Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. Let me tell you why.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The new course of Spatial is trying to become a platform for social games, a bit a la Roblox. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. I wish the company the best of luck, even if I think that all these hard pivots are not a good thing.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

See Also: You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan. In the same discussion (and other discussions throughout the day) Facebook’s ownership of Oculus also came up as a privacy concern. Ochoa, who moderated the panel, even called Facebook’s ownership of Oculus “another barrier” to entry and adoption. “We

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. I still call them VPNs, where the acronym stands for Very Party Networks).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

Of course, there is no mention of what will happen to future games and possible future platforms: Facebook is acquiring this studio to also have exclusive titles in the future, as all console makers have always done in the past. Well, this is unfolding in front of your eyes… And just to be clear: of course, Facebook does its business.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Google is going to buy North. Top news of the 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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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps, and games (just ask Unity). “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event. across Google’s display ad network. 70) = $12,600.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

I found very interesting that they are trying to create full-body VR content for the Oculus Quest. Of course, this can’t work perfectly, but I think they’ve done a nice job, because sometimes this pose reconstruction was indeed coherent with the actual position of my body, and it felt like black magic. Me and Simon of One Bonsai.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

On the VR side, Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope in both quality and consumer traction. Visual search a la Google Lens will be opportune as it inherits the high-intent dynamics that make search a valuable ad medium. There’s of course a lot more to it, which you can see in the video below. Enterprise AR is a Mixed Bag.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Google halves its revenues on the Play Store.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The three main VR platforms will start with Horizon Home, which are going to be personal rooms, the starting areas for Oculus users. Zuckerberg pledged $150 million in support for virtual content creators, as well as training courses and accreditation paths on Coursera and edX. You can watch a video about Horizon Home here.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. 72 Hz mode : the headset can run not only at 60 Hz but also at 72 Hz.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. And of course, something about either GTA San Andreas or Assassin’s Creed VR would be much appreciated. A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. Of course, he said that after having tried Google products, they also took inspiration to improve their ones to try to keep pace, but this was surely a bad news for them.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2. Oculus Rift S now costs $300.

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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 ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2. billion in content revenue by 2025?—?

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event. across Google’s display ad network. 70) = $12,600.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2018

Oh, actually testing the program with Oculus Rift seems that the teleporting doesn’t work, damn. Find manliness again and spend hours digging into Google and Github trying to find a solution. Eat an Oculus Rift that is on the desk just to make the stomach calm down. Other Google searches. Wow, multiplayer is here!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). We fans of cyberpunk all love Matrix (the first and the only movie, of course) and so we are all curious about this reboot of the saga with Matrix 4. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). “Decent” to be a devkit, of course. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform. Google Maps in AR). All the standalone VR headsets will start offering AR/MR functionalities.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2019

Facebook confirmed earlier today that Google’s immensely popular room-scale VR painting experience, Tilt Brush, is coming to the Oculus Quest headset this Spring. Image Credit: Google Inc. Image Credit: Google Inc. Image Credit: Google Inc. Oculus Quest is expected to launch at the end of the month.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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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

JULY 5, 2018

This also let me write various articles about it, like this one on Vive Focus streaming , this one on Focus instant preview for Unity or this other one highlighting the updates of the v2 runtime. When I published this photo of the Oculus Go and Vive Focus together, a lot of people got surprised by its dimensions. Oculus Go).

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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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