The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2020

Looking at the hardware survey, it is also easy to spot that the headset gaining more market quotas in PC usage has been the Oculus Quest, which now represents more than 7% of the PCVR landscape. Image by Oculus). Oculus For Business may need some improvements. Mark should be proud of it. Other relevant news. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

The entire community is completely getting crazy for it and you must download it from SideQuest, and try it out. More info (SideQuest VR download page) More info (Launch blog post). Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30. The update pace of the Oculus Quest is impressive. Absolutely not.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

If you download the WebXR plugin from its GitHub page , you can have Unity 2018 LTS (2018.4.20), while if you get it from Unity Asset Store, you must have at least Unity 2019.3.4. I downloaded Unity 2019.3.11 This may be a local server on your pc (Apache, IIS), a server on a local virtual machine, or a web server that you own.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2016

On the heels of OC3 last week, there is a solid array of titles to pick from, but none of them quite measure up to the wonder of what is coming soon with Oculus Touch. But here are all the new releases you can download and enjoy today! Plus, you just might learn something and what’s more fun than that. .

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ARVR

AUGUST 4, 2020

Let’s have a look into it and it’s features in more detail : Mozilla Hub is a virtual reality chatroom designed for any device or headset to allow people to come together and connect with people in a more realistic way with the help of Virtual Reality devices like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift etc. Creating remote MR productions 2. And many more…??

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. Oculus has just started rolling out the update to the Quest runtime v23 , that introduces a lot of new features and improvements to this device: All the applications in the headset can now run at 90 Hz (including the passthrough vision); Oculus Link upgrades to 90Hz as well and finally exits from beta.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 24, 2019

Originally an Oculus Story Studio project, when it closed Edward Saatchi and Pete Billington co-founded virtual beings company Fable, taking on the project with support from Facebook. Thanks to machine learning Lucy will interact with viewers in natural ways, helping build a greater emotional connection.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And when you’re done, you can download the mp3 and send it to your friends. Download the app here for free. Strap on your Oculus Rift or Meta Quest + a PC, dawn your virtual jumpsuit and let loose the glory of your inner superstar. (A You, the chosen one, the Lambchild Superstar. You did this. How does something like this exist?’

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Available On: Oculus Rift ( Oculus Store ). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift. In terms of the AI’s ability to present a challenge, the campaign mode was a fun way to basically learn about every unit in a logical sequence and see them in extended action, sort of like a long tutorial for the multiplayer portion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fasten your seatbelts because today I’m going to publish for you an amazing new tutorial, this time on Oculus Spatial Anchors, a new experimental feature added to the Oculus SDK. Oculus Spatial Anchors in Unity: video tutorial. Oculus Spatial Anchors. Oculus has just added Spatial Anchors to its SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). (Image from Reddit). The VR ecosystem can end 2021 with a big smile on its face. and if you get your Quest for Christmas…. …

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. It’s basically a monopoly. Image by Apple).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

Reviewed On: HTC Vive (Vive Controllers) and Oculus Rift (Xbox Gamepad). It was disappointing to learn that the tech demo I’d been salivating over for the last two years didn’t let me do the one thing I wanted it for: play video games with my friends in VR. New Retro Arcade Neon Details: Official Site. Pac-Man (1981).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. I learned how to do the coding. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. In his video, it seems that the Pico Neo 3 is exactly what we would expect, that is a good clone of the Oculus Quest 2. He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro. Learn more (Discover more and register).

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 18, 2015

Tomáš Mariančík wants to change how people learn about the world and bring their ideas to life. You can download the Windows demo free for the Oculus Rift: frooxius.itch.io/world-of-comenius. Our goal is to spread this platform to the whole world, giving people new ways to learn and pushing Comenius’ ideas even further.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

We all know that HoloLens 2 is a very powerful tool for remote assistance and collaboration, and can, for instance, be used to watch a 3D model of an industrial machine by many people together that have to discuss about it. Oculus Quest adds OpenXR, but rolls back new UI. It has been quite an interesting week for Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. Oculus Link is coming soon. In the latest runtime of the Oculus Rift available on the Public Test Channel, there are already various mentions to the Oculus Link. Machines can now see through walls.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

I had this fascination with the concept of a Holodeck and as I grew up that never sort of left me and when virtual reality became the thing with Oculus, I just saw this opportunity to actually build my own holodeck. Anyone will be able to download it and visualize data from his/her phone or his/her.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

There’s a lot to learn about how we can start to blend these different experiences into the world. GB: Mike Abrash, formerly of Valve, now at Oculus, their chief scientist, he made this interesting observation about Moore’s Law. Ellsworth: On top of that, machine learning is going to be huge in AR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. Image by Oculus). In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

To learn more about The Glimpse Group, visit TheGlimpseGroup.com. Then, about four years ago, the Oculus Rift and the VIVE was coming out, and I saw that there was an opportunity to actually start making a living out of it. And the thing is, with Oculus Quest now, they didn’t have a computer. Welcome to the show, DJ.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

To learn more about The Glimpse Group, visit TheGlimpseGroup.com. Then, about four years ago, the Oculus Rift and the VIVE was coming out, and I saw that there was an opportunity to actually start making a living out of it. And the thing is, with Oculus Quest now, they didn’t have a computer. Welcome to the show, DJ.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We're doing a lot of work in immersive learning. So people are kind of learning from that social media mobile app development kind of phase, and starting to apply those learnings to this new technology of visualization and ensuring that all those are proactively integrated into these solutions. There's really wide range here.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We're doing a lot of work in immersive learning. So people are kind of learning from that social media mobile app development kind of phase, and starting to apply those learnings to this new technology of visualization and ensuring that all those are proactively integrated into these solutions. There's really wide range here.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We're doing a lot of work in immersive learning. So people are kind of learning from that social media mobile app development kind of phase, and starting to apply those learnings to this new technology of visualization and ensuring that all those are proactively integrated into these solutions. There's really wide range here.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here. Lessons learned are then incorporated into core code, and benefit all grid owners. A list of hosting providers is here. Popularity. Transitions.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Caution: You can download the JSON from any SteamVR device using Lighthouse console, but make sure to store its unique JSON somewhere safe and don’t get it mixed up with other JSON files. cable extender left over from my ownership of an Oculus Rift CV1 with a 3-camera tracking setup. ’s config onto a 2.0 tracker at all.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And to everybody who worked on this: Walid [Abdelaty], our CTO; Paul [Konieczny], our chief product officer; Jonathan [Moss], our chief commercial officer, who takes us and brings it to enterprise; and Julie [Smithson], our chief learning officer. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And to everybody who worked on this: Walid [Abdelaty], our CTO; Paul [Konieczny], our chief product officer; Jonathan [Moss], our chief commercial officer, who takes us and brings it to enterprise; and Julie [Smithson], our chief learning officer. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. Thank you.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Full immersion: Digitized by a laser, Kevin Flynn is downloaded into cyberspace with full presence due to his absence from the real world. Brainstorm (1983). The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003).

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here. VirTec vending machine network loses ground. VirTec is a line of in-world vending machines that allow merchants to sell their products on multiple grids, for multiple currencies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

To learn more about the work he’s doing at Bose, you can visit developer.bose.com. But I really wanted to have a forcing function to teach myself a program for Android, learn Eclipse, etc. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

To learn more about the work he’s doing at Bose, you can visit developer.bose.com. But I really wanted to have a forcing function to teach myself a program for Android, learn Eclipse, etc. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And to everybody who worked on this: Walid [Abdelaty], our CTO; Paul [Konieczny], our chief product officer; Jonathan [Moss], our chief commercial officer, who takes us and brings it to enterprise; and Julie [Smithson], our chief learning officer. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. Thank you.

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