The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today I made two little big discoveries about the Oculus Quest 2 that together mean that you can use this headset as an AR device whenever and wherever you want. Yes, I’ve also made a video about this article… you choose if reading it or watching it! Let me explain everything to you! Guardian disabling is now persistent.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and key player in the VR startup’s genesis story, says Sony’s upcoming PSVR 2 headset may be see a bumpy road to adoption based on its high price and potential for scattershot geographic distribution. Looking to learn all about PSVR 2 before it launches this month?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2020

Recently, I had a similar problem with the Oculus Quest , not to access the cameras (it is not possible, the applications can’t see them for privacy reasons), but to save a file on the storage from Unity. How to obtain permissions for Oculus Quest in Unity. So, how do you obtain permissions for your Oculus Quest in Unity?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2020

These days we have had various leaks about a new upcoming Oculus Quest , with also renders and photos shared by the famous leaker Walking Cat. Oculus is going to release a new Oculus Quest. Various rumors and leaks in the past weeks hinted to an upcoming release of a new Oculus Quest headset. The comfort enigma.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week, we look at Apple’s moves across the spatial spectrum, Magic Leap 2, And Oculus Quest game sales among other items. Macrumors called our attention to articles in the Verge and Bloomberg that quote an unnamed source who’s supposedly seen Apple’s debut consumer HMD. It is coming soon to the Oculus store.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2020

Last month Oculus released the Oculus for Business program for enterprise customers. Guest Article by Onno Bos. I have been working with Oculus for Business, preparing my client to deploy VR at large scale and integrate it with internal solutions. What is Oculus for Business ? Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

Oculus today at F8 overviewed some of the latest VR technology that they’d been working on internally. In the last year, Oculus has detailed a range of research projects relating to varifocal technology. Correction (5/2/18): An earlier version of this article stated that Guajardo was part of Facebook.

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MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, for example, tried and failed to ship better PC VR headsets than the Rift as standalone VR became Zuckerberg's focused strategy. Facebook had around 10,000 employees when it acquired Oculus in 2014.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel. In this article, I want to share some lessons I learned on how to stay on track when bootstrapping your first VR game. If you’re planning on developing on the Oculus platform, I also highly recommend joining their Oculus Start program. Prototype & Playtest as Soon as Possible.

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Road to VR

APRIL 21, 2017

Oculus has provided an unreleased build of the Quill VR paint app to an artist to experiment with animation features. Oculus Story Studio, the company’s VR film division, built Quill initially as an internal tool for creating the VR film Dear Angelica. We’ve reached out to Oculus for comment.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Oculus Quest (formerly Santa Cruz) has been officially revealed, launching Spring 2019 for $400. Update (3:00 PM PT) : In a previous version of this article, it was stated that Oculus Quest and Oculus Go shared the same resolution. This is incorrect, and has been corrected in the body of the article.

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ARVR

MAY 12, 2021

Oculus has now brought us a free solution to play all PCVR games wirelessly with the v28 update of the Quest 2. One was Oculus Link, where you had to buy a long USB3 cable and connect it to the Quest and PC. How to set up Oculus Link, Air Link or Virtual Desktop can be found in the tutorials from Nathie below. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

Oculus is giving the Rift & Touch their biggest discount yet for a six week-long sale. At the start of 2017, the Oculus Rift + Touch controllers cost $800, the same as the HTC Vive. Oculus had dropped the price to $600 earlier this year, which is what it will return to after the special six week-long sale. In The Box.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2019

Oculus seems to be on a bit of a hiring spree as of late; its parent company Facebook is advertising over 400 positions dealing with AR/VR via its job portal at the moment. ” We knew Oculus was working on their own eye-tracking solution for a while now. Oculus ‘Half Dome’ prototype, Image courtesy Facebook.

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VR Fitness

APRIL 21, 2021

April 21 marked the inaugural launch of the Oculus Gaming Showcase. In this article, I’ll cover all the major news, with an emphasis of course on the more physically active titles, befitting our status as a VR fitness-focused website.

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VR Fitness

JULY 19, 2021

Ready Player Golf is hosting a charity event that will take place in the Oculus Quest game Topgolf with Pro Putt. Pro Putt made its debut in the Oculus app store for the Quest in May 2020 and passed one million dollars in sales by December according to an article in Forbes magazine by Charlie Fink.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Meta will continue using the Oculus name as part of its third-party VR games publishing program, now officially titled Oculus Publishing, with 150 games in active development.

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VR Fitness

APRIL 21, 2021

The first Oculus Gaming Showcase took place today, April 21st, with some major announcements for both the Quest 2 and PCVR.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 is in this article and virtual actuality will under no circumstances be the very same. The Quest 2 tends to make it easier than ever to shed your self in jaw-dropping virtual worlds, … supply.

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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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JULY 12, 2022

The latest Meta Quest software update adds more features to in-built fitness tracker Oculus Move, as well as improving the available options for parental supervision. After recent updates added smartphone support to Oculus Move , the in-built Quest fitness tracker will receive a new achievements feature in v42.

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MARCH 5, 2024

This article has been updated to reflect this. Back in 2018 every Oculus Rift stopped working due to an expired certificate. UPDATE: The issue was resolved around 8:40am PT. Meta's servers weren't working correctly earlier today, and the issue temporarily rendered all Quest headsets unusable.

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VRWorld

APRIL 26, 2017

link] story/nvidia-offers-geforce- gtx-oculus-bundle-with-3-free- games.html. “There is “no better time to jump in and immerse yourself,” says Nvidia. The Nvidia GeForce GTX Oculus Bundle provides a redemption code for The Unspoken, SUPERHOT VR, and Wilson’s Heart PC VR games.”

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Whereas Air Link requires installing and running the abandoned Oculus PC app alongside SteamVR, and Virtual Desktop requires installing and running the Virtual Desktop PC streamer, Valve's solution only requires you to have Steam and SteamVR installed on your PC, nothing else. It offers a direct unmediated connection to SteamVR, for free.

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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. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

But there is a solution that can solve some of these problems, that lets you log in on multiple Oculus Quests that you own, without using any real Facebook account (for now), if the only thing that you want to do is sideloading applications. This solution is called Oculus Test Users: let me show you what they are and how you can use them.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). mostly negative from v1.8.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2021

And now you can experience all of its retro charm through the lens of an Oculus Quest. Created by YouTuber ‘ OPEN PC Reviews ‘, the emulator fully recreates the C64 for the Oculus Quest platform, including support for both Quest and Quest 2 headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Recently Facebook has released experimental passthrough APIs for Oculus Quest 2 , letting developers create augmented reality apps for this virtual reality headset. Now what happens is that: If you try to record your Passthrough Home environment (or other kind of system screens employing AR) via Oculus-related tools (e.g.

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ARPost

JANUARY 2, 2020

VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S. We compare two VR headsets – Vive Cosmos and Oculus Rift S. With its ability to enhance perception and interaction with the real world, augmented reality can potentially revolutionize farming processes. Both are PC VR and are in competition with each other.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2022

Your boss has told you to write an article about the metaverse today and you don’t know how to do it? Don’t worry, Tony is here for you and will give you all the advice you need to write the most impactful article about the metaverse ever. Ah, and Zuckerberg bought Oculus for 4 billions. The super start. Be prepared.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In a new series of articles on the official Oculus Developer Blog, the company is offering an overview of additions to the Oculus Audio SDK, specifically new techniques for near-field 3D audio and volumetric sound source rendering. We expect to hear more on this topic from Oculus at the Connect conference in October.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The first Windows MR headsets arrived in late 2017 from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, aiming to compete with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that had launched a year earlier. That was in stark contrast to Oculus Touch and Valve's Index controllers, both beloved by their owners.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Yesterday Facebook has finally announced its new side content distribution system for the Oculus Quest, dubbed App Lab. With it, it is finally possible to publish for the Oculus Quest your VR apps that have not been approved by Facebook. For this article about App Lab, I’ve recorded for you a very complete video tutorial.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! This way, by reading this article, you are sure you have not missed any one of the announcements made there.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the device of the moment. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. If you want to watch a video review of the Oculus Quest 2 instead of reading my post, you can do it here! Opening an Oculus’s box is always an experience before the experience for the user. Oculus Quest 2 and controllers.

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