ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We’re talking of course about awards season, XR gaming maximalists, and data harvesting walled gardens. For example, LFF Expanded required an Oculus headset. Minimizing Data Collection. Again, this is increasingly true given user skepticism of Facebook and Oculus. Apps, Hardware, and Immersive Experience Showcases.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Yesterday Oculus started rolling out the firmware update for the Oculus Quest with the big updates announced at Oculus Connect 6 , that is 3 DOF mode and Passthrough+. Watch it here: If instead you prefer a textual description, keep reading and I will tell you the same things (and even more) in the remainder of this article.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2021

Facebook has made no secret of the fact that ads are coming to its Oculus VR platform in some capacity. As a part of its v29 software update for Oculus Quest last month, the company said it would begin testing ads for content within the Oculus App, although it wasn’t clear to what extent it would touch games.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. See Also: XRSI Releases Report on the Dangers of XR Data Collection. The report did mention that the kind of data collected might be more sensitive, such as the interior layout of a user’s home.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. Follow my guide on how to update your Oculus Go until you can select the “Cast” option).

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VRGames

JULY 18, 2023

This article delves into a developer’s impressive experiment recreated Apple Vision Pro’s front display on a Meta Quest Pro using an iPhone. To accomplish this Adam 放学臻 attached his iPhone to the headset making use of its FaceID sensor suite, VR app reading the eye tracking data and iOS app rendering a virtual avatar.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2021

But a question popped up in my mind: could it also be used here in the West as an alternative to the Oculus Quest 2? UPDATE 2021.06.01 : I have written this article to talk about the possibility of using the consumer Pico Neo 3 in the West, since some readers asked me if there was a way to do it. The Pico Neo 3 as a Quest 2 competitor?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The official information on the new device, codenamed Project Cambria, are very little, but actually leakers and data miners have already unveiled a lot about it , including the fact that the name will most probably be Meta Quest Pro. This doesn’t surprise me, since Meta does very elegant headsets since the Oculus Rift CV1.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I really enjoy your articles, I even read the ones about devices I don’t have… now I know how to remove the controller on the Vive Focus , but I don’t have it… (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

The amount of the deal has not been disclosed, but Chinese magazine VRTuoLuo reports that it has been 5B RMB (a bit less $800M), while another Chinese portal reported the sum of 9B RMB, but then removed this detail from its article later on. As it has happened with Oculus, this news is good and bad for Pico and VR in general.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. Guest Article by Tipatat Chennavasin. It’s difficult to get real data on the VR consumer market. Even so, a far more important data point we do have is software sales—this is a key metric for differentiating between a platform and a product. for developers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. For sure some surprises: we don’t know anything about the 2nd gen of XR that Oculus has in mind. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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ARPost

JUNE 14, 2021

Another ideal use case for AR fitness applications involves the heads-up display of navigation and biometric data. Heads-up displays of biometric data also make appearances in conceptual images from PhotonLens. The VR fitness boom has brought one more major health benefit to our attention: immersion and engagement.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. The Santa Cruz prototype is a modified Oculus Rift which has on-board compute, display, and tracking.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. The division uses Unity to create a mixed reality pipeline connected to systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data, then deploy applications to multiple platforms, including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus devices, and smartphones.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. Its share of Oculus software revenues grew from 20 percent in September to 40 percent today.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

More info (News on VentureBeat) More info (News on Road To VR) More info (Article by Robert Scoble with its point of view) More info (Article by Fink & Mikenseer with their point of view). Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. We don’t know what Oculus will present, but we have some hints. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Yesterday I detailed you what is the Oculus Rift S , while today I want to write you a recap about what is the Oculus Quest , the most awaited virtual reality headset of 2019. What Is the Oculus Quest? Oculus Quest is the first standalone 6 DOF virtual reality headset by Oculus. And with the Oculus Rift?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

David Heaney has written a good article on Upload VR where he tries to hypothesize what could this group of people work on, but in the end, he has no idea as well of what can be the most probable outcome. So he said that if you want to attach to it an Oculus Quest, technically you can. In Japan, the number is around 80K.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2019

I had the pleasure of talking with the CEO Amir Bozorgzadeh some weeks ago (sorry for the delay in publishing the article, Amir!) At the same time, he started writing technical articles for big magazines like VentureBeat and TechCrunch as a freelancer (this may be the reason why you have surely already read his name).

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2018

More than just the latest in a long line of niche gadgets, Oculus Go represents the linchpin of Facebook’s lofty goal of putting one billion people into virtual reality. Guest Article by J.C. SEE ALSO Oculus Go Review: Standalone VR Priced for the Masses. serves as an Analyst at Greenlight Insights in the Devices Group.

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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. Palmer Luckey: I also think so.

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ARVR

JANUARY 20, 2022

As we broke down last week, this included Oculus mobile app downloads, as well as app sales inflections for third-party developers. Joining that pile of evidence are the latest Oculus app download figures from app analytics firms like Apptopia and Sensor Tower?—?the the focus of this week’s Data Dive. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, Project Cambria, the codename for Meta’s (previously Facebook) MR hardware, is continuously being classified as either AR, VR, or MR depending on the article or publication. The security implications of this of course are massive but it is mainly up to the creators to be transparent about what data is and isn’t collected.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 17, 2017

He compared the amount Oculus paid to be produced exclusively for the Oculus platform to the size of the budget for the original Gears of War. That’s a perfectly acceptable way to jump start an industry…For example, Oculus is funding Robo Recall which has a budget that’s close to the budget of the entire first Gears of War game.”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Do you want to discover them with me? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

In particular, it has been made to limit the unfair competition and data collection practices that these companies are carrying on since years. Data privacy. DMA further enhances the privacy laws and expressly requires gatekeepers to not merge data from different services. Header image by MPD01605 , from Wikipedia).

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Since 2016, the company has invested in AR, VR and XR to help its customers accelerate time to insight and enhance the way SAP data is visualized and understood. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit. Doesn’t a computer do the job just fine?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

He has written a long article on the most important trends in augmented reality in 2020 , and I think you all should read it if you want to understand more about what is happening in the field. There is a lot going on and this article is a big summary of what you should know. He’s an investor, an evangelist, and an entrepreneur.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

When I wrote my first article here from the Shanghai airport, I had to login via WordPress.com, for instance. Whenever I’ll mention VPNs in the remainder of the article, I’m always referring to these ones. Oculus Quest Me and my Quest 2 When I’m at home, the Quest is the headset that I use the most.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You can buy headsets at a discounted price, or accessories, or even lots of games on Steam, Viveport, and Oculus Store! Here below I have selected some news articles that talk about some cool offerings that you can exploit these days. According to Meta, Resident Evil 4 VR is the “fastest selling game” ever on Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

Before we start, let me tell you just a few caveats about this article: What I did was a prototype , so the solutions I’ve found are not optimized. I removed the Main Camera from the scene, then I selected the menu voice Oculus-> Tools -> Building Blocks and added the camera rig and the passthrough to my project.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2023

If the application has multiplayer components, then it has to implement a User Reporting Tool easily accessible via the Oculus button on the right controller. Because the documentation talks about the Oculus button, but it doesn’t explain what happens when the button gets pressed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I just left a very fun rooftop party just to write an article for you, and I hope you appreciate that! In this article, you are going to discover with me some cool information about the Pico 4 Enterprise, the enterprise version of the Pico 4. Ok, so the serious part of the article ends here. Specifications. Secure, explained.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

In this article, we will explore the potential of AR and VR for e-commerce and how they can enhance your shopping experience. VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Goodbye Oculus brand. More info (Meta stores) More info (Oculus website disappearing). Meta doesn’t know how it handles your data. According to a report by Motherboard, once your data enters Meta’s system, it gets lost in a sea of subsystems about which it loses control. Some articles on the metaverse. Learn more.

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