Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, as-ever delivered an inspiring presentation at today’s F8 conference, this time on the topic of Augmented Reality. Oculus Research is hard at work on AR, and we’re far from the only ones”, says Abrash, but notes that many of the necessary enabling technologies do not currently exist.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Here’s a smattering of exciting projects that are likely to influence the VR and AR space in the next two years. Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Prior to launch the first consumer Rift headset, Oculus had a long history of showing prototypes and development kits. Image courtesy Facebook. Image courtesy Facebook.

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AR Insider

MAY 31, 2021

Since it features no computational unit and no battery, it can be smaller and lighter than “shoebox” headsets like the Oculus Quest. The Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference begins June 7th. The VR/AR Global Online Summit returns June 2-4th. More from AR Insider…. The keynote is 10am PST June 7th.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey, circa 2012 | Photo courtesy Oculus. Convergence of AR and VR Functionality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest has been the rockstar of this event. Specifications. There is also a 3.5mm jack for earphones.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. It is basically an SDK to build outdoor shared experiences that exploit the AR Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. These are probably the two best standalone VR devices that are available on the market , and I have the pleasure of having both of them here on my desk.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft Ignite, the company’s annual developer and press event, turned heads this week with its introduction of a world mapping Azure suite of XR apps, and real time telepresence with AR that works across devices, not just HMDs, called Mesh. This experience might bring a properly grounded volumetric Pokemon into the physical world.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

There are some typical questions that arise in the mind of the AR enthusiasts of the world: how is it? For this purpose, it has created a reference design for an AR headset dubbed North Star , giving full instructions on how everyone can build one at home. And being no developers, there are almost no apps.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Lumus Maximums shows an impressive AR prototype. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Image by Lumus).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

So I also followed the V2EC, the Vive Ecosystem Conference that happened on ENGAGE, and that represented the Chinese counterpart of Vivecon. Yes, it was at 3 am in my city, but I couldn’t resist attending the VEC conference in which I have always participated in the last 3 years. This is very interesting.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. The conference included hundreds of sessions, but we’re mainly here for those that particularly touched on mixed reality – which is enough. Alex Kipman and John Hanke. “We

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 26, 2022

Meta is launching its next VR headset this October at the company’s Connect conference. He said that the new VR headset, a sequel to the popular Oculus 2, will focus on “social presence,” with features like eye-tracking and face-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

During the production period, we faced a pretty tough deadline: the client wanted to show the technology at an annual industry conference that was taking place in 2.5 Modeling Next, we created virtual copies of the tools and uniforms, so that all of them looked real in a virtual world. We did 3D modeling in Blender.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. The conference included hundreds of sessions, but we’re mainly here for those that particularly touched on mixed reality – which is enough. Alex Kipman and John Hanke. “We

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either. Image by Meta). News worth a mention.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Vindevogel adds that the growth of VR in the context of LBE is due in part to how VR and AR are capable of providing users with more exciting ways to bring their vision to life, making the technology suitable for visitor attractions. “It Thus, it’s likely that we’ll see more AR apps making use of AI tech in the future. “

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

So I want to thank all the wonderful women that are part of our AR and VR community for what they do every day and I also wish them the best for their future. IEEE has also been very smart and will host its VR Conference in Mozilla Hubs. Oculus rejects Crisis VRigade again, causing backlash from the community.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

The Intel press conference at CES 2017 was almost entirely about mixed reality technologies. But most of this was using existing technology, such as the Oculus Rift, to show off content rather than hardware. In this way, it merges AR and VR together, to create what the company has coined as merged reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

March has just started… I hope it will be an amazing day for you and for all the AR/VR ecosystem! Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

We really wanted this to be something that would make it easy to access your virtual world,” spoke Drew Bamford, VP of Vive Creative Labs, during the press conference. The strange-looking headset features four separate cameras and a pair of motion controllers baring a slight resemblance to the Oculus Touch system.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In the second part of the decade, it could finally release its AR glasses, which are the company’s end goal. There are hints about Fortnite coming to Quest. A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. What is less sure is what it does mean. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. PS Contact me if you need someone to develop for you some AR enterprise applications!).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone. The situation looks uncertain, and probably we will hear about Magic Leap’s plans at the next LEAP Conference. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again.

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EON Reality

MARCH 13, 2020

In my time at the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, I was first introduced to the concept of using virtual reality (3D stereographic presentation), as a means to change and improve the teaching and learning process. I saw my first presentation at the League for Innovation Conference in Long Beach, California in 2002.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Trendy AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. Having Darth Vader being your “master Yoda”, seems overly cool and in fact, people that tried it are very excited about this game! Image by Oculus). But honestly, I think this is bad news for Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This roundup of the most important AR/VR news of the past week comes out with a little delay since I’ve been very busy with my development job, and I’ve also a damn cold that doesn’t make me feel very well (but it’s no coronavirus, don’t worry :D). iPhone 12 may feature a special connection for AR glasses. Sorry for that!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR. I think AR and VR are going to converge.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR. CES brought some interesting news about AR and VR. This comes at the right time, with Meta already talking online about unifying all its social VR spaces : Horizon Worlds, Horizon Home, and Horizon Workrooms. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

But at first, let’s get serious and read the relevant news of the week in AR and VR. Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2022

It’s been the first time I worked on such an ambitious conference , so let me tell you something more about it and about the lessons I’ve learned in the process … especially for what concerns the differences between organizing physical and digital/VR events ! If you manage to make people come, that’s great!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 19, 2020

Yesterday, I attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference, the annual event by HTC, that his year was held completely inside ENGAGE. Not to mention that this was a #VR conference connecting people around the world @vreducation #V2EC2020 pic.twitter.com/6LUCdvps22 — Chris Madsen (@deep_rifter) March 19, 2020.

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