Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. And I mean fully.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

There is a Pico 4 Pro version which includes eye tracking ; It has some interesting lenses , which look very different from the Fresnel lenses used by Pico until now; It features pancake lenses and a sleek design. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5

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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). Specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Finally Pico OS 5 will support hands tracking, so you can interact with the runtime and the games with your bare hands. It is called Pico MRC, exactly as we had Oculus MRC on the Quest… let’s say that naming is not where Pico has big fantasy… Accessories. This was a much awaited feature. Presentation.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Oculus and Respawn Entertainment teased it in 2017 at OC4 describing it as an AAA war game. Throughout this year, we got always more info about it: at first the name, then the setting (WWII), then compatible platforms (both Oculus Store and Steam), and finally, this week, even some info on the multiplayer modes. VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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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? Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole). Google searches are very revealing.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. Image from Amazon). Oculus Link is coming soon. The hype is rising….

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. It's-- I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn't seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. Alan: Oh, I can't wait.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking.

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