XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JUNE 20, 2023

With a combination of VR, AR, and MR tools, businesses can unify staff like never before, enhance company culture, and even accelerate production processes. Today, we’re looking at some of the most significant trends influencing the rise of the immersive collaboration landscape in 2023.

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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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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

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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AR Insider

JANUARY 2, 2020

billion in 2023. billion by 2023. But those wheels are slowly turning and are accelerated by things like Oculus Quest. billion in 2023. million units sold in 2019 for tier-1 and 2 headsets, growing to over 19 million in 2023. million by 2023. At a high level, VR revenue is projected to grow from $3.9

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The Meta team is exploring augmented reality solutions designed to work with smartphones and smart glasses, as well as virtual reality environments compatible with a range of Oculus headsets. The Virbela ecosystem can support everything from file and data sharing to audio and chat, and it works across multiple devices.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2019

billion in 2023. billion by 2023. But those wheels are slowly turning and are accelerated by things like Oculus Quest. billion in 2023. million units sold in 2019 for tier-1 and 2 headsets, growing to over 19 million in 2023. million by 2023. At a high level, VR revenue is projected to grow from $3.1

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (Nathie going around the streets with the Vision Pro on) More info (Vision Pro guy with a robot dog) More info (A girl staying in the pool with the Vision Pro) More info (Photos and videos of other people wearing the headset in public places) Unity has released the tools to build for the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

But now it’s 2023, and where does the firm’s Metaverse stand? Moreover, the firm’s Facebook lineage makes critics sceptical of Meta’s mission due to the firm’s previous user data controversies. Moreover, trusted gaming engines like Unreal and Unity are gaining new usage as RT3D engines.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. Photoshop is doing the same.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Let’s say that talking about a device the users put directly on their faces when your company is being challenged about the data it collects wouldn’t have been the smartest of the decisions. The new name containing the word “Oculus” means that the original name of the VR company is not completely going away.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. In other words, the area we track and define as “B2B2C” will outspend industrial AR by 2023. An example of this is AR creation software such as Unity, and it includes spend/adoption by consumer-facing enterprises (B2B2C).

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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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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

Quest 3, which could be announced at Connect 2023, should instead have micro OLED displays , and probably feature a custom Meta chip able to handle better VR workloads than Qualcomm’s ones. Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. For every dollar of hardware, we were making three dollars on software and data sales.”

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Zuck also didn’t address much the theme of privacy and how much data harvesting in VR could be dangerous. Probably the sentence “five years from now people will primarily think about us as a company harvesting data on the metaverse, rather than doing it on mobile phones” wouldn’t have sounded much sexy, so he avoided speaking about this.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A few weeks after I officially entered VR, the technology started being overhyped after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. He makes the miracle of transforming your data into his money (Image by Tweaknology). If you follow the story described above, you can see that the hype for VR in 2014 was caused by Facebook buying Oculus.

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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. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections. The Quest will still be the king.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. and the growth, from the data, seems slow (for now), but exponential. So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the meantime, Bloomberg published a report saying that Apple is going to launch its XR headset in the “next several months” (a timeline that goes from now to 2023, I guess), and that it is probably waiting until there could be physical events again before doing it. The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Everyone loves Beat Saber, and if the game offered a free multiplayer mode just requiring a Facebook login, many people would use that, and so Facebook could gather the data of all these players. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. That was a year ago. Very quick.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. That was a year ago. Very quick.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. That was a year ago. Very quick.

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