The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Some articles on the metaverse. A good article on XR Must highlights the best work that has been presented at Sundance Festival New Frontiers this year. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Lots of articles by the so-called press were full of statements about the death of VR, or the fact that VR is a gimmick. This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. And now the battle is on standalone headsets: Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it. Talking about NFTs and speculations, I’ve found a very interesting article on The Verge about the relationship between NFTs and copyright from a legal standpoint.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). Vive Focus comes to the west.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

The article received a groundswell of support from the global tech industry, backing the new discourse. Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

In this article, I am going to summarize all the info that we know about this headset … so that if you are unsure about buying it or not, you can make your decision in a better way. It is funny because the GTX 970 was the same minimum requirement of the Oculus CV1 , that is a headset that is far less demanding than the Index.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Image by Oculus). Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Likewise, the VR presentation on the Microsoft booth at the education show was muted – rather than the bewildering array of Windows MR headsets seen two years ago, the company promoted the virtual learning systems on only one provider, with the Samsung Odyssey on display giving an example of the education content. Image credit: KWP.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link. I don’t know if it is the plan, but for sure it is a possibility.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This week, Upload is marking the start of its third year and this post is exactly article number 3,000 published for the site. The $100 consumer Gear VR also debuts during this same period, arriving alongside a virtual arcade from Oculus to let people play some classic games. December 2015. January 2016.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. As a highly desirable feature for mobile VR headsets, positional tracking has been a priority for Oculus’ internal development for a long time, and various alternative solutions such as VicoVR and Univrses are beginning to appear.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy. pic.twitter.com/6yFD2FfHta — TikTokComms (@TikTokComms) January 6, 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in. Last week there has been the CES, maybe the biggest technology show of the year.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While I often discuss the long-term potential of AR & VR, in this article I'm reviewing Apple Vision Pro as it stands as a real product today. Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. A product starting at $3500.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The new update for Oculus Quest brings with it some interesting features, like the tracking of the Apple Magic Keyboard, some updates to the UI, and a new menu for hand tracking. Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! Image by Samsung). Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. This means that all new devices by Samsung won’t support Gear VR, that is so condemned to die. Original image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

The Oculus Go is one of the headsets of the moment : it is the first truly consumer-oriented VR-only device : it is easy to be used, it is cheap and it is (or will) available in the retail shops, so has all the potential to attract people that until now considered VR something too geek. So, where is the truth? The headset.

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. image courtesy VR First. Vancouver Film School, Canada. VIGAMUS Academy, Italy.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

First, they acquired Oculus and said that nothing would have changed for the startup, and they promised Palmer that no Oculus Rift would have required a Facebook account. Then they slowly kicked away all the previous executives from Oculus and took control of the company. Then they absorbed Oculus into Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Alan: An amazing article. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR’s great, because you can just swap out the phones. So explain how the haptics are working.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Alan: An amazing article. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR’s great, because you can just swap out the phones. So explain how the haptics are working.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Alan: An amazing article. But otherwise we're using the Samsung Gear VR. Alan: Yeah, I think device management with VR is a bit of a pain in the butt, because you have to keep them charged, especially with the Samsung Gear VR's great, because you can just swap out the phones. So we have our own app on the Oculus store.

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