AR Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This week, Oculus goes under the microscope along with other Facebook properties. There’s some grumbling about the closed Oculus VR ecosystem as well , entirely undeserved at the moment since FB is doing more to develop the VR medium, in a safe responsible way, than anyone. Vodafone to launch Nreal Light glasses across Europe.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The top of a wind turbine a hundred stories up from the ground is not the best place to be making mistakes, but making mistakes and learning from them is the whole point of on-the-job training. That’s why VR Vision Inc helps companies produce XR training modules, so trainees can make mistakes in a safe, controlled environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The top of a wind turbine a hundred stories up from the ground is not the best place to be making mistakes, but making mistakes and learning from them is the whole point of on-the-job training. That’s why VR Vision Inc helps companies produce XR training modules, so trainees can make mistakes in a safe, controlled environment.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

Meta launches Horizon Worlds in Europe and promises graphical improvements. It all started because Horizon Worlds has finally landed in Europe, launching in France and Spain. As the release notes state, Oculus profiles will “evolve” into a new Meta Horizon profile, while ‘Friends’ will become ‘Followers’. Do you like esports?

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VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (8/20/16). You’ll see soon enough in this humorous look at the future of space training! GAMES: Wands ($5.99 – Gear VR ).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Today has been my first day at AWE Europe in Lisbon, Portugal. Today at AWE Europe, Oliver Woehler and Alizé Amrani from Pico took the stage to perform the launch of the Pico 4 Enterprise. These sensors can be used to track what the user is doing, for instance, to provide better training. Pico 4 Enterprise. Design and comfort.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher. Still no news on Oculus For Business program and Multiplayer SDK for Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The top of a wind turbine a hundred stories up from the ground is not the best place to be making mistakes, but making mistakes and learning from them is the whole point of on-the-job training. That's why VR Vision Inc helps companies produce XR training modules, so trainees can make mistakes in a safe, controlled environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The top of a wind turbine a hundred stories up from the ground is not the best place to be making mistakes, but making mistakes and learning from them is the whole point of on-the-job training. That’s why VR Vision Inc helps companies produce XR training modules, so trainees can make mistakes in a safe, controlled environment.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. In the same discussion (and other discussions throughout the day) Facebook’s ownership of Oculus also came up as a privacy concern.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Nreal Light is shipping in Europe and US in 2021. New details on the Lynx MR headset. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We all know very well the VR ecosystem in the US, but many of us from Europe or the US have more difficulties in imagining what happens after you cross the Southern border with Mexico. Sometimes we from Europe or the US don’t realize how is it difficult in other regions to get access to hardware.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 4, 2016

Set in late 19th-century Europe, Wands® presents a world where a group of people, mainly from the old aristocracy and the new wealthy, in secrecy has become competitors in a quest to unravel ancient wisdom and to reconcile it with modern science. Wands will be available to play beginning August 18 on Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Facebook hires the first Oculus Ambassadors. NASA is using AR/VR on ISS.

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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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ARVR

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Top 50 Terminologies related to AR/VR The Medical Staff Abbott uses Oculus Go for cardiologist virtual reality training Abbott chooses VR technology to facilitate the user training on its intracoronary imaging platform.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. UPS is using VR to train its drivers. Oh baby, it might be time to finally break down and get yourself that sweet roomscale VR (right out of the box!… Alejandro G.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2016

On the one hand we have platform wars , where Vive, Play Station, Oculus and Microsoft compete for the users. For amputees, there are several approaches to help them cope with their disability, 2 of them are relevant for us: They can train and use prothesises, and there are special methods to prevent phantom pain (mirror trick).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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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. UPDATE (2021.10.19): Road To VR also suggests that this hiring can be used to have a strong voice on regulations happening in Europe. On the other side, you know, Facebook….

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InstaVR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We’ve since had a UK government division use us for training safety officers, and look forward to expanded relationships with government agencies throughout Europe. May 2018 – Oculus Go starts shipping, with InstaVR publishing to it from launch! To read more on the Oculus Go, read our overview page on the headset.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In the VR Village, ESI Group were showcasing their upcoming Version 11 of IC.IDO , which enables HMD support (it was running on the HTC Vive, but will support the Oculus Rift too).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Clegg also added: European business leaders such as Lufthansa, Iveco, Alstorm, and Decathlon are already using immersive technologies to develop products, to train employees, and engage customers. Meta has recently revamped its enterprise suite after the Quest Pro received a less-than-enthusiastic response.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. But actually, HTC , once the biggest competitor Oculus had, added these functionalities to its devices one month before Meta , but the news was not reported by the main VR magazines. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. More info. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. And now the battle is on standalone headsets: Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Those enterprise customers have enthusiastically been adopting Microsoft’s mixed reality technology in a variety of productivity, collaboration, training, and visualization use-cases; while Microsoft, in turn, have been satisfying the wish-list of those dedicated customers. Trimble XR10 w HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft. CSA Z94.3,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the VRARA and its Global Executive Director Kris Kolo , Meta’s renewed dive into the business world – following the Quest Pro and other delves during the Oculus era – may be rife with issues. Meta is an openly consumer-first XR solutions provider.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. For instance, since I work on a VR fitness game , I’m thinking about all the new training experiences that will become now possible. Other relevant news. Image leaked from Meta firmware). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Two weeks ago, I have traveled a bit around Europe and I have visited some beautiful cities. Regarding the cost, for instance, Oculus can afford to sell its devices under cost, because it has Facebook’s deep pockets covering the losses. My first experience has been with a solution to train helicopter pilots. with Amazon Prime.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

I think what you’re doing is very smart, because we’re also seeing the same thing where we’re focused kind of on the training side of things. But if you make one training module, it does not translate to every role in the company. And training is a good example. Is it the training group?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

I think what you’re doing is very smart, because we’re also seeing the same thing where we’re focused kind of on the training side of things. But if you make one training module, it does not translate to every role in the company. And training is a good example. Is it the training group?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2022

Everyone in the room was making compliments on the event , that while small if compared to other ones in Europe (like AWE Europe), was very interesting, and well organized. One of the panels of the event was about virtual training, a very important theme (Image by Anothereality). It’s INCREDIBLY hard.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

I think what you're doing is very smart, because we're also seeing the same thing where we're focused kind of on the training side of things. But if you make one training module, it does not translate to every role in the company. And training is a good example. I love training, because training departments have budgets -- A.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Rezzil Secures $2.75M Investment for Oculus Sports Training App “Player 22. ” Facebook Finally Opens Oculus Quest Passthrough Feature to Developers. “At this rate, we won’t even be surprised if John Deere began pitching the prospect of a FarmVille-inspired tractor metaverse,” commented Morningbrew Emerging Tech.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

This collaboration also lets me offer you one special bonus: if you live in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle East, Africa), if you register for the GTC event using my referral code [link] , you can have a chance to win an NVIDIA RTX3080 Ti (worth $1200)! Or it can be that you use that scene to perform the training of some AI (e.g.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And Lenovo is in good company too; Meta is getting ready to launch Project Cambria, which earlier this month was revealed to be the long-awaited Quest Pro in a leak, and ByteDance’s Pico Interactive recently unveiled Pico 4 , which aims to take on Quest 2 in Europe and some regions in Asia. And what’s all it for?

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