The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest gain PC VR market shares. The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). Last month’s data show even a slight growth of connected headsets. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2017

Compatible with multiple VR platforms including Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, fans will be transported into worlds of unforgettable live experiences. In addition to the two POV 360° videos, a third experience showcases some of the biggest moments at the O2 music and entertainment venue. O2 Academy Venues VR.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. So, let’s look at the facts, the numbers and the data. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. Since then, we have seen a movement. The Market.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At Facebook Connect this week , Facebook has: Released the powerful Oculus Quest 2 , powered by Snapdragon XR2, and with a 4K display. an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). What will this mean in the long run for NVIDIA?

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room. Showdown – Oculus Connect 2014 | Read More. Bullet Train – Oculus Connect 2015 | Read More. But let’s take a detour for a moment, back to 2014 at the inaugural Oculus Connect developer conference.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2019

Lintott continues, “ We used city-wide data supplied by Wellington City Council to create the virtual Wellington City and then added a layer of story and gamification though utilising motion capture, CG, 360 interactive video and photogrammetry.”. WellTown is available now on SteamVR and Oculus.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Manus VR , the company which makes enterprise-grade data gloves, is almost ready to release its solution to this challenge, Manus Polygon.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2018

We’ve rounded up a list of 20-something VR games launching in 2018 that we’re excited about, covering all three major VR systems: PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Platform : PSVR, Oculus, Steam (Spring 2018). Platform : Oculus, Steam (Early 2018). Platform : Oculus (February 28, 2018). Platform : Oculus (2018).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

“Still it allows for experimenting with the future in the present day and just like we’ve seen after the first Oculus Rift release things will only improve in the next few years and iterations.” ” See Also: HoloLens Enterprise Mixed Reality Development with Object Theory. .

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?). A traveling showcase of digital and video works, Björk Digital started in Australia and it just debuted at London’s Somerset house.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2022

When a person moves with WalkOVR on her body, our PC side software receives movement data from OVR nodes and our algorithms transform that data into user movement for that specific game or app. On the other hand, the importance and popularity of motion capture features can not be overseen. What are its main features?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

A new SteamVR mod from the developer behind WalkinVR now allows body tracking by emulating Vive Trackers via Kinect’s motion sensing data, enabling an inexpensive solution for full body motion tracking in VR. model for Xbox One.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Development of robust, millimeter-accurate interior-out tracking and positioning devices and motion capture devices. The government wants to see growth in all the areas that concern VR. – Near-eye display technology. – Render processing technology. – Content collection production equipment.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2021

Jumping into VRChat with my Oculus Quest 2, I used the social VR platforms search function to locate Welcome to the Other Side. Theoretically, an unlimited number of people can attend a virtual event; the problem comes when too many people try to log on at one time (crashing the party with data overload). Arriving at the Venue.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Last week Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash stood on the stage at Oculus Connect 3 and talked about where he thought VR will be in five years’ time. That’s why Oculus Research is launching a $250,000 grant initiative looking to advance work in a few key areas. ” ‘Multisensory studies’ is next.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Vive took the early market by storm , launching out the box with full roomscale support and tracked motion controllers , whilst Oculus could only launch their Rift CV1 with seated support and an Xbox game controller. Nothing we do is created in isolation in a lab, it’s all based on real-world insights and data. .

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Both controllers offer what you might call ‘casual-level’ input—neither match the precision of what we’ve come to expect from the current bar set by Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. wireless that sends data directly to the headset. Chirp – Ultrasonics Showing Promise. Image courtesy Finch Technologies. oz) controllers.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Hand Capture. A new motion capture and animation plugin for Autodesk MotionBuilder 2016, Hand Capture lets you “capture hand and finger movement in real time directly inside MotionBuilder.” ” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Jamming with Leap.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

GAP’s augmented reality dressing room, ZeniMax wins Oculus lawsuit, VR porn has a super creepy head camera, NYU combines VR and dance, the investment and funding wrapup, and much more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: GAP ENVISIONS A FUTURE WITH AR DRESSING ROOMS. ZENIMAX WINS OCULUS LAWSUIT, COMES OUT SWINGING.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

Luckey went on to co-found one of the breakthrough companies in the VR industry with Oculus and its Rift headset, so it is no surprise that ICT could end up serving as the origins for other pioneering pieces of technology. The graphics lab at ICT captures high-quality digital faces for film with special (and expensive) scanning equipment.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

This week we had no big news from Facebook, but in the communities, the theme of the Facebook login for the Oculus Quest 2 remains pretty hot. Some people have already abandoned the Oculus ship, but many have still bought the Quest 2, that in fact is already backordered by several weeks in some countries (e.g. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Oculus Quest is coming out. You’ve got VR headsets, AR headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You've got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Oculus Quest is coming out. You've got VR headsets, AR headsets. So there's a lot to unpack here.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Oculus Quest is coming out. You’ve got VR headsets, AR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook). It feels like magic.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. Is the Founder-Ceo of #HoloSuit a full body motion tracking suit with haptic feedback. 43- Dillon Seo - Co-Founder #Oculus. 34- Nick Cherukuri. 50- Peter Chou.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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