Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Speaking with Road to VR at CES 2020 this week, Qualcomm’s Head of XR, Hugo Swart, said that the company’s mobile Snapdragon chipsets are now in more than 30 AR and VR headsets, including leading standalone headsets like Oculus Quest, Go, Vive Focus, and HoloLens 2. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Top news of the week. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In 2020 alone the platform has hosted over half a million virtual meetings. We expect that some users will go on to a fully immersive headset experience as hardware continues to become more affordable for the mass market.”. Interact with 3D holograms of coworkers directly from your living room.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? No new VR hardware announcement. It would be a crazy move.

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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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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. On the hardware side, the ghost of Magic Leap’s formerly hyped glory still looms large. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

And what can we expect in 2020? ” As just one example, Facebook has increased its annual R&D spend by $10 billion between 2014, when it bought Oculus, to the present. Then there’s Magic Leap. So we need some hardware innovation here too.” Who are the top players? What hurdles remain?

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap Inc. , As stated, they are thinking of taking part in a new financing round of more than $500 million, bringing Magic Leap valuation close to $6 billion. Magic Leap’s last financing round, led by Alibaba , valued the company at $4.5 s Oculus Rift. Qualcomm Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s

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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. pic.twitter.com/HXkmJmSh5u — KAJI / MESON CEO (@kajikent) January 7, 2020. Nothing that will shake the ecosystem.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Meta (Oculus). The brand offers one of the most affordable and straightforward hardware solutions for users interested in virtual reality on the market. With the Oculus ecosystem, schools and professional training companies alike are beginning to scale their virtual curriculums for a wide range of use cases. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

In a Youtube video, he revealed some juicy details, like: The cost of the glasses is $499 + prescription lenses; They are connected to the iPhone, that does all the heavy lifting; They were planned for a “one more thing” announcement for Q4 2020- Q1 2021 , and for release one year later. Image by Oculus). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. I believe that in 2020 the Go will finish its existence. Magic Leap and nReal are trying to find an agreement. Let’s see….

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. Hardware announcements: Head-worn.

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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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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

Remember Magic Leap? This week, I spent an hour or so playing around with the unreleased next-generation Magic Leap headset, all while discussing the augmented reality company’s wild ride with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson and other members of their executive team. So, let’s talk about it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

After Oculus, that has expressed concerns on the manufacture of the Quest, this week Tilt Five has stated that it will have difficulties in shipping devices to the first backers, while nReal , that is based in Beijing, has completely stopped its production. More info (Use Google Translate). Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

And the number is also that big because Facebook had no hardware department, so it had to create everything from scratch (i.e. Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Other companies should take note…. Some XR fun.

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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2024

Missed this week's biggest VR games and hardware stories? With VR hardware, Meta confirmed Quest 3 has higher retention than previous headsets and is reportedly still planning to bring a cheaper Quest 3 to China via Tencent. Across VR gaming, Oculus Publishing Ignition is a new funding initiative for Quest 3 developers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. Shipping is expected for fall 2020. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

He said that Facebook still believes in the tech and will continue investing a lot in it, and this delay may even be an advantage for FB : since Facebook was not a hardware company, the fact that VR will take longer than expected means that the company will have more time to learn about hardware manufacturing.

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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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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What’s in store for 2020? Will the 2020’s finally hail the age of XR? The Oculus Quest was a hit. Since then, Facebook has continued to roll out new features such as native hand tracking and Oculus Link , which allows users to experience PC VR HMD quality on the standalone headset. Bumpy Road For Magic Leap.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The chipset is the central unit of the headset, it is like its brain , the hardware computing the images that you see, that gives hw acceleration for video encoding, computer vision, AI, etc… The more powerful the chipset, the bigger the brain of your headset, that so can have more features and offer more realism.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2020

An earlier tech demo showed impressive fundamentals, and this week at CES 2020 the company revealed its progress toward shrinking its tech toward a practical size. Magic Leap, for instance, supports two focal lengths and jumps between them as needed. CREAL credits the 3D asset to Daniel Bystedt ). Slimming Down for AR & VR.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

CES 2020 in January was a bit of a mixed bag when it came to virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) announcements. This has been made possible thanks to the likes of Microsoft’s HoloLens and Magic Leap 1, allowing digitised information to be overlaid on the real world.

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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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Peter Graham

JANUARY 30, 2020

Earlier this month VRFocus caught up with Spatial – which is building a collaborative augmented reality (AR) platform for enterprise use cases – at CES 2020, with the company showcasing its latest version on Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. Spatial featured during the HoloLens 2 launch at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no point if you have face tracking and it doesn’t work well… and the positional tracking alone is very difficult to provide well even for established companies (only Oculus’s one is very fluid) In the video they say confusing things like “R&D is cheap now” (really? Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Facebook has talked about its long-term potential to launch smartglasses, but in 2020, its primary presence in the AR market is as a mobile AR platform (note: Facebook is also a VR market leader with Oculus ). More posts by this contributor.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Do you want to read them? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR. I know that you like a lot Magic Leap and the work that Rony Abovitz is making… why do you love it so much? ( And he decided to create the hardware, that is very hard.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Silicon Valley’s advent calendar clearly marks September as the traditional time for Apple to talk finished hardware, not secretive projects. Not long after, on the day of the hardware event, Apple released Xcode 11, the newest version of the company’s macOS development environment. That’s by design.

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