The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. If you already know the headset very well, and just want to read my considerations, go straight to the final part of this article. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

But before leaving you to the best pieces of AR/VR news of the week, let me tease you that in the upcoming days I will publish an article I’m sure you will all love… it’s a hands-on preview on… you’ll discover it! Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In this article we’ve pulled together a concise look at the best VR headsets currently available, and a few you might want to keep your eyes on. See this article for the specs your PC needs to handle VR headsets. Value Pick: Oculus Quest 2 with Oculus Link (and Elite Strap ) – $350. Oculus Quest 2 Specs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Regarding me, I will probably publish a first impression article after some hours into the game, and then a full-fledged review when I’ll finish playing it. Oculus Del Mar” may be the next Oculus headset. After the leak was discovered, Oculus deleted everything. Oculus has made its GDC announcements.

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AR Insider

APRIL 17, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. The world’s first WebAR experience to uses voice activation powered by Amazon Lex, just tell the map where you want to go and it will take you there. ROVR Run is currently being featured on the Oculus Browser and the Firefox Reality browsers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. Oculus Link is here. If you’re interested, you can check the interview out here. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. More info (MacRumors original article) More info (Upload VR explanation). The “Cablegate” is hurting Oculus Rift CV1 owners. More info (One of the many reddit posts on the topic) More info (Upload VR article on the topic).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

For XR, instead, it has not been a special week at all: we had a bunch of nice news, plus the usual articles saying “Oh, VR is not mainstream yet, it will never be blablabla”. For the second kind of articles, well, look online, and I’m sure you will find some journalists who say that VR is just a fad while donning their Cardboards.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

As the release notes state, Oculus profiles will “evolve” into a new Meta Horizon profile, while ‘Friends’ will become ‘Followers’. It has a problem though: it can’t be used with Oculus Link , which is a problem if you planned to substitute your Index with a tethered Quest. Some articles about the metaverse. Donate for good.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

More info (Negative article about Meta / 1) More info (Negative article about Meta / 2) More info (Negative article about Meta / 3). I have had a hands-on session with this device at AWE, so prepare to read an article about it soon! An article in the Varjo blog warns us all about the risks of “negative training”.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It works connected to a phone, and while it doesn’t have any kind of tracking embedded, for tasks like watching Netflix it can be very useful (Thanks David for the tip); Amazon has announced the Echo Frames, its smart glasses that let you speak with Alexa. Oculus Link gets updated to 90Hz. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

While we were worried, Variety published an article on the topic, where Magic Leap stated that it was in the middle of raising another round of investments, to be exact, the E round. Image by Oculus, from Road To VR). John Carmack leaves Oculus. Oculus and Insomniac release Stormland. Other relevant news. Let’s see….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). and you found this article for whatever reason, first of all, welcome to the club! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Digital Trends recently published a report entitled ‘VR is in a tailspin, and the sales numbers prove it’ It seems HTC has taken umbrage with the article’s thesis in its newest blog post however, which pushes back against some of the article’s claims, saying it’s “not the whole story.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). New troubles for Oculus Rift users.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Instead, the user interacts entirely through Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Do you want to read them? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Top news of the week. Image by Samsung).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

More than an article, with its 10,000+ words, this is a short book on the Pimax Sword, featuring everything you may need to know about them (what is Pimax, what are the Sword controllers, how do they work… even an interview with the COO of the company!). Image provided by Rob Cole). How would they work with current VR software?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Well, your favorite ghost has just done it for you in this article! 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.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Google Play Store is Google's Android app store that comes with most Android phones and tablets, with the notable exception of Amazon's Fire tablets and some Chinese brands. UploadVR reached out to Google to ask for any additional context that may be useful, and we'll update this article if we get a response.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. Facebook and Amazon executives were 850 miles apart on Wednesday.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. More info (Road To VR article) More info (Disassembly album). More info (Upload VR article) More info (Kickstarter campaign). The company has now solved all the issues and the headset can return on the market. I can’t wait to discover who will win.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The FTC has opened an investigation on Meta about its anti-competitive practices related to applications that propose services similar to its ones on the Oculus Store (Pepperidge Farms remembers when YUR was de facto cloned by Oculus Move). Some weeks ago, I have published an article about VR and its “kids issue”.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Billie Eilish performed in VR using the Oculus Venues app on Oculus Quest. Amazon also sent a powerful signal to the markets regarding the possible expansion of immersive live music events, by bringing Twitch ’s live stream to its Amazon Music App.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews. One article about the metaverse. The article is in Italian, so use Google Translate to read it. Minecraft bans NFTs.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. units for my use in these articles. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. on the consequences of DMA over Apple (article in Italian, shared by Francesco Ronchi).

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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

JUNE 19, 2022

The name has changed and it is now called “Engage Link” , because after TPLink, Oculus Link, Looxid Link, and Pico Neo 3 Link , we needed something else with the name Link. Some articles on the metaverse. Road To VR has published one of his amazing behind-the-scenes articles about Moss Book 2. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2018

In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. Well, just some days after that article, I’ve been proved wrong. Yesterday, I was reading an article on VentureBeat about the importance of WebXR. Thanks Mozilla for this hack.

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