XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 7, 2024

In the same blog post, Meta noted its tapping into XR’s impact on learning outcomes today. Meta’s move means that a Quest user who logs into their XR device with an Oculus account will no longer be able to do so by the end of the month.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

Moreover, Meta has also removed all user data related to these features. Just days before Meta updated Workrooms, the firm also deleted all Oculus user data on March 28th. In the future, Quest users will no longer be able to log into their XR devices with an Oculus account.

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Rolling out over the course of the next month, v35 will impact everything from Horizon Workooms to the Oculus smartphone app. At the moment, all data is saved directly to your headset, so if you misplace your device or perform a factory backup, you risk losing everything. ” Image Credit: Meta. Feature Image Credit: Meta.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2021

The device clips to your belt, sends data over to an included Bluetooth dongle, and essentially eliminates thumbstick-based locomotion. DecaMove is said to support SteamVR-compatible headsets, including Valve Index, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest (via Link), HP Reverb G2, HTC Vive/Pro, HTC Cosmos, Samsung Odyssey, and DecaGear 1.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. Thanks to Application SpaceWarp, which can be shortened in AppSW, your Oculus Quest 2 experience can run at half the frame rate without impacting how the user sees it. Image by Meta).

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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 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.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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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. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2019

Unlike the original Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest, Rift S and Oculus Go don’t have hardware-IPD adjustments. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company back in 2017, took to his personal blog today to say that his own 70mm IPD is too far away from the headset’s nominal IPD setting to use it comfortably.

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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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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like. Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). Specifications.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 24, 2022

Those new to Meta VR must register for a Meta account with an email address, or they can continue to use Facebook and Instagram accounts to login while integrating their social media data for accessing Messenger. Users can pair their devices with the Oculus mobile App to enter their account information. Meta Moves, Major Challenges.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 16, 2021

Advertising giant Facebook announced Wednesday that they’re going to begin testing advertising inside virtual reality titles on its Oculus platform soon. They are interestingly not rolling this out with a first-party title, though I’m sure integration with Oculus Studio titles is inevitable.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As it is tradition of this blog, I have prepared a big fatty roundup with all the news announced at the latest Facebook Connect 2. Read more about this news: Founder’s letter by Mark Zuckerberg: [link] Design blog on Meta’s logo: [link] Facebook spending $10B for the metaverse: [link] Integral keynote of Facebook Connect 2: [link].

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

According to a Sketchfab blog post , cultural organizations can now dedicate their 3D scans and models to the Public Domain using the Creative Commons (CC) 0 Public Domain Dedication , which essentially certifies that the institution is gifting the work to the public domain by waiving all rights to the work worldwide under copyright law.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

It was well over a year ago that the promise of Xbox streaming to the Oculus Rift was first promised by Phil Spencer during a June 2015 press event in San Francisco. ” According to the blog, the data will be shared between the two systems via your home’s wifi network. It will be free of charge.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

More info (Official blog post) More info (Explanation on Upload VR) More info (Very good explanation on Road To VR) More info (Jeri Ellsworth saying this technology will arrive “soon-ish”). Another amazing research project showcased by Oculus this week can enable high-resolution displays for the next generation of Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. But will it be enough now to beat Apple? Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Since 2016, the company has invested in AR, VR and XR to help its customers accelerate time to insight and enhance the way SAP data is visualized and understood. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit. Doesn’t a computer do the job just fine?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

VR had a great Christmas, and in particular, Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. Meta has acquired another startup, AI.Reverie , which was focused on training artificial intelligence systems using synthetic data. What to do with an Oculus Rift S in 2022 Funny link. I hope this is going to happen soon. Funny link. Funny link.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

LiveMaps relies on crowd-sourced data obtained from various smart devices, such as geotagged images, to create a point cloud system. This technology can also capture data regarding specific objects and locations, providing users with additional references and reminders. Image Credit: Facebook.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 6, 2020

In a blog post the studio overviewed its purpose behind Telepath which it says is to make an intuitive movement system which is comfortable and doesn’t discourage physical player movement. Oculus Quest has experimental controller-less hand-tracking which can be enabled in the headset’s settings. Image courtesy Oculus.

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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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Upload VR

APRIL 3, 2023

To ensure eye tracking data is passed over Link, enable the setting in the Beta tab of the Oculus PC app. The toolkit’s developer Matthieu Bucchianeri notes there is a bug in the Oculus software preventing eye tracking from passing through for some users.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

The division uses Unity to create a mixed reality pipeline connected to systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data, then deploy applications to multiple platforms, including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus devices, and smartphones. A version of this article originally appeared on the Unity Blog , published here with permission. .

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2020

I so asked some questions on Twitter to some people from the social media corporate and Chris Pruett , Director of Content Ecosystem at Oculus, has been so kind as to answer them. In case you were in vacations and you lost contact with VR this week, you may have lost the announcement of the new Facebook account policy for Oculus devices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In my career as an XR professional, I’ve got to know people from all over the world, especially thanks to this blog, social media, and the international events I attended. Do you know that there are some XR blogs and magazines all in Spanish to cater to Spanish and Southern American markets? There’s a lot going on over here!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2021

But a question popped up in my mind: could it also be used here in the West as an alternative to the Oculus Quest 2? The Pico Neo 3 is rather affordable, has a store with pretty good games, and has basically the same hardware as the Oculus Quest 2. Not a perfect one, but a good one. …unless you’re really determined.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR!

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift ’s are often pretty extensive with games spread across genres and plenty of non-gaming experiences like short films and experimental forms of education. HTC Vive’s blog reveals that their partners have collaborated to do just that and Amazon has also put together an Oculus Rift deal.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 22, 2019

Oculus Quest might look like a nice compact virtual reality (VR) headset (in comparison to other VR devices) but it packs a lot under that hood. Today, the company has revealed the story behind Oculus Insight and how it gives players a full six-degrees-of-freedom.

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