The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Is it for a future AR/VR headset? There are two things you must be aware of: Apple is surely making various prototypes , so we don’t know what Jon has actually seen. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — Upload VR) More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — XR Daily News) Other relevant news (Image by Meta Reality Labs) Meta’s first AR glasses will be just for internal use A new report by The Information talks about the AR glasses that Meta is building. The startup just raised $1.6

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer! References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Welcome to my weekly appointment with the best AR VR news! There I am going to talk about some use cases for AR and VR! In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. I know that last time we had some technical issues, but this time will be much better, I promise!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. The firm offers VR simulations for research, planning, and education, with a growing portfolio of use cases. TIME & HISTORY Hit VR Titles. Audiences can also watch on Windows-powered laptops.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

AIXR – “The Academy of International Extended Reality” – is an independent non-profit dedicated to promoting MR, AR, and VR tech. Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Oculus Go showcased.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. Both are free to download and try.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. The firm offers VR simulations for research, planning, and education, with a growing portfolio of use cases. TIME & HISTORY Hit VR Titles. Audiences can also watch on Windows-powered laptops.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. VRSCOUT: Who are you and what do you do? . I oversee all things VR and AR for Epic Games.

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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. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. Apple, humble as always, announced that their ARKit made iOS the largest AR platform in the world…overnight. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

NVIDIA has been one of the first companies that understood the potential of enterprise engineering and design collaboration in XR with its Holodeck software, whose trailer videos are still among the best to show the capabilities of XR collaborative environments. Video courtesy NVIDIA). So in the end… what is it? a ray-tracing renderer).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. FCC certifications are requested before releasing an electronic device in the US (to certify that it is safe to be used), so this is a clear sign that HTC is going to release a new headset soon.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. We don’t know what all of this means, but the most probable scenario is that the two companies are working together for the next generation of HoloLens AR glasses, probably the one that should target consumers. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Here you are the best AR/VR news for the week that has just finished. This week we had no big news from Facebook, but in the communities, the theme of the Facebook login for the Oculus Quest 2 remains pretty hot. Yes, you’ve read it well: Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR, has returned supporting a VR company.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

We spoke about AR and VR for 2 hours and we were having so much fun that we could have gone on for other 2 hours without problems! If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). Image by Facebook).

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp. project worldwide VR/AR industry revenues to be $162B by 2020. Investors are certainly chasing after that future revenue. In the first half of 2016, the VR/AR industry saw $1.3B FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

You may wonder why this system is relevant for us XR people: well, Meta itself talks about AR applications for this system in the launch post. AR glasses may separate the various objects that compose an image they see with their cameras and so be able to detect what the user has around him/her.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame. The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 2, 2017

Oculus and Epic Games share a strong and fascinating partnership that’s grown over the past few years. Handing him the prize was none other than John Carmack, another videogame industry legend and current CTO of Oculus. Last night’s Game Developer Choice Awards showed why. Tagged with: GDC , john carmack , Tim Sweeney.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is for the professional and the gamer, and it is especially intriguing if mixed with wireless module and Index Controllers; Cosmos XR (price unknown): features two high-res RGB cameras, that let you use the Cosmos both as a VR headset and an AR one. Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

It is so not possible for instance to simulate a virtual stadium with 10,000 people in, with you seeing all the other people you have around you. Current gaming engines like Unity and Unreal are not designed for this. “ Our system is fully dynamic which is why you had no load times walking around the world.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. Most people know VR and AR as if kind of something in the last five years. So this was before Oculus. Alan: We’re talking 20 years.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. Most people know VR and AR as if kind of something in the last five years. So this was before Oculus. Alan: We’re talking 20 years.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators -- big aircraft simulators, etc. -- and I got really excited about seeing the effect it has on pilots and soldiers, and I always thought that it would be useful to do the same, but for normal people, nurses, etc. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here.

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