The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Does Palmer want Oculus back? On Sunday I was reading some VR news, and I discovered that Anduril, the new company by Palmer Luckey, has just received $1.48 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”.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Sorry for the long backlog, but I’m not having much time to work on the blog during this period. Image from Palmer Luckey). Palmer Luckey creates a headset that can kill the wearer. To celebrate that day, Palmer Luckey has so created a headset inspired by the series. News worth a mention. I love nature. Or maybe not.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2017

Following the recent announcement that social VR platform AltspaceVR would be permanently closing its doors after running dry of VR funds , the company has revealed that the service will live on, in a heartfelt message of thanks posted on the official blog.

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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. This and the next editions of the newsletter are going to be full of cool pieces of news. On the work side, it has been busy, very busy. Be sure not to miss it! Next week I’ll also be at AWE.

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

One of the big issues with working for a VR startup in Biz Dev while also running a VR blog is that your bandwidth ends up at some pre cable modem levels. www.catsandvr.com/blog/palmer Ironically Oculus does not make any best of TechCrunch Disrupt SF list cause the only presence was a giveaway.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Sadly, the Beesly/Halpert video blog won't load for me and the (very blunt) registry only has three items on it, one of which is a Porsche 911 Carrera, but you can still check out their photo gallery and a few guest book signatures. —Meredith Palmer "You're so lucky Pam! Major Pam sass. Credit: SCREENSHOT / HALPERTBEESLY.COM.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Last week we learned Oculus founder and former executive Palmer Luckey was getting ready to release a repair kit for out-of-warranty Rifts that suffer from a manufacturing flaw that results in malfunctioning audio in one (or both) of the headset’s integrated headphones. Now, Luckey says, he’s giving it away for free.

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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. Very Palmer Luckey. ” First the good, then the bad (as determined by Luckey).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2017

On the company’s developer blog today, Oculus open-sourced the Rift DK2 plans under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Misc: Palmer Luckey, Chris Dycus, Jonathan Shine. Under an open-source license, anyone can now freely download the blueprints of the company’s second VR headset and even manufacture their own.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 10, 2017

Underwood wrote about the decision to leave Oculus on a blog today , revealing that he was leaving to join indie videogame publisher, Raw Fury. Oculus is parting ways with another long-standing employee today. Senior Developer Developer Strategy Callum Underwood is leaving the company over three years since he joined.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

More info Palmer Luckey has expressed his opinion on Quest Pro and Vision Pro In an interview with Peter Diamandis, the father of modern VR Palmer Luckey has expressed his opinions on the Apple Vision Pro and the Quest Pro. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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VRScout

MARCH 25, 2019

Image Credit: Palmer Luckey. In a post released on Luckey’s personal blog entitled I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you , the pioneering VR developer expressed his concerns towards the Oculus Rift S, claiming the headsets current lens distance is incompatible for anyone with an IPD outside the average range of 58mm – 72mm.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2016

Palmer Luckey and the Oculus team beat the Ubisoft developers in a game of capture the flag in Eagle Flight. Oculus posted a blog post with 30 different launch titles for the Oculus Touch. Here’s a list of Oculus Touch Launch titles named in the blog: Luna by Funomena. SUPERHOT VR. Killing Floor: Incursion.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Palmer Luckey has said that Facebook promised him that this was never going to happen (How naive was him in believing them). So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

As of today, Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, is no longer the CEO of the company he helped create with Palmer Luckey over four years ago in Irvine, CA. For more information, the full statement has been posted on the official Oculus blog. ” We will continue to follow this story as it evolves.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In a blog post, the company said the new price for its immersive headset will be available for a “limited time” as part of a summer sale. In January, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey said that even at the initial $599 price tag, the Rift headset didn’t offer Oculus a profit.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2020

There is a separate blog post for us developers, that highlights how we should behave under this new policy, that will take effect from October 20th, 2020 (you can find the full rules here ). To create a Test User account, you can follow the instructions written in this official blog post. The rules for the developers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

He started working in the field many years before me , and he has seen all the transition from old-school VR to the modern devices kickstarted by Palmer Luckey, and so has a great knowledge on immersive realities and many other related technologies. It is a real pleasure for me to be interviewed for your blog.

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EON Reality

JUNE 10, 2020

CNBC reports that there are 26 million headsets owned globally, a relatively small number when you consider it was going to ‘change the world’ according to Palmer Luckey of Oculus VR. This is the AR that we expect to see more of in the future. interactive and up close viewer experiences of ever movie genre in the living room.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Usually at Easter we open chocolate eggs and find some surprises inside… it would be great if opening my e-mail today, I would discover that I have received the surprise of some donations on Patreon to support the management of this blog! It’s nice to see how Facebook is updating the Quest software constantly.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

It’s a beautiful summer day and I’m quite happy because this week my blog has turned three years old ! He, Palmer, Brendan, and the others started something so magical. Please make my blog’s birthday very special by clicking the button below! Happy blog’s birthday, Tony! Do you want to make me a gift to celebrate?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Today I feature a very interesting blog post about Virtual Reality anime by Fedotov Maxim. It’s well known that Palmer would love to get an actual Sword Art Online game made in VR and I am sure something like that will happen in the next 5–10 years. Future of Anime VR. As with anything VR, the sky is the limit.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. However, where as Palmer Luckey explored the possibilities with VR technology, Vermeulen explores the possibilities of augmented reality, and how AR experiences grounded in real-world physics can co-exist with reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2023

But I can promise you that no headset of ours has exploded while testing the application, so you should be safer than using Palmer Luckey’s SAO headset. If you are interested, after the launch, I can write here on this blog a post mortem about the lessons learned … let me know what you think about this idea! Header image by VRROOM).

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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. It’s hard to explain this with words, so watch this video of Palmer Luckey trying them to understand what I’m talking about. Could I make an exception for this year? Of course not.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2019

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 for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. So we’re still one of the last, larger independent tech blogs.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. So we’re still one of the last, larger independent tech blogs.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. So we're still one of the last, larger independent tech blogs.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. So we’re still one of the last, larger independent tech blogs.

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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

MARCH 21, 2019

The Oculus Rift S announcement made its way to the front page of most major tech blogs yesterday, and the tone was pretty straightforward: ‘The new Oculus headset is here, it works better, there’s cool content, and it’s a pretty attractive package at $400’ Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But while we were great on the technical side, we weren’t good at doing business and marketing (I only started my blog in summer 2016 ), so in 2017 we closed the curtain on our crazy adventure. We had full-body room-scale VR in 2014 , we were so cool. There are hands tracking and eye tracking , but they are almost never exploited.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

More info (OpenAR announcement blog post) More info (OpenAR official website). Palmer about Oculus being rebranded to Meta Quest. Please help this tradition come true by making a donation on Patreon to my blog! This could be also useful as an educational tool for very low-budget schools. Discover opensource WebAR tools.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Also, thanks to the Skarredghost for offering to host my article on his influential blog [You’re welcome, Rob, always happy to host your amazing articles!]. The image above shows the difference between the two controllers, if focusing on the difference in the palmer (palm) and dorsal (back of hand) support of the hands.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And the mobile phone revolution with really inexpensive accessible small high resolution LED screens or LCD screens, and IMUs, and tiny processors, and all of the components that Palmer Luckey needed to build his first Oculus headset came out of the cell phone industry. Bob: I wrote a blog post about that. Alan: Yeah, that was cool.

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