Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

While it might be called the Facebook Developer Conference, the event had become a platform for lots of virtual reality (VR) news, most notably during F8 2019 when both the Oculus Rift S and Oculus Quest pre-orders went live. Most of the cases are in China, centred around Wuhan where the outbreak occurred.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2018

There I’ve been received by Sam , a very smart man that has worked in the VR field for 20 years and that has spent various years of his life in the Silicon Valley, so he has been in the two most technologically advanced places in the world: China and US. This ensures an optimal environment for the requirements of the customer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Interestingly, a press release for the app labels it as “Augmented Virtual Reality”, a term first coined to Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash when he spoke at Oculus Connect 3 earlier in the month. It’s set to launch in China early next week on October 31st, though you can expect it to grow from there.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Me trying the Realmax glasses in Nanchang, China… am I not supercool? It gets the job done and it is usable, but it is subpar even if compared to other standalone headsets on the market like the Oculus Quest. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019. It is some kind of magic.

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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 ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

This way it will be possible to add even eye-tracking to these enterprise device; Vive Vee, a virtual character that should represent the brand in China and the rest of the world. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. Pico Neo 3 launch has been a success in China.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. In the meanwhile, the community is still rioting about the Facebook login , and /r/Oculus should now be called /r/FacebookBannedMyAccount because this is the only topic people are talking about.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. Mostly they are about entertainment, marketing or training experiences. So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. And I mean, that's costly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. And I mean, that's costly.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Officially, Virtuix comes Unity and Unreal Engine 4 SDK, speeding the integration in the game or some other VR application. All units are tested at the end of our assembly line in China, and our team fully inspects each Omni again upon arrival in Austin before we deliver the units to our customers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. And that need sometimes can be purely entertainment. We all need to be entertained. And I mean, that's costly.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

HTC is a very practical company and doesn’t give you the pleasant unboxing experience typical of Oculus. You can also clearly spot the 4 tracking cameras in positions that are similar to the ones of the Oculus Quest. Most people don’t care but I have a fetish for headsets that have a box designed in an original way.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Previously to joining Insta360, Michael led the Business Development Team for DJI — that’s the crazy drone company in North America — where he was instrumental in moving the company into the public spotlight through a series of strategic partnerships with entertainment, sports, and enterprise verticals. Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Previously to joining Insta360, Michael led the Business Development Team for DJI — that’s the crazy drone company in North America — where he was instrumental in moving the company into the public spotlight through a series of strategic partnerships with entertainment, sports, and enterprise verticals. Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Previously to joining Insta360, Michael led the Business Development Team for DJI -- that's the crazy drone company in North America -- where he was instrumental in moving the company into the public spotlight through a series of strategic partnerships with entertainment, sports, and enterprise verticals. You see Facebook with Oculus.

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Cats and VR

JULY 13, 2016

Unity Technologies, the largest global development platform for creating 2D, 3D, VR and AR games and experiences, today announced a $181 Million series C led by DFJ Growth and including China Investment Corporation, FreeS Fund, Thrive Capital and Max Levchin, joining existing investors that include Sequoia Capital and WestSummit Capital.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

The Oculus Go is one of the headsets of the moment : it is the first truly consumer-oriented VR-only device : it is easy to be used, it is cheap and it is (or will) available in the retail shops, so has all the potential to attract people that until now considered VR something too geek. So, where is the truth? The headset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

We Italians are where China was some weeks ago, and where probably some other countries will be in some days/weeks , when the disease will become more widespread. Thanks Oculus for having given us the Link functionality. the USB cable for Oculus Link) and the (rechargeable) batteries for the controllers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Featured image from left to right: Rob Goodman (OpenVerse), Han Jin (Lucid VR), Amitt Mahajan (Presence Capital), Timoni West and Tony Parisi (Unity). And the reason, according to Tony Parisi , head of VR and AR strategy at Unity, is simple. Breaking through in China with VR arcades. Gamers buy hardware first.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Chinese Internet company NetEase, China’s CMC Holdings, and more. But China is even more excited about VR.”. Founded by Angel Say and Russell Varriale, the company’s modeling viewer has already been used for over 4,000 projects – notably buildings like Microsoft’s Raleigh Office and Unity’s San Francisco headquarters.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Written By: Eddie Avil. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 3- Ayden Ye. 8- Eddie Lou.

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