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. Oculus Go won’t support USB memory sticks. If you’re interested, you can check the interview out here.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

Like with all the other events organized by HTC China, the keynote has been held by Mr. Alvin Wang Graylin , mostly known as “Mister President”, that is famous for the passion with which he performs inspiring talks. An official launch will come in Q3 2020, at first in China and then in the rest of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

They are the business counterpart of the Pico Neo 3 , the consumer headset that Pico is selling in China for around $400, hoping to kickstart a consumer VR ecosystem there. Tracking is not as amazing as Oculus Insight, though. Also, the tracking of the headset seems to be slightly less reactive than Oculus’s one.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Image by Oculus, from Road To VR). John Carmack leaves Oculus. In a surprise move that no one was expecting, the god of programming John Carmack has decided to leave Oculus. More info (John Carmack leaves Oculus) More info (Carmack stating he’s not satisfied with VR pace) More info (Damo9000’s sarcasm on the news).

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Pico VR headset is sold to consumers in China, while in the West it’s primarily used for enterprise applications. After the free September 9th update, the VR game will expand to allow 2 players wearing Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets to freely roam in 100 square feet of shared playspace. I Expect You To Die 2 Released This Week.

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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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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

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Freelance writer Joshua Fruhlinger, who occasionally writes for Digital Trends , used third-party Amazon sales data to back up his claim that consumers don’t care about VR anymore, saying it’s “crystal clear.” The report also specifies Gear VR’s decline in sales performance on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I have to say it also reminds me a bit of the pancake headset just announced by Skyworth , but this doesn’t surprise me much, because in China many headsets have similarities because they are all made by Goertek, in the end. Availability in China will be announced in the dedicated event on September, 27th, as I was telling you before.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More info (HTC teasing Vive Flow) More info (More teaser images of Vive Flow) More info (Launch event invitation / Western World) More info (Launch event invitation / China). The new Oculus device was by the way another piece of hardware that was by chance “leaked” in a timely way so that to excite everyone for Facebook Connect 2.

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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. Part of your data on Tik Tok may still be accessible from China. Quest runtime v41 is rolling out. Some articles on the metaverse. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 31, 2019

He took two packages of the same headset, just arrived from China, and gave one to me while he was trying the other one. But your character refuses to move most of the time , and basically does what it wants, because when you are in China, China decides for you. 10/10 for the philosophical meaning. Final impression.

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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 ]”. My favorite from this week? More info Buy it now!

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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? More info (Logitech Chorus?—?Road

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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. If you have already some cool VR video, you can ping the company to ask it to distribute your content on VeeR platform , that is performing pretty well in China. The company has now solved all the issues and the headset can return on the market. Join the VRX event!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

This way it will be possible to add even eye-tracking to these enterprise device; Vive Vee, a virtual character that should represent the brand in China and the rest of the world. Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. Pico Neo 3 launch has been a success in China. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest.

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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

JUNE 6, 2018

Will it be available also on Western websites like Amazon? 7Invensun’s eye tracker is only available in China now. We do have data from the market showing that there are more VR hardware device producers in China than in western countries now. When are you going to release your first non-dev-oriented version of the device?

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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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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. He has clients like the royal families in Dubai, China and his incredible designs have been built all over the planet. Anyone who reads will have a great foundation for the game.”.

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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. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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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?). Huawei this week has announced a new pair of smart glasses, available in China for around $270. (Image from Reddit).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

NOLO and Arpara brings new headsets from China. 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. What surprised me more is the launch of the Arpara VR , a headset from a company I had never heard of before, not even in my travels to China. Other relevant news. Some XR fun.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

While Oculus said last week that the Coronavirus would make it even harder to buy its Quest headset due to the illness’ impact on its China-based manufacturing operation, Valve has not indicated any impact related to the outbreak.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

score on the Oculus App Lab now. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store…. As for the controllers, they look like a mix of the Oculus Touch and the controllers of the Vive Focus Plus, with some important ergonomic adjustments.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

As someone who has spent a lot of time using different PCVR controllers like Wands, Index, Windows MR, and different versions of Oculus Touch, I wondered: how would these Sword controllers compare? Ltd was founded by Robin Weng and associates in Shanghai, China in 2015. Image provided by Rob Cole). Who is Pimax? From the China.cn

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is not as good as Oculus Insight, that is the gold standard in the industry with its over-the-top accuracy, though, so here you can see for instance the virtual controllers slightly moving when you keep the real controllers still in front of you, or you can see some glitches if you make the controllers enter fast into the tracking field of view.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

I and my partner Gianni bought every new headset on the market : the Oculus Rift DK2, the Vive, the Rift CV1, the Gear VR, etc… We also went to almost every event we were invited to, even the smallest one (I remember once we went to a public plaza with like 7 people listening to our talk about VR…). The reasons?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. The official boxes of the Oculus Quest (above) and Vive Focus Plus (below). Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). The design of everything reminds a bit the one of the Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. Image from Amazon).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset -- and they sold millions of these units. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole. Or it's going to take some more time?

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