The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. Walmart seems to have leaked the price of the upcoming Oculus Quest S.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The award went to Geometry Ogilvy Japan for the Shibuya Virtual Halloween experience, which was also a nominee in the Social Impact category. VR Film of the Year. Perhaps no experience shows this better than VR films. Nominees were insightful, educational, and – of course – immersive. VR Experience of the Year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Venice Film Festival is featuring a rich VR section. Among the most important film festivals, La Biennale del Cinema di Venezia is the only one with an official VR competition. Finally, AR could become truly useful since it won’t be confined to rooms, but it can expand into the whole world. I can’t wait to discover who will win.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 29, 2021

Strange eyes look from high points and serve as a unifying aesthetic to the strange world. Who made this strange, virtual, world? XR is an all-encompassing term referring to include Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and other forms of immersive media. The XR Experience.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. More info (News on filming) More info (A shot recorded by a fan). Google Chrome now supports WebAR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Then, he donned an Oculus Quest 2, put a controller on the bike, and rode the bike while doing the VR game, with the real track mapped perfectly with the virtual track. The problem of moderation inside virtual worlds. Doing moderation of virtual worlds is incredibly hard because there are a lot of grey areas to consider.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

At the end of this simultaneous performance, the participants gathered in the courtyard of the Palais Royal will be able to chat live with Jean-Michel Jarre’s avatar, erasing even further the boundaries between the physical and the virtual worlds. Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen?

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2016

The timing for this event comes on the heels of an announcement that ILMxLab have been collaborating with Magic Leap , a company shrouded in secrecy that is promising revolutionary augmented reality technology. Where: VRChat to join live with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or monitor. billion in funding.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Goodbye Oculus brand. More info (Meta stores) More info (Oculus website disappearing). If this becomes true, Fortnite could become a hub of virtual worlds, so a small “metaverse”. Tribeca Film Festival is back with 10 New VR experiences. Confusion LVL 9000. Cambria will be a pro headset to substitute your laptop.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). This is so sad.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2020

And after taking basic Oculus Quest development course, learning about WebXR, and trying new titles on SideQuest, I thought through this question again with a bigger picture in mind. In conclusion, XR won’t replace conventional 2D interfaces such as websites, just like how books still exist after the invention of film technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I truly hope they can create a serious blockchain that can be the foundation for ownership and payment systems in virtual worlds. I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

In these 2 days (October, 19-20th), in Nanchang, China, it is held the first edition of the World Conference on VR Industry (WCVRI) , a very important event to talk about virtual and augmented reality. The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some people switched to other virtual worlds like Neos. You can now try games on the Oculus Store. Venice Immersive is the VR branch of the Venice Film Festival. This year, the Venice Film Festival will be held physically in Venice and will have again a section dedicated to VR, which will be called Venice Immersive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. Membrane AR: Varifocal, Wide-Field-of-View Augmented Reality Display From Deformable Membranes. Registration details for the conference are here.

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HaptX

JANUARY 18, 2018

Once a year, a quiet town in the hills outside Salt Lake City usurps Hollywood as the center of film and media. In the forty years since the Sundance Film Festival began, the event has refashioned the landscape of Park City and reshaped independent film. Sundance is now more than a film festival.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve been to other virtual worlds in beta stage before, but Sansar is taking it from another direction. In the real world you see companies and brands specializing in certain types of content, and it’s no different in virtual worlds, we’ve seen this in Second Life. It’s about you and what you want to do.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. As you can see, in the MagicVerse, in every moment, in every place, there will be a lot of mixed reality applications running.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Everyone says that augmented reality (AR) will be bigger than virtual reality (VR): analysts , investors , technologists , and futurists alike. AR adds digital elements on top of the real world. Second, most use cases for VR prioritize interaction with the virtual world over the physical one.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. The headsets and the technology for continuous virtual worlds and the blockchain for ecommerce, all the pieces are here.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The virtual reality (VR) industry is still very much a community which wants to see everyone succeed, whether that’s an indie developer or hardware manufacturer. It’s why if you go to a dedicated VR or augmented reality (AR) event everyone is always so friendly and helpful. Ever watch the film Arachnophobia (1990)?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). (Image from Reddit). The VR ecosystem can end 2021 with a big smile on its face. Other relevant news. Image by Rec Room).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

Soon we won’t be able to imagine living life without devices that not just correct our vision but add new virtual and augmented reality capabilities to them. A similar win will happen as we move to an augmented world that Spatial Computing brings. We can’t imagine living life without our glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

La Biennale di Venezia , the commitee behind the Venice Film Festival, has just organized its important workshop of the Biennale College inside the VRrOOm social XR platform for which I’m a developer. Oculus rejects Crisis VRigade again, causing backlash from the community. So, Start it is not a valid answer.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

I’m also an emergent technologist in virtual and augmented reality, medtech, climate, and applied sciences here in Silicon Valley. The key areas I’m currently focused on and am exceedingly happy to contribute towards their growth are Medical XR and Virtual & Augmented Reality for common and Global good.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Traditionally based off of technological developments happening in the real world, some of the first movies with VR technology started coming out in the early 80’s when advancements in computer technology allowed research to begin on more affordable VR. TRON (1982).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Most of the focus so far has been on building those worlds and experiences, but if we’re ever to achieve a true sense of presence in these virtual worlds, we need to also be able to create really good avatars. Full immersion and meaningful social interaction can only really happen if we feel comfortable in our virtual skins.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

And basically what it does is, we use 106 video cameras, and we film a performance from every possible angle. As we move more into these virtual worlds, it’s important that real people are represented in them. So, it’s kind of this cool site-specific augmented reality experience. Christina: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

And basically what it does is, we use 106 video cameras, and we film a performance from every possible angle. As we move more into these virtual worlds, it’s important that real people are represented in them. So, it’s kind of this cool site-specific augmented reality experience. Christina: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Alexander Haque, the founder of RetinadVR, whose mission was to help pioneer virtual and augmented reality through powerful data. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Alan: Got it. Alex: It does.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And all these concerts are being built on Epic, and Epic's filming Hollywood movies now, because people can't go to sound stages.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And all these concerts are being built on Epic, and Epic's filming Hollywood movies now, because people can't go to sound stages.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

And basically what it does is, we use 106 video cameras, and we film a performance from every possible angle. As we move more into these virtual worlds, it's important that real people are represented in them. So, it's kind of this cool site-specific augmented reality experience. So, we're getting a ton of data.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Alexander Haque, the founder of RetinadVR, whose mission was to help pioneer virtual and augmented reality through powerful data. We were commissioned to bring a five-minute VR experience that they had filmed, giving behind-the-scenes look at the Rangers, the Knicks, and Billy Joel live on stage in 360 VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Alexander Haque, the founder of RetinadVR, whose mission was to help pioneer virtual and augmented reality through powerful data. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Alan: Got it. Alex: It does.

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