Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Long a point of contention, Oculus last week announced a welcome new stance: the Rift will be officially supporting 360 degree tracking and room-scale as part of the forthcoming Touch launch. Prior to the announcement last week, Oculus had only officially committed to the first two configurations.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency. When a delay in latency occurs, your real and virtual movements no longer match, knocking the equilibrium out of balance and causing ‘cybersickness.’ ” He expects Meta to continue pushing the narrative for VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Prior to launch the first consumer Rift headset, Oculus had a long history of showing prototypes and development kits. Following the launch of the Rift, Oculus kept their R&D efforts on future PC headsets mostly secretive. Oculus Santa Cruz. image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Santa Cruz.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s like Oculus or Meta currently. What’s the latency from our camera to their back end? It’s RTMP push streaming and they will do some effects and some encoding and then the total latency will be about 20 seconds or 30 seconds for the end user. About 20 or 30 seconds for the total latency. Nikk: Live.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2017

To that end, the companies have been working together on the project for nearly a year, said Rav Dhiraj, a member of the GPU Software Team at Apple, who detailed Metal 2’s new VR rendering features in a session at the WWDC conference this week. SEE ALSO Oculus Mum on Rift Support for MacOS in the Wake of Apple's VR Announcements.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Earlier this year at Oculus’ developer conference, Oculus Connect, the company’s Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, stepped on stage to present his predictions for the near term future of VR and AR.

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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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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

More conventional Free Roam VR entertainment has been created by UK operator MeetspaceVR in cooperation with Australia’s Zero Latency , who have opened recently at the Box Park location at Wembley Park, London. There are also plans for the site to include VR escape gaming, creating a dedicated overall VR entertainment offering.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. Since then, we have seen a movement. Virtual reality has taken the world by storm. VR Consumption, 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! Nanchang City is showing a very warm welcome for the 4000+ delegates of the “World Conference of the VR Industry”. #VR

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

At this year’s WSJD Live conference, chief product officer Chris Cox showcased a new app that would let you transfer the style of an artist, such as Rembrandt, onto your image using convolutional neural network and computer vision. This isn’t the social networking company’s first foray into the image recognition space.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When accuracy and latency isn’t low enough, the augmented objects swing around with your head and your brain doesn’t consider them part of the world. See Also: Former Oculus VP of Engineering Demonstrates Long Range VR Tracking System. See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2023

Oculus Connect. Whatever the company is calling its annual XR developer conference, it’s been nearly a decade since the first Connect was held—all of them either in-person or exclusively livestreamed. Let’s just forget the first six years of the conference. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect. Why is that?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The legendary developer, who for several years held the role of Oculus CTO but now maintains a less formal “consulting CTO” arrangement, says that his keynote presentation at last year’s Facebook Connect conference foreshadowed some of the announcements that can be expected at the event next week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. This is also confirmed by the Wired article, where the journalist states that he has been able to see the conference in preview before the general audience. latency can be high), and so these apps are not allowed.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The VR spotlight might be on Oculus right now after last week’s developer conference, but we haven’t forgotten about Google’s Daydream ecosystem. From what we’ve seen, the Daydream controller has more in common with a Wii Remote than it does an Oculus Touch or a Vive wand. Let’s make this a thing.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This price is ridiculously low: it is less than what a nreal glass costs, a lot less of a HoloLens 2 and perfectly in line also with the prices of VR headsets like Oculus Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3. Lone Echo 2 will be available for Rift S (yeah, the forgotten headset) and Quest + Link from October, 12th for $40 as an exclusive Oculus release.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

With HoloLens and Magic Leap we’ve seen a broadening of the conference to include augmented reality as well. I think Oculus is getting there, but I still think it’s behind, to be candid, even with the latest stuff that is coming out for Christmas. How do you see the comparison between the VR and AR opportunities for investment?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. Alex: Real conferences! I had the distinct pleasure of going to their conference and I met some amazing, amazing people. Alex: Near zero latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. Alex: Real conferences! I had the distinct pleasure of going to their conference and I met some amazing, amazing people. Alex: Near zero latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. Alex: Real conferences! I had the distinct pleasure of going to their conference and I met some amazing, amazing people. Alex: Near zero latency.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The 2016 OpenSim Community Conference was responsible for about a quarter of the increase, but many other grids also saw gains. For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Land area of OpenSim’s public grids, in standard region equivalents.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Alan: There’s a conference in Toronto called Flash in the Can; FITC. And then they started sending me to conferences. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras. Michael: Yeah, I thought it was the ping problem, or the latency problem.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Alan: There’s a conference in Toronto called Flash in the Can; FITC. And then they started sending me to conferences. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras. Michael: Yeah, I thought it was the ping problem, or the latency problem.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Alan: There's a conference in Toronto called Flash in the Can; FITC. And then they started sending me to conferences. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it's tracking you with cameras. Michael: Yeah, I thought it was the ping problem, or the latency problem. Michael: Nice.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

Or better, maybe it’s not totally merit of HTC, it is mostly the fact that everyone is hoping for a good headset that can compete somehow with the Oculus Quest , even just in the prosumer segment. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps its march towards 10M users. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps selling incredibly well. This is amazing.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Connect, Oculus’s annual developer conference, is already in full swing, but if you didn’t manage to book the flight and hotel to San Jose, CA, you can still pop your head in to see what this year’s hubbub is about. Below the steaming schedule are a few ways you can go about it: Opening Keynote. So there you have it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest has been the rockstar of this event. Specifications. There is also a 3.5mm jack for earphones.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. But you can’t move around in it. And then 6DOF means you can look around, left, right, up, down. But then you can also move in those directions.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. And all in a matter of six minutes, in a very safe environment of a conference center, I have now gone through the experience of saving someone's life in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. But you can’t move around in it. And then 6DOF means you can look around, left, right, up, down. But then you can also move in those directions.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

When I went to the Vive Ecosystem Conference to launch our game “HitMotion: Reloaded” , I got in contact via Twitter with a guy called Noah Zerkin , that works in Shenzhen. But who could take this big bargain? Meet Noah Zerkin. On the downtown 3 train. pic.twitter.com/cx93BXKY — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) January 21, 2013.

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