The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Starbreeze claim the custom optics allow a “great image quality across the eye’s natural vision” All of this allows the StarVR to deliver an impressive 210 degree horizontal field of view. For reference the consumer editions of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are closer to 100 degrees.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. GTC digital is online, NVIDIA shows cheap eye tracking. But NVIDIA has not given up, and has recorded the videos of all the expected speeches and put them online. Apple ARKit 3.5 Very handy.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 is selling incredibly well because it offers the right combination of affordable price, good hardware, and a good software ecosystem. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance). The Quest will still be the king. Me wearing a Valve Index.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

The headset had astonishing specifications, like: Display resolution: 1,830 × 1,464 per lens resolution, total 16 million sub-pixels Display type: AMOLED Refresh rate: 90Hz Field of view: 210-degree horizontal FOV, 130-degree vertical FOV Eye-tracking: Fully integrated Tobii eye-tracking, including Dynamic Foveated Rendering.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360 video to show you at the end of it — for your learning outcome — where the fire actually started. CEO Alex Harvey and Alan have a heated discussion on the topic. That was three years ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360 video to show you at the end of it — for your learning outcome — where the fire actually started. CEO Alex Harvey and Alan have a heated discussion on the topic. That was three years ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360 video to show you at the end of it -- for your learning outcome -- where the fire actually started. But we have seen some good results from the dev guys testing our stuff on Quest -- Oculus Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and-- including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360's too hard. I've spent a week just exporting this video.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

So, normal 360 video allows you to kind of look around from the point of the camera, but what you guys have developed is a way to give, kind of, more presence by adding that ability to move up and down, and left and right. Well actually, your eyes point to different places. Can you maybe speak to that? Alvin: Yeah. Alvin: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

So, normal 360 video allows you to kind of look around from the point of the camera, but what you guys have developed is a way to give, kind of, more presence by adding that ability to move up and down, and left and right. Well actually, your eyes point to different places. Can you maybe speak to that? Alvin: Yeah. Alvin: Yes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Above: The Oculus Touch controls let you navigate independently with each hand in VR. Image Credit: Oculus. But recently both Google and Oculus have gotten behind it, and as a result we’re seeing accelerated adoption of web VR. Above: Oculus Rift is just the start of the VR marketplace. Image Credit: Oculus VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. There's also 360 videos where you can now buy, 360 stock photos from a company like Blend Media, and also 3D assets on CGTrader or Sketchfab.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. There's also 360 videos where you can now buy, 360 stock photos from a company like Blend Media, and also 3D assets on CGTrader or Sketchfab.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. There's also 360 videos where you can now buy, 360 stock photos from a company like Blend Media, and also 3D assets on CGTrader or Sketchfab.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. There's also 360 videos where you can now buy, 360 stock photos from a company like Blend Media, and also 3D assets on CGTrader or Sketchfab.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Think the fact that Qualcomm powers almost all the most famous AR VR headsets on the market , like Oculus Quest , Vive Focus Plus , and HoloLens 2. The XR2 reference design allows for 2K x 2K panels for each eye. It features two internal cameras, one for each eye to support eye tracking. Reference design features.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Eye Tracking. With Facebook/Oculus’ recent acquisition of The Eye Tribe , the upcoming social VR giant is ready to take a giant leap in making headset-based VR truly immersive: depth of field. 360-video will continue to grow as a medium for immersive, linear experiences. Storytellers Begin to Adapt.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

While the Cosmos is tailored at consumers, the just announced Vive Pro Eye is dedicated to enterprise customer s. It is a slightly improved Vive Pro, that features integrated eye tracking offered by Tobii. It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. Everyone is hyped for the Quest (Image by Oculus).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Alan: There's VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there's also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. Alan: Well all right!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It’s good news by the way that there is continuous IPD adjustment (and with a wider range than before) and that thanks to eye tracking sensors, the headset can tell you if you have positioned it well on your head. There is also an eye-relief dial, so you can put the lenses very close to your eyes, for added field of view.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Oculus Quest is coming out. You’ve got things like haptic suits, haptic gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You've got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Oculus Quest is coming out. You've got things like haptic suits, haptic gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Oculus Quest is coming out. You’ve got things like haptic suits, haptic gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When you look at Facebook or Oculus’s announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they’re creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane. It’s going to be these crazy, exponential improvements on everything. So if you look at something far out, it’ll be in focus.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When you look at Facebook or Oculus’s announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they’re creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane. It’s going to be these crazy, exponential improvements on everything. So if you look at something far out, it’ll be in focus.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When you look at Facebook or Oculus's announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they're creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane. Alan: I mean, to put it in perspective, just to put a final point in that: four years ago we started doing 360 video for companies, and it was about $10,000 a minute.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When you look at Facebook or Oculus's announcement of their varifocal lenses: basically, they're creating lenses inside a headset that will allow you to focus on multiplane. Alan: I mean, to put it in perspective, just to put a final point in that: four years ago we started doing 360 video for companies, and it was about $10,000 a minute.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). Specifications.

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