The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

All of this fostered the creation of many virtual events , that let people enjoy their time with other people while making everyone staying at home. Because of the success of these two events, VRChat got a huge spike in viewers , and in fact, the servers crashed soon after the end of our concert. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Top news of the week. Facebook announces Wi-Fi streaming and Resident Evil 4 for Quest.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The virtual event, which included networking rounds, panel discussions, and expert presentations, was attended by hundreds of educators and solution providers. According to event organizers Kris Kolo and Carlos Ochoa, the event is “the largest VR/AR event in education.” Debating the Importance of Headsets.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

These days, most folks have experienced virtual reality in some shape or form: it could be a Google cardboard, VR kiosk at a local mall, or an at-home VR headset from HTC or Oculus. Certain things are simply too risky for a real-life team-building event, such as climbing Mount Everest, sky-diving, or waving around a lightsaber.

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

This week we look at Zoom’s new immersive view, Looking Glass’ latest milestone, the latest AR funding rounds and the return to physical events. Let’s dive in… Tribeca Immersive will offer a combination of real and virtual events this June. So far, about 25% of exhibitors have committed to returning. Lumeto Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

I’m back from Belgium, where I took part in the nice Stereopsia event! Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu.

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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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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2018

With plans to go where no other large scale sporting event has ever gone before, VR and AR will play a large role in giving fans unique one-of-a-kind viewing experiences. To do this, NBC has partnered with Intel to broadcast 30 Olympic events in VR. Back in 2016, Troy Taylor, U.S. Now STRIVR and the U.S.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Whether it’s powering pop-up experiences and experiential marketing events, or creating unique new ways for customers to explore the latest products offered by brands, there are countless opportunities out there. The company is even producing some of the most impressive smart glasses on the market.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

The Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC), the premier event for creators of immersive VR (and AR) experiences, today announced dates and location for its second edition – its first standalone event. Sessions from NASA and Chernobyl VR Project have been confirmed, reflecting the event's broad scope and top tier content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The event, hosted by AIXR, aims to recognize outstanding achievements in VR technology. This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

In this game, you have to punch some targets very fast while dodging bars that attack you, for a very intense training experience. Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30. Oculus Quest introduces a new update to its runtime every month, and this month we have other amazing features introduced on the standalone headset.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2021

Similarly, platforms like Hyperfair are ideal for enterprise-oriented VR remote events like virtual forums and expos, but the scale is such that they aren’t great for things like regular or impromptu meetings of working groups. Once more like a series of training modules, FundamentalVR rolled out Teaching Space in 2020.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Gaming companies like Oculus and Epic are already working in partnership with Facebook. Imagine, opening a 3D hologram model from your palm like Tony Stark in Iron Man or teleporting your avatar to any place and to any point of time in history and looking at how events played out. Meta is just a huge version of the same.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I liked the event, curated by Zack Lynch of Jazz Venture Partners , because it reminded me of the long view of VR and how much of a role that research and development still has to play in it. It reminded me of a speech by Mike Abrash , chief scientist at Oculus, speaking last fall. R&D still to come. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi.

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AR Insider

MARCH 17, 2020

These events are resetting expectations on the timing and scale of revenue outcomes. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Training Wheels. This “ training wheels ” approach will be a key theme in getting users into AR activities by piggybacking on things they’re familiar with.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. In virtual reality, students can conduct chemical experiments, see outstanding historical events, and solve complex problems in a more fun and understandable way. Google Earth VR.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. The full report was generated from feedback from a number of public and private events. About the “Thinking Ahead About XR” Report. This set up the next section on security. Economic Issues. “If

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

360VR videos and photos became a regular part of our social media feeds , billions of dollars invested in VR technology advancement, and a VR experience for everything from movie trailers, corporate training and Presidential farewells. Oculus – Rift. Google – Daydream View. Oculus – Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Oculus Quest. More than 60 Oculus developers have reached $1M+ revenue. ” Total Quest Games Reviews Have Exceeded Oculus PC Reviews in Less Than Two Years. The total count of game reviews on the Quest store have surpassed those of the Oculus PC store ( see chart ). Key Data Points.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

“Trendline” is AR Insider’s series that examines trends and events in spatial computing, and their strategic implications. Google isn’t as acquisitive for AR cloud endeavors (“ Internet of Places “), which build from existing Google Images and Street View data. In fairness, that’s not always the case.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Jason McGuigan, Head of Commercial for Virtual Reality , announced the news at his speech at the premier event in Madeira Island, Portugal’s Savoy Palace, which joined some of the world’s largest tech firms, including Google, Qualcomm, EndeavorXR, Varjo Technologies, and many others.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. The motto of the event is “Go With The Flow”, and Upload VR has discovered that HTC recently has trademarked the name “Vive Flow” , so it can be expected that the new device will have that name. Image by IGN).

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. Like every event, it has pros and cons. The con is that it is a rather small event. The pro is that it is a great event for networking. How is Stereopsia? via Gfycat.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe. Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

The new new game studio pulled in an astonishing $113M Series C to produce what the company calls “massive interactive live events,” or MILEs. Counterpoint’s Global XR (VR & AR) Model Tracker reveals Oculus Quest 2 Cumulative Sales. The streaming giant is going head to head with Microsoft, Sony, Google and Apple.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2016

vTime, the social VR app known for recently connecting Gear VR and Google Cardboard users , today announced support for the Oculus Rift in their cross-platform online app. Most of the destinations contain randomly queued events like flocks of birds flying overhead, or in the case of the underwater environment, a school of curious fish.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. could add DLCs with new training levels to earn some money. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Google is going to buy North. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

This research work is disruptive because it can detect whatever kind of objects, even the ones it has never seen during training. Glasses could also highlight the objects the user has in front of him/her during a training experience or while he/she is following a certain recipe. Let’s see if this will bring real benefits to WebXR.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 31, 2019

These events are resetting expectations on the timing and scale of revenue outcomes. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. AR Wins With “Training Wheels”. This is dominated by AR lenses in social channels, but other formats like visual search will gain share over time as Google pushes the technology.

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ARPost

AUGUST 21, 2019

The walking app, released on June 21, 2019, has 250,659 Google Play and 125,500 Apple App Store ratings! After venturing through the neighborhood and seeing similar creatures pop up during events I went on more adventures. To cast spells, Wizards in training use their finger (the wand) to swipe over patterns quickly.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Facebook’s Oculus division opened its Oculus Connect event in San Jose, Calif., Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe introduced the company’s Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus Rift headset. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe introduced the company’s Oculus Touch controllers for the Oculus Rift headset.

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