VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Oculus Touch controllers were just announced to ship late in 2016. Xbox gamepads shipped with the Oculus Rift headset. Tracked controllers were still new to the market and the gamepad was a controller that gamers were already familiar with. Oculus Go Controller. Oculus Touch hand controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

According to a rumor coming from China, this headset should still have MicroOLED displays with 4K resolution , but it won’t feature to external EyeSight display, so i t could become as lightweight as 350 g. The expected price should be inferior to Apple’s one, around $2000.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It has a retro look that makes it very nerdy, and it should be able to offer passthrough AR and hands tracking via Ultraleap. I mean, I know how China works (at first copy, then evolve), but they literally copied everything from Quest 2. Alvin Wang Graylin talks about the metaverse in China. Meta acquires Imagine Optix.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 3, 2017

Hypereal is working on a mysterious new VR headset called the Pano that claims to be able to do room-scale and also offers hand-tracked controllers. These specs are consistent with the new minimum-spec requirements that Oculus announced at last year’s OC3 developer conference. ” Hypereal is based in Xuhui, China.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

And regarding the Quest Pro, he said that it has been rushed and that it has been released with interesting features like eye and hand tracking, but without seriously investing in them (e.g. Regarding the Quest line, he said that Meta pursued a low-price strategy too early, even before the device’s value could be perceived by people.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The damn Coronavirus is impacting the lives of many people, and I’m incredibly sad about what is happening especially in China, with millions of people quarantined and thousands of dead. Stay strong, China. Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. It is amazing to be seen.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2021

The headset is undoubtedly very Quest-like in overall appearance, offering up four camera sensors for room-scale tracking and possibly also hand tracking. What is clear however is HTC may be looking to tap into the growing at-home VR workout niche to set itself apart from the reigning champion, Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

They are the business counterpart of the Pico Neo 3 , the consumer headset that Pico is selling in China for around $400, hoping to kickstart a consumer VR ecosystem there. These buttons can be used in place of the ones of the controllers, to make you use the device without having to hold anything in hand. Right view.

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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 ]”. My favorite from this week?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It consists of you using just an Oculus account (even a new developer one) without an associated Facebook account and using an old version of the Oculus companion app on your phone that sees your Quest 2 as an old plain Quest. More info (Sales on Steam) More info (Sales on Oculus Store) More info (Sales on VR adult content).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2018

Revealed during the companies annual Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China earlier today, “System Update 2.0” HTC Vive’s China Regional President Alvin Wang Graylin demonstrated this feature during yesterday’s event, walking throughout the stage while simultaneously engaged in a live phone call.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

No smearing, reduced mura; The lenses have been upgraded, using the ones engineered by Valve for the Index; The audio is conveyed through off-the-ear speakers , like the ones of the Valve Index; Comfort has been improved; There is IPD adjustment; There are now 4 tracking cameras. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The layoffs come a little over two years after ByteDance acquired the China-based VR headset maker to join TikTok in its stable of technology companies. Is there a new Pico headset planned for 2024 based on the XR2 Gen 2? Will developers be removing their games from release on Pico's platform?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Hello from Qingdao, China! Thanks to this, the card will be able to keep two Wi-Fi connections at the same time: one towards a router to have an internet connection, and the other directly to another device, like the Oculus Quest. Timberman VR aims at bringing the popular game Timberman to Oculus Quest 2. Some news on content.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Holovis’ press release describes some of its interactivity achieved via hand tracking – “riders could explore things in the cab, such as change the radio station, scroll through the news and pick up elements that fall from the glove box as it opens during the first inversion”. image courtesy Holovis.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

While hardware advancements such as the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift have solidified at-home VR as a viable option, those looking for next-level immersion will still find the most success with location-based VR installations. LOCATION-BASED VR. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you have an Oculus Quest, there’s even a piano tutorial app available on SideQuest called VRTuos. It uses hand tracking and a real piano to teach you to play songs. On Oculus Quest, you could try VRWorkout (on SideQuest) and Supernatural VR. Paradiddle is a great example for people who want to drum.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! 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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Do you want to read them? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Pico 4 Enterprise should not be confused with Pico 4 Pro, which is sold in China as a prosumer device. And hand tracking is finally coming soon. What really surprised me is that Pico is developing in-house both the eye tracking and the hands tracking solutions! Price and release date. Design and comfort.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Actually, the first launch has happened in China with the Vive Focus at the end of 2017, but we had the full development of the ecosystem now. This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Standalone headsets. PC VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I have to say it also reminds me a bit of the pancake headset just announced by Skyworth , but this doesn’t surprise me much, because in China many headsets have similarities because they are all made by Goertek, in the end. Availability in China will be announced in the dedicated event on September, 27th, as I was telling you before.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. And now the battle is on standalone headsets: Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At Facebook Connect this week , Facebook has: Released the powerful Oculus Quest 2 , powered by Snapdragon XR2, and with a 4K display. While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

OCULUS RIFT ARRIVES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. An Oculus Rift headset has been modified and certified for use in space by French space agency CNES. ZENIMAX TRIES TO SHUT DOWN OCULUS. VIVE SHOWS US SOME USER DATA FROM CHINA. QUALCOMM’S REFERENCE VR HEADSET ADDS HAND TRACKING AND MORE.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

My review of Google Hand tracking library. Last week, Google has released an opensource library for hand tracking on mobile devices based on its MediaPipe framework. This seems in line with what the German publication Mixed.DE teased some months ago. >> More info. More info (Funding) More info (Distribution).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Oculus Quest and Vive Focus 3 get interesting updates. News worth a mention. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. As I’ve said while reviewing the Huawei VR glasses , after having tried this light and trendy design, I’m less interested in a shoebox like Oculus Go. I have not noticed this decrease in FOV from my tests.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Pimax , the China-based company promising a few flavors of its high field of view (FOV) headset, has successfully completed its Kickstarter with $4,236,618, a good 21 times more than the initial $200,000 funding goal set at its launch back in mid-September. eye-tracking module. headstrap with integrated audio. cooling fan.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. I was amazed.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). This proves the Pico Neo 3 is selling quite well in China… who knows if something like that could be interesting also here in the West. But they are just tidbits of information, and nothing more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Talking about AR glasses and smart startups producing them, another cool company to talk about is Lynx.

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