand Tracking.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Oculus today announced the new Rift S headset which ditches external tracking sensors in favor of a five-camera inside-out tracking system. Oculus Rift S Specs at a Glance. Recommended Playspace: Oculus Rift S works with your environment, so you can play standing or sitting, in spaces big or small. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Oculus has announced Rift S, the headset’s fabled hardware refresh that brings with it a modest spec bump and a few other changes to the original Rift that the company hopes will appeal to new entrants in PC VR gaming. Just like its 2016-era namesake, you’ll need a capable gaming PC to run Rift S. To PC, or Not to PC?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I think Oculus is getting there, but I still think it’s behind, to be candid, even with the latest stuff that is coming out for Christmas. What we saw with Oculus at Connect is they sort of hinted at this holy grail prototype of untethered, optimized computer power, low latency, real time, 6 degree of freedom tracking.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. But everyone agrees a dangling cable is not only annoying, it’s an immersion detractor. 264 or similar chip solutions.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Like many reboots, this launch isn’t going to be purely about putting a glossy finish on the previous Soul Axiom as the videogame was only released in 2016. The videogame does also suffer with the odd technical issue, a little bit of latency here and there. Mostly though it was the play/pause ability which became a nuisance.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2020

First launching as a free demo on Steam back in 2016, Panoptic puts you in the shoes of a giant ‘Overseer’ in VR, giving you the laser power of the Panopticon which lets you temporarily focus your light to incinerate a suspected enemy. Thanks to Steam Remote Play , you can also challenge your friends online.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

In Feb 2016 our force feedback unit was successfully batch manufactured and then assembled into Dexmo. In June 2016, we finished multiple Unity Demos to demonstrate what Dexmo is capable of. So what’s the next step for VR? We filed several patents to protect the IP as well.

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VR Geeks

OCTOBER 9, 2021

We’ve compiled a list of our top five favorites for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Sim racing has successfully migrated from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage as one of the first gaming genres to embrace VR (the first-generation consumer headsets). That, however, was not the case.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. TwinCam is an omni-directional stereoscopic live-viewing camera that reduces motion blur and latency during head rotation in a head-mounted display. Holo-Doodle.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. It doesn’t matter if you have HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift. That I was crazy.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

During the beautifully choreographed introduction to Marvel’s Deadpool (2016) , every object in the scene is rendered by a computer instead of filmed. This process introduces ‘latency’, which is the time it takes to update frames with new user input taken into account. Let’s look at latency first.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2019

It probably also helps that a 144Hz refresh rate means lower latency too. The Lab came out in 2016 — and I’ve explored damn near all of it —but three years later I experienced something that I never really noticed until better hardware came along and revealed it. And that’s pretty freaking cool. Photo by Road to VR.

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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). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. Or how does resolution or latency affect simulator sickness?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Launching at an odd time (well before any full 6DOF mobile headsets are available to consumers) is AMD’s Radeon ReLive for VR feature which promises to stream SteamVR games from your PC to mobile headsets with high quality and low latency. When testing at 100 Mbps he found the resultant image sharp but too choppy for play.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As described in my first HTC Vive Tracker article earlier this year: “Vive Tracker is a wireless, battery-powered SteamVR tracked accessory that provides highly accurate, low latency 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) motion tracking within a roomscale environment.”. Holoball, 2016, £10.99, free demo. Selfie Tennis, 2016, £7.19.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

After purchasing my first HTC Vive virtual reality system in 2016, rumours soon surfaced of a SteamVR “tracking puck” that HTC had in development. It was known as “Revive” during development, then as “Vive Pre” for the developer edition, before launching an almost identical consumer version called “Vive” in April 2016. Introduction.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2019

The Valve Index headset is more expensive and less user-friendly than its nearest competitor, the Oculus Rift S, but the experience it offers is the clear choice for VR enthusiasts who want to maximize immersion. Read on for our full Valve Index review to learn if this headset is for you. Photo by Road to VR. Valve Index In-depth Review.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

HTC and Valve do this with their Vive controllers that are super low latency and extremely accurate and Oculus does this with their touch controllers and their extremely natural ergonomics. This system is essentially an upgrade over the Snapdragon 820 developer kit that Qualcomm launched at IFA 2016.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2020

While the company is targeting enterprise customers in the West, the Neo 2 line is eyeing up the same hardware category as Facebook’s Oculus Quest, and doing a solid job at that. Meanwhile, Facebook charges $1,000 for the 128GB Quest through it’s ‘Oculus for Business’ program. Photo captured by Road to VR.

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