Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. This is the fourth paradigm shift for Apple. So, what is Apple getting ready to announce over the next year? Eventually, I hear, Apple will even bring 3D to 2D monitors.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

Counterpoint’s Global XR (VR & AR) Model Tracker reveals Oculus Quest 2 Cumulative Sales. The streaming giant is going head to head with Microsoft, Sony, Google and Apple. A new book, An Ugly Truth , tells the whole sordid story. The New York Times Book Review calls it “the ultismate takedown.” They have to.

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Full Dive Gaming

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We talk Pico Neo 4 Enterprise, Moss Book 2 and much more!!! 22:29 VR NEWS 23:00 Pico 4 ENTERPRISE News 29:00 Moss Book II SURPRISE Launches on PC 30:49 App Lab has 3X as many games as Oculus Store 32:52 GAMES Section 33:16 Moss Book II VS. Moss Book I 40:57 Jay Tried the Quest Pro 1:06:15 Come JOIN Us!

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

An internal email reportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company’s feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. 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

MAY 8, 2023

T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. The first one is that since the Gaming Showcase is happening on June, 1st, it seems positioned in a way to make Meta perform some announcements right before the Apple WWDC.

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Full Dive Gaming

AUGUST 3, 2023

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VRWorld

APRIL 7, 2017

While Samsung always had a clear plan that Google and its Android are just some of operating systems the company ships their products with, the company never disabled features that come with Android… until now. At the moment, compared to Google’s Daydream, Samsung’s Gear VR is more rounded and polished.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. ” Granted, the technology has changed a great deal since 2014, the same year Oculus Rift DK2 came out. Having seen how far the technology has come though, it raises a question: why hasn’t Nintendo made a VR headset yet?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Do you want to read a good book on AR/VR?

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell is a book published in 2013 with historians Paula Fleming and Denis Pellerin. The book was a tribute to Les Diableries,a series of 3D stereoscopic cards published in Paris in the 1860s. Both Diableries and Diabl-O-Scope are available from Apple’s App Store.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Check-ins with Apple experts for UI design and development guidance, and help refining your app. This Apple-owned development device needs to be returned upon request.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.” In his talks, the icon discussed the progress of the platform, citing examples from his book ‘Snow Crash.’

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

While all are waiting for the amazing AR glasses that Facebook and Apple will release in the upcoming years, many other big companies and startups are trying to enter the same market, trying to earn some early market shares. More info (Use Google Translate). Oculus is shipping again the Elite Straps. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The same has happened with Apple, which is now offering bonuses to employees to keep them inside the company. Apple has performed very strategic acquisitions as well, and the news of the week is that Snap has acquired Compound Photonics to gain a key supplier of LCOS and Microled displays. Apple may have delays for its headset.

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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

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Google’s investment for a 7.7% of units more produced annually.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Well played Apple. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Google releases Chrome 81. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

You open the box and find the device and the accessories but you don’t say “wow” as when you open the Oculus Go box, for instance. When I published this photo of the Oculus Go and Vive Focus together, a lot of people got surprised by its dimensions. Oculus Go). The headset. The Vive Focus headset is a bit big.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

In the early 90s, it no doubt felt “a bit like looking up the Wright Brothers and taking their original prototype out for a spin,” as the book describes. The year the book was published, Sega announced a VR peripheral for the Genesis. The demo described in the book finds the user riding a motorcycle down a Brooklyn street.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2021

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. Also reading books helped me in improving my writing skills.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For sure Apple, Facebook, and Google have to invest in this technology because the sales of the smartphones are declining, and they need something new. It seems that Max is a huge fan of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by HappyGiant). How long can we expect the gameplay to be?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 8, 2021

We’ve been waiting for years for Apple to reveal its mixed reality products, including visors and glasses. We’ve been seeing the potential coming in other products like the Oculus Quest, the Magic Leap 1, or Microsoft’s Hololens. So it makes sense to upgrade all audio, which Apple is in the middle of doing. Look at Apple Music.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

I wrote this as a way to think through some of the issues coming in the Spatial Computing world in preparation for a book coming in 2020 that Irena Cronin and I are writing, but we decided not to run this in the book, so am running it here instead. You will be fired if you don’t wear fourth paradigm Spatial Computing devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading. As soon as it’s synchronized with my Google Maps, which… actually, it could be right now. I could play the Google Maps with my ears, I haven’t tried that yet. Yes, exactly. And Instagram as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading. As soon as it’s synchronized with my Google Maps, which… actually, it could be right now. I could play the Google Maps with my ears, I haven’t tried that yet. Yes, exactly. And Instagram as well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A few weeks after I officially entered VR, the technology started being overhyped after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. The XR field is now growing, and the long-term outlook is also great, with the upcoming release of the Apple mixed reality headset which is for sure going to re-ignite the hype for immersive realities again.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers. Maybe this “big thing” will be the famous Apple headset, which thanks to the Apple brand and some key innovations, will draw new people into our market. It is not a continuous line, but there are many jumps.

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

David also helps maintain a website about haptic media studies and has a book about the history of haptics called Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing , coming out in early 2018 with the University of Minnesota Press. There’s so much discussion of haptics in that book. Archaeologies of Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Other relevant news.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

It’s a bit like being caught up in a book or a movie. Movies are more immersive than books because the sound and images help pull you in quicker. You can get caught up in a book or movie, but you never feel as though you are in the same place as the characters. Everything else just fades away. Except more so.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all.

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