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Making A Metaverse That Matters book review

The Ghost Howls

Now that I’ve finished the book, I would like to tell you my opinion about it, so that you can decide if it is worth buying it or not. The book subtitle is “From Snow Crash & Second Life to a virtual world worth fighting for” : I mention it because it exactly describes what is the theme behind the book.

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Report: Leaked Email Reveals Facebook XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’

Road to VR

An internal email reportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company’s feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014.

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Oculus Quest 2 review: entering mainstream Virtual Reality

The Ghost Howls

The Oculus Quest 2 is the device of the moment. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. If you want to watch a video review of the Oculus Quest 2 instead of reading my post, you can do it here! Opening an Oculus’s box is always an experience before the experience for the user.

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Interview with Robert Scoble about Oculus Quest 2, Apple Glasses and more!

The Ghost Howls

He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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Amanda Watson On The Carnegie Mellon Oculus Booth Incident Of 2014

Upload VR

Editor's Note: Amanda Watson joined Oculus VR in 2015 and took a cubicle outside John Carmack's office in Dallas where she worked late nights on the mobile SDK. Later in California, she worked on Oculus Link and Air Link before leaving Oculus in 2022. But not Oculus. In early 2024, Watson released CitraVR on Github.

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‘Pixel Ripped 1995’ Gets New Difficulty Mode & Easter Eggs in ‘Ultimate Challenge’ Update

Road to VR

Rumor has it that something special might happen at the end of the game… New Ripped Boost ability : This special move makes Dot super powerful when she gathers enough pixels and allows hardcore players and speed-runners to devise new strategies for clearing each level. We gave Pixel Ripped 1995 a very respectable [8.5/10]

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No one really knows how the next ten years are going to play out

The Ghost Howls

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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