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. and USB Type-C connectivity 2 hours of “active use” battery life.

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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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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus. LET’S SPECULATE ON Q1 HEADSET SALES.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. VR Lifetime Achievement.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly. There’s full SDK access, support for integrating payment systems, and data statistics.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

If you remember well, there’s a scary leaked letter of Mark Zuckerberg where he claims that he doesn’t want to just make programs that run on Android, because they’re subject to the rules of another company (Google). Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. Some news on content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’re going to design and sell products, make compelling presentations and understand complex data.” ” He went on to talk about Facebook’s social VR demo that debuted at Oculus Connect 3 last month, revealing that both it and Oculus’ own Rooms and Parties social software had been made with Unity.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

As part of our 3D Jam spotlight series, here are 17 utility demos that let you reach into a sea of data and extract its insights, explore a CAD prototype before committing it to a 3D printer, meet with people from around the world, and more. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Build Chinese.

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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

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Google’s investment for a 7.7% of units more produced annually.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

In this first post we will be describing what OpenVR is, what it may be useful for and finally, we will go through a little OpenVR application to demo some of the core functionality of the API in what respects to interacting with a VR system (get connected devices, get tracking data, etc). You may be saying “Come on!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. However, now we've got data, we've got traction.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. However, now we've got data, we've got traction.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Accompanying this will be persistent, stateful geographic Assets and Data, some static, others interactive with behaviors of their own.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 16, 2017

The gain in active user numbers was the highest since July, and does not include data from several large grids including InWorldz , Great Canadian Grid , and The Adult Grid which no longer publish traffic numbers. Hypergrid Business Data.). OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. However, now we've got data, we've got traction.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 17, 2017

Party Destination Grid gained the highest number of registered users — 3661, but that’s only because they just made their grid public and we added their data to our list this month. Hypergrid Business data.). OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Kitely data.).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. There's one, you need to get data in somehow, right?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And also, for AI training, as we’ll see in a while, realistic rendering and physics engines to create synthetic training data are of paramount importance. It is a bit like GIT (or Google Doc, if you find it easier to imagine), but for artists and designers. For these reasons, photorealism and physical accuracy are important goals.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Learnings Of Early Access From ‘Raw Data’ When? Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And the results on that, in terms of engagement, drive to purchase, we did some data research recently with SuperData, which is part of Nielsen now, on the increase of likelihood to purchase through mobile augmented reality — even virtual reality. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Yes, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And the results on that, in terms of engagement, drive to purchase, we did some data research recently with SuperData, which is part of Nielsen now, on the increase of likelihood to purchase through mobile augmented reality — even virtual reality. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Yes, exactly.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. “The beauty of our PPT system and the new plug-ins is that they take the orientation data from the game engine.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There’s the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There’s the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Hypergrid Business data.). The service also records historical data, and it can be used to figured out whether latency problems are due to the user’s connection, or is on the grid’s end.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There's the stabilization at the capture level, which is essentially just using the gyro and the data to stabilize that in capture. When you open the box, camera's inside, but there's also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Facebook with Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. So until that technology is a little bit further ahead, we're going to be able to beam things like locational data, spatial data, all instantly.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. So until that technology is a little bit further ahead, we're going to be able to beam things like locational data, spatial data, all instantly.

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