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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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Facebook announced that, at the end of this year, it will officially retire Oculus Go, its 3DOF standalone headset. In early 2021, the company will also be making way for more apps on Quest with a new content distribution platform that will be separate from the Oculus Store. Oculus Go & Gear VR, Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2020

Facebook today announced that 20 Oculus Quest games have broken the $1 million revenue mark, a big milestone for the VR industry as a whole. Strong Quest software sales however seem to be a good indication that the Quest platform is not only surviving the temporary halt in hardware sales, but thriving in its absence.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2020

Today I woke up to read this letter from Oculus, sent to me because I’m a developer: Hello, Today, we announced our plans to sunset Oculus Go as we focus on driving forward the future of VR with 6DOF platforms like Oculus Quest. Goodbye Oculus Go. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

He is a very smart professional, and he’s very passionate about AR and VR technologies, and for this reason, I have already interviewed him on my blog. Here you are my chat with him about Oculus For Business! Let’s talk about Oculus For Business… can you remind my readers what is it?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Earlier this morning Adobe announced the purchase of Oculus’ 3D VR sculpting app, Oculus Medium. Adobe is one of the world’s leading creation software companies, and they’re committed to providing best-in-class 3D and immersive tools for artists, including Adobe Dimension and the Substance tools suite,” states Oculus in a blog post.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2021

Today I host a guest post from Alex Gonzalez , that will teach you how to record mixed reality videos for the Oculus Quest. I’m so happy that he has proposed me to write this tutorial for this blog, so that every one of you that wants to create a mixed reality video for his/her own Oculus Quest application, can do it pretty easily.

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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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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 13, 2021

After a relatively quiet couple of months from Oculus on the software front, Facebook’s VR unit is sharing some details on new functionality coming to its Quest 2 standalone headset. There’s no exact word on when that update is coming but the language in the blog seems to intimate that the rollout is imminent.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In a series of videos uploaded to Thrust Vector’s YouTube channel earlier this week, Nagle can be seen piloting a light aircraft while wearing an Oculus Go headset as Sommer’s sits beside him as a safety pilot. The post Texan Pilots Use Oculus Go For In-Flight Navigational Guidance appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Mozilla launched Firefox Reality back in 2018 on a host of early standalones, including Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus. Firefox Reality is set to be removed from app stores within the coming weeks, Mozilla says in a blog post , with the newly announced Igalia Wolvic taking its place starting as soon as next week.

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Upload VR

JULY 12, 2022

The latest Meta Quest software update adds more features to in-built fitness tracker Oculus Move, as well as improving the available options for parental supervision. After recent updates added smartphone support to Oculus Move , the in-built Quest fitness tracker will receive a new achievements feature in v42.

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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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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 notes how the Caddy demo highlights how VR/MR can increase accessibility to tools such as CAD and 3D modelling software – with Meta noting how the tech can “level the playing field.”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. Image by Oculus).

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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. “Our vision of the metaverse is a place created and customized by the people who use it, as unique and varied as any real-world location,” said the company in an official blog post.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for the Rift, and many software and game reveals.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Oculus today announced that Link is officially in beta, the company’s compatibility software so that Quest users can play Rift titles on PC. Oculus says most high-quality USB 3 cables should work, although you’ll probably want one long enough so you can play unencumbered. Not Currently Supported. AMD 300 Series.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2017

Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Public libraries provide safe, supportive environments that are available and welcoming to everyone,” says Oculus Education Program Manager Cindy Ball.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The acquisition is slated to include all of ZeniMax’s properties including Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios. Carmack co-founded id Software and was lead programmer of titles such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Following the open-sourcing of the Rift DK1 plans back in 2014 , Oculus today released the recipe for the Rift DK2, the company’s second development kit headset released in 2014. On the company’s developer blog today, Oculus open-sourced the Rift DK2 plans under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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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

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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, recently published an article with his thoughts on what it will take for VR to reach the mainstream. Perhaps not coincidentally, the piece published on Luckey’s personal blog this week comes just after reported priority shuffling at his former company, Oculus.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2022

Now Zuckerberg has revealed that in the v41 software update coming sometime next week, Quest’s Horizon Home space will finally give you the ability to invite friends and tour content as a party, including 360 videos and games.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2018

GDC, hosted later this month in San Francisco, has long been an important event for Oculus. GDC 2018 is a little more than one week away; Oculus is planning a big presence at the show this year, and, in a post to the company’s blog , says they’ll be bringing “never-before-seen demos” to the event.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Oculus plans to address this with a dynamic pricing scheme that gives you a discount if you already own a game in an otherwise bundle-spoiled batch. Oculus revealed earlier this month at Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, that Home is getting a complete overhaul as a part of their Rift Core 2.0

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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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

In a surprise announcement, Facebook is announcing today that it will be shuttering Oculus Story Studio. Story Studio is the team within Oculus that focused on the creation of narrative driven virtual reality content like the emmy award winning Henry, emotionally moving story Dear Angelica and breakout content like Lost.

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2022

When people trust that their conversations are truly private, they feel safe to express themselves and build stronger online connections,” the company says in a blog post. Before the update, users would have to input 3D Secure directly on the Oculus mobile app, however now you can manage the extra authorization layer whilst in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2020

Some days ago, the popular opensource 3D modeling software Blender has launched a new VR view tool to let you see your 3D scene in VR! Blender VR works through the OpenXR standard , for which a runtime has been implemented only for Windows Mixed Reality headsets and Oculus headsets. Oculus Rift. Prerequisites.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Eleven Table Tennis plans to add Meta Avatars in a future software update. When the original Oculus Quest launched its home environment only showed the controller, no hands. A later software update added the translucent outlined “ghost hands” present until now.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Oculus in a blog post has announced that Quill , their VR illustration software used for Dear Angelica , is going to launch as a free beta with the launch of their Touch controllers next month. This adds yet another free application to the lineup Oculus has prepared.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

Oculus appears to be listening to recent complaints about tracking stability for its Rift VR headset and Touch controllers, and is offering owners more help today. The VR specialist posted a new blog in which it details ideal set ups for the Oculus sensors that track the headset and controllers. So, what setup should you use?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Considering that Facebook is very smart also in leaking misleading info (as it has happened with the “Monterey” headset ), this can also be a move from Menlo Park to create hype for the upcoming Oculus Connect 6 and the AR glasses that will be teased there. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! Games on Oculus Quest are selling really well.

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