The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

In particular, it has been made to limit the unfair competition and data collection practices that these companies are carrying on since years. The DMA includes many interesting rules about privacy, safety, and fair competition which are going to change the digital landscape in Europe, and so probably in all of the Western worlds.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Though it’s Facebook’s newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company’s most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Released earlier this year, Oculus Quest has entered the fray and made a big splash. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We’ll be keeping an eye on Oculus Rift deals throughout Black Friday 2017 and Cyber Monday. Oculus Rift Baseline. Without an special discount, the Oculus Rift + Touch bundle costs $400/€450/£400. The Best Oculus Rift Black Friday 2017 Deal. In Europe and the UK, the package is selling for €400 and £350 respectively.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. Accessibility in terms of cost and learning curve were recurring themes, as were immersion, and data and security.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook. VR Expert ).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2021

But a question popped up in my mind: could it also be used here in the West as an alternative to the Oculus Quest 2? The Pico Neo 3 is rather affordable, has a store with pretty good games, and has basically the same hardware as the Oculus Quest 2. Not a perfect one, but a good one. Most likely no.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We all know very well the VR ecosystem in the US, but many of us from Europe or the US have more difficulties in imagining what happens after you cross the Southern border with Mexico. Sometimes we from Europe or the US don’t realize how is it difficult in other regions to get access to hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Today has been my first day at AWE Europe in Lisbon, Portugal. Today at AWE Europe, Oliver Woehler and Alizé Amrani from Pico took the stage to perform the launch of the Pico 4 Enterprise. Then the headset strictly follows standards for what concerns data privacy and data protection. Pico 4 Enterprise. Secure, explained.

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AR Insider

MARCH 10, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. As Snap’s Carolina Arguelles said at AWE Europe, AR content has to be relevant… and there’s nothing more relevant to people than their own faces. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher. Still no news on Oculus For Business program and Multiplayer SDK for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Two cool news from Oculus App Lab. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

Research about this rapid decline was conducted and issued by iiMedia Research, a third-party data collector and analyst of technological digital platforms. In the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, investment spiked: 270 million yuan ($38.9 As it turns out, investment is still flowing into the Chinese VR industry.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The company’s latest GPU isn’t really built for gamers in mind, but rather more befitting the workload of AI researchers, deep learning devs, data scientists, and game and video professionals. data channel for on-board cameras, and up to 27 watts of power. and Europe. TITAN RTX Specs.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Despite the over 1 million PSVR units sold and the acclaim of content like Resident Evil 7 it does not seem to get the credit that the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift get. Well it looks like Sony's strategy may be to the go to VR platform for all of Europe given the multitude of content presented today at the Paris Game Show event today.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. Oculus has just started rolling out the update to the Quest runtime v23 , that introduces a lot of new features and improvements to this device: All the applications in the headset can now run at 90 Hz (including the passthrough vision); Oculus Link upgrades to 90Hz as well and finally exits from beta.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. A new report from International Data Corp is now live, predicting that the immersive technology market will rise by 100%+ over each of the next four years. … well, sort of.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2016

If true that’s encouraging data. Last week Oculus introduced a minimum spec for the Oculus Rift that further reduces the cost of VR ready PCs, with rigs as low as $499 now supporting the headset. PS VR is currently sold out at many retailers, with Amazon UK not expecting to be caught up with orders until December.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

We first reported on 8i back in 2015 , when they unveiled their 360 volumetric video capture system, capable of capturing imagery and data from different viewpoints and stitching them back together in realtime, allowing the video to be viewed from different angles.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. eyeora VR , a virtual events company working with mobile devices as well as Oculus and Pico headsets. Facebook for the Oculus Quest 2. Pico Interactive Europe SL for the Pico Neo 3 Pro.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Dominic Brennan gets his hands on ESI Group’s latest iteration of IC.IDO , their automotive visualisation tool that uses CAD-accurate data to generate extremely realistic VR simulations which let you take apart (or fix) your own virtual car.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Research firm ICO Partners ‘ Thomas Bidaux this week published a new report analyzing the media coverage of Sony’s new device as it launched on October 13th, comparing it to that of its two rivals, the PC-based Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Splitting those articles up on a language basis also reveals interesting results.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It will also move to build its “next generation data center design.” ” It is not indicated in the reports whether the data centre is the Research Supercluster (RSC) as outlined in previous reports. Failure to sustain these data flows could result in further blows to its profitability, leading to compounded issues.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the VRARA and its Global Executive Director Kris Kolo , Meta’s renewed dive into the business world – following the Quest Pro and other delves during the Oculus era – may be rife with issues. Natively, Meta Quest for Business users need to sign in individually, leading to concerns over company data and privacy.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The name has changed and it is now called “Engage Link” , because after TPLink, Oculus Link, Looxid Link, and Pico Neo 3 Link , we needed something else with the name Link. The social XR space is now coming to the UK , with the release to more countries in Europe to be expected later this summer. Horizon Worlds arrives in the UK.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. I hate how the speculation in the crypto world is risking to ruin what was one of the most interesting open social VR worlds in Europe. Rendered in WebGL with spatial data and timeline.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

As usual, Jensen introduced it saying that it was the biggest generational leap ever released by the company (he always says so) The first GPU released of the Hopper family will be the H100 , targeted at data centers, that features impressive performances on AI tasks. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. This module can be installed on a board with connected various SteamVR sensors so that to get all the data from the sensors and communicate them to your runtime. props for arcades).

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Upload VR

JULY 28, 2022

How does that affect Oculus and our ecosystem? There’s more Android devices than there are iOS devices, but I think in developed countries and places like the US or Western Europe in kind of the high end, [and] a lot of the culture-setters and developers, I do think that skews quite a bit more towards iPhone and iOS.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market is forecast to grow from $5.2 The US, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) are projected to account for three-quarters of revenue for VR and AR.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started because I actually tested, like everyone, the first generation of Oculus, and then the second, and so on… and I was expecting like better visual quality … [me too!] HTC, Oculus, Sony are not offering headsets with big FOV and resolution… while you, Varjo, Pimax, are. Why have you started this adventure? (

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I just hope for peace to come to Europe again soon : I have friends on both sides of the conflict, and no one of them wants this war, but all of them have to stand the consequences. Unluckily my referral gives you a chance of winning only if you are in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle-East, Africa). That’s it, easy peasy. Some XR fun.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Speaking with CNBC earlier this week , Jim Ryan, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, spoke to the company’s confidence in early traction of the PSVR headset. Sony is setting high near term sales figure expectations for PlayStation VR’s rollout. SEE ALSO PlayStation VR Accessories Hit Major Online Retailers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

To qualify, registrants need to be resident in EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, or Africa). Some people also suspected that by abandoning the Facebook login, it will be less easy also to subsidize the price of the headset with the data, but honestly, I don’t think that there won’t be data harvesting on Meta accounts.

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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. Considering that its cost was €55, it is a very happy surprise! Right View.

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