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The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The method has been developed by Redditor Tiger-Hobbes and shared by Youtuber “No Borscht For You”. It consists of you using just an Oculus account (even a new developer one) without an associated Facebook account and using an old version of the Oculus companion app on your phone that sees your Quest 2 as an old plain Quest.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 23, 2023
Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. For sure, not having Microsoft backing it will slow down a lot of its development.
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JULY 15, 2017
With a spear in hand and an enemy on the ground, you’re free to plunge your weapon into their torso at will with gleeful apathy. When I wrote about Gorn earlier this week, I purposefully made light of the games farcical violence and focused on the core gameplay at hand. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
More info (Ready At Dawn shuts down Echo VR) More info (Meta CTO on Echo VR shutdown decision) More info (John Carmack comments the news) More info (An editorial from a Echo VR community manager) Meta’s financials are improving, but at what cost… Meta has released its financial data for its past quarters and the situation is slowly getting better.
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Face tracking and mixed reality are cool, but there is no app truly exploiting them Some features are still lacking. The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 19, 2017
As increasingly impressive developer kits and then consumer units arrived, VR spread out from that corner to overtake so many of the other floor presentations from both researchers and established commercial giants. The simple goal is to have fun in VR. Digital Playgroundz. Remote Collaboration in AR and VR Using Virtual Replicas.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 28, 2021
More info (Blaston won’t feature VR ads) More info (My editorial on Facebook and ads in VR). Yes, it is truly expensive (around €1400), but it features great comfort, an amazing display, fantastic audio, wired/wireless streaming from PC, and good tracking. So it’s just a little win for the community. Other relevant news.
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