The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC, HTC has announced that this great device will come for sure to the rest of the world and that this will happen “later this year” I know, this is not a very definite time, but it is better than nothing: before the GDC we weren’t even sure if it would ever come here. Oculus Go showcased.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

He also is aware of Apple entering the market, and said his employees that the battle between Meta and Apple is a battle between open ecosystems vs closed ecosystems. Another interesting thing is that Pico is not copying Meta or Magic Leap in proposing inside-out tracked controllers : these ones still have a tracking ring.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

OK, I will be able give a more definite verdict after I actually get a hands-on demo first thing tomorrow, but in the meantime, here are our first impressions from having seen the live demos on the stage here at MWC Barcelona. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Investing in a new market is risky and there will be some winners and there will be some losers, so there’s definitely a certain amount of risk. Facebook – NASDAQ: FB – Oculus VR, VR headset, VR Camera, VR content, VR platform. Samsung – KRX: 005930 – GearVR (partnership with Oculus VR) and 360 Camera. Unconfirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. well, failing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They don't need to go and do personal demos for every investor now, but for small startups and studios and people that are raising money, they definitely need that one-on-one, and they need to pitch that. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. So what people are doing is pitching by Zoom.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They don't need to go and do personal demos for every investor now, but for small startups and studios and people that are raising money, they definitely need that one-on-one, and they need to pitch that. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. So what people are doing is pitching by Zoom.

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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. I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap.

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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. I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. So they’re… [chuckles].

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They don't need to go and do personal demos for every investor now, but for small startups and studios and people that are raising money, they definitely need that one-on-one, and they need to pitch that. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. So what people are doing is pitching by Zoom.

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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. I'd say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. So they're.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. And that was definitely a new way to to consume media.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. And that was definitely a new way to to consume media.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

It is more refined than the original Vive, but it has not that Apple-like approach that has the Rift. Also, the controllers were the ones of Vive 1 and being used to my Oculus Touch , I felt back to the nineties. Oculus Rift CV1 vs HTC Vive Pro. Coming from the Oculus Rift CV1, the Vive Pro felt absolutely ????

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. And that was definitely a new way to to consume media.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

The 3D market is definitely getting stronger and growing , because it not only serves several well-established industries, like architecture but is also getting attention from a rising number of indie game (including mobile) developers and relatively new industries, like VR and AR. Believe it or not, this is a 3D model.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

So, yeah, definitely get everyone to subscribe. But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market. ” When Apple brings something to the market, it needs to kill it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

So, yeah, definitely get everyone to subscribe. But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market. ” When Apple brings something to the market, it needs to kill it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

So, yeah, definitely get everyone to subscribe. But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap -- and we weren't really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently -- were the only players in that market. When Apple brings something to the market, it needs to kill it. That'll be great.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

So, yeah, definitely get everyone to subscribe. But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market. ” When Apple brings something to the market, it needs to kill it.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: It's actually pretty cool that you say that, because that is one of the use cases that comes in often inbound to us, as companies -- it hasn't happened yet -- but those companies definitely brainstorming around how you track the hands even with just a smartphone, like overlaying something. Alan: We actually did it. Varag: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: It's actually pretty cool that you say that, because that is one of the use cases that comes in often inbound to us, as companies -- it hasn't happened yet -- but those companies definitely brainstorming around how you track the hands even with just a smartphone, like overlaying something. Alan: We actually did it. Varag: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: It's actually pretty cool that you say that, because that is one of the use cases that comes in often inbound to us, as companies -- it hasn't happened yet -- but those companies definitely brainstorming around how you track the hands even with just a smartphone, like overlaying something. Alan: We actually did it. Varag: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But internally it meant that I had this evidence that there was definite impact in terms of the integration of this technology, and the results that were tangible when you were using the Vives in the classroom. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. I do a lot with Apple technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But internally it meant that I had this evidence that there was definite impact in terms of the integration of this technology, and the results that were tangible when you were using the Vives in the classroom. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. I do a lot with Apple technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

I mean, yes, it’s dead… I like to put on my dead Oculus Quest 2 to play dead beautiful games like InDeath: Unchained and have dead fun. At the end of 2017, VR Porn dot com published these statistics that proved that people were more interested in adult VR content than on Oculus’s official website.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

But I think definitely, where we’ve moved on from individualized volumetric capture is this capture of large footprints. You definitely don’t want that. And so, the demand has definitely gone up. Raj: [laughs] It’s very expensive, there’s no doubt. On the job training. Alan: Yeah, I think so as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

But I think definitely, where we’ve moved on from individualized volumetric capture is this capture of large footprints. You definitely don’t want that. And so, the demand has definitely gone up. Raj: [laughs] It’s very expensive, there’s no doubt. On the job training. Alan: Yeah, I think so as well.

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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.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

But I think definitely, where we've moved on from individualized volumetric capture is this capture of large footprints. You definitely don't want that. And so, the demand has definitely gone up. Companies like Magic Leap and Hololens, those are great devices where most of the compute is done on the headset.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. I work in XR, organizing events and writing about AR and VR for my livelihood and yet, unlike some of my male peers, I purchased my very first piece of VR hardware just this year with the release of Oculus Go.

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