The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2021

I’m very happy to announce that HitMotion: Reloaded, the XR fitness game that we of New Technology Walkers are developing, has finally been launched for Oculus Quest! The demo is also an alpha, that is we are releasing it without having polished and optimized it because we want to hear the feedback of the community!

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The funding round was led by Europe’s most active proptech VC, Pi Labs, with participation from Silicon Valley-based commerce experts Sugar Capital and deep tech specialists 7Percent Ventures – one of the first backers of Oculus VR – alongside several notable angel investors. to build the digital layer for the physical world!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience. That’s what I’m doing here.”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Next week, on September 26th-27th, Oculus will perform its annual showcase event: Oculus Connect , that has now arrived at its 5th edition. The latest event, the OC4 has been full of news and interesting information , both on Oculus products and VR in general and I think that this year won’t be different.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The choice of the magazine is not casual: Apple keeps pushing to show that its device is not a nerdy thing that isolates people, but it is a trendy thing that augments reality while you can still interact with other people. It has been on the cover of Vanity Fair, with a very carefully studied picture.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The firm gained a massive asset when it purchased Oculus in 2014. Following the acquisition, the Meta Quest, previously known as the Oculus Quest 2, emerged as a stand-out device for entertainment, work, and education. The firm also supports Horizon developers with a series of XR funds and boot camps. What is Project Cambria?

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Oculus Connect 7—now referred to as Facebook Connect —is just around the corner and rumors surrounding the annual developer conference are swirling! Here are our official predictions for Facebook Connect: NEW OCULUS HARDWARE. Just recently Walmart posted a listing for a device called the Oculus Point Reyes for $399.99

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Shariiing VR helps you in providing demos in VR. Top news of the week.

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Next Reality VR

MARCH 25, 2016

In that spirit, Microsoft-owned Mojang has been developing virtual- and augmented-reality versions of the blocky sandbox game. Recently, Oculus, whose technology powers the Samsung Gear VR, demoed a modified Minecraft Pocket Edition for the Gear VR at GDC 2016.

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ARVR

APRIL 1, 2021

MeetinVR, a Danish world-leading platform for collaborative meetings in virtual reality, today announced the launch on the Oculus Store. We are very excited to be launching on the Oculus Store. Without signing up for a 30-day free trial, people can only experience MeetinVR with pre-populated demo content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Then she has announced that in 1–2 months the startup will showcase the first prototypical version of the product in public live streams and in private demos to investors, customers, and partners. For instance, Rebecca Minkoff, a very famous stylist, has decided to showcase her new creations in augmented reality.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2020

Founded in 2016 by Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, the company’s social AR/VR workspace has since gone on to include support for Microsoft HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest, Magic Leap 1, Qualcomm XR2, Android/iPhone mobile device and traditional monitors. SEE ALSO Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.3

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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. Who is the device for?

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry’s next bet is a series of technologies usually called augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality. Here’s what the biggest companies in tech are doing to try and make augmented reality the next big thing. Display technology is another limiting factor for augmented reality.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2018

Oculus Studios today revealed their latest Rift exclusive, Defector , a high-action first-person adventure from Twisted Pixel , the studio behind Wilson’s Heart (2017). At the start of the demo I opened a small box in front of me and picked up an earpiece and placed it in my ear, then a special contact lens and placed it in my eye.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2018

The company says that its motive for opening up the project is to accelerate computer vision research, and that teams within Facebook are using the platform for a variety of applications, including augmented reality. SEE ALSO Facebook Teases "breakthrough technologies" Coming to New Oculus Products, Tours R&D Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

French startup Lynx has finally unveiled the R1, the first mixed reality standalone headset. While with other VR headsets like the Vive Focus Plus it is already possible to do some kind of augmented reality , this is the first standalone headset that can provide both good quality AR and VR on the same device. No availability.”

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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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Mashable VR

MAY 12, 2022

The term mixed reality refers to a combination of augmented reality with the immersiveness of virtual reality. In the clip, which shows Zuckerberg demoing the headset, a first-person perspective gives viewers a glimpse of what it would look like if they were wearing the gear. It's interactive AR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

ILMxLab, Lucasfilm’s immersive media group, today announced Star Wars: Project Porg , an augmented reality “experiment” built for Magic Leap. Just ahead of this week’s Leap Con conference, ILMxLab has announced the Star Wars: Project Porg “experimental demo” for the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

in the morning, but in the end, the first alpha demo is over and it will launch as promised on June, 16th! I’ve found the news inside an article that was talking about fitness in augmented reality. Oculus Quest increments its tracking area to 15m x 15m. Museum of Other Realities is free to get for the XR3 festival.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

Believers in virtual and augmented reality found themselves sleepless and stirring on the eve of Apple's keynote address at WWDC23. Augmented Reality. In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. What does it mean, then, that Apple planted its flag in augmented reality?

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

Proximie raises $38m for augmented reality surgery. UK-based Proximie, which uses augmented reality to allow surgeons to advise on operations remotely around the globe, has raised $38M series B funding round. And the headset is only 500 grams. Campfire is cross platform, too. Smartphones. Unlimited simultaneous users.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

During the last few years, web developers have tried to integrate virtual reality experiences on websites, starting in 2016 with the first WebVR API, but leaving aside the important segment of augmented reality, which is why WebXR was born. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3.

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ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

When we talk to people and want to do a demo, they still don’t have a headset readily available,” he said. Further, recent increasing adoption figures are largely driven by one factor: Oculus. See Also: Augmented Reality Disappeared From Gartner’s Hype Cycle - What’s Next? Hardware, Software, and Adoption.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

nReal is a Chinese augmented reality company that is developing an augmented reality glass that is cheap, light and fashionable. The lenses are a bit opaque , like in all other augmented reality devices. Here you are my hands-on impressions on the device. What is nReal? Applications.

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VRScout

MAY 13, 2020

Spatial’s virtual collaboration comes to Oculus Quest and a slew of other platforms. During my demo, I was standing in a physical room with Jacob Lowenstein, VP of Business Development for Spatial, as he guided me through Spatial’s impressive virtual platform. The whole idea behind Spatial is to get rid of all of that friction.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

From that day, many people have started asking me more about this augmented reality device, so I understood it was time for one of my big reviews! is the second iteration of the Realmax augmented reality glasses (the first one was the Realmax 100). When I got it, it just had a rough launcher to execute some demo programs.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2020

Platforms: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Viveport. Platforms: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Quest. Platform: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Quest , PlayStation VR. Platform: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Quest , Viveport. Play against your friends or people you’ve never met.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Top news of the week. Image by Engadget). Let’s see….

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 17, 2018

WEARVR.com, the web's leading independent virtual reality app store, is launching a brand new competition aimed at seasoned virtual reality developers, which challenges them with updating their original Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 demos, games and experiences and bringing them back for the latest Oculus headset.

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