The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On the technical side, Dennys Kuhnert (the developer behind Hand Physics lab), compared on video the performance of hand tracking on Vision Pro and Quest 3, and showed how at this moment, the Quest 3 is much better at that task. Long story short, Sony will make PSVR 2 users play PCVR games.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The platform arrived as a surprising launch title for the original Oculus Quest in 2019, and launched on Android phones and Pico 4 this year. Last year VRChat added controller-free hand tracking support on Quest. Vive XR Elite standalone accesses the same content type as Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. The console works in conjunction with the innovative DualSense controller. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. Top news of the week. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Other relevant news.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. All are already included in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). The headset features inside-out tracking via four cameras (similar to Quest, I guess), so its setup is much easier, requiring only one little USB cable from the headset to the PS5 console. Controllers specifications. Now let’s dig into the best news!

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The entire industry owes it a debt of gratitude for what it’s pioneered with room-scale and hand tracked controllers. However, a good majority of that content is unfinished, early access, and lacking the level of polish that its competitors at Oculus and Sony are providing for their respective platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Perhaps learning from the HoloLens backlash, the company seems to be carefully controlling hands-on impressions for these new headsets. What We Know: In our world its easy to forget sometimes that Sony is much more than just a gaming company. Oculus (Facebook). — What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. Sony makes some of the coolest VR accessories of any company out there. However, the company is already selling DecaMove , a motion controller worn on the hip. This has likely led to any big-name omissions that you might have been curious about.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Made for the casual gamer, that wants more resolution than the Rift S; Cosmos Elite (around $900) : features SteamVR tracking and is compatible with all SteamVR accessories. More info (Valve Index availability) More info (Facebook and Sony pulling out from GDC). Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2021

Whether you’re on the Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, or a SteamVR headset, you’ll find there’s plenty of VR gaming to look forward to over the next 12 months. So much so, in fact, we thought it easier to break down just a handful of our most-anticipated titles. EYE OF THE TEMPLE. LONE ECHO 2. SPLINTER CELL VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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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 ]”. So bad, because I was planning to go there in March.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Reading the description, it is possible to see that the VR integration is a bit weird : there’s probably no integration for VR controllers (really??) Ready At Dawn was already collaborating with Oculus since various years, so this is not surprising. Hands tracking on Quest gets always more interest. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Sony is reported to launch a mobile VR headset. Yes, something like Gear VR, but in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Image by Sony). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

At CES, Shiftall brought also the concept of innovative controllers called FlipVR. Then, with another fast hand flip, you can regain control of the buttons to keep playing. Transformable/adjustable @shiftall_global VR controller at CES 2023, no problem grabbing a drink or switching between controller input and finger tracking!

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FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Thanks to an early emphasis on room-scale VR and hand tracked controllers, the Vive has become the best selling PC-powered VR system on the market today, according to third party estimates. Sony: Sony is a GDC veteran. Sony knows how to make great content and how to communicate it to the world.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. Zuck noticed that it is slowly losing control of the current technology platform and it is trying to switch to the new one, to dominate it even more. It’s basically a monopoly.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

3 hours in active use Controllers : Two AA batteries, which last about 80 hours in active use Connectivity : Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, Controllers. Pico 4 Controller (Image by Pico). I was the first one to tease the controllers of Pico 4, and they are exactly how I described them in my dedicated post. Computational power.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

PSVR 2 may have inside-out tracking. This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens. And exactly this feature is what is making David Heaney of Upload VR suppose that PSVR 2 will have inside-out tracking. Oculus Quest adds OpenXR, but rolls back new UI.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

This was the final big surprise of the event: Sony Pictures and Meta, in partnership with nDreams, will bring the famous franchise to virtual reality. Meta releases hands tracking 2.0 Meta has just released the v2 of its hand tracking system for Quest. I’ll keep you posted about my findings.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 6, 2019

Here, Oculus Quest is the wild card. It could have an Oculus Go-like effect of making VR cheaper and more accessible to more people, but with higher-end positionally-tracked VR. One of Quest’s marks of quality for example is how well Oculus was able to optimize performance with limited specs. Smooth and Fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 21, 2020

PC-tethered headsets like the HTC Vive, Vive Index, Oculus Rift and Microsoft’s Hololens require a nearby computer to run the virtual reality application. Mid-range standalone headsets like the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go and Vive Focus have a computer built-in. The next step in tracking movement is hand tracking.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

This may seem like an obvious statement, but the truth is the industry at large has heard very few comments from either HTC or its partner company Valve on the subject of content compared to Sony and Facebook. Sony recently released the Playstation VR with 50 games of its own, many of which were produced by experienced development studios.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Earlier this month we saw a slew of new Oculus Touch game announcements. Many of these new VR titles, which benefit from funding or publishing (or both) by Oculus, will launch exclusively for the Rift and Touch. Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus. There are games that work ok like Project Cars for controller.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Meta Quest 3 was revealed June 2023 and it'll ship fall 2023 starting at $500 from the companies formerly known as Facebook and Oculus. Oculus Go, Quest, Rift S, Quest 2 and even Sony's PlayStation VR2 headsets all use a bulkier fresnel lenses. The design is visually similar to the Touch Pro controllers shipped with Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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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). Upload reported that Sony showcased PlayStation to some selected partners , but no one could speak about what he/she has seen. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets.

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OCTOBER 23, 2016

Since April, the high-end VR market has been a contest between two main champions: the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. On October 13, however, a third fighter entered the ring: Sony’s PlayStation VR. Although the Rift and Vive have enjoyed a six month head start on the PS VR, Sony has the opportunity to catch up quickly.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The Oculus Rift S was Facebook’s only previous headset with a halo strap. It was first widely shipped in PlayStation VR, and Sony still uses it for PSVR 2.

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