Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2018

If you haven’t heard, Oculus screwed up pretty badly yesterday when they let a software certification expire, leaving Rift owners without access to any of their games for a full day. Plug into cyberspace, using viruses, worms, and exploits to steal the data before your signal gets traced.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 25, 2020

That’s because of the recent requirement that Quest 2 and other Oculus headsets be connected to a valid Facebook account and the company doesn’t allow Facebook accounts to be made by children under 13 years old.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

.” They partnered with Visyon , a Barcelona-based practical immersive technology company, to provide a widespread selection of technical experiences in VR from Oculus and Vive, and AR through Magic Leap, HoloLens, and Moverio glasses.

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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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InstaVR

AUGUST 13, 2019

As mentioned in last week’s blog , the Oculus Ques t has blown away sales expectations since launching three months ago. The Oculus Quest, in particular, is a great vehicle for delivering VR experiences. So what use cases do Enterprise clients have for InstaVR + Oculus Quest? VR for Training Using Oculus Quest.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 5, 2023

According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to re-enter China by selling the Oculus Quest VR headset in China. TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew floundered when Congress shot him with a string of thorny questions about Beijing’s alleged access to the app’s American user data. and China.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I founded biometric data based AI start-up Looxid Labs in 2015. . LooxidVR enables them to collect the user’s eye and brain data simultaneously during a VR experience. The interface from which the researcher can access all brain and eyes data (Image by Looxid Labs). Enjoy his interesting words! What is Looxid Labs?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Moreover, the firm’s Facebook lineage makes critics sceptical of Meta’s mission due to the firm’s previous user data controversies. The President of Global Affairs also noted that his firm’s Metaverse service would not be “built, operated or governed by any one company or institution.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Through comprehensive media services (mainly including media coverage, expert consultation, data research, and event and public relation management), it helps entrepreneurs with idea incubation, financing, strategy consultation, and publicity. and covered more than 80% of the XR pioneers as communities members.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. Security — establishing hierarchies for data capture and protection.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 31, 2021

” VR shouldn’t be used by children… Health and safety warning of the Oculus Rift DevKits (Image from Oculus Forums). When I started using virtual reality in 2014, the age limit for using the Oculus Rift DK 2 was 7 years, but then it was incremented to 13 years old. … but they use it anyway.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 9, 2020

million loan from Innovate UK, a UK government org. The startup sells the app, which is available in the Oculus Store, PlayStation Store and Steam, for $29.99, with additional content packs going for $9.99. The startup, which develops the popular VR exercise app BoxVR, tells TechCrunch it has just closed $7.5

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

The experience will debut this winter on PSVR and Oculus. ThirdEye products are targeted for healthcare, government and field services. Snap acquires Streetcred, a location data startup. Artist Madison Beer, as a virtual avatar, performed her song “Boyshit” on a virtual stage before a virtual live audience.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Its specs make it more powerful than Oculus Quest 2: 2K x 2K resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate Qualcomm Snapdragon XR 2 chipset 8GB DDR4 RAM Mechanic IPD adjustment with exact setting of your measure. It seems a very good headset , apart from the terrible exterior design that looks like the son of an Oculus Quest 2 and a Vive Cosmos.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

Chief Technology Officer Edward Felten about how these workshops came about, and the government’s plan for addressing the issue. There are a number of companies now using machine learning techniques in order to analyze and make sense of these raw data streams. I interviewed the White House Deputy U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Google owns the best search engine (Google), all the data of the outdoor part of the world (Google Maps), the most used mobile operating system (Android), an AR framework (ARCore), and is strategically acquiring some startups that may be useful for building future AR glasses (North). In the end, the mystery around Quest Day was solved.

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ARPost

AUGUST 16, 2019

The participants shared their views and factual data on several key industry issues: The fields in which they develop projects; The most frequently used projects; Sources of funding; Profitability of their work; Top challenges they are facing. Perhaps the most surprising thing in the top-platforms list is Oculus Quest taking second place.

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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. That includes businesses, schools, clubs, charities, and governments. eyeora VR , a virtual events company working with mobile devices as well as Oculus and Pico headsets. Make Real Ltd.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2022

Unsurprisingly, all of the important data points are related to the industry’s sole benefactor these days, Meta, which managed to raise the cost of entry to its VR ecosystem, find itself in a new battle with the US government over VR, and announce that it had, again, burnt an awful lot of money on its Reality Lab efforts this quarter.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Facebook could sell all its devices undercost now, subsidizing the cost of the hardware with software and data collection, so that to compete with brands like Samsung and XiaoMi. Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. People at Oculus do not know how to count.

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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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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

AR and VR together, or AVR, form new interfaces for the computing and the data which enables growth for businesses, academia and governments across the world. Instantly we would think of the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, HoloLens, MagicLeap and others, as well as that which most people care to own – their smartphone.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Form factors have improved dramatically since then, and most people are familiar with the first commercially-available VR headset, then-Facebook’s Oculus Rift. This is highly useful and even incorporates biometric data such as attention and gaze, eye tracking, response times, and accuracy to determine user progress.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

HTC is making yet more moves in China today, announcing a partnership with the Shenzhen Municipal Government to kick off two new initiatives. The pair will look to develop breakthroughs in sensors, displays, graphics, data visualization, human-machine interaction and other areas at this site.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

is a company that aims at using the data from the cameras of all the phones running AR applications, send them to a server, and merge them all together to create a full mesh representing the whole world. You have to create environments for this social world governed by blockchain, and you can win free land and mana to spend in Decentraland.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Funding Roundup: Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2M, nDreams Raises $2.5M, Oculus Acquires Computer Vision company Zurich Eye & HTC Unveils a $1.5B 3) Oculus parent company Facebook acquired Zurich Eye , a Switzerland-based group formed of members of the University of Zurich and another university, EMT Zurich. roughly $1.5M

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2022

After all, XR solutions are heavily dependent on the use of sensitive data. The company is dedicated to making its XR environments as safe as possible, with everything from built-in security features in the Oculus , to new standards for Metaverse ethics. You can grow your assets, manage NFTs, and protect content in the same place.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

With governments battling to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19) one of the main options is to stop travel, either for work or for leisure. Thus, all remote workers can easily share data stored on their existing devices during Spatial meetings.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. The government wants to see growth in all the areas that concern VR. 7invensun for eye tracking addons).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. So this was before Oculus. One is government. And we roll this out with more than 50 governments around the globe, national governments.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. So this was before Oculus. One is government. And we roll this out with more than 50 governments around the globe, national governments.

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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. of units more produced annually. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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