AR Insider

MARCH 3, 2020

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. ” of Apple’s AR glasses, what about the “when?” This could involve a fall 2021 unveiling and following-year launch, as Apple product cycles often go.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 28, 2023

Although the product has yet to have a confirmed release date, X user @ZGFTECH posted a video of the unboxing of the new headset (also known as the Oculus Quest 3), providing a more comprehensive insight into its design beyond the promo photos that curious onlookers had been limited to beforehand.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. I recommend getting an Oculus Quest as its quick and easy to use, and the lack of tether is great for games with lots of motion. Cas & Chary Present. Quest starts at $400.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. adds supports for Apple’s ARKit 2.0 Documentation for the feature can be found here. Updated Oculus SDK. We’ve added support for Apple’s ARKit 2.0, Unreal Engine 4.20

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

If you have kids, and you want them to try VR, I advise you to read this document. AR is a widely used feature on smartphones now, while smart glasses are slowly growing, waiting for the big shots of 2023 (yes, Apple, I’m looking at you). The interest towards Oculus has grown up during the Holidays. More info.

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XROM

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Under the leadership of ex-Apple executive and Brilliant Labs CEO, Bobak Tavangar, Frame introduces a paradigm shift in daily living. The company provides comprehensive resources, including living documentation, open-source codebase, hardware schematics, and adjustable parameters for Noa's supported AI models.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

Some weeks ago, a group of 12 indie development studios decided to launch the first bundle dedicated to App Lab experiences for Oculus Quest. The user could buy the bundle and get access to sideloadable versions of the games, with the promise of a free key for when the game would have been approved by Oculus on App Lab.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Although the benefit for businesses could be significant, smart glasses enable workers to access mission-critical documents hands-free with increasingly sophisticated eye tracking and voice-assisted navigation options. This allows onsite employees to perform operations such as repairs while also navigating instructional documents hands-free.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Recently committing to an increased investment in spatial sound technology, Apple is one of the major brands drawing attention to this form of audio in the XR space. The Apple spatial audio technology has been produced alongside the Dolby team, and is available across a range of devices, including iPhones and iPads.

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VRScout

MAY 13, 2020

Spatial’s virtual collaboration comes to Oculus Quest and a slew of other platforms. The company has also revealed that a dedicated Spatial app will be heading to the most widely available XR device today, the Oculus Quest (previously only available in private beta).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Episode 28 of the VRScout Report, we got new 360 toys on iOS, Hololens is helping elevator technicians, VR might help you control your dreams, Apple CEO Tim Cook on augmented reality, VR/AR industry funding wrapup, and more… iOS NOW CAN TAKE 360 PHOTOS WITH GOOGLE CARDBOARD CAMERA, TOO.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Yes, I finally cut my very last tie to Facebook/Meta, gleefully packing up my old Oculus Rift headset, and uninstalling all traces of the Oculus software from my former PC before it goes on to its next owner! An HTC Vive Pro 2 headset, bought last month to replace my work Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 18, 2022

Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 changed the world’s approach to VR, by allowing everyone to experience immersive realities in their own home. With the Oculus Quest 2, companies can make sure they’re prepared for the future of the Metaverse, with games specially designed for the Quest environment.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC. A vague rumor spread on Reddit this week: Oculus Del Mar could be a 4K headset, and it could have been launched at GDC. Furthermore, the documentation talked about “Early access to dev” for Del Mar, and this means that the project is still at the alpha stage.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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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. You can now try games on the Oculus Store. Alexandria Heston has released to the community a document on everything she has learned on the VR UX side.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This is also a good time to grab copies of documentation, forum posts, and other materials since those will be gone soon, as well. The High Fidelity app will be taken down from the Oculus app store and from Steam on January 15. VR platform? Mostly gone. Of course, people are still going to be running the code on their own.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And that’s ok, it is still a new technology and it has already made big steps forward (I remember all the computer crashes I had at the Oculus DK 2 times!), Recently I had a big issue with my VR controllers in SteamVR (both with Oculus and Vive) and so I’m writing this post to try to help you in solving it. ASUS AI Suite 3.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 31, 2023

Which means, of course, that I am not tainting my personal cellphone by installing the Oculus/Meta/whatever-the-hell-they-are-calling-it-this-year app on it! You will require an iPhone (Apple iOS 12.4 I found the display to be clean, crisp, and clear, a marked improvement over the original Oculus/Meta Quest (version 1).

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. As for virtual and augmented reality, Tim Cooks, the CEO of Apple, said during a 2020 earnings call that AR is on its way to “change everything.”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook has always had the problem of distribution of its hardware (Apple has its stores, for instance, Facebook has not), and with this partnership, it immediately has the opportunity to showcase this and its future devices in all glasses shops thanks to Luxottica. Apple Event is tomorrow 14th September. Other relevant news.

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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. of units more produced annually. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2016

‘Step Into Rift’ had been Oculus’ mantra since the launch of the headset back at the end of March this year, but with the launch of Oculus’ dedicated motion controllers, Touch, players can finally ‘Reach Into Rift’ too. SEE ALSO Oculus Rift Review: Prologue to a New Reality. Oculus Touch is (finally) here.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Rubin has confirmed that the letter is true, but he also stated that in that period there were many internal documents about the same topic, and his one was just one of the many. All major companies have some stores of theirs (think about Amazon’s recent futuristic stores), but of course, Meta wants to specifically copy Apple in this.

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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

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

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. From it, ARKit has born, I guess.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

The Microsoft-owned company is now compatible with Vive, Oculus headsets, and Gear VR, and users can also access it without a VR headset via a desktop app. It also allows the import of PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations. Users are able to share content such as documents or 3D objects in a variety of formats.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

We often talk about Apple and Meta, but we should not forget that Google is still in the match, and that in the AR Cloud race, it has still many cards to play, like the mapping of all the world already made with Google Maps. From the document, it is possible to find some interesting info: The device is dubbed Pico 4.

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Headjack

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

As soon as we started looking into streaming, the acronym HLS kept popping up, which stands for HTTP Live Streaming and is a streaming format originally developed by Apple. Streaming to Oculus should also be possible, but this still needs a bit more development time on our end. Here is what we learned. ts #EXTINF:10 fileSequence1.ts

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