The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

In a long blog post, its belonging company highlights how it is going to create a free and paid tier of the program , letting so all hobbysts using the software for free. All the data is available for free to everyone on GitHub , so if you are doing some research in XR, feel free to use it! Gravity Sketch to become free for everyone.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Like YouTube, which Google recently brought to the Vive , Facebook works only when it’s available to as many people as possible. And the same makes sense for Facebook Spaces.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping.

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Peter Graham

JULY 25, 2019

Two of Oculus’ headsets support the virtual reality (VR) browser, Oculus Go and Gear VR, and today a third has been added to that list, Oculus Quest. The latter was announced back in April , which would allow any headset compatible with SteamVR to use the app, such as Oculus Rift/ Rift S, HTC Vive and Valve Index.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It’s a very busy working period for me, and I’m sorry if I’m being very irregular in writing blog posts or in answering on social media… but I’m really tight on time! Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. All in all, this big update is useful to finally give full power to the Oculus Quest 2. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

More info (SideQuest VR download page) More info (Launch blog post). Facebook will analyze and store how the users will react to the different ads, and will also merge the data about what apps the user uses in VR with his/her behavior on the Facebook social media to propose more relevant ads. Absolutely not. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. The announcement came on the company blog, and it reminds me a lot of what Meta announced a few months ago about Project Aria. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It is less “scary” (it just reads the data of your muscles), it has more possible applications (you can use it for all the purposes you use a hand at the moment), and it will be usable in just a few years. But don’t let the numbers fool yourself: as Mathew Olson from The Information highlights, “[PwC data] translates to a projected $6.9

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

It’s a beautiful summer day and I’m quite happy because this week my blog has turned three years old ! Image by Oculus). He was the last Oculus founder to still work at Oculus. From now on, nothing of the old Oculus remains at the new Oculus. Oculus is no more, there is only Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Announcement link) More info (News on my blog) More info (Error in one of the screenshots). More info (Use Google Translate). When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. Google Chrome now supports WebAR.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. If you have a Samsung Gear VR, you can now connect with your Facebook friends through Oculus Home. In the official words of the Oculus blog, this is “just the beginning of social VR.”. OCULUS CEO STEPS DOWN, WILL LEAD PC DIVISION.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I know, I’m too honest… and this is not good for views on my blog. Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Google details Project Starline.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

As part of our 3D Jam spotlight series, here are 17 utility demos that let you reach into a sea of data and extract its insights, explore a CAD prototype before committing it to a 3D printer, meet with people from around the world, and more. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Build Chinese.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

The Quest 2 is expected to have 8–9M units sold in 2021 (and this is compatible with the estimated sales data we have now), while the new device should sell 18–20M units in 2022. Oculus Quest increments its tracking area to 15m x 15m. Support this blog. More info (MOR is free to get) More info (Upload’s review of XR3 festival).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. Impressive. “ [My story] goes way back to theater if we want to go that far, ” Benzing told me over our Google Hangouts call. “ So when I finally got an Oculus Rift DK2, I jumped in and started going to every meetup that was happening in New York. ”.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

For the next two days, I will feature on this blog a long interview I made with Suzanne Borders, the CEO of BadVR. But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. I suggest you to follow her as well!). What does BadVR do?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

says the blog post with the partnership announcement. you have access to camera data). Last week I shared with you a post highlighting how the tools to analyze user behavior on a PC or mobile (like Google Analytics) are totally inappropriate for XR, and so we need dedicated tools for that. Gen2) +1 charging UBS-C (USB 2.0)

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 7, 2022

There’s also an Early Access version on the Oculus Store for the Meta Quest 2 ; I checked and it is not available via Steam, which means that I sadly cannot use Replika on my trusty Valve Index headset. (I We will never sell your personal data or conversation history.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Data is in the environment. Here is one more good straight ahead historical layout for folks who like a timeline with capsule summaries of key moments in the development process, from an excellent blog titled, Virtual Speech. It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal. We’ll get to that.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It turns out he’s a reader of this blog (I’ve always told you that the readers are smarter than the writer here) and we’ve become virtual friends during these years. I can say without any doubt that this is one of the most interesting interviews I’ve made in more than 4 years of blogging, so I advise you to watch it all.

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NVidia VR

JULY 31, 2018

Today, CyArk has not only detailed photogrammetric data on 200 sites on all seven continents, it has started to deliver on the second part of its vision: opening up that data to the public in the hope that developers will create 3D virtual experiences. And they can get a non-commercial license to use the data, too.”.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

If you make some calculations using these data, the result is that Meta has probably sold 9–10M Quest 2 units until now. These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. It’s basically a monopoly. But there is also bad news to talk about.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

Facebook Connect is coming September, 16th Oculus de facto rebranded as Facebook Reality Labs. Oculus is de facto no more. This week, Facebook has finally announced the date of the Oculus Connect 7, which is September, 16th. But it won’t be called Oculus Connect 7, but Facebook Connect. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021! When I tried the Looxid Labs add-on for the Vive I’ve found it interesting, but its data were pretty noisy, and some community members defined it as “another random numbers generator”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Only a minimum of the data should be shared with the online servers and most of them should be handled locally; the applications and the communications should be secure; the user must have all the control among what data of his/hers gets shared and what not. More info (Use Google Translate). Other relevant news.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some examples include the Oculus Quest and Vive Focus platforms. Among such are HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. . HUDs) or A transparent display presents a screen of data in front of the user’s eyes. Viral new solutions include Snap’s new AR glasses prototype and Google Glass Explorer Edition. .

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. News worth a mention.

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