The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JUNE 19, 2020

First, they built a now-patented hardware, called ION. Moreover, it’s compatible with HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , and Windows Mixed Reality. Skip Rizzo of the University of Southern California developed the treatment program for veterans with PTSD. According to Wisniewski, they turned to nature for inspiration. Scentware ION.

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AR Insider

APRIL 12, 2021

The trial begins next month in California. The integration allows TechSee’s computer vision AI to be integrated into Vuzix’s hardware and will eventually be available in the App Store. The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this Episode 30 of the VRScout Report, we talk all things Oculus Connect 3 (OC3), getting insights and takeaways from: Max Cohen, VP of Mobile at Oculus; Raj Rao of uSens; Ela Darling of Cam4; Tahdg Kelly of VReal; and Ashley Pinnick of California Rex.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. The first was in Irvine, California in 2012 trying a prototype of the Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

For this project, codenamed Steno, they partnered with the University of California San Francisco’s Chang Lab, who performed some experiments implanting electrodes into the brain of patients to let them type sentences just by thinking about them. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2.

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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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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As big players in VR and AR– like Oculus, HTC and Sony– keep innovating and introducing new hardware and software, the tech will continue to improve the way architecture is designed, taught and sold. The tech is still on the rise and has lots of ground to cover on the solutions it can provide. About the Author.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

The developments come amid the ongoing SIGGRAPH 2023 event in Los Angeles, California, USA. The most recent iteration tapped Brilliant Labs’ Monocle hardware and RizzGPT’s HCI software. The human augmentation tools aim to empower the future of productivity, creativity, and information.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) headsets are on a constant uphill trajectory which sees the hardware’s landscape evolve rapidly with new components, integrated software, and use cases. Consumer-facing products are much more mature than the enterprise category, thanks to popular headset providers such as Oculus [Meta].

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2016

” UploadVR had the chance to speak with Breton at the Vive X offices in San Francisco, California. The closest faximale to Vive Studios in the VR world is the long-running Oculus Studios , which was founded and led into significance by Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Some weeks ago, I teased you that Meta was going to change its plans about hardware, because the recent drop in revenues forced it to be a bit more cautious with its spending for “the metaverse”. More info (Report on new directions for hardware at Meta) More info (Meta smartwatch canceled) More info (Portal will be aimed at B2B).

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 7, 2021

In its stead, investors have looked more towards bets on adjacent technologies like gaming and computer vision that don’t require the specialized head-worn hardware. Osso VR’s platform runs on Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset through the company’s Oculus for Business program.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. Emeryville, California-based immersive ad company Immersv announced $10.5M … well, sort of. You still have to set it up). in funding. Want more details?

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Xu, now chief executive of Nreal, one of China’s highest-funded AR startups , is among a group of entrepreneurs uniquely positioned to build world-class hardware. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S. to Pico and Nreal in China.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Today’s MR hardware seems a bit like a 1970’s IBM. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices. Researchers have been working on this subject for a long time.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started because I actually tested, like everyone, the first generation of Oculus, and then the second, and so on… and I was expecting like better visual quality … [me too!] HTC, Oculus, Sony are not offering headsets with big FOV and resolution… while you, Varjo, Pimax, are. Why have you started this adventure? (

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VRWorld

JUNE 19, 2016

With the conclusion of E3 2016 trade show, which took place last week in Los Angeles, California – many international guests went on for the hunt for several hot ticketed items – HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and of course, Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. Kudos to Microsoft for in-store availability.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2023

Oculus Connect. Started by Oculus in 2014, Connect was where the earliest of early adopters could meet and learn how to make their games and apps happen for the first consumer VR headsets. While undoubtedly challenging, some things can’t be virtually replicated at all though: new hardware. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Late last Friday night, over 1,000 undergraduates from across the country poured into California Memorial Stadium for Cal Hacks , a 36-hour coding spree put on by Major League Hacking. Get the most out of your online lectures by writing intricate notes and controlling video while using the Leap Motion Controller and the Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. Kura is a little startup in California that is working on a pair of lightweight AR glasses. The “Cablegate” is hurting Oculus Rift CV1 owners. More info (Oculus cross-buy games list). Image by Kura).

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2017

Oculus’ annual developer conference is back—Connect 4 will be hosted on October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California at the McEnery Convention Center. Check out the official Oculus Connect 4 website to apply for registration. Come for practical problem solving, best practices, workflows, and more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality. He was part of the team behind the GearVR app store and developed some of Oculus’ first native apps, e.g., Oculus Video and Oculus Social.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Lindero Edutainment is 2-year-old VR production company based out of California. Lindero's VR content was designed for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, which is accessible to a niche audience able to afford headsets and additional hardware; VR's financial premises hence enter a tug-of-war with the general audience's desire to enjoy free content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. For every dollar of hardware, we were making three dollars on software and data sales.”

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Spaces will operate out of California, while Songchen will implement their VR experiences in Chinese entertainment parks. And for the final part of non-related news which are really related, we come to the subject of a Cayman-islands registered hardware unicorn known as Razer. Furthermore, Songchen will develop VR parks.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2019

Already own a copy of Google’s VR creation tool Tilt Brush (2016) from the Oculus Store? Then you’ll be able to hop right into the company’s intuitive painting app with Oculus Quest, the upcoming standalone VR headset. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest & Rift S Controllers Could Hide an Unintended Easter Egg Message Inside.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The market is at best 50% reopening , and we have seen the continued shutdown of California. Playing with the Oculus Quest 2 at home (Image by Facebook). The second is an operational plan for the use of the VR hardware on site , and a review structure to ensure things are working well. Is LBVR dead? ” [cit.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. Somnium is already an investor in XTAL, and it is so strengthening its position as a leader both in the software and the hardware necessary to access virtual worlds. PSVR 2 is going to have 20+ launch titles.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., left, plays the new video game “Eagle Flight VR” during an Ubisoft news conference before the start of the E3 Gaming Conference on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2017

Researchers from Disney Research, University of East Anglia, California Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University, have authored a paper titled A Deep Learning Approach for Generalized Speech Animation. SEE ALSO Disney Research Shows How VR Can Be Used to Study Human Perception.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 7, 2017

The purpose of the campaign was to raise money for the STEM System : a third-party hardware solution capable of providing positional tracking and hand controllers to virtual reality headsets. Today, these capabilities come standard in the three biggest, high-end VR platforms: Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

He has always been a great innovator and I admire his work since the good old Oculus DK 2 times, when he published “Sightline: The Chair” Now he is continuing this innovation work by building a completely open metaverse called Neos , where thanks to object modeling and scripting, it is possible to create everything you want.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

“And so, I got out to California and I thought, I’ll just go join the local virtual reality meetup, because I had been going to tech meetups in New York, and I just assumed that was a thing in Silicon Valley; it’s Silicon Valley, of course they have that.” He knows what’s up,” said Krantz. Enter: SVVR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 28, 2016

His team in California has already released three free-to-play multiplayer VR games this year through Colopl Ni. Cyberpong, Slot Tub Party and The Rise of Captain Longboard have already exceeded downloads of over 100,000 across Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Slot Tub Party is a social game for Oculus Rift and Gear VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. The hardware is just accelerating at an insane pace, because you got to remember, exponential growth is exponential.

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