Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. A decade later, Oculus VR is gone “ for now ” and the earliest faces to rally developer and enthusiast support for the imminent consumer revival of virtual reality have moved to other startups.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products.

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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

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

BigQuery from Google Cloud has many powerful features that allow users to view their data in real-time, providing continual up-to-date information to help guide business decisions. It integrates seamlessly with the Google Cloud AI platform and other tools like Data Studio. The device uses Google’s Cloud Healthcare API.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Like seemingly all big tech firms these days, it appears to be working on AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The glasses, codenamed Orion, should be made to replace smartphones and are slated for a release date of 2023–2025, that seems very reasonable, considering that no present tech is able to create truly consumer AR. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre. All of this seems cool, but also very confused.

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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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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. News worth a mention.

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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. If you follow the story described above, you can see that the hype for VR in 2014 was caused by Facebook buying Oculus. There was a lot of enthusiasm and hope.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If everything goes well, Maezawa will be the first passenger and private astronaut to travel to the moon in 2023. Otherwise, you may have to wait for them to describe the magnificent space in 2023. You can start your first space travel without waiting for a commercial space flight until 2023 with us now.

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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

MARCH 5, 2024

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. But will it be enough now to beat Apple?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. In case there is another platform involved, e.g. Android, 30% will go to Google, and 25% of the remaining money (i.e. More info (Oculus Quest Store numbers) More info (Meta talks about content curation and revenues).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025. just, Google it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025. just, Google it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025. just, Google it.

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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. This gives more power to Google Glass, that are not doing that bad in the enterprise environment after a total disaster as a prosumer device.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Do you remember when everyone was mocking HTC for its super-high prices and people were praising Meta for its cheap costs? Adobe to bring its apps on Quest Pro (Upload VR) All work-related updates of Meta Connect (Oculus blog). Face and eye tracking introduce obvious privacy concerns. I guess that Meta knows that most creatives (e.g.

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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

APRIL 12, 2019

The app is available for both VR and AR , and is compatible on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Android and IOS. He also released a VR version too , ( PornviewerVR ) which is available for Oculus Rift. billion by 2023. Checking out the app. You can probably guess, but much of the AR porn found today is mobile based. Up from a $2.39

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