The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Control your fear as you get trapped in an abandoned sawmill to survive as long as possible. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. I was so surprised how playing a game with my hands as the controllers changed what was fun and what felt odd to do.”. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. ESC = Electronic Stability Control , GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite System , A/N].

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Image provided by Rob Cole). Second-generation base station (2.0)

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Magic Leap has decided to put on sale its remaining units of the Magic Leap 1, its previous device, for just $550 , which is something like a -75% discount on its standard retail price. The Public Test Channel of the Quest runtime contains a fix for the Oculus Link stuttering on Windows 11. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

So, I opened a chain of retail computer stores in the 90s, I ran a fairly large chain in Oregon with five computer stores and then in 2000 I started working in Silicon Valley doing electronics and engineering… and eventually, I got into doing consumer products. Tilt Five glasses and controller, on the board (Image by Tilt Five).

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And we went in quickly with our solution.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And we went in quickly with our solution.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And we went in quickly with our solution.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. So a company like a Macy's or a large retailer in Europe. Arash: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. So a company like a Macy's or a large retailer in Europe. Arash: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

Here you are a video of me unboxing the device , in which I also try to open a non-existing battery lid of the controllers (shame on me!). HTC is a very practical company and doesn’t give you the pleasant unboxing experience typical of Oculus. Right side. deg horizontally and 96.54 deg vertically.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. And we are in the process of signing an agreement with a very big retailer. But more to the point, when you’re doing soft skills work, the controller is useless, Because again, when I talk to you, I don’t point a controller at you and click.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. And we are in the process of signing an agreement with a very big retailer. But more to the point, when you’re doing soft skills work, the controller is useless, Because again, when I talk to you, I don’t point a controller at you and click.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. So a company like a Macy's or a large retailer in Europe. Arash: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. And we are in the process of signing an agreement with a very big retailer. And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because--. But then you put the controller down. So things are pretty good.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I think there’s gonna be a huge push towards kind of three dimensional retail and e-commerce with these mobile devices, and that you don’t even need a headset for that. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I think there's gonna be a huge push towards kind of three dimensional retail and e-commerce with these mobile devices, and that you don't even need a headset for that. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. And you've got these 6DOF controllers. You can use the device that's in everybody's hands.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I think there’s gonna be a huge push towards kind of three dimensional retail and e-commerce with these mobile devices, and that you don’t even need a headset for that. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

Unity Technologies, developer of the massively popular Unity cross-platform game engine, raised $181M in their Series C round. OCULUS UPDATE: TOUCH CONTROLLERS AND NO MORE RIFT SHIPPING DELAYS. Perhaps pre-orders for Touch will launch around the time of Oculus Connect 3 developer conference (Oct 5-7 in San Jose)?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

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