The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT as of 2/3/20 Apple Inc. AAPL) As we previously detailed in depth, Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now and is planning to release its own AR smart glass and AR/VR hybrid headset. How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3.

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2020

Thus, the new SDK kit has the potential to transform various industries, from manufacturing and industrial design, to education and entertainment. The supported HMDs are: OpenVR enabled devices tethered to NVIDIA Pascal or NVIDIA Turing based GPU (such as VIVE Pro and Valve Index); Untethered Android-based devices (Oculus Quest, GearVR).

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. On the VR side, Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope in both quality and consumer traction. Apple’s AR Fate.

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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). I’m also impressed by how intuitive the experience is.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Top news of the week. Image by Engadget). Let’s see….

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The reserve pass-through cameras also enable Meta to take another direct shot at soon-to-be market competitor Apple; the firm is equally providing a reserve pass-through feature in its upcoming Vision Pro device. The impact of the Metaverse is real, and it’s happening today, right now. –

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. For a full library of indexed and educational media, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. Y ou’ve likely heard all about Facebook Connect 7, including the keynote unveiling of Oculus Quest 2 (our pre-order is in).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 4, 2022

From the world-changing augmented experiences offered by Pokémon Go, to the incredible worlds unlocked by the Oculus Quest, the innovations of XR in gaming are quickly becoming mainstream. 1. B2B Experiences and Education. The right tools can also empower the creation of more amazing game experiences.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

Change cannot be achieved gradually, and the pain was obviously not big enough to replace existing tools, even though the problems were known (difficult to understand instructions for complex tasks, wasted time searching for information, unnecessary travel costs for experts, etc.). .” The Rise of Remote. The best example is Zoom.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 18, 2022

Brimming with opportunities for not just fun but education, collaboration, and relationship building, the gaming space is an amazing environment for innovators. Today, we’re going to look at some of the most popular gaming ecosystems and tools we’ve reviewed over the last couple of years, to help launch your immersive journey.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

For enterprises, VR is typically developed as an educational or training tool. The most important thing for developing an enterprise product is meeting the needs of the business or organization that will be using it as a training tool. Applications such as XR for immersive learning, virtual care, remote assistance, etc.,

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 18, 2022

In recent years, demand for new tools capable of strengthening the emotional connections between brands and consumers has accelerated. Tools like virtual, augmented, and mixed reality could help to recreate some of the meaningful experiences we’re used to seeing with in-person retail interactions. Meta Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Apple now lets add you add “buy” button to AR Quick Look. A piece of simple news, but a very important one, has hit the AR industry this week: Apple now lets companies add custom buttons (usually the “Buy” one) to AR Quick Look. Add custom environments to your Oculus Quest… if you can. More info (Use Google Translate).

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

With the world reeling from COVID-19, changes to consumer experience across numerous industries, from live sports and entertainment to education, are inevitable. Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions.

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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. More info (Rumors on Oculus Del Mar) More info (One of the source articles on Reddit). Oculus and Valve could have been friends, but it didn’t happen.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

Zuckerberg is well aware that he has a big role to play in educating people about the changes coming as immersive technologies mature—and he is certainly taking this task very seriously. Rachel Franklin, Head of Social VR, came on stage to announced Facebook’s first social VR app, Facebook Spaces , available now in beta on Oculus Rift.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Apple glasses. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews). In 2019 we’ll see more strategic acquisitions by Apple and more rumors about an incoming AR glass by Apple. Hybrid headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

” He explained that XR had become a thriving industry , transforming verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and gaming. Such tools had “the potential to shape the future of humanity.” ” Timing for the device’s release was also “perfect,” he continued.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 23, 2018

This came to the VR industry in a big way, when an intellectual property lawsuit saw Oculus on the hook for some $500M in damages in a February ruling. The latter did occur — with Oculus demoing a wireless prototype late in the year, and HTC announcing a wireless solution for their headset to start 2018. #5 9 – ZeniMax v.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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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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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

XR experiences in general, have proven themselves to be an amazing tool for everything from workforce training and digital marketing to product visualization, entertainment, and immersive online education. The platform doesn’t feature it’s own dedicated app. The same applies to WebAR experiences.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2021

the Tokyo-based development studio that created STYLY —an XR tool that lets you create, develop, and distribute XR content using just a web browser—has announced the launch of STYLY Sessions, a new feature that lets you and other creators share your experiences in a virtual space at the same time. Psychic VR Lab Co.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. 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

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

You can already use Valve’s tools to create custom maps for the game. Apple ARKit 3.5 It is no mystery that Apple is currently the best mobile augmented reality company, and the latest update to ARKit confirms this. I really can’t wait to see the Apple AR glasses…. Oculus Quest is available again in some countries.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

8agora provides creative teams, individuals, and groups with customizable virtual reality avatars that they can use to attend meetings and events, three-dimension high definition graphics, instant chat, simultaneous translation from any language, and many other business-oriented tools. (Image courtesy 8Agora.). Image courtesy Avatour.).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

The education. 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.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But this time, Google has understood the educational potential of this framework, so instead of abandoning it, it is gifting it to the community, that can so carry it on. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 is selling incredibly well because it offers the right combination of affordable price, good hardware, and a good software ecosystem. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance). The Quest will still be the king. Me wearing a Valve Index.

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