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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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

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. Very Silently, Oculus has changed the specifications of Oculus Link , which now doesn’t require anymore a USB 3.0 port and cable.

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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

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

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

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 16, 2020

This realism is offered through three main features: Fingers tracking : Senseglove can detect the orientation of your hand and also the bending angle of your fingers. It can so be used as a hand tracking device; Vibrotactile feedback : SenseGlove has some motors that can vibrate so that you feel vibrations on your fingertips.

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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

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

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 11, 2022

While Oculus cares a lot about the design of its units and polishes all the details of the external aspect, Pico is more practical, because it comes from the enterprise world, so it offers a design that is nice, but that bends to the needs of what can be functional. The tracking is solid, reliable, and accurate. Right View.

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). OpenXR slowly increases its adoption.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. The hype is rising….

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It has a dual camera system: one camera does inside-out tracking , so it just tracks your position around the table, so there’s no sensors that you have to put in the room; the other one is used for pure machine vision , we can do hand tracking , so you can reach into this virtual space and move stuff around.

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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. They have a tracking ring and a handle, that is longer than the one of the Touch. deg vertically.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

That piece won Best VR/AR at Mobile World Congress, beating China Mobile and Huawei, which is kind of insane. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing. ” because an Oculus Go costs $200. What a great barrier.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

That piece won Best VR/AR at Mobile World Congress, beating China Mobile and Huawei, which is kind of insane. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing. ” because an Oculus Go costs $200. What a great barrier.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

That piece won Best VR/AR at Mobile World Congress, beating China Mobile and Huawei, which is kind of insane. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

He claims that the headsets and controllers have a “Made in China” tag, and this makes me think that Valve has now some Chinese partner that is actually manufacturing the most critical devices of the Index bundle, and this could easily explain their ability to ramp up the production…. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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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

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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