The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

From iFixit's extended teardown. iFixit measured the size of each pixel at just 7.5μm, the size of a human red blood cell. iFixit says this means you can fit 54 Vision Pro pixels into the space of a single iPhone 15 Pro Max pixel, which is truly remarkable. inch diagonal and has an aspect ratio of roughly 5:4.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

Before we start, in case you missed my post with my predictions for XR in 2024, you can still read it at this link !) 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.

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JULY 6, 2023

The report says the original production target was early 2024, but the new target is 3-6 months later. But by 2019 Gear VR was dead as the inconvenience of docking your phone and draining its battery led standalone headsets like Oculus Go and Oculus Quest to take over. A year later Facebook formally abandoned Gear VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

According to a Steam survey , HTC Vive users increased merely 0.3 Oculus Rift users also grew only 0.3 percent have the Oculus Rift. Grand View Research also reports augmented reality alone will be a $100 billion industry in 2024. VR headset adoption rates this year have been sluggish. percent in July and a measly 0.1

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ARVR

JUNE 18, 2021

With large tech players like Facebook with Oculus Quest 2 , Varjo with Varjo VR-3 , HP headset HP Reverb G2 , launching their new VR headsets. As well as growing numbers of VR users, with the expected number of installed base worldwide, to surpass the 34 million mark by 2024. Last year brought us many VR innovations.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

billion in 2024. The biggest factor driving that hardware base today is Facebook’s VR investments , most notably the Q4-launched Oculus Quest 2. It’s making little to no margin on Oculus Quest so that it can get the price down and get more people into VR. million in 2024. Breaking it Down So what did the forecast uncover?

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Upload VR

MAY 11, 2023

Last year The Verge reported Google was working on its own headset for 2024 codenamed Project Iris, also running a new variant of Android but powered by a Google chipset. But by 2019, Gear VR was dead as standalone headsets like Oculus Go took over, and a year later Facebook formally abandoned it.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

billion by 2024. 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. Nevertheless, they’ve been making waves in many industries. See Also: Should You Buy a Quest 2?

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Upload VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

UploadVR's Operations Manager Kyle Riesenbeck tried AX162 by EmDoorVR's stall at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, and relayed his impressions to me. In the West the Snapdragon XR1 was only used in the HTC Vive Flow. In fact, its GPU is less powerful than even the one in 2018's Oculus Go. Yes, that's a 1, not a typo.

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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. More info (Oculus Quest Store numbers) More info (Meta talks about content curation and revenues). Meta plans AR glasses for 2024. 10 Years of Oculus. In the meanwhile, Happy 10th birthday, Oculus!

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JUNE 1, 2022

But the roughly 90° horizontal field of view of Oculus headsets has not meaningfully changed since the original Rift launched in 2016. In fact, every headset from the company since 2018’s Oculus Go, including the current Quest 2, has used the same lens known as Super Libra G. Human field of view is over 200 degrees horizontal.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

The release date should have been early 2024, but it seems that the Korean company has informed its suppliers that this date may have been moved forward of “one to two quarters”. But the bad news is another one: it seems that the release schedule of the Apple Vision “had to be pushed back”, probably into 2026.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Goodbye Oculus brand. More info (Meta stores) More info (Oculus website disappearing). Image by HTC Vive). HTC is keeping on its strategy of releasing whatever stuff metaverse-related. Intel CEO says chip shortages will end in 2024. Confusion LVL 9000. Cambria will be a pro headset to substitute your laptop.

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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). worldwide in 2019–2024 to reach $136.9

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

org , the committee bidding to host the 2024 Olympic Games, so of course they are going to bring the best out of Los Angeles life. A Perfect Day in Los Angeles is currently available within the Jaunt VR App for iOS, Android, Gear VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Desktop 360. The piece was created in conjunction with LA24.org

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

billion by 2024. Oculus, HTC and Playstation are doing it in VR,” said 8th Wall’s Erik Murphy-Chutorian. This includes paid/sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products on “spaces & faces.”. Advertising is one of the most lucrative AR subsectors, on pace to reach $1.41 billion this year and $8.02

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Given the success of the headset, Apple may announce the launch of the headset in countries that are not in North America already before WWDC 2024. Meta never had a true competitor after the HTC Vive, so it will be interesting to see how the company will react to this situation. I sincerely hope so.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The product is still being built, and the expected release date is 2024. The new update for Oculus Quest brings with it some interesting features, like the tracking of the Apple Magic Keyboard, some updates to the UI, and a new menu for hand tracking. HTC discounts its headsets. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

While I once expected these to be temporary teething issues in a busy time of transition in the company, that the software remains so buggy and unpolished in 2024 doesn't inspire optimism. Worse, the Quest system software and mobile app are riddled with quality and design issues.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? Oculus Quest is available again in some countries. In some countries (not US), Oculus Quest and Rift S have got back in stock. Oculus rolls out runtime v15 for Quest.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2019

He has tweeted “I’m very excited about our upcoming announcements next week, and all that we have planned for 2020–2024”. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. But surprisingly, the Quest has not been the most sold device: the winner has been the Oculus Go. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In this, Pico is taking a direction similar to the one that HTC took for the Vive Focus 3. Since Pico knows that companies need reliability, it is going to still sell the Pico Neo 3 Pro series to companies for the whole 2023, and will still guarantee support for the whole 2024. Hands-on Pico 4 Enterprise. Design and comfort.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%. FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. Qualcomm is one of the biggest manufactures of chipsets and processing units and produces many of the key components found in VR headsets such as Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

The startup plans to scale its content creation, releasing new VR concerts weekly by 2024 to both in-theater and at-home viewers. THE HOTTIEVERSE… I think I have found a word that is more questionable than “metaverse”… When my turn arrived to try the experience, I put the Oculus Quest 2 standalone headset on.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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JANUARY 19, 2024

The gap between the pixels is just 7.5 microns, which should mean no "screen door effect" of any sort. 0:00 / 0:27 1× The use of OLED means Vision Pro can display true blacks, not just the murky dark greys of LCD.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. well, failing.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). 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. The Vive Wands.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. Dean: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. These optical windows were a proud design feature on the HTC Vive headsets, but are much more subtle on the Index equipment making them harder to identify.

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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. He's what he said: "That’s a model we’ve definitely explored. There’s a lot of upsides to it, like visually having the smaller glasses on your head, big advantage.

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