Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Coming to Quest VR headsets in late 2022, Fight Back is a free VR app aimed at teaching self-defense via hand tracking. The 20-minute experience is available free on Quest headsets , produced as part of Oculus’ VR For Good program. The Key was a Oculus VR For Good project. My name is Céline Tricart.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022? With an Oculus headset, users can jump into a virtual meeting space and access a range of unique capabilities. These sensational tools can bridge the gaps between hybrid workers, and even accelerate time to market for new projects.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Meta Quest 2 (formerly the Oculus Quest 2) is absolutely crushing it this holiday season. The Oculus companion app is also topping the charts on the App Store and Google Play, which means more people than ever are diving into VR for the first time. Moss is available for $23.99.

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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. Hands-on impressions. the “No.1

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. I imagined this must have been like when Oculus just started out. AR + Hand-tracking.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Updated – November 19th, 2023 The Best Meta Quest 2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2023 Sales Image courtesy Facebook Meta Quest 2 (128GB) The best Meta Quest 2 (128GB) Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2022 sale so far is $250 bundled with $50 store credit for Quest games.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Lynx R-1 features the same Qualcomm XR2 chipset as Oculus Quest 2 and HTC Vive Focus 3, and like those two it’s also based on a heavily modified version of Android. All headsets—save the €4,999 tier where backers can meet the team and receive a signed model a month early—are slated to ship in April 2022. Optical Hand tracking.

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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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Upload VR

AUGUST 3, 2022

If you’re looking for the best pick for existing headsets, we have a guide for the best VR headset in 2022. However, there’s lots of VR and AR hardware releases to come — here’s our list of all the major rumored and confirmed VR/AR hardware set for release in 2022 and beyond. Pimax Reality 12K QLED.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Here are some of the main companies you should be watching in 2022. For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. Meta is also working on new technology to track your eyes and face in the Metaverse.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2022

pic.twitter.com/shep3LEy0O — Demeo (@DemeoGame) October 25, 2022. vr #ar #xr #meta #metaquestpro #connect #oculus #passthrough #virtualreality #mixedreality #augmentedreality pic.twitter.com/liAkLeP5rB — Immersed (@ImmersedVR) October 13, 2022. Price: $29.99. Meet @ImmersedVR. Price: Free. Puzzling Places.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

Wolvic is the open-source successor to Firefox Reality , which was a web browser for early standalone headsets like Oculus Go, the original Oculus Quest, Vive Focus, and HoloLens 2. It first launched on Oculus Go’s store in 2018.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There are four cameras located at the front edges of the headset, offering 6DoF inside-out tracking. These cameras are also used to track your motion controllers, which resemble Oculus Touch controllers. The cameras can also be used for hand-tracking if you prefer to ditch the controllers altogether.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

After announcing $3 million in seed funding from investors including The Venture Reality Fund and Oculus founder Nate Mitchell, AstroBeam says its focus will be on creating "more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR."

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. Meta Quest 2. Who saw this coming except everyone?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

People can talk, gesticulate (hands tracking is supported), and enjoy a full sense of presence. More info (Facebook launches Horizon Workrooms) More info (Hands on Workrooms by Road To VR) More info (Hands on Workrooms by Upload VR) More info (Hands on Workrooms by The Verge). Other relevant news.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Here’s our rundown of all the new VR releases coming to Quest 2, PSVR, PC VR and Pico platforms in September 2022. Recently Released – End of August 2022. New VR Games September 2022. Following on from Ionia, Eolia supports hand tracking and was designed as a ‘hands-first’ title.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2021

According to a report by Bloomberg News , Apple may be planning to release a VR headset with limited AR capabilities as soon as 2022, which is said to be a precursor to its long-rumored, fully-fledged AR device. Oculus Quest 2 | Image courtesy Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

Or better, maybe it’s not totally merit of HTC, it is mostly the fact that everyone is hoping for a good headset that can compete somehow with the Oculus Quest , even just in the prosumer segment. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps its march towards 10M users. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps selling incredibly well. This is amazing.

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

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

3 hours Eye Tracking ❌ ✅ ❌ Face Tracking ❌ ✅ ❌ Controllers Touch Tracking Rings Basic Haptics Touch Pro Self-Tracking TruTouch Haptics Touch Plus Ringless TruTouch Haptics Pricing $300 (128GB) $350 (256GB) $1000 (256GB) $500 (128GB) $650 (512GB) Quest Pro is still the only Meta option for local dimming, eye tracking, and face tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

It is a VR+MR headset proposed by the startup Lynx that has the peculiarity of being the first standalone headset heavily focused on offering both VR and color passthrough MR. It features some interesting innovations, like the heavy focus on hand tracking and the use of special lenses that are seen in no other headset. Specifications.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 11, 2021

On more advanced headsets, ‘varifocal’ approaches dynamically shift the focal length based on where you’re looking (with eye-tracking). Oculus’ Half Dome prototypes do something similar, with support for a larger number of focal planes. Magic Leap, for instance, supports two focal planes and jumps between them as needed.

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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. The logo of ??,

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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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Upload VR

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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Probably we’ll hear new big shots fired at CES in January 2022. Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Other relevant news. Image by HTC).

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Increased Adoption of AR in E-Commerce According to a recent survey, 38% of marketers reported using AR in 2022. VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

First of all, he got some CAD files about it, and from those, it is possible to see that the device includes two front tracking cameras, one RGB camera to colorize the passthrough of the tracking cameras and a depth sensor that may help with scene understanding and hands tracking. I’m interested to know more about it….

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

The story goes on telling that Apple VR headset had realistic visuals and sound, it was super-cool and probably we’ll see a release date of 2022/2023. Ready At Dawn was already collaborating with Oculus since various years, so this is not surprising. Hands tracking on Quest gets always more interest. Some info on content.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The second company to announce a Kickstarter campaign has been SimulaVR, which plans to start a crowdfunding campaign for its Simula One headset in January 2022. It has a retro look that makes it very nerdy, and it should be able to offer passthrough AR and hands tracking via Ultraleap. Meta acquires Imagine Optix.

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Upload VR

JULY 19, 2023

An official demo arrived in late October 2021 on Itch and Quest via App Lab, with a full SteamVR release originally set for 2022. While it might have missed that 2022 window, the full release is now available via SteamVR , the Oculus Store for Rift and Quest via App Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the rumor, the headset is slim thanks to pancake optics , and It apparently features OLED microdisplays and Samsung’s own Exynos 2200 chip from 2022. The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. The startup just raised $1.6

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The rumors also talk about a headset coming in 2022 with AR/VR and another one coming in 2023 as a smartglass. port and cable.

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