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JULY 20, 2023

Hand Tracking 2.2 Since releasing controller-free hand tracking as a software update for the original Oculus Quest in late 2019, Meta has been steadily improving the technology with further updates. update in January reduced tracking loss and sped up reacquisition when tracking is lost. Then the 2.1

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2023

Othergate, a studio founded by former Oculus Studios game designers, announced their first VR game during Meta’s Quest Gaming Showcase today, revealing a co-op dungeon crawler for Quest 2 called Dungeons of Eternity. There’s no definite release date for now, although Othergate says it’s coming at some point this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2020

These days we have had various leaks about a new upcoming Oculus Quest , with also renders and photos shared by the famous leaker Walking Cat. Oculus is going to release a new Oculus Quest. Various rumors and leaks in the past weeks hinted to an upcoming release of a new Oculus Quest headset. The comfort enigma.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Every year I make this prediction game about what Facebook is going to announce at Oculus/Facebook connect, and this year won’t be an exception! Oculus Rift 3. Oculus Quest 2 Pro / Oculus Quest 3. Facebook is going to announce the Oculus Quest 2 Pro. This is never going to happen. New Facebook Name.

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MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Kids who weren't born when he made that decision can now wear , with parental controls, a $500 wireless all-in-one headset with markerless inside-out tracking, precise 6DoF controllers, hand tracking, and mixed reality.

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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? This is the homepage of Oculus website (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2021

You may be noticing that I’ve mentioned no hand-tracking hardware: competitors like Senseglove Nova or HaptX Gloves all have some integrated sensors to detect the pose of the fingers and use some external systems (e.g. Vive Tracker) to get the overall pose of the hand.

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Road to VR

APRIL 1, 2021

Hand Physics Lab is all about hand-tracking, and this over 80-level game aims to throw you head first into a whimsical series of seemingly simple tasks. Quest can offer mixed results when it comes to hand-tracking fidelity though, so if you’re not careful, it can be extremely frustrating for all the wrong reasons.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Image courtesy Oculus. His predictions for headset capabilities in the year 2021 were 4K × 4K resolution per-eye, a 140 degree field of view, and variable depth of focus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Optics & Displays.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 11, 2020

A Quest version of the game is planned for release in 2021. Noda uses VR to enable mind-mapping in three dimensions and also strives to help you focus on the task at hand by leveraging VR’s ability to take you away from your usual (and sometimes distracting) surroundings. Oculus Quest Support Planned for 2021.

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MAY 1, 2024

From hand-made environments in VR using Quill to hand tracking supported by players in VR headsets, Peanut Button's The Secret Of Retropolis offers a tantalizing tease of the future. They say the positive response to the first Retropolis, released in 2021, helped them make a beefier second chapter in Never Say Goodbye.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

confirms that Puzzling Places , a meditative 3D jigsaw puzzle game, was redesigned from the ground up on Apple Vision Pro to use its eye and hand-tracking interface. Note: This review was originally published on September 2nd, 2021. Similar to Synth Riders , Realities.io Elsewhere, it's out now on all major VR platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is the final newsletter of the year, so… see you in 2021, a new year that I hope will be filled with many interesting news about immersive realities! But the advantage is that you can play all the games of the Oculus Store and from Sidequest without Zuck watching you. Top news of the week. Image by HP). More info.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. All are already included in Unity.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2021

An apparently never-before-seen HTC headset won an IF Design Award today, which arrived with multiple photos of what was listed as a consumer headset targeting release in 2021. The headset is undoubtedly very Quest-like in overall appearance, offering up four camera sensors for room-scale tracking and possibly also hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it. Other relevant news.

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Full Dive Gaming

AUGUST 30, 2022

5:30 App Lab to Oculus Store STRUGGLE 7:30 HIGHEST Rated Game on Quest 8:30 The Game's Backstory 11:17 What's it like to develop for VIVE FLOW? 22:03 Hand Tracking? 5:30 App Lab to Oculus Store STRUGGLE 7:30 HIGHEST Rated Game on Quest 8:30 The Game's Backstory. 22:03 Hand Tracking? .” ~ RuffTalkVR 9.1/10

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ARVR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Interaction Builder is an Interhaptics’ low code plugin for 3D engines allowing you to develop realistic hand interactions within 3 clicks. Best used for hand-tracking and UX. The 2-hand interactions have been introduced on the 6th of September with this blog post. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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VRScout

MARCH 31, 2021

Additional stretch goals include a fourth Gym Master, Quest hand-tracking support, a PSVR release, and multiplayer functionality. According to its Kickstarter, ViFit is currently aiming for a July 2021 release. For more information visit here. Feature Image Credit: ViFit.

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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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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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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 ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

The experience will debut this winter on PSVR and Oculus. The glasses will be available in select worldwide markets in mid-2021. The product increases and improves upon haptic feedback, form factor, and hand tracking to enable a user’s feeling of shapes, textures, and resistance in VR.

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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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JUNE 19, 2022

When it comes to hand tracking games on Quest, nothing really comes close to Unplugged. Developed by Anotherway and published by Vertigo Games in late 2021, Unplugged is an air guitar game, inspired by Guitar Hero and many others, that lets you shred in VR with a virtual guitar and your real hands. Controllers are great.’

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ARPost

JUNE 14, 2021

With 6DOF hand tracking and controller input, glasses by PhotonLens called Photons can provide real-time posture and form feedback to users. Alternatively, other consumer headsets focus on engagement but lack the functionalities that make them practical to actually tracking and improving fitness. The Year of AR Fitness?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Thanks to VR platforms such as the Oculus App Lab and SideQuest, the Oculus Quest has amassed a sizable catalog of games and apps available 100% free of charge. The following are five new games and apps available free on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets: Seeker VR. Thankfully, we’re here to help. SUP Island.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

With an Oculus headset, users can jump into a virtual meeting space and access a range of unique capabilities. Easy-to-use and convenient, this app comes with all the features you would expect from a powerful collaborative tool, including immersive hand tracking and remote desktop streaming. ImmersedVR.

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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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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. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. Top news of the week.

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MAY 18, 2022

ROTU’s second VR adventure game, Eolia, hits Meta Quest 2 (formerly Oculus Quest 2) next month. The musical title, which is a follow-up to 2021’s Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia , hits the headset on June 9. Interestingly, Eolia has also been designed as a ‘hands first’ game. Eolia Release Date Revealed.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Lenovo and NuEyes to launch AR glasses in 2021. Facebook has found a way to provide very robust hands tracking. A paper by FRL Research shows a new algorithm that Facebook has found to provide optimal bimanual hands tracking. It seems so that for 2021, HTC is betting only on the Cosmos and Focus lines.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Realworld will conversely play on the more accessible Oculus Quest 2. It also utilizes Quest 2’s hand tracking for input, which offers greater agency and immersion. Moreover, hand tracking could make it more intuitive and user-friendly, which could help Realworld gain traction. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. Oculus has finally revealed the Quest 2. Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). With such a powerful and affordable device, with the great content that is coming for it, Oculus is wiping away all its competition. During the whole conference, Oculus always talked about the Quest 2.

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