XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. 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. And now we launched last year.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. We are striving to collaborate with many content enterprises for developing software including eye-tracking function.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. 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. And now we launched last year.

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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. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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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. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What kind of devices and software will we need to participate in this AR Cloud? 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.

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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 design of everything reminds a bit the one of the Oculus Rift.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

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. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

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. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But apart from the hardware, what Apple is doing on the software side may also be intriguing: a new job listing from the company has been published to look for an “AR/VR Frameworks Engineer” that should have the role of “developing an entirely new application paradigm”. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.

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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. And so that’s kind of the software they’re working on. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in 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. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. And so that's kind of the software they're working on. I mean, the introduction of ARKit and ARCore probably put 200 startups out of business.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. Amazon Sumerian. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Oculus has sold a couple million. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee. I smelled it, smelled like coffee. million sold.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. Amazon Sumerian. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Oculus has sold a couple million. I reached out, grab a cup of coffee. I smelled it, smelled like coffee. million sold.

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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. And so that’s kind of the software they’re working on. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn't exist yet, so you had to make it. Amazon Sumerian. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Oculus has sold a couple million. You look back when commercial VR launched in 2016, and you needed a $1,500 graphics card.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

The software inside is also very simple: basically, all you can do is look at something and apply it to your vision filters taken from Snapchat. Oculus Quest gets v29 update. For us developers, there is also now the possibility of opening WebXR links easily from the PC by writing their URLs in the Oculus Developer Hub.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It is not a new kind of chipset or reference design for XR headsets, but it is a software solution to offer facilities to developers of AR applications, especially the ones built for AR headsets tethered to the smartphone. More info (Niantic Lightship SDK) More info (Niantic and its new SDK). Qualcomm announces Spaces SDK. Image by Meta).

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I think we’re at third, fourth generation devices at this point and the software has matured. What you’re saying, pick-and-pack software on smartglasses, that’s standard for them now. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I think we’re at third, fourth generation devices at this point and the software has matured. What you’re saying, pick-and-pack software on smartglasses, that’s standard for them now. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I think we're at third, fourth generation devices at this point and the software has matured. What you're saying, pick-and-pack software on smartglasses, that's standard for them now. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. Alan: Absolutely. So it's just grown a lot.

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