ARPost

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

While Arthur is based in Berlin, the company enjoys support from international clientele, some of whom presented their use cases and even shared their unique virtual worlds during the press event announcing the post-beta product launch on September 1. We never feel like we’re in a space we don’t know how to use.”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). Add custom environments to your Oculus Quest… if you can. Upload VR has published a very easy-to-follow tutorial on how to add custom environments to your Oculus Quest.

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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. The introduction of virtual reality technology in many areas: oil and gas industry, engineering, energy, metallurgy, telecommunications, advertising, and many others. Google Earth VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

More info Philip Rosedale shows its VR pod Philip Rosedale has described on his blog an interesting project he’s carrying on about making people stay fully still on a bed and having visual and haptic stimuli that give them the sensation they are moving in a virtual world. Let’s collaborate together!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

We all dream of the Metaverse , a fantastic online virtual world where we can all hang out with other people and do whatever we want. And even worse, these virtual worlds are like silos: they don’t talk to each other, they are separate the one from the others, they are not connected in any way. What is your job?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It is simple: imagine that you have little money and can’t afford to buy a full VR rig, but you can only afford to buy a Samsung Gear VR or an Oculus Go , for instance. The headset will transmit to the PC its pose in space, so that the PC will know how to update the point of view of the user when rendering the VR scene.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself). Google Cardboard.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. My favorite from this week? Very cool, actually.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 13, 2019

High Fidelity, a virtual world platform from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale. The High Fidelity app will be taken down from the Oculus app store and from Steam on January 15. On the same day, High Fidelity will also be removing its 3D Avatar Creator app from Google Play and Apple App Store. Not just yet. VR platform?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. But in the meantime, he has advice about how to survive the lack of sales and funding. How do companies survive?

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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. I found very interesting that they are trying to create full-body VR content for the Oculus Quest. An Oculus Go with the picture of a painting attached to it.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

To me, modern VR started when Google released the Cardboard App in 2014 basically for free to a world that basically scratched its head and said, ‘huh?’ It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be. The dynamic has changed since 2014.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 11, 2017

The big deal of the season is the Oculus Rift bundle , with the Oculus Touch controllers, for $400. If you were looking to buy an Oculus Rift, and have a compatible computer, this is a great time to pick it up. Plus, like the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive requires that it be plugged into a computer. Best deals on computers.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Virtual Worlds Grid lost the most regions this month at 365 followed by Insight Concepts which lost 119 regions and Encitra Home Grid which lost 90 regions and Dorena’s World closing the fifth spot at 67. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

You open the box and find the device and the accessories but you don’t say “wow” as when you open the Oculus Go box, for instance. When I published this photo of the Oculus Go and Vive Focus together, a lot of people got surprised by its dimensions. Oculus Go). The headset. The Vive Focus headset is a bit big.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. It seems that in this episode, Darth Vader will be your master, teaching you how to use the Force to move objects just with your brain. Image by Oculus). But honestly, I think this is bad news for Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I’ll be there to talk about HitMotion: Reloaded and how to properly design a VR fitness game (using the precious lessons that our game designer Max Ariani has taught me). Notice anyway that references found in the firmware doesn’t equate to sure features, but they at least show that Oculus is working on these things. It has 4.5DOF.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

The experience used an Oculus DK1 (vintage!) to give users the experience of interacting with an actual hologram in a virtual room. While we love to chart new territory, the monthly SFHTML5 meetup at Google SF holds a special place in our hearts. ík delivered a brand-new way to wrap our hands around our world.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Alife Virtual : 590 regions. Open Virtual Worlds : 320 regions.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. It’s basically a monopoly. HoloLens 3 may have been canceled.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 17, 2017

The Public World also suffered some server issues, resulting in a drop of more than 400 actives on that grid alone. And the number of regions went down by 839 standard region equivalents, as Virtual Worlds Grid turned off the less-used servers to allow for a greater than usual load on its welcome regions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2021

Digital identity is overly important, and that’s why in this public world you can customize your (full-body) avatar so that you feel represented by it. When you enter the application for the first time, you can perform a fast setup (gender, skin tone, hair, eyes) and enter the soonest possible inside the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I really enjoy your articles, I even read the ones about devices I don’t have… now I know how to remove the controller on the Vive Focus , but I don’t have it… (laughs). How is it possible that you don’t have the Vive Focus? It’s really a pleasure to talk with you.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. More info (Zenith is releasing on January, 27th) More info (How to get started with Zenith). News worth a mention. Some XR fun.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

We were tasked with exploring how to bring new gamers into the Steam platform. Just recently, in the last few years, I founded a company called CastAR, where we’re making AR glasses that allow you to blend virtual graphics with real-world objects on your table. GB: Google Glass. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

So we’re now the, I believe, the second-largest VR meetup in the world. The big entities; the Googles, Microsofts, where we would hold our event, as well as the whole investment community. Or… how does that work? And the thing is, with Oculus Quest now, they didn’t have a computer. It was amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

So we’re now the, I believe, the second-largest VR meetup in the world. The big entities; the Googles, Microsofts, where we would hold our event, as well as the whole investment community. Or… how does that work? And the thing is, with Oculus Quest now, they didn’t have a computer. It was amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Omniverse is a powerful tool for creating 3D virtual worlds that is made of different modules. It is a bit like GIT (or Google Doc, if you find it easier to imagine), but for artists and designers. If you know one, you don’t know how to use the other. It’s just that Omniverse is rarely explained in the right way.

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