The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399. Meta Quest 3 and controllers (Image by Meta) Quest 3 has been launched last year, in 2023. So it was hard for us devs to make visually compelling games. It’s an enormous number for the VR market.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. We can expect so all big tech companies to comply with it in 2023.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. by Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9/29/19.

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

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. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. This is another thing that will help indies.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I've been a bespectacled individual for a very long time, and back when I bought the Oculus Rift DK1 in 2013, it was arguably the only player in the game in terms of consumer level VR hardware. That headset came packaged with three sets of interchangeable aspherical lenses offering varying degrees of vision correction.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. This time will be the right time, they say. Other relevant news. Image by Meta). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The VR porting of the famous Ubisoft game is coming in 2023 , and it is clearly made to appeal to the mainstream audience with a game that is fun for all ages, and player types and has also a well-known brand. Pre-orders will open to the general public in October via Amazon, Mediamarkt, Saturn, Elkjop, The Very Group, and Coolblue.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Best VR Games – Oculus Rift + Quest Link. This is just a start and we plan to recognize more places over time with UploadVR’s Best Of Virtual Reality series updating throughout 2023 and beyond. You can watch Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube with others using Bigscreen. Best VR Games – PSVR. Best Magic.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. I mean, besides the Oculus Quest 2, there’s hardly anything to get locally. Your best bet is Amazon and dealing with the international shipping charges.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

CNBC reports the project is codenamed ‘Orion’, with an estimated launch taking place sometime between 2023 and 2025. In both reports, Facebook’s AI voice assistant which is being developed to rival Apple’s Siri or Amazon Alexa will be used as the input mechanism for users.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Facebook says that Beat Games will remain independent and the game will remain the same, but these are the same words that I’ve heard when in 2014 it acquired Oculus, and we all know how the story ended (and in fact, the popular Damo9000 ironized about it). Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link. Image by Valve).

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 10, 2023

KIWI states those are coming in Q4 2023, while BOBOVR opens pre-orders on October 10. Other designs we've not yet tested are also available on Amazon. Amazon - Official Quest 3 Elite Strap - $69.99 Amazon - Official Quest 3 Elite Strap With Battery - $129.99 Amazon - Aukiba Head Strap and Battery Pack - $79.99

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Amazon, Tesla, Google, Facebook, and others, including most autonomous vehicle companies, are building the same for various purposes. Disclaimer.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. by 2023 , 45% of all XR revenue.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here it is when I met Neal Stephenson at AWE USA 2023. In case you want to read the book, too, you can find it on Amazon: [link] (the link is without affiliation, so you can trust the honesty of my review). So while I esteem him, I still think that his book should be a source of inspiration, more than a manual to study and follow.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The FTC has opened an investigation on Meta about its anti-competitive practices related to applications that propose services similar to its ones on the Oculus Store (Pepperidge Farms remembers when YUR was de facto cloned by Oculus Move). It is just a bit more expensive than the $300 needed to buy an Oculus Quest 2.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Announced at the Meta Connect event in 2023, the Meta Quest 3 controllers and accessories promise to deliver an exciting range of updates to XR fans. You can purchase both headset versions from the Meta Store in 23 countries or through select retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Argos, or Target. from the Meta store.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Of course, platform-building tech giants don’t have a great track record in gaming, with Google’s Stadia effort shutting down, Apple disappointing gamers for decades, and forgettable efforts from Amazon. While that’s not Fortnite or Minecraft on Quest headsets, it’s certainly a start.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon. Take the survey to help the global community learn more about the skills and technologies necessary to succeed in 2023 and beyond.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. Hands-On: Meta’s Reprojection-Free Passthrough Prototype At SIGGRAPH 2023 we tried Flamera, Meta’s research prototype of reprojection-free passthrough AR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to the rumor, the collaboration should end in 2023, with the first product launched in 2024, a year that is compatible with a consumer-prosumer release of an XR device. Good news for us developers: Meta has updated the Oculus SDK, and now it is possible to implement voice commands and spatial anchors in our Quest experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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