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

JUNE 21, 2021

More info (SideQuest VR download page) More info (Launch blog post). More info (Announcement blog post) More info (Boz announcing the news on Twitter) More info (My long editorial on Facebook and its advertisement efforts). Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30. The update pace of the Oculus Quest is impressive.

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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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ARVR

JUNE 2, 2021

At the center of this master plan is the thing that kicked off the current AR & VR era: Oculus. As Google Glass learned the hard way, there are deep-rooted cultural barriers that stand in the way of social acceptance. Though Facebook’s VR moves stand out, they’re just one piece of the puzzle. Enter Project Aria.

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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

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). One thing that I’m trying to do is continuing my daily job and at the meantime learn as much as I can about AR and VR. They started doing it in Second Life!

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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

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Now the full stack of the platform has been made opensource, and it will be easy for tech-savvy people to install it on whatever machine they want. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead.

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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

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. Learn more. It’s basically a monopoly. OpenBrush v1.0.

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Headjack

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

There is the awesome looking Jaunt ONE , the pricey Nokia OZO , the Google/GoPro JUMP rig , Facebook’s open-source camera , or if you like stitching and making your life difficult, our custom 16-camera GoPro rig. But believe me, when you’ve never worked in NUKE before (like me), it has a very steep learning curve.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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VRWorld

APRIL 17, 2017

Secondly, the skills learned by watching best of the best in every field imaginable are being trickled down to the new generation (and old) of viewers who then move to implement those skills themselves. The technology is largely the domain of gaming brands at present, inclusive of both casinos and traditional developers. Live Casino.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Back to Blog Page First, let’s define what we are talking about. It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning and edge computing. Google’s Plan How will Google compete with this?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. Image by Oculus). In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. The whole machine equipment. You can find the original text in Mandarin here. Introduction. – Near-eye display technology.

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

” As I started researching, learned a lot about the efforts during the 1990s to incorporate haptics into VR, but interest in haptics tech seemed to fizzle out as enthusiasm for VR subsided. It could drastically change the way we work—machine haptics has the possibility to accelerate automation and the replacement of humans by machines.

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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. I had this fascination with the concept of a Holodeck and as I grew up that never sort of left me and when virtual reality became the thing with Oculus, I just saw this opportunity to actually build my own holodeck.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

Announcing via blog post that they ran into “unforeseen financial difficulty,” Altspace had raised almost $16M and was not able to finalize another round of funding. The company was originally known as Vrse, and you probably know co-founder and CEO Chris Milk as the empathy machine guy. THE METAVERSE TRYING TO BUILD ON BLOCKCHAIN.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

It was a 6DOF simulation machine. And there’s a really interesting thing for the listeners, if you Google the “Snowden leadership framework”, it’s a Harvard Business Review article, it was back in the 90s. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

It was a 6DOF simulation machine. And there’s a really interesting thing for the listeners, if you Google the “Snowden leadership framework”, it’s a Harvard Business Review article, it was back in the 90s. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

Google acquires Raxium. The news about Google being willing to acquire Raxium had been leaked a few weeks ago, but now it has become official. Snap has bought Compound Photonics, Meta has established a strategic partnership with Plessey), and Google has just done this important move, too. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Thanks Oculus for having given us the Link functionality. the USB cable for Oculus Link) and the (rechargeable) batteries for the controllers. Create a TeamViewer account and add the Office PC as one of your machines , so that you can log in every time you want, and even reboot the remote PC without any risks.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! Adobe to bring its apps on Quest Pro (Upload VR) All work-related updates of Meta Connect (Oculus blog). B2B ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Google unveils Starline communication solution. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. According to Xperia Blog, Sony is going to launch a mobile VR headset working out of Sony phones.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. And one of the posts I wrote recently on my blog at theboolean.io

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. And one of the posts I wrote recently on my blog at theboolean.io

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

Antony is an XR consultant and author of an amazing blog called The Ghost Howls. If you’re not already following Tony, you can learn a lot by connecting with him on LinkedIn and subscribing to his newsletter at skarredghost.com. Oculus Quest is coming out. Tony welcome to the show. Antony: Hello, Alan!

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. And one of the posts I wrote recently on my blog at theboolean.io

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

Antony is an XR consultant and author of an amazing blog called The Ghost Howls. If you're not already following Tony, you can learn a lot by connecting with him on LinkedIn and subscribing to his newsletter at skarredghost.com. Oculus Quest is coming out. We've got the VIVE Focus Plus. Antony: The interest.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

Antony is an XR consultant and author of an amazing blog called The Ghost Howls. If you’re not already following Tony, you can learn a lot by connecting with him on LinkedIn and subscribing to his newsletter at skarredghost.com. Oculus Quest is coming out. Tony welcome to the show. Antony: Hello, Alan!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2023

We picked as his role the one of a tech expert because it was a field that we know very well ourselves, but as its main expertise we didn’t pick the too obvious AI field, but virtual reality, because it was a growing field of interest in 2014 after Facebook acquired Oculus. ” “Can you improve the pixels of the Oculus Rift?”

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