Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

The conference and expo saw nearly 7,000 attendees, a 30% increase over 2018. RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

At the end of its latest conference, the company behind Snapchat has announced its fourth generation of Spectacles glasses, the first one featuring real-time AR. Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue. Facebook is working with Amazon to solve all the bureaucratic stuff and we hope that sales can start again soon.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to a flash sale, that put it at the ridiculous price of $150, the Go has sold more than all other devices, and has even been #3 most sold device on all Amazon videogames category. More info (Oculus Go being best-seller on Amazon) More info (Oculus Quest sold out) More info (Oculus Quest vs PSVR Google search stats).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Another great UX post by Leap Motion. I was a big fan of the posts on natural UX in VR by Leap Motion (usually published by Road To VR), and I was a bit sad I couldn’t find any new one of them anymore. Amazing demo, have a look at it! It seems fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

On May 1st-2nd, Facebook has had its annual F8 conference. ” Actually, Go immediately became available during the conference. There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And there is even more: during the whole conference, Oculus has not mentioned updates for the Rift S and has not talked about the headset at all, if not to announce the new AAA PC VR games , that will be anyway playable also via Link. A hearthbreaking story by Damo9000 about the Quest vs Rift S: click on it to see how it goes.

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