The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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JANUARY 30, 2020

One of which is The Wild, a platform specifically designed to help architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms coordinate more effectively. Today, the company has announced an update to its building information modelling (BIM) toolset, adding three new tools.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Today, HTC is announcing the launch of its newest subsidiary: Vive Studios. This brand new content publisher will work to facilitate and release new, high-quality content for the titular HTC Vive virtual reality headset. ” The 3D platformer “Lucky’s Tale” was one of the first Oculus Studios titles.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Specifications VRTK’s list of scripts & modules Interaction Builder architecture General Features VRTK is a comprehensive and complete development framework for XR applications. The drawback is the steep learning curve, and the legacy development mechanism to fully understand the whole architecture.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. No presence from LG at GDC.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2018

On the opposite side of the room, Mischa, The Wild’s product manager, stood wearing an HTC Vive headset and a pair of Wand controllers. If you’re interested in exploring The Wild for yourself, you can set it up today on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality, any AR-ready device, and/or desktop.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Pre-orders for Oculus Touch officially went live today. This is a significant moment in the life of Oculus as a company, and it is also a significant moment in the ongoing virtual reality “console wars.” Check it out below: Step 1: The Controllers . 1 Oculus Touch system + tracking sensor ($200).

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology. The History of VR. What’s Next?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Both consumer and pro versions feature 6DoF controllers, a flip-up design, double crown padding, dual 2.89-inch In addition to the pro version, HP has also co-developed a VR Launch Kit with Epic with the goal of streamlining VR development for professional users working in industries such as product design and architecture.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Schwartz’s studio helped pave the way for room-scale VR by working on an early version of the HTC Vive before it was formally announced. Currently available for free with every new purchase of a Vive and now released on Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR, Job Simulator is a great example of what can be done with user-tracked VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2018

Qualcomm says that XR1 is made for “high-quality” XR devices (low-end, like Oculus Go), a distinction they make against “premium” devices (high-end like Vive Focus). On that front, the company says that HTC, Vuzix, and Pico are already developing products based on XR1.

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JULY 22, 2021

Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. Orka for “Virtual Shipyard” with Strathclyde University Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean, and Marine Engineering. Facebook for the Oculus Quest 2. HTC for the VIVE Focus 3.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless. pounds (0.55kg) Cable Length: 19.5

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. But in the enterprise space, it has always been behind the competition of companies like HTC or Pico.

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Transporting you to a strange inner universe via an enigmatic black obelisk, you experience what it must feel like to make contact with a higher intelligence, with its intense interlocking geometric constructions and imposing, dream-like architecture— FORM is an unexpected delight for anyone looking for something truly out of the ordinary.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2017

The wildly popular puzzler The Talos Principle (2014) from Croteam is soon to be making its way to VR in a separate version, playable on SteamVR-compatible headsets; i.e. HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

I have anyway selected four news that can be relevant for you: NVIDIA has announced a new GPU architecture, called Hopper, that represents the evolution of Ampere. This week we had a full reveal of the headset, the controller, and the computational unit in a video that reveals all their external details. Learn more. Learn more.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The city is divided into districts accessible only by skiff and controlled by a community known as ‘The Tower.'” Once we’ve reached that stage and they’ve found what makes that stage fun, art will do a pass and work closely with design to reshape it architecturally and make it feel like it was a real building.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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MAY 1, 2017

My demo began in a research facility as I stood behind a control panel full of buttons, screens, and objects to interact with. I look skyward and close my eyes inside the Oculus Rift I’m wearing, reaching up instinctively with my hands, now holding Oculus Touch controllers, to shield my eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

Whether it’s the controlled, sterile environment of the once-dead Altspace , or VRChat, the very embodiment of chaos, the current social options provided are all unique in their own rights. There’s also live collaborative editing functionality as well as an extensive plugin architecture.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A newly posted Geekbench score may point to what HTC has up their sleeves next for Vive Focus, the company’s class of standalone VR headsets. As first spotted by TechGenyz , a variant of HTC Vive Focus using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 chipset appeared on Geekbench yesterday, which is reportedly based on Android 10.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Available On: Steam (Oculus Rift & HTC Vive). Reviewed On: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift. Although technically not finished, this VR experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive offers a lot more than you might expect and leaves a lasting impression of its strange, alien world. Publisher: Teotl Studios.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Concepts like loops, control-logic, OOP principles like inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, etc should be at your fingertips before moving forward. Also, I am not diving deep into things like code architecture, testing, security and fixing memory leaks in your mobile apps. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2018

Some of this can be chalked up to the game’s haptics, which create a satisfying buzz in your controller when you touch anything with your sabers. The impossible, twisting architectures swaying ahead of me and neon lightshow blazing in the background are an exclamation point at the end of every interaction I had with Beat Saber.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. We don’t really have any software to show on it.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

If you want to get an up-close look at the device, the new controller, and how it looks sitting alongside the VR headset, then take a look a look at our early PS4 Pro unboxing photos from last week. And since the GPU is powered by AMD’s ‘Polaris’ architecture, it’s actually increased to 4.2

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

The Sonic seems a good device: 4K resolution, 101° FOV, 72Hz refresh rate, 256GB, and 6DOF controllers. It is a bit disappointing that it just has 2 tracking cameras, but the controllers are tracked with ultrasound beacons, so the tracking FOV should be good. More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached

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JANUARY 4, 2017

This also ties into the fact that, unlike its competitors who have been quick to embrace mobile VR, Linden Lab opted to restrict Sansar to working on tethered HMD’s such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStationVR. “I

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.

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Delight XR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

show fallback generic VR controller model for unrecognized controller types. add button to conveniently exit VR in VR player controls. Fix other rare issue with video already playing on site load without pressing play button in newest Oculus Browser. Fix legibility of current video time in 3D VR video controls.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Available On: Oculus RIft, HTC Vive, Windows VR, PSVR. Reviewed On: Oculus RIft, HTC Vive. I found all control schemes, including scrolling through the game’s vast amount of menus, to be much more simple on Oculus Touch than with HTC Vive motion controllers. Developer: Bethesda.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. Alan: Absolutely.

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