Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2018

While Palmer Luckey provided his own Magic Leap One headset to iFixit for their tear down, the founder of Oculus certainly had his chance for a proper review before the spudgers and screwdrivers came out, and he isn’t pulling any punches either. image courtesy Magic Leap. ” Biting.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Image courtesy HTC.

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2019

The original founder of Oculus VR isn’t pleased with the Oculus Rift S IPD. Last week Oculus officially unveiled the Oculus Rift S , a ‘1.5 update’ to their popular Oculus Rift. Image Credit: Oculus. The post Palmer Luckey: ‘I Can’t Use The Oculus Rift S’ appeared first on VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

I’m also working on a cool tech prototype and I will share it with you very soon in the next few days on this blog. He said that Apple is going to “ make VR into something everybody wants before it’s something that everybody can afford ”, like the original Oculus The trademark XROS has been registered by a shell company owned by Apple.

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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. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Top news of the week. Image by Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

According to a blog post on the company’s website, Linden Labs has already been sold to an investment group led by Randy Waterfield and Brad Oberwager. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. I can’t wait to read it. Linden Research to be acquired.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. If headsets like Lynx or Project Cambria implement AR on a VR headset, Magic Leap 2 implements a bit of VR on an AR headset. A genius has found a smart way to cover the Oculus Home button on Quest controllers for public demos.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Oculus). The Oculus Quest is now one year old.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

There I have tried some interesting devices like Weart haptic gloves, OWO haptic suit, but especially the Magic Leap 2, which I found to be a very well-made piece of hardware! More info (Galea on Road To VR) More info (Galea on my blog The Ghost Howls). In the latest Oculus SDK, Meta has included Room Setup functionalities.

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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!).

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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

MAY 30, 2022

Don’t forget to read the coverage about it on my blog… Before leaving you to the news, I have to publicly compliment Emerson for having given the most correct answer to my contest. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. News worth a mention. Other news. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2021

Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, the head of Facebook Reality Labs, has written a blog post in which he revealed two very interesting pieces of news. Boz has added that he doesn’t want to overhype these devices (to avoid the same error made by Magic Leap), and so he has confirmed that they are not AR glasses, but just smartglasses.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week has been pretty amazing for my blog. Oculus Quest 2 keeps showing impressive sales stats. Since the game works through the Oculus Store, it can exploit all the features of the Oculus SDK (e.g. Oculus Avatars), plus the features of the store (e.g. Top news of the week. Image by Superdata). easy updates).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

.” They partnered with Visyon , a Barcelona-based practical immersive technology company, to provide a widespread selection of technical experiences in VR from Oculus and Vive, and AR through Magic Leap, HoloLens, and Moverio glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Oculus Quest had a good Christmas. And this is proven by the fact that the Meta Quest app (previously known as Oculus app) on the App Store has been at the first place as the most downloaded app on iOS for like two days after Christmas. Saudi Arabia fund gets control of Magic Leap. Here we are again. Donate for good.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for more articles about my Chinese experience in the upcoming days! Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. The Quest is selling well, and Oculus itself didn’t expect billions of sales. More info (News on Road To VR) More info (Official blog post by NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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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). Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2018

The engagement of my blog has grown a lot and this let me get in touch with fantastic people like Matias, Rob R F C, Charlie (Fink), Wes, Sam, Nicolas, Enrico, Luigi, Michael, Fabio, Alex… they are really a lot and can’t write all their names here (so forgive me if your name is not on the list, for sure I thought about you!).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Having had the chance to play with it for some days , I can tell you that it is really an interesting product (I’ll write a review about it here on this blog, so register to my newsletter to not miss it!). Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus).

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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! Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Last year, Facebook announced that it was going to release in 2021 a new side content distribution platform for the Oculus Quest.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. How it does feel publishing on Oculus App Lab Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

More info (PSVR 2 unveiled) More info (Official blog post on PSVR 2 headset). Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. More info (Magic Leap presentation) More info (Close up of the controllers).

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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2024

Across VR gaming, Oculus Publishing Ignition is a new funding initiative for Quest 3 developers. Detailing the technical reasons behind this decision in a blog post , it's now aiming to launch in "a few weeks." Magic Leap launched a companion mobile app for capturing third-person MR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a tradition of this blog to have a long roundup of the best XR news from CES every year. Further References Razer Quest Accessories (Road To VR) Magic Leap gets medical certification Me wearing Magic Leap 2 glasses Magic Leap announced at CES that its Magic Leap 2 glasses obtained IEC 60601-1 certification.

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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

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).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success. This shows once more how unfair is the treatment for indie developers on the Oculus platform. But actually, this has not happened. Judge James E.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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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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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2018

While it’s only been released on the Vive Focus so far, Western audiences may soon have access to Beat Reality and/or similar visualizer apps with the proliferation of MR passthrough cameras on standalone headsets, similar to features we’ve seen on hardware such as Magic Leap One Creator Edition, Oculus Quest and the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

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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). Blogging is something very important for me… I don’t care if only one person is reading me, if that person likes or finds useful what I post, then it’s fine.

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