VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. So I guess what I was thinking of was a form of AR where people could actually walk through the animations, ” Benzing told me as she explained how she crossed the wire from traditional theater to immersive technology, way back in 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

Among these technologies, immersive realities will play a very important part, and HTC wants so to start offering services in that sense. Anyway, it is like if Oculus had partnered with Google here in the Wes t, so I envision that great things could come out from this collaboration; A partnership between HTC and HP.

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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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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. VR is about immersion. Soon being less than five years.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way. 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. Learn more. Learn more.

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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. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

For this reason, I gained a good expertise in immersive collaboration tools, and one of the VR platforms that I love the most in this sense is Mozilla Hubs. Mozilla Hubs is an immersive meeting tool that lets you meet online with other people, and speak with them. Not just your room, but your custom Hubs infrastructure.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

VR video games are some of the most immersive, visceral experiences to date. Creative applications like Oculus Medium, Tilt Brush and Ghost Paint are exposing artistry to computer users that’s much more visceral than ever before.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Respawn Entertainment and Unity. When creating the new “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond” title, Respawn wanted to reboot an entire franchise for access in the Oculus VR platform. Following a successful experience with Unity Hybrid Scaling for Apex Legends, Respawn decided to work with Unity once again on its new immersive experience.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections. The Quest will still be the king.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

But if I have to look at the numbers, some kind of AR is already mainstream : yes, the smartphone doesn’t provide immersive AR and people using it maybe don’t even know that it is called AR (maybe they call it just “filters”), but it is anyway augmented reality and it is of very common use now.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. Brandon: Yeah. Alan: Amazing. It just feels amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. Brandon: Yeah. Alan: Amazing. It just feels amazing.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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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. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon. In parallel, the Chinese company is reworking the VR shell that transforms the handheld console into a VR headset, to make it more comfortable.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. Brandon: Yeah. Alan: Amazing. It just feels amazing.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And we work together to sort of use those technologies within the immersive experience area. We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And we work together to sort of use those technologies within the immersive experience area. We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. In one scenario this may be some kind of AR browser, equivalent to today’s web browsers, like WebXR running on Chrome.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). This was quickly solved using a five meters long active USB 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. So, yes, the view towards AR and VR is predominantly positive.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. The Peripheral is a new series on Amazon that has VR at its center. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. 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? ” because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. 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? ” because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? So you need to use the controller to start the experience, because that's a function of Oculus, not anything we have control over. because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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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. And finally, Oculus has deployed a new update to remove the annoying “Static Flash” bug that was taunting Rift S users.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon.

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