The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

Image by Oculus). He was the last Oculus founder to still work at Oculus. From now on, nothing of the old Oculus remains at the new Oculus. Oculus is no more, there is only Facebook. Mitchell left with a heartwarming letter on the Oculus subreddit. Top news of the week. I really wish the best to him.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The news is interesting for three reasons: Smartwatches and smartglasses are closely related; This shows how Facebook is working on all kind of wearables , so it has a broader scope than just making AR/VR glasses. 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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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” ” As just one example, Facebook has increased its annual R&D spend by $10 billion between 2014, when it bought Oculus, to the present. Google learned this the hard way with Google Glass.

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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. That includes wearables — a product class that’s not only exploding but acclimating consumers to wearing tech on their bodies. For a deeper indexed and searchable archive, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. Enterprise AR is a Mixed Bag.

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GizModo VR

JULY 27, 2021

While Facebook and Apple haven’t been on the best terms as of late, the social media giant is reportedly considering letting Oculus users sync up their workout data to Apple Health, according to Bloomberg. Read more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

What is the only wearable that people is keeping on their face all day? There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. Inside that set of tools lurked data files for what appeared to be two different headsets, codenamed Franc and Luck.

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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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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. Impressive. “ [My story] goes way back to theater if we want to go that far, ” Benzing told me over our Google Hangouts call. “ I wanted to work with all types of wearable technology. I started off training in theater all over the world.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The two technologies operate differently in that AR utilizes computer vision, mapping, and depth sensing to display relevant material to the user, enabling cameras to gather, transmit, and analyze data to display digital material relevant to the user’s field of view. Google Cardboard and Gear VR are two well-known examples.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. Either way, what this means is a computer somewhere else in the world can change the data on the cube, or show users what my street looks like. So developers can leave data literally on any surface or, even, the air around you. New 3D experiences for inside cars. A virtualized database.

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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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VRWorld

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market are forecast to increase by 100% or more over each of the next four years, according to the latest update to the Worldwide Semiannual Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide from the International Data Corporation (IDC).

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some examples include the Oculus Quest and Vive Focus platforms. Among such are HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. . HUDs) or A transparent display presents a screen of data in front of the user’s eyes. Viral new solutions include Snap’s new AR glasses prototype and Google Glass Explorer Edition. .

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. The first comes from the major consultancy brand Accenture, which has just announced that it is going to deploy 60,000 Oculus Quest 2 headsets for the training of new employees.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 14, 2024

What’s more, the ecosystem will allow developers to create a single Horizon OS product they can deploy across a wide range of devices, reducing the expense and time associated with designing dedicated solutions for different wearables. Meta has even invited Google to embed its Google Play store into the ecosystem.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies. Streem combines augmented reality, remote video and uses contextualized data to help brands power an exceptional customer experience.

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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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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Steve Mann is commonly referred to as the “father of wearable computing” for innovations like the EyeTap, which combined computer processing with graphical design and textual overlays. But building a wearable general-purpose computer with wireless digital-communications capabilities was itself a feat. They were slick, they were robust.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

They won’t stop at augmenting our eyes, either, Bose already has wearable devices (they look like glasses, but don’t really do much for your eyes, it’s rather your ears they focused on) that augment our hearing and there are tons of haptic devices being developed that augment our ability to feel, touch and other things.

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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. NASA TRAINS ASTRONAUTS WITH VR.

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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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ARVR

JANUARY 29, 2021

While Apple fans have long been waiting for Apple to launch its own augmented and virtual reality ( AR/VR ) wearables, and despite many competitors already presenting market-ready AR glasses and VR headsets , there are still more questions than answers around what Apple’s AR/VR first product will look like. © Apple, Inc. Tim Cook, CEO of ?Apple

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Mike Abrash, formerly of Valve, now at Oculus, their chief scientist, he made this interesting observation about Moore’s Law. Just with all the volumetrics and the sensors we can put on someone with a wearable device, we can start to understand more about their life and help them. GB: Google Glass. Or it’s a Google problem.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. Michael: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. Michael: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. Michael: Glad you liked it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

As someone who has spent a lot of time using different PCVR controllers like Wands, Index, Windows MR, and different versions of Oculus Touch, I wondered: how would these Sword controllers compare? Google searches are very revealing. Pimax also mentions using a higher specification IMU with a faster data capture rate.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And I think being able to track where people are looking, being able to track their head motion, their gait analysis, there's so many more data points that we're able to collect about somebody using these technologies. So I assume now that that's built, it's just shot data at that point now. They're working on asset data management.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And I think being able to track where people are looking, being able to track their head motion, their gait analysis, there's so many more data points that we're able to collect about somebody using these technologies. So I assume now that that's built, it's just shot data at that point now. They're working on asset data management.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And I think being able to track where people are looking, being able to track their head motion, their gait analysis, there's so many more data points that we're able to collect about somebody using these technologies. So I assume now that that's built, it's just shot data at that point now. They're working on asset data management.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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