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

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The first one is the usual SteamVR hardware survey. Apart from highlighting that the Rift S is expanding its size and that the Valve Index is now selling well, the survey shows that VR users on Steam are continuously growing. Year-over-year growth was driven by sales of Oculus Quest ”. According to Road To VR, we have now 1.3M

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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. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. It’s basically a monopoly. Learn more.

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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. BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. 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. BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. 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. BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset -- and they sold millions of these units. Which still has its uses!

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. The online marketplace groups different versions of the same item into one listing, much like Amazon and other online shopping sites, so that, say, all the colors of a particular dress are considered to be a single product listing.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. SURVEY SAYS BRITISH WOMEN WANT VR SEX. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Horizon World is more or less what we all expect from it: a clone of RecRoom with intuitive and simple creation tools, that at the moment let you just add basic geometric shape and some logic. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. Meta updates the SDK for Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

But Talespin CEO Kyle Jackson tells Alan it’s more than that; it’s a tool to help humans flex their core competencies in everything from leadership skills to confidence-building. We’ll also be discussing how you can use immersive technologies as an assessment tool to better prepare your workforce for exponential growth.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

But Talespin CEO Kyle Jackson tells Alan it’s more than that; it’s a tool to help humans flex their core competencies in everything from leadership skills to confidence-building. . We’ll also be discussing how you can use immersive technologies as an assessment tool to better prepare your workforce for exponential growth.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

But Talespin CEO Kyle Jackson tells Alan it’s more than that; it’s a tool to help humans flex their core competencies in everything from leadership skills to confidence-building. . We'll also be discussing how you can use immersive technologies as an assessment tool to better prepare your workforce for exponential growth. Thanks, Alan.

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