The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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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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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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

What’s more, the company is also responsible for one of the most powerful and affordable VR headsets available – the Oculus Quest. VIVE has a huge range of tools to support different kinds of XR gaming, from the VIVE Flow for wireless wellness, to the VIVE Pro Eye, with built-in eye tracking capabilities.

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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. For instance, since I work on a VR fitness game , I’m thinking about all the new training experiences that will become now possible.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

On the downtown 3 train. Or because he’s been the first person attaching a Leap Motion to an Oculus DK1 with some duct tape, envisioning how hand tracking could be vital for virtual reality. To develop for the Leap Motion North Star, you can use Unity or Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. He said that China is excellent for hardware manufacturing (even Oculus Go is manufactured in China!), Furthermore, they have worked with great Chinese customers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees. Michael: Most impressive business cases, I think, go back to training.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees. Michael: Most impressive business cases, I think, go back to training.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I don't know how many names I should name, but there's definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. It might be two months out before the store's built, but they want to hire their people two months early and give them two months of what's essentially hands-on training before their physical store even exists.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I said the other huge area that we’re seeing just enormous amount of applications is in training. And really when you’re training, you really want to ideally do it yourself and be immersed into the context of the environment, to have all the emotions that are coming up when you’re under pressure to make a decision.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Huge one is a shrinking workforce, that creates this need to train faster, better. So as the workforce ages — in manufacturing, I think the average age is like 40 to 50 now — and retires, not only do you need to attract new talent; you need to train them. And I think skilled trades training has dropped off a lot.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Huge one is a shrinking workforce, that creates this need to train faster, better. So as the workforce ages — in manufacturing, I think the average age is like 40 to 50 now — and retires, not only do you need to attract new talent; you need to train them. And I think skilled trades training has dropped off a lot.

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Machine Learning Training Wearables AR 78

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I said the other huge area that we're seeing just enormous amount of applications is in training. And really when you're training, you really want to ideally do it yourself and be immersed into the context of the environment, to have all the emotions that are coming up when you're under pressure to make a decision. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Huge one is a shrinking workforce, that creates this need to train faster, better. So as the workforce ages -- in manufacturing, I think the average age is like 40 to 50 now -- and retires, not only do you need to attract new talent; you need to train them. And I think skilled trades training has dropped off a lot.

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Machine Learning Training Wearables AR 60

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I said the other huge area that we’re seeing just enormous amount of applications is in training. And really when you’re training, you really want to ideally do it yourself and be immersed into the context of the environment, to have all the emotions that are coming up when you’re under pressure to make a decision.

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Industry Augmented Reality AR Technology 60

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

You don’t need to be a super well-trained videographer or you don’t need a buy or rent tons of stabilization gear to stabilize your camera. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I’m viewing it in, it doesn’t look good. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe. You see Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

You don’t need to be a super well-trained videographer or you don’t need a buy or rent tons of stabilization gear to stabilize your camera. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I’m viewing it in, it doesn’t look good. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe. You see Google.

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North America Software 360 Video Video 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

You don't need to be a super well-trained videographer or you don't need a buy or rent tons of stabilization gear to stabilize your camera. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I'm viewing it in, it doesn't look good. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe. You see Google. Michael: Yeah.

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North America Software 360 Video Video 60

XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. But then you look at Unreal. Nobody can.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. But then you look at Unreal. Nobody can.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 78

XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. But then you look at Unreal. Nobody can.

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