The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Considering the release date (and the technology that will be available in 2021), the price tag, and the sensors, this looks like a smartglass. More info (Jon Prosser’s video) More info (Apple’s proprietary QR Codes) More info (Steve Jobs AR glasses). Image by Oculus). The Oculus Quest is now one year old.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 19, 2017

There’s a reason the horror genre is so popular among VR developers and 360° video creators. The immersive technology pairs perfectly with the frightening medium, enhancing the atmosphere and jump scares ten-fold. VR technology studio Positron is a perfect example of the incredible 4D future we can look forward to.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. In the last 12 months, the Facebook brand has become increasingly visible and involved with the Oculus subsidiary. Wednesday, April 19.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 21, 2018

Oculus Go , Vive Focus , and Lenovo Mirage Solo seem great pieces of technologies, but which one to buy? Well, I haven’t been able to test the Mirage Solo yet, but I have played around with the Oculus Go and Vive Focus, so let me do a comparison for you. Both the Vive Focus and the Oculus Go are comfortable headsets.

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ARVR

JUNE 27, 2022

Metaverse and virtual reality sells beyond gaming and technology markets if it solves problems. We’re getting better on hardware and high quality content, but how do we actually distribute the fabulous 360 degrees pieces? The technology is absolutely great. It will not sell if it creates them. Photo: Meridian Treehouse.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Lytro , the once consumer-facing light field camera company which has recently pivoted to create high-end production tools , has announced a light field rendering software for VR that essentially aims to free developers from the current limitations of real-time rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Yesterday I detailed you what is the Oculus Rift S , while today I want to write you a recap about what is the Oculus Quest , the most awaited virtual reality headset of 2019. What Is the Oculus Quest? Oculus Quest is the first standalone 6 DOF virtual reality headset by Oculus. And with the Oculus Rift?

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2017

Clocking in at just under three minutes, Battle Test: A Nissan 360-Degree Virtual Reality Experience is a action-packed ride that puts users in the driver’s seat of the new Nissan Rogue as they traverse a riveting ground-battle simulation from the Rogue One film. ” You can watch the 360° video below.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Organized by the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS), the Lumiere Awards have been recognizing and enabling the creation of cutting edge entertainment and storytelling using emerging technologies since James Cameron first set the bar with Avatar. Best VR Branded Experience: The 360° Tour of the Shinola Factory with Luke Wilson.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The seven minute piece is viewable on The Guardian ’s website via a YouTube 360 video link , or on the native The Guardian VR Daydream app. According to the press release provided to Road to VR , Sea Prayer claims to be “the first narrative animated virtual reality film created using Tilt Brush ,” Google’s popular VR painting tool.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Computers weren’t as ubiquitous as they are now, so I was fortunate to have access to the technology and realized I could edit two clips together. Someone I was with said, ‘You need to check out this kid’s video,’ and I remember smiling really big and thinking this is the best 360 video I had ever seen.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

This is very ironic, considering that Google was very ahead of its time with Tango, that had years ago a technology similar to the one proposed today by Apple, but never made the project compelling to anyone. And this is possible because they both have big cash cows: Oculus has Facebook’s advertisement, and Valve has the Steam game store.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Pixvana , a cloud-based VR video company, today announced their much awaited solution for publishing and streaming 360 video, a platform that promises to deliver up to 10K resolution streaming playback from the cloud to your VR devices. Even 4K video spread across a 360-degree sphere leaves much to imagination.

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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).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 2, 2017

But the 360 videos do have one massive upside — anyone with a smartphone and a headset, no matter how cheap, can participate and view them. Right now 360 video offers not only more eyeballs [than Oculus or Vive] but we’re seeing 360 video being viewed even more than traditional video.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Some months ago, Qualcomm had announced its XR2 chipset, which should be the beating heart of all the upcoming AR and VR headsets based on Qualcomm technology. Anyway, the announcement regarded only the chipset and not also a reference design, so it was a good teaser, but the technology was not applicable to real headsets yet.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

These awards honor the year’s best in “cutting edge content and technology achievement.” The recently released jaw-dropper from Oculus Studios won tonight’s Lumiere for Best VR Animated Experience. Dear Angelica was created using the new Oculus art program, Quill and the results are simply astonishing.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2019

The results showed that 51% of travelers found VR to be very appealing as a tool to explore vacation ideas. This idea could theoretically be used on any city/town/destination around the world as the ultimate promotional tool. WellTown is available now on SteamVR and Oculus. Image Credit: WellingtonNZ.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. in funding (with a $4.4B

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Pixvana recently announced SPIN, cloud based platform for VR publishing and streaming along with innovative field-of-view adaptive streaming (FOVAS) technology that will be released as an open standard to increase video quality and reduce bandwidth for stereoscopic 360-degree video. appeared first on VR World.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

Many journalists have been speculating lately that Meta was abandoning the vision of the metaverse and that the new focus of the company was towards AI, the shiny technology of the moment. I’ve also started watching the very interesting speech by “Mister President” Alvin Grayling about XR, AI, and the future of technology (and humanity).

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

The company’s founder Palmer Luckey, a self confessed audio enthusiast, ensured that the consumer Oculus Rift which shipped in June sported both high quality headset integrated headphones, but also ensured the Rift received its own audio path, including a quality DAC and Amp. There is so much still to explore.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The number of 360 video and VR studios is growing at an explosive rate. “We started our directory back in 2015, before HTC Vive and Oculus had even launched, with 99 studios as members. Rather, I find it’s about how the new immersive tools and technologies are affecting all the other industries. On average 1.5

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). The Oculus Quest 2 is selling incredibly well because it offers the right combination of affordable price, good hardware, and a good software ecosystem. The Quest will still be the king.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 8, 2019

Anyone of these technologies on their own would be revolutionary but used together, we begin racing towards the Singularity or the point where the exponential curve of technology goes straight up, unlocking unprecedented value in the market. We have been working in XR since 2014 when I first tried the Oculus Rift DK1.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2018

Their first foray into the technology, Smashparty VR , embodies the very spirit of the company itself, allowing users to destroy a collection of household items with various colorful weaponry as a crowd wildly cheers you on. Icarus Six Sixty Six was created using Tilt Brush, a VR art tool that Titmouse has utilized multiple times in the past.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Facebook’s developer conference, F8, gives a look at the future of technology and how Facebook “connects the world through products and innovation,” as stated on the event’s website. ” Presented by: Michael Antonov (Chief Software Architect) at Oculus, Andrew Mo (Product Manager) at Oculus.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2017

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. BBC PARTNERING WITH OCULUS TO BRING ‘PLANET EARTH’ TO VR. PSVR NOW SUPPORTS YOUTUBE 360 VIDEOS. FOXNEXT: THE NEW GAMING DIVISION FROM THE FOX INNOVATION LAB.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

I found very interesting that they are trying to create full-body VR content for the Oculus Quest. I have instead tried another demo for Oculus Quest called Anamika, where you impersonate a four-armed Indian goddess. InVR is another nice company making 360 videos and volumetric videos. Me and Simon of One Bonsai.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. Oculus has just started rolling out the update to the Quest runtime v23 , that introduces a lot of new features and improvements to this device: All the applications in the headset can now run at 90 Hz (including the passthrough vision); Oculus Link upgrades to 90Hz as well and finally exits from beta.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

The Getty Images Virtual Reality Group brings the very latest in photographic and video technology together with Getty Images’ 21 years of experience in visual storytelling, to offer exceptional content for existing and future VR platforms. Click to see some of the Getty 360° Video content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 21, 2017

The event featured 26 different companies ranging from game developers, enterprise applications, ease-of-use convenience tools, and a litany of other projects. The headset-agnostic tech stack connects advertisers with developers and publishers to deliver immersive, native VR/AR/360 video advertising experiences. China, and more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

It’s available or in beta on most current headsets, including PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR and Google Cardboard. We created all the tools that we needed to make content in virtual reality. I think that the toothpaste is out of the tube in so many respects when it comes to musical content and technology.”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As you can see we are talking about a headset that really tries to push that technology at its limits… it really looks like a 2 nd gen device. Regarding the cost, for instance, Oculus can afford to sell its devices under cost, because it has Facebook’s deep pockets covering the losses. The other one is the modular tracking technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 8, 2019

Anyone of these technologies on their own would be revolutionary but used together, we begin racing towards the Singularity or the point where the exponential curve of technology goes straight up, unlocking unprecedented value in the market. We have been working in XR since 2014 when I first tried the Oculus Rift DK1.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Productivity for Meta means in particular making the job done, that is giving the tools to professionals to do work on the headset. Meta has partnered with other two tech giants: Adobe and Autodesk, to bring their professional tools to Quest Pro. Face and eye tracking introduce obvious privacy concerns. Adobe and Autodesk.

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