Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app.

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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

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B It looks like a refreshed Vive Focus Plus. was a lot of money?).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Really, it works with all platforms: PC, Mac, smartphones, PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest , even Cardboards! Liv Ericksen explained to us that depending on the Amazon Virtual Machine you’re going to buy, you can have a certain number of people together. Azure is one of the best cloud providers (Image by Microsoft).

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies – CEO Dirk Ahlborn debuts their VR experience for the station and boarding and their AR collaboration tool Beem on the Microsoft HoloLens. The Tick: Amazon is bringing a virtual reality escape room to Comic-Con for their upcoming original series. Power Rangers VR – Case Study.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. You and I’ve been studying this s**t for years and it’s complicated, because every day a new headset comes out and every day a new platform comes out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. You and I’ve been studying this s**t for years and it’s complicated, because every day a new headset comes out and every day a new platform comes out.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

Sam&Max: This Time Is Virtual is another amazing game on the Quest (Image by Happy Giant) The Quest Pro tried to change this trend: Meta launched it as a device specifically for professionals, and launched it together with a partnership with Microsoft, for instance. Then we don’t know how the market will react to it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. You and I've been studying this s**t for years and it's complicated, because every day a new headset comes out and every day a new platform comes out. you're like "Oh, OK." Lance: Yep.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. It becomes even more necessary in a world beyond the website with AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. But I also-- I read a research paper from Microsoft and they're working on using 2D images to create 3D models. Alan: Yeah. Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. But I also-- I read a research paper from Microsoft and they're working on using 2D images to create 3D models. Alan: Yeah. Interesting.

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VRGames

MAY 3, 2022

From competitive shooters to MMOs, frantic rhythm games and relaxing puzzle *games*, here are the *best* PCVR and Oculus *games* to play in 2022. **If On a mission to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, a sudden rupture nearby sends you and their station crashing onto an unknown alien world.|. Available Platforms.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. But I also-- I read a research paper from Microsoft and they're working on using 2D images to create 3D models. Alan: Yeah. Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset -- and they sold millions of these units. Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. Alan: Right.

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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. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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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. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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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. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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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. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Björn: It was actually quite funny, while still studying at the university, computer science, and then somewhere else, augmented reality which popped up. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping. 120 million people.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Björn: It was actually quite funny, while still studying at the university, computer science, and then somewhere else, augmented reality which popped up. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping. 120 million people.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. We can do larger scale studies. It takes a little bit time to do the studies to demonstrate safety and efficacy, but we’re in the process of doing that. It’s just amazing. We know that. And we can go deeper now with the technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab has a focus on exploring and studying how VR technology can promote pro-social behavior, such as helping us better understand how our behavior affects the world's ecology, how our behavior affects other people, and studying how we can shift attitudes and shift behavior using virtual reality technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. We can do larger scale studies. It takes a little bit time to do the studies to demonstrate safety and efficacy, but we’re in the process of doing that. It’s just amazing. We know that. And we can go deeper now with the technology.

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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. Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft.

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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. Kent: It reminds me of-- I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that's a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft.

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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. Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. There’s been tons of studies at Stanford. And I’m looking forward to the studies that will be coming out in the future. There are studies that need to come out. This year is also EWTS’s biggest expo.

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