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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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.

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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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VRWorld

JUNE 3, 2016

Microsoft decided to take a calculated risk and leave the Virtual Reality market to Facebook (through Oculus and Samsung) and HTC with their dedicated headsets Gear VR, Rift and Vive. All future users of HoloLens should need is a collaborative suite (perhaps Microsoft’s own HoloOffice?).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. But then I started having at another problem: I was downloading stuff at 100Kb/s … and I had to download something like 200MB of data. Verify the most that you can before leaving, so that you can find solution in advance.

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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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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Metaverses are in line with the tech trend Oculus Quest reported sales growth, which indicates higher accessibility of VR equipment for the general audience. Thirdly, network latency is always there and always causes problems; usually, the Internet connection is not enough to cater to all the needs of metaverses.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

While the second generation handsets from HTC and Oculus are getting shape hidden from the public eye, there are significant changes being announced or previewed for the upcoming Holiday season. Gbps wireless data transfer. This restricts the user and reduces immersion. Special, larger capacity battery was also announced.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. We’ve come a long way since Oculus’ consumer product. ” Image Credit: Facebook.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. But everyone agrees a dangling cable is not only annoying, it’s an immersion detractor. 264 or similar chip solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. Sounded good.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2019

Nvidia has GeForce Now, Sony has PlayStation Now, and both Google & Microsoft have their own future cloud gaming projects in the work too. and Intel, was delivering a total latency between 4 – 6 ms through their mock-up 5G network. Cloud gaming isn’t a new concept, at least in the world of traditional flatscreen games.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

This means that there are still some challenges to overcome, such as latency and bandwidth issues. This can make it difficult for different organizations to collaborate and share data. These risks include data breaches, cyberattacks, and the misuse of personal information. Google’s Plan How will Google compete with this?

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

Announced last month , VirtualLink is a connection standard designed specifically for VR headsets, which is backed by a consortium of major players in VR space, including NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Microsoft, and Oculus. data channel for on-board cameras, and up to 27 watts of power.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 16, 2023

Microsoft offers Games Pass and backwards compatibility, but PlayStation arguably has stronger first-party exclusives. Sony and Microsoft make the actual profit from services and the cut they get from each game sold. As Mediator Software pointed out, even reading PSVR’s IMU (accelerometer) data on PC took at least a year.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2018

A consortium representing many of VR’s most prominent players—NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft—have backed a new connector standard called VirtualLink which the companies say was “developed to meet the connectivity requirements of current and next-generation virtual reality (VR) headsets.”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Put simply, the Vive Tracker is a wireless, battery powered SteamVR tracked accessory that provides highly accurate, low latency 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) motion tracking within a roomscale environment. Nothing we do is created in isolation in a lab, it’s all based on real-world insights and data. . So what is a Vive Tracker?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

A more distant solution would be where virtual world data is piecewise downloaded to the users’ system in the background on demand. My current super-elegant Oculus avatar. Oculus avatars are consistent over all Oculus experiences (unless they are overridden by the developer). Will it be in the cloud?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alex: Near zero latency. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. They gave it away for free this year. Very quick.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alex: Near zero latency. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. They gave it away for free this year. Very quick.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. It’s like yep yep, it’s got six milliseconds latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alex: Near zero latency. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. They gave it away for free this year. Very quick.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Over time we think AR and VR converge into a world that the Microsoft folks call “mixed reality.” I think Oculus is getting there, but I still think it’s behind, to be candid, even with the latest stuff that is coming out for Christmas. SEE ALSO Ximmerse Adds Motion Tracking to PC and Mobile VR Using Stereo Camera Tech.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The Oculus Rift S was Facebook’s only previous headset with a halo strap. Microsoft chose this approach for HoloLens 2, which Quest Pro actually bears a striking resemblance to.

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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. It made the big data crunching that’s required for neural networks and pattern recognition possible. Above: Microsoft’s HoloLens in action. Image Credit: Microsoft. GPU computing came along.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s a matter of months now, that Microsoft is shipping a new HoloLens; some other companies are shipping glasses. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping. And I got the Oculus Go, thinking, “Oh, this is gonna be great for VR.” But it’s a matter of time. It was glitchy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s a matter of months now, that Microsoft is shipping a new HoloLens; some other companies are shipping glasses. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping. And I got the Oculus Go, thinking, “Oh, this is gonna be great for VR.” But it’s a matter of time. It was glitchy.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. Michael: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So Metastage uses Microsoft's volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. Michael: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. Michael: Yeah.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. Your data plan will thank you. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? HTC VIVE LAUNCHES VIVE STUDIOS.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lots of companies have made this claim actually, but Eonite specifically says they have the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” That’s potentially revolutionary for the VR and AR industry if true.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers. Let me be very honest: I’m not expecting that much from this year in augmented reality.

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