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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). So, are you ready?

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. Magic Leap glasses. This is the story.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek: Facebook admits that VR is taking longer than expected, Pistol Whip ready to launch and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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Escaping Into Virtuality

Tech Trends VR

We’re going to see more people becoming 'Virtual Reality Refugees' Click To Tweet. 2018 has been a remarkable year for immersive technologies Click To Tweet. 2018 has been a remarkable year for immersive technologies (which include the whole spectrum of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality).

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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15 VR Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2019

Road to VR

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Release date : previously late 2018, now 2019. In this exciting Oculus exclusive, the enemy will stop at nothing to gain an advantage. ” Vacation Simulator.

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