The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

According to a blog post on the company’s website, Linden Labs has already been sold to an investment group led by Randy Waterfield and Brad Oberwager. More info (Oculus Link resolution) More info (Change Guardian when using Oculus Link) More info (Shortcut for screenshot on Quest). I can’t wait to read it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! At Facebook Connect this week , Facebook has: Released the powerful Oculus Quest 2 , powered by Snapdragon XR2, and with a 4K display. Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And it also makes me super-happy that no one is about Facebook and Apple… I was getting pretty bored in writing newsletters only about these two companies! Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Among the top 5 news I have chosen, only 1 is about VR. Even if they are just concept videos, they are a massive piece of news anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This is the first public hint that Google is back on track working on a new AR device , most probably glasses that should compete with Facebook and Apple. The headset should be based on Linux and its SimulaOS open-source VR windows manager (or maybe will it work via command-line like all Linux machines? :D). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

The announcement came on the company blog, and it reminds me a lot of what Meta announced a few months ago about Project Aria. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 Learn more (New policy on 18+) Learn more (Horizon is theoretically all 18+). Learn more.

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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. Image by Apple). Apple may implement WebXR in Safari.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. 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. The second one is a Chinese video comparing some technical characteristics of consumer Pico Neo 3 and Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Back to Blog Page First, let’s define what we are talking about. It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning and edge computing. AI and machine learning: Google is a leader in AI and machine learning.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. Oculus Link is coming soon. Top news of the week. Image by Google).

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

” As I started researching, learned a lot about the efforts during the 1990s to incorporate haptics into VR, but interest in haptics tech seemed to fizzle out as enthusiasm for VR subsided. So we conceptualized ‘haptic media’ fairly broadly, enough that it includes devices like Apple Watch along with Q*bert arcade cabinets.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

VR had a great Christmas, and in particular, Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. Image by Apple). Apple hires Meta’s XR Head of PR. A report by Bloomberg reports that Apple has just hired Andrea Schubert, Communications Director at Meta’s consumer hardware division for XR, including Portal, AR, and VR devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

Announcing via blog post that they ran into “unforeseen financial difficulty,” Altspace had raised almost $16M and was not able to finalize another round of funding. The company was originally known as Vrse, and you probably know co-founder and CEO Chris Milk as the empathy machine guy. …and just a few more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

We can so expect a price of $1000+ for the device, which at this point is clearly aimed at professionals, the same target of people of the upcoming Apple headset. Thanks to this solution, it is also possible to play Fortnite on Android and Apple phones. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Apple has just caused big troubles to its ad model with its restrictions on iOS , and some rumors say that Android wants to implement similar restrictions on data gathering in the upcoming months. Apple may announce its device in 2023. Like every week, I have a new rumor about the Apple AR/VR headset. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2023

Today my blog becomes 7 years old. Instead here I am, some years after, with this blog still up and running, and with lots of new friends I have only thanks to this platform , which helped me a lot in connecting with the other people in our community. And yes, also an Oculus Rift DK2 7 years is a lot of time.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem. Face and eye tracking introduce obvious privacy concerns.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. 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. Top news of the week. Image by Snap).

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While on the topic of acquisitions Facebooks takeover of Oculus initially was somewhat hostile with internal disputes between Oculus founders and Zuckerberg and his leadership team. On the surface it would appear that VR / AR adoption is rising steadily. and many other emerging technologies all working together to advance mankind.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. According to Xperia Blog, Sony is going to launch a mobile VR headset working out of Sony phones.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. And one of the posts I wrote recently on my blog at theboolean.io

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. And one of the posts I wrote recently on my blog at theboolean.io

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. And one of the posts I wrote recently on my blog at theboolean.io

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