ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Recent technological advancements have pushed the envelope of what modern technologies are capable of. Furthermore, these innovations have greatly changed the way users interact with such technologies. Unfortunately, such beliefs stem from a misunderstanding of the technology and how it works.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

Many journalists have been speculating lately that Meta was abandoning the vision of the metaverse and that the new focus of the company was towards AI, the shiny technology of the moment. So I wonder if this suspension could also change Microsoft’s future plans concerning the M-word. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Other relevant news. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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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

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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OCTOBER 27, 2017

This week, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco —the flagship hub for the tech giant’s efforts in mixed reality (MR). “We are at the threshold of the next revolution in computing,” Liz Hamren, corporate vice president of Microsoft Devices Marketing, wrote in a blog post.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

The reason for such a decision would be that was impossible to create a glass that could be thin enough and that could contain all the desired technology (e.g. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. Mark Zuckerberg told that Oculus Quest closed the first generation of VR and so Oculus is now working on its second generation.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Does Palmer want Oculus back? I tweeted the news saying that “Palmer Luckey is not doing that bad without Oculus…” and Palmer Luckey himself answered to me commenting “Without Oculus for now, anyway”. More info (Anduril getting $1.48B of investments) More info (Palmer Luckey commenting about Oculus). Image by Valve).

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2018

The experience, which is slated to arrive on Gear VR, Oculus Rift and Daydream VR sometime this spring, takes you to London’s Natural History Museum and puts you right across the table from Attenborough. image courtesy Sky.

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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

JUNE 21, 2021

Image by New Technology Walkers). New Technology Walkers (NTW) has released on SideQuest a free demo of HitMotion: Reloaded, a fitness XR game that was already one of the launch titles of the Vive Focus Plus. More info (SideQuest VR download page) More info (Launch blog post). You can’t miss it: register now on Meetup [link].

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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. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. Image by Oculus). In the meanwhile, I wish you all a fantastic 2020! Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

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. The blog post is full of the usual fluff: it could have been written in 10 lines instead of a big wall of text. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Thanks to this, the card will be able to keep two Wi-Fi connections at the same time: one towards a router to have an internet connection, and the other directly to another device, like the Oculus Quest. Congress is stopping the acquisition of more Microsoft IVAS headset. This is a decision that is not going to make Microsoft happy.

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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! But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet. Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update.

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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. But the race is on.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Spiess shares that the technology concept of “smart assets” is key to making mixed reality valuable for SAP’s customers. Because it supports so many platforms, we can be device-independent and build applications for Microsoft HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest, iOS devices, and more. These smart assets are 3D (e.g.,

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

This is an enormous number: this means that now 15–20% of the total Facebook workforce is on immersive technologies, even if XR is currently a very little revenue stream for the social media giant. In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. 10,000 people mean at least 1.2B

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. The guy, which goes under the nickname of HYPEX, is known to be a reliable leaker for Fortnite, so it is quite sure that there are now references to Oculus in the Fortnite code. There are hints about Fortnite coming to Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

EMG technology (the one by CTRL+Labs) is the one that Meta has identified as the best of XR interactions, so it is crucial for the company to integrate it inside its smartwatches. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2017

Software developer Shachar “Vice” Weis has described his first impressions of Acers Windows Mixed Reality VR headset dev kit on his blog. However, it doesn’t support the same spatial mapping as HoloLens, as indicated on Microsoft’s Dev Center page , instead using two front-mounted sensors purely for headset tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

By the way, stay tuned on this blog to read about my experience at AWE! Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

The cost is €399 + VAT , which is not cheap, but we have to remember that is an enterprise device, so its cost is higher than consumer devices like the Oculus Go. This is just the nth lesson about why you should never fall for the hype… More info Some news about AI Zipnerf is a new cool Nerf technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. I can’t wait to read it. Linden Research to be acquired. Linden Research a.k.a.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The extended reality (XR) technology market is becoming more accessible and available to the broader world. Thanks to the increasing presence of consumer and enterprise-grade XR solutions, the audience reach of immersive technology is expanding. MR goes above and beyond the potential of other immersive technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2022

XR technology can be an extremely powerful tool in the business world. Knowing exactly what you want to accomplish with your new technology will help you to determine whether you need to work with a hardware vendor, and software vendor, or a combination of both.

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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 ]”. Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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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). Image by Microsoft). Upload VR has published a very easy-to-follow tutorial on how to add custom environments to your Oculus Quest. The problem is: it seems that in latest update Oculus has removed this feature….

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