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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia Supported AR/VR devices ? A-Frame ? —?A

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The Quest 2 is quite powerful and so Facebook has confirmed tha t in 2021 there won’t be the need for a Quest 2 Pro as some people were supposing. The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

While Oculus has decided to discontinue the Oculus Go and abandon completely the 3DOF sector, Chinese vendor Pico has decided to double down on 3DOF offering two new models , the Pico G2 4K S and the Pico G2 4K Enterprise , that are two improvements of the original Pico G2 4K. Controller. Top view of the controller.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. If you are a Unity beginner, I would advise you to watch the video. It provides the Oculus runtime the depth texture.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. Other relevant news.

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ARVR

MARCH 8, 2021

For my first VR project, I decided to create a bowling game using the Unity game engine for an Oculus quest. Game Overview The bowling ball: By pressing the trigger on the controller, the user can pick up, hold, and release the ball. Oculus Integration: The Hierarchy! Stay tuned for a game demo! Enter The Monarchy 3.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

Let’s dive in… Sony Confirms New Playstation VR2 for PS5 with New Controllers. The PSVR tethered headset remains the market leader, and will not go quietly into the night when challenged by the Oculus Quest 2. The product allows users to create 3D content on top of CAD models without a game engine like Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it. Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. If it becomes always richer of new content and new features, may it be possible that it will have always more importance in the Oculus ecosystem?

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MARCH 19, 2021

Major VR stakeholders—including Oculus, Valve, HTC, Microsoft, Unity, and Unreal Engine—now offer full or partial support for the standard. Members of the OpenXR consortium publicly supporting the standard as of March, 2021. Sony’s next-gen VR controllers | Image courtesy Sony. Sony, however, remains an odd one out.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The global pandemic has changed the rules for everything, and the situation is so confusing and so rapidly evolving that any prediction for 2021 is completely unreliable, too. 2021 won’t be the year of VR. Well, let’s be honest, this won’t happen in 2021, either. The Quest will still be the king.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

VeChain Price Prediction 2021 2. Some people choose to create a Unity 360 virtual tour, since this game engine has multiple plugins and extensions that make development easier. They offer an unprecedented level of immersion, realism, and user control. link] What is a Virtual Tour in 2021? How and Where to Buy DWS (DWS)?—?An

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Upload VR

MAY 31, 2022

It lets you mark out your walls, doors, windows, and furniture from inside Quest’s real world passthrough view, using the VR controllers. Marking your couch was added to the Quest OS in February 2021, and marking your desk in April 2021, but developers haven’t been able to access these until now.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

David of Upload says that thanks to its big boost in specifications , PS5 can offer an amazing flat screen experience : better resolution, better framerate, better graphics, better load times, better controller. All the PSVR system is retrofitted into the new console , and so it is like if it can run only in some compatibility mode.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We are announcing today Integration of Interhaptics with Hololens 2 Haptic design for all mobile phones early 2021 Upcoming Haptic design for PS5 in 2021 Interhaptics was released to the public in September 2020. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. All in a few clicks.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. So let me stop talking and let’s dig into them immediately!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

Just to make you understand how pioneer we were: Facebook will probably release the SDK for passthrough AR for Quest in the second half of 2021. That’s why we decided to port it to other devices, especially the Oculus Quest that is selling so well among consumers in the last months. Motion Sickness.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. In this sense, 2021 will be a very important year, because we’ll start seeing how the mainstream is interested in wearing electronic glasses on their face.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Simplified Hand Tracking Gestures Previously, when using controller-free hand tracking on Quest headsets you opened a special hand tracking Quick Action Menu at any time by pinching and holding your thumb to your index finger on your right hand for around 2 seconds. The Oculus PC app was recently renamed Meta Quest Link.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2020

I so asked some questions on Twitter to some people from the social media corporate and Chris Pruett , Director of Content Ecosystem at Oculus, has been so kind as to answer them. In case you were in vacations and you lost contact with VR this week, you may have lost the announcement of the new Facebook account policy for Oculus devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Side view of Pico 4 controllers. connector with OTG 3 Physical IPD adjustments Optical Positional tracking, with 4 tracking cameras Cameras have 400×400 resolution and run at 120Hz Maximum 10m x 10m tracking area and mm-precision accuracy Optical Tracked Controllers, with 32 tracking points 5300 mAh battery, for around 2.5-3h

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s because tomorrow the SXSW 2021 starts and together with VRrOOm we have created the virtual spaces for it on VRChat! In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. You will be able to control it with a ring on your finger, about which Apple has actually filed some patents.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless. pounds (0.55kg) Cable Length: 19.5

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest gain PC VR market shares. The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). Oculus explains the logic behind its store curation policy. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This is the first newsletter of Autumn 2021: I think I’ll miss the sun but for sure not the mosquitos. This has been a hectic week for the leaks on the upcoming new Oculus Quest Pro device. Marky Z hinted that the device should feature eye and face tracking, and recent findings in Oculus Quest 2 runtime confirm this.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

The Quest 2 is expected to have 8–9M units sold in 2021 (and this is compatible with the estimated sales data we have now), while the new device should sell 18–20M units in 2022. Do you remember that leaked email when Zuck told that he wanted to control all the technological stack Facebook works on and he wanted to acquire Unity?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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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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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In addition to releasing Oculus Quest 2, Facebook spent $150 million on content for the device (to bring you VR games from brands like Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Medal of Honor).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It has been founded by Jeri Ellsworth , a former Valve employee that worked directly with Michael Abrash in the lab that was experimenting with AR and VR before Oculus was even a thing. The board and the controller necessary to play Tilt Five games. Box with tilt Five glasses, controller, and board (Image by Tilt Five).

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ARVR

AUGUST 31, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 How did you come up with this project? When Oculus came along, it was the perfect timing and the “spark” for him and his co-founder to dive into the world of virtual reality (VR). ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Top news of the week. Image by Sony). PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. I admit that this news caught me a bit off guard.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

A brain-controlled keyboard that should have worked without having any kind of sensors installed into the brain, so that to be completely non-invasive. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2. billion in content revenue by 2025?—? Facebook totals now 60.2%

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the latest invitation to WWDC 2021 , the yearly Apple developers’ conference, there is a picture of an animoji wearing glasses in front of a Mac. 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. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. So bad, because I was planning to go there in March.

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