The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. The community is not happy with this news, but another piece of news spread this week by VR magazines has given us some hope. MRTK now supports Oculus Quest. Some news on content.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Do you know that there are some XR blogs and magazines all in Spanish to cater to Spanish and Southern American markets? As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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RealVision VR

MAY 25, 2017

It also so happens that Facebook has invested an eyebrow raising (at least back in 2013-2014) amount in a company back then, called Oculus. Today, there’s already Netflix VR, Hulu VR, and we know from that job posting that Amazon Prime Video is soon going to have their OTT presence upgraded to VR. In VR, seeing is believing.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Facebook says that Beat Games will remain independent and the game will remain the same, but these are the same words that I’ve heard when in 2014 it acquired Oculus, and we all know how the story ended (and in fact, the popular Damo9000 ironized about it). Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link. Image by Valve).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

A new week has passed by, and it has been a quite good one for me: I’ve been featured again on Authority Magazine and I’ve launched a new series of videos on my Youtube channel where I answer the questions of the community. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. Happy Monday everyone!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. And among these platforms onto which the game could be ported in the future, he has also mentioned the Oculus Quest. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. News worth a mention.

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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. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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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 Matthew Ball talked about the metaverse on all magazines. If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews. with a median of 0 friends. News worth a mention. Learn more.

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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?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. Some magazines reported this news as a sign of the failure of Meta’s strategy about the metaverse. The previous one went great on Amazon, and I’m sure this will be a great read, too.

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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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ARVR

JUNE 21, 2021

For example, Oculus, one of the leaders in developing VR headsets, offers rooms and parties for Gear VR where you can meet with your friends in a virtual private space. Since Oculus is owned by Facebook, it is easy to connect with your friends. You can get a Gear VR headset for $129 on Amazon. link] 4th of July During Covid?—?How

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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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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Amazon Sumerian   — Amazon Sumerian enables users to create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly without requiring any specialized programming expertise.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. Why couldn’t they just use a simple voice assistant device, such as an Amazon Echo or Google Home? Lee Vermeulen is breaking new ground with his experimental AR prototypes. .

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

You may wonder who am I to write such a post, since I have never been featured on the front page of TIME magazine. The only sure purchase for me on day 1 among the above devices has been the Oculus Quest. Here on my blog I am experimenting with different income sources (Patreon, Adsense, Amazon Affiliate, Sponsored Posts, etc…).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

The main purpose for which people buy a Quest is games, and in fact, the majority of articles in VR magazines are about games. So an Apple TV user can easily put on the Reality headset and watch a football match there, but no one is currently an Oculus TV user unless it has a Meta headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

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? We can share our work to your Oculus Go headsets, if you just let me know the address. What a great barrier.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

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? We can share our work to your Oculus Go headsets, if you just let me know the address. What a great barrier.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

The interview has been super interesting for me, because thanks to it I’ve learned a lot about the 3D modeling market, that is something that usually VR magazines do not talk about. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

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. We can share our work to your Oculus Go headsets, if you just let me know the address.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I don’t know where all this comes from: it may be that Apple is fostering negative media for Meta, or that after the metaverse hype where all the magazines overhyped the technology, now they are starting to kill it because it didn’t become huge in 6 months as they expected. The Peripheral is a new series on Amazon that has VR at its center.

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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

JUNE 17, 2019

The past week has been the week of the E3, and we had an insane amount of news regarding new upcoming Virtual Reality content, especially for the Oculus Quest! Thanks to the popular VR magazine Upload VR, that has organized the E3 VR Showcase, Virtual Reality has had its glorious moment at E3 2019. For what games are you hyped?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was newspaper, magazines, and television. When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. What was it? It was a television. How many television stations do we have?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was newspaper, magazines, and television. When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was newspaper, magazines, and television. When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. What was it? It was a television. How many television stations do we have?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. ” That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report. And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report. And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. By Walter J.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. ” That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report. And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Business-oriented magazines are talking about the metaverse as a MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR OPPORTUNITY (caps required to underline the bullsh*tting happening around) and so many people are coming to exploit this opportunity. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. Meta updates the SDK for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

The real question is: what about headsets that don’t rely on PC like the Oculus Quest or the Vive Focus Plus ? Interface to pair your Oculus Quest application to your bHaptics suit in VR. Here below, I’ll tell you something about these experiments, that happened both on my PC (+ HTC Vive) and my Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. Oculus Del Mar” may be the next Oculus headset. The documentation was the same as before, if not for the fact that in the page about headset Input page, there was also a reference to “Oculus Jedi” controllers.

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