XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

For years, the company has been helping brands to unlock next-level promotional opportunities with AR ad campaign creation, and Oculus experiences. The Unity real-time development platform has become one of the industry-standard choices for the creation of powerful XR experiences over the years.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

When I wrote my post about CES 2018 , I briefly talked about a headset called LooxidVR, able to “read the emotions” of the user by employing a combination of EEG sensors and eye tracking. LooxidVR enables them to collect the user’s eye and brain data simultaneously during a VR experience. What is Looxid Labs?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2022

Last Thursday, Microsoft debuted version three of its Mixed Reality (MR) toolkit (MRTK3) for use in Unity Technologies’ real-time 3D (RT3D) animation engine. The technology partnership accelerates the development of MR content on the open-source development hub to deliver cross-platform immersive experiences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

Last Thursday, leading hand-tracking firm SpectreXR announced a strategic collaboration with XR headset vendor HTC VIVE via its Linkedin account to drive innovation, immersion, and realistic interaction on the latter’s product portfolio. via Untiy’s Asset Store.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As companies and consumers continue to explore the world of extended reality, the demand for enhanced immersion is growing. Via spatial audio, companies can create an immersive interactive environment where it’s possible to detect where sound is coming from in a 3-dimensional space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Attracting players all over the world to a new kind of immersive experience, XR allows game developers to connect with users on a different level. What’s more, the company is also responsible for one of the most powerful and affordable VR headsets available – the Oculus Quest. billion by 2028, accelerating at a CAGR of 31.4%.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. The genius part has been mixing eye tracking with hand micro-gestures. Yes, this one has passthrough, 4K screens, etc… but still, it’s a very old and very not-immersive use case. What year is it?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Talking about AR glasses and smart startups producing them, another cool company to talk about is Lynx.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

No smearing, reduced mura; The lenses have been upgraded, using the ones engineered by Valve for the Index; The audio is conveyed through off-the-ear speakers , like the ones of the Valve Index; Comfort has been improved; There is IPD adjustment; There are now 4 tracking cameras. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. It is not even clear if it will be full-body tracking or just upper-body tracking. Other relevant news. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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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. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been. It is funny because the GTX 970 was the same minimum requirement of the Oculus CV1 , that is a headset that is far less demanding than the Index. Oculus Rift CV1 Headset. Image by Oculus). We can say that it is an improved Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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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. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). Varifocal feature supported.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. All the reviewers are amazed. All of this for $450 and free shipping.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The headset won’t come in two sizes, but in a single one, because the eye box of the lenses is big enough to accommodate for different positions of the eyes in the users. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Image by Unity). Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. And I mean fully.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections. The Quest will still be the king.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking. Eye Tracking.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC. …and more. WHEN WILL WIRELESS VR GET HERE?

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. Movies are more immersive than books because the sound and images help pull you in quicker. Virtual worlds are more immersive than movies because you also have the benefit of interactivity and your identification with your avatar.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. And Oculus forces you to get Facebook to have Oculus.

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