Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a post to the company’s official blog , Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe confirms he’ll be stepping down from the company’s top position to head the new PC VR group. At present, that leaves Oculus without a executive head. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. Founder Palmer Luckey will also land in a new role.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift ’s are often pretty extensive with games spread across genres and plenty of non-gaming experiences like short films and experimental forms of education. HTC Vive’s blog reveals that their partners have collaborated to do just that and Amazon has also put together an Oculus Rift deal.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

For reasons that stretch beyond what we can think up, Oculus wouldn’t recommend you use any third-party equipment to enhance your Rift setup. Oculus has a enough court battles for one month. As for actual wall-mounts, Oculus points toward Amazon and 3D printing. Tagged with: oculus , roomscale.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

As of today, Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, is no longer the CEO of the company he helped create with Palmer Luckey over four years ago in Irvine, CA. Iribe and Thomason, along with Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook, will reportedly all work together to find a new leader for Oculus VR moving forward. We loved them in our review.

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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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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It’s an exciting day for Oculus Quest as the headset can finally be cabled to a PC to play Oculus Rift videogames, all thanks to Oculus Link. ” So in the meantime what you need is a high-quality USB-3 cable – Oculus Quest’s charging cable won’t work as its only USB-2.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The stylish, escape room puzzle game I Expect You To Die originally launched for the Oculus Rift in late 2016, quickly expanding to the PlayStation VR platform in December, and finally to the HTC Vive via Steam in April 2017. Schell Games has also begun a week-long 20% discount for the title on all platforms.

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

based employee using an Oculus Go through STRIVR ’s VR training program. In a recent blog post , senior engineering manager at Walmart Labs, Tim Fields said, “Walmart store shoppers love using our mobile app bar code scanner as a price checker. Available on all devices running iOS 11.3

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Facebook hires the first Oculus Ambassadors. NASA is using AR/VR on ISS.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

With major US retailers already greasing the wheels of their shopping carts in preparation for the yearly scramble we call Black Friday, Sony today announced on the US PlayStation blog that it’s temporarily lowering the price of all PlayStation VR bundles as well as the PlayStation 4 1TB console, each by $100. image courtesy Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In my career as an XR professional, I’ve got to know people from all over the world, especially thanks to this blog, social media, and the international events I attended. Do you know that there are some XR blogs and magazines all in Spanish to cater to Spanish and Southern American markets?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Announced way back in December, 2015 , the much anticipated Rock Band VR is now due to ship on March 23rd, according to the official Harmonix blog. A bundle including a Rock Band Fender Stratocaster wireless guitar controller for Xbox One or PS4 and the game can be pre-ordered today for $70 via Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. This shows that the sales were good among us VR techies… I myself have stopped using the Quest 2 and almost always use the Quest 3 now. THREE TO ONE.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. I can’t wait to read it. Linden Research to be acquired. Linden Research a.k.a.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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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. NVIDIA has presented on its blog another use case of enterprise collaboration in VR that uses 5G and cloud rendering. Quest runtime v41 is rolling out. Other news.

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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. More info (Logitech Chorus? How I code every day Funny link.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

If you want to adapt your older kit to the Oculus Rift CV1 and HTC Vive, here’s a quick guide that will help: Thicker Adhesive Strips. You can get them from your local hardware store or from Amazon: [link]. If you have an Oculus Rift, you’ll want to get a longer extender as well. From there, here’s how to do it: Cords.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. So when I finally got an Oculus Rift DK2, I jumped in and started going to every meetup that was happening in New York. ”. Also, according to her IMDB page , Benzing once “ translated a 500 year old play from Middle French into English.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2016

Spotted by eagle-eyed reader Lenny Glionna in a post on Toucan , the official Comic-Con blog, was mention of a Rick and Morty Virtual Reality experience headed to the ‘Adult Swim on the Green’ event at SDCC 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. Cosmonius High is releasing a new update with lots of accessibility options.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. And among these platforms onto which the game could be ported in the future, he has also mentioned the Oculus Quest. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

with Amazon Prime. Regarding the cost, for instance, Oculus can afford to sell its devices under cost, because it has Facebook’s deep pockets covering the losses. I’ll keep developing and blogging , that’s better. We still can’t have a headset that looks like the one of Ready Player One and that costs $99.99

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I’ve spent the last weeks reading “Making a metaverse that matters” by Wagner James Au , the author behind the blog New World Notes. In case you want to read the book, too, you can find it on Amazon: [link] (the link is without affiliation, so you can trust the honesty of my review).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I don’t think there are any Humech robots in that story like the Scraper: The Rise of Cifer novel, which is available on Amazon. Ryder used to be the Editor of Dark Horse Comics, and we’ve talked about a graphic novel, comics and a weekly blog that has already been started. Anyone who reads will have a great foundation for the game.”.

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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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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Check out the challenges below, RSVP here now, and stay tuned on our blog and social media. Download VeeR VR Immersive on your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality and Google Daydream to experience the premium Halloween 360/VR contents. The V-eeRie Land is time-limited! Do you know what is your deepest fear?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. The second one is a Chinese video comparing some technical characteristics of consumer Pico Neo 3 and Oculus Quest 2. More info (Official blog post) More info (PSVR Spotlight on Upload VR). Please support this blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

The announcement came on the company blog, and it reminds me a lot of what Meta announced a few months ago about Project Aria. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. Oculus support at its best Funny link. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

People started screaming at the “Oculus Quest competitor”, but I wonder why Apple should release a VR headset with just limited AR features after it has repeated for years that it doesn’t care about VR. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. Virtuactions proposes LBEVR with Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

This is the week of this blog’s birthday and so I’m publishing a very special post, that I’m going to split into two parts. The only sure purchase for me on day 1 among the above devices has been the Oculus Quest. If you are not into VR, don’t worry… most of these rules apply to all kinds of companies.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Oculus Team have published a detailed guide on Roomscale VR setup. While Oculus continues to recommend the two-forward-facing sensor configuration for Touch users and developers, many people are trying roomscale solutions, using two or three sensors to achieve 360 degree tracking. and one on USB 2.0. will cause tracking issues.

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