Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2021

Facebook has made no secret of the fact that ads are coming to its Oculus VR platform in some capacity. As a part of its v29 software update for Oculus Quest last month, the company said it would begin testing ads for content within the Oculus App, although it wasn’t clear to what extent it would touch games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Amazon has revealed its best-selling products for the holiday season, and Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR has come out on top for our budding new industry. Gear VR makes it in as the third entry in the Wearable Technology category. With the recent data from Amazon, it could have passed that milestone by now.

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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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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Equally important, they could also prop up Apple’s next big play: a wearables suite. AR glasses could be a key component in a wearables line that succeeds the iPhone as Apple’s cash cow. But there are also confidence signals.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

The software analyzes the data to figure out what should be happening in a game. In June 2019, CTRL-Labs acquired patents from Myo, a similar wearable created by North that enables control of robotics and PCs via gestures and motion. Eye-Tracking .

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2019

And while virtual reality and BMIs are still relatively segregated fields at this point, Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack got a chance to visit Neuralink’s offices, calling it “very bold work.” Neuralink’s surgical robot, Image courtesy Neuralink.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The phrase “computer peripherals for mobile devices for remotely accessing and transmitting data” also indicates the possibility of wireless functionality. The companies recently revealed 6DoF rendition for their Vive Focus standalone HMD could be involved, or perhaps it is an entirely new setup compatible with Valve’s Knuckles controllers.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Is Apple Building an Entertainment Wearable? Begun, The Wearables Wars Have. ’ Is Oculus Quest VR’s ‘iPhone Moment?’ Data Point of the Week: Top 3 . Has Oculus Sold 333,000 Quest’s So Far? And look forward to more daily spatial computing coverage in 2020. Trend Analysis: Top 10.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. I work in XR, organizing events and writing about AR and VR for my livelihood and yet, unlike some of my male peers, I purchased my very first piece of VR hardware just this year with the release of Oculus Go.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 6, 2022

Consumers worldwide have downloaded Meta’s Oculus app , the mobile companion for Oculus VR devices including the Quest 2, roughly 2 million times globally since Christmas Day, according to new data from third-party app intelligence firms, Apptopia and Sensor Tower. million installs, Sensor Tower’s data indicates.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Cloud compute specialists Scalable Graphics are to debut a new 1 pound wireless PC VR solution compatible with both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets at next weeks CES convention in Las Vegas. Input data from the headset is again sent wirelessly back to the host machine, and in the case of connected wireless controllers, bi-directionally.

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VRScout

AUGUST 2, 2017

From haptic wearables, multiplayer VR dance parties, to a slew of mixed-reality demonstrations. Before putting on the Oculus Rift, the developer placed a headband on me, called Muse , to track my brainwaves—to monitor wether or not my mind was calm or active.

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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. This is the second project from Grzegorz Bednarski, the developer behind the WalkinVR driver for people with physical disabilities.

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AR Insider

MARCH 3, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Triangulating this clue with others we’ve tracked, Apple could release a “lean back” entertainment wearable in 2022. Then it will launch a more fashionable (though less-spec’d) “all-day” wearable in 2023. The “When?”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2022

I developed many software and hardware products in the past, not only as Electronics Engineer but also as a Product Manager, worked in some well-known corporates such as Nokia and Verifone then a couple of years ago I founded WalkOVR, the first wearable walk-in-place locomotion solution for Virtual Reality. . How does the product work?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

Since Google is also involved in the development process, we may see the integration of genAI technology on the Samsung headset, which is made possible by the XR2+ Gen 2 Platform’s support for AI-ready wearables. We need all the new cool devices, but we gotta get the data. We’ve got to get the digital twins.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While wearable technologies, including wearable XR, didn’t exactly “blow up” this year, the technology did further entrench itself in enterprise—the number of companies in the evaluation stage rose significantly, several large deployments made headlines, and solution providers continued to partner and expand their products to more platforms.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending. He separately broke down the math for us as follows.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It includes some of its data and takeaways. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. The glasses themselves will likely start a stationary-use entertainment wearable versus an all-day world-immersive play. This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That’s iPhones today and a wearables suite (including AR glasses) in the longer term. Besides the news that Facebook is working on AR glasses (more on that in a bit), it revealed its work in building persistent spatial mapping data, known as Live Maps. to Oculus headsets. For Apple, AR’s job is to sell more hardware.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement… including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. The AR cloud will continue to be the model for location-anchored data that empowers AR devices to activate meaningful graphics.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

Moreover, Meta has also removed all user data related to these features. Just days before Meta updated Workrooms, the firm also deleted all Oculus user data on March 28th. In the future, Quest users will no longer be able to log into their XR devices with an Oculus account.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Y ou’ve likely heard all about Facebook Connect 7, including the keynote unveiling of Oculus Quest 2 (our pre-order is in). This signals a design path that — like we project for Apple — will prioritize wearability and social sensibilities over advanced optics, at least in version 1. The second layer is an index layer.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Instead of bulky headgear that packs graphically intensive AR experiences like Hololens 2, the pendulum will swing towards social wearability as a design target… though that does mean UX tradeoffs. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. Figures reflect market factors at the time of creation.

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EnterpriseWear

JUNE 26, 2018

From building the actual plane to the in-flight experience, wearable XR (AR, VR, MR) devices have a role to play in multiple professions within the commercial aviation industry. Aero Glass actually has a solution that displays flight path and instrument data to small airline pilots wearing smart glasses.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The offering could be crucial in an environment where companies are keen to leverage the benefits of extended reality but concerned about the impact shared virtual spaces will have on their data management efforts. Is Meta Quest for Business the Same as Oculus for Business? Back in 2017, Meta introduced “ Oculus for Business ”.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 24, 2019

It includes some of its data and takeaways. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Another example of the “training-wheels” principle is the broader product category of wearables. Apple will invest in wearables to offset iPhone sales declines, and condition the world for AR glasses.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 31, 2019

Facebook’s Oculus Quest launched this past May, creating more interest in VR than ever and serious momentum across the consumer market. But from a Developer and Content Creator’s perspective, the data it produces is a gold mine of capabilities, both for experience optimization and production of usage metrics.

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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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ARPost

MAY 11, 2021

For example, biometric data analytics is a major selling point of the Reverb G2 Omnicept that HP announced at the 2020 VR/AR Association Global Summit. See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S. Similarly, the VIVE Cosmos is heavier, and product reviewers have called it “unwieldy.”.

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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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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. Through the use of artificial intelligence, app developers can streamline how their program processes algorithms and data.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook came with the Oculus Quest 1 & 2 , then Microsoft with the Hololens2 with hand tracking capabilities; but there are limitations in dealing with occlusions and in tracking outside the camera’s field of view on the headset. VRfree is a solid device including precise and scalable hand tracking data.

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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. Already, John Carmack, the former Oculus CTO , has shared his concerns about the move.

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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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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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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 10, 2022

Facebook’s Meta’s Oculus Quest 2 headset has managed to carve out a surprisingly sizable niche as a high-tech piece of exercise equipment as people use software like Beat Saber and Supernatural to get a cardio workout in.

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