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. The Vive Ultimate Tracker is like a Vive Tracker, but it tracks its pose using two onboard cameras, not requiring any SteamVR base station. THREE TO ONE.

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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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico has been a very smart company, and all these years it has been able to evolve from the mediocre Pico Neo 1, to the interesting Pico Neo 2, to arrive at the Pico Neo 3, that on paper, looks like a Chinese version of the Oculus Quest 2 , and it seems to have all the features to compete properly with this device. But is it really that good?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Personally, I praise a lot this initiative : we are in a very complicated moment for virtual reality, where the market is not ready yet for many startups to survive easily, and we should all support each other, helping each other to survive. It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. Donate on Patreon!

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Four years after the original Oculus Quest headset arrived, the Meta Quest platform offers an impressive range of experiences that caters to all interests. We played on Oculus Quest 2, but it’s crossplay between Quest 1, Quest 2, and PC VR headsets with cross-buy on Rift and Quest. Looking for the best free Quest games and apps?

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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. A short review of the StarVR One. When the position is correct, you can record it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. Mixed Reality use cases This is the app Campfire3D, running on a Meta Quest 3 devkit. Preorders most probably will start on the day of the Connect, so on September, 27th.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pixel density is what makes us see everything crisper, and if with the 773 PPI of the Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3 Link the screen door effect was already almost invisible, I think that with 1200, it will be impossible to see pixels at all, for a very immersive virtual reality. ” The new colourful interface of Pico OS 5. Presentation.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). 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. Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. And now we launched last year.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. And now we launched last year.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! The first one is that Reality Labs had $10B of losses in 2021.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. We're going to dig into how these amazing simulators can push forward the reality behind virtual reality. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. And now we launched last year.

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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.

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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. NBA is training referees using Virtual Reality. with a median of 0 friends. A Ready Player Two movie is in the works.

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

On the 11 th of May, I received an email from Pimax about their new “Sword” virtual reality motion controllers , which had finally become available to purchase, following a reveal way back in January 2019 at CES. Pimax Sword Controllers – review by Rob Cole for Skarredghost. Image provided by Rob Cole). Introduction. From the China.cn

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

In my article about the craziest XR devices out there , I mentioned Ekto VR , the shoes that let you walk in real life to walk in virtual reality. From a vision level, we’re fulfilling the sci-fi promise of virtual reality, but so many of us in this space are doing very similar things.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

That’s a piece of fantastic news for all those enterprise companies that plan in implementing augmented reality in their production processes. HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. Image from Amazon).

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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 only true difference is in storage.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

“The iterative–“ Lance: It’s the iterative transformation or the iterative deployment of augmented reality/virtual reality within your business organization. I think augmented reality and virtual reality and these technologies now, they do drive that kind of warranted rollout.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

“The iterative–“ Lance: It’s the iterative transformation or the iterative deployment of augmented reality/virtual reality within your business organization. I think augmented reality and virtual reality and these technologies now, they do drive that kind of warranted rollout.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Lance: It's the iterative transformation or the iterative deployment of augmented reality/virtual reality within your business organization. I think augmented reality and virtual reality and these technologies now, they do drive that kind of warranted rollout. The iterative--". you're like "Oh, OK."

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the device of the moment. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. If you want to watch a video review of the Oculus Quest 2 instead of reading my post, you can do it here! Opening an Oculus’s box is always an experience before the experience for the user.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

And in 2016, at South by Southwest, I did a panel on music and virtual reality. And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

And in 2016, at South by Southwest, I did a panel on music and virtual reality. And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

And in 2016, at South by Southwest, I did a panel on music and virtual reality. Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing. We're subject area experts in virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). Oculus is updating its Rift S and Quest offering. This has been an interesting week of news and updates for Oculus’s flagship devices. The Rift S has been upgraded as well, and the tracking of the controllers has been improved together with the one of the Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Thanks Oculus for having given us the Link functionality. the USB cable for Oculus Link) and the (rechargeable) batteries for the controllers. If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. We are lucky that we have virtual reality. It is still a bit buggy, but very useful in these times.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

This was the final big surprise of the event: Sony Pictures and Meta, in partnership with nDreams, will bring the famous franchise to virtual reality. Meta releases hands tracking 2.0 Meta has just released the v2 of its hand tracking system for Quest. Image by Amazon).

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