The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. Eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. GTC digital is online, NVIDIA shows cheap eye tracking. This is intriguing because a system made by only LEDs is very very cheap, and could help the widespread of eye tracking in XR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. Sadly, it seems this may be the tip of the iceberg on the issue.

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VRScout

JULY 4, 2017

An anonymous tip lead MacRumors to the fact that Apple just dropped some cash on a German-based computer vision company called SensoMotoric Instruments. SMI focuses on both the hardware and software side of eye-tracking technology, and has a product for the automobile industry which tracks where a driver is looking.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It’s good news by the way that there is continuous IPD adjustment (and with a wider range than before) and that thanks to eye tracking sensors, the headset can tell you if you have positioned it well on your head. There is also an eye-relief dial, so you can put the lenses very close to your eyes, for added field of view.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. HTC released a trailer about his vision for the metaverse. HTC has released a trailer video with his vision of the metaverse. Some XR fun. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Image by HTC). After some weeks of silence, HTC has started again to rise the hype for its upcoming flagship PC VR headset, the Vive Cosmos. The Taiwanese company has released three new trailers highlighting the high comfort of the device and the great controller tracking ( the best in its category, according to it).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. Thanks Shachar Weis for the tip). It seems like a great tethered headset for the PS5. It’s also interesting that the company is also evaluating to make people outside VR (e.g.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. Oculus has sold a couple million. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian. million sold.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. Oculus has sold a couple million. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian. million sold.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. Oculus has sold a couple million. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. there's just all these tools.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2016

When speaking of modern headsets, we can talk about improvements in the characteristics of the screen and the optics, better tracking sensors, as well as an overall increase in the productivity of computers. Lighthouse room tracking for HTC Vive is such a solution and is available on the market today.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive. We were tasked with exploring how to bring new gamers into the Steam platform. Ellsworth: VR is amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. So what are some of the tips that you would give to people listening? We have sub-millimeter accuracy head tracking and eye tracking. This year is also EWTS’s biggest expo. Emily: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. So what are some of the tips that you would give to people listening? We have sub-millimeter accuracy head tracking and eye tracking. This year is also EWTS’s biggest expo. Emily: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. So what are some of the tips that you would give to people listening? We have sub-millimeter accuracy head tracking and eye tracking. This year is also EWTS's biggest expo. So it's just grown a lot. Emily: Yeah.

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