The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

While it’s not mixed reality capture (example video at the bottom of the article), giving someone a window into a VR game that they can control helps address the same fundamental task of dissolving barriers between the prospective user and the VR content. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Supports "Arena-scale" Tracking and Multi-room Guardian.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

We know your frustrations when you were watching a thrilling and highly emotional 360/VR videos and experienced a loss of quality in a sudden. So we engineered VeeR with one important goal in mind: make your VR videos look in the best quality. Before (1080P): After (4K): Fully supporting Ultra HD 4K VR videos is exciting for VeeRians.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

They offer superior visuals and performance but are somewhat expensive, and can include the Oculus Rift or Quest , the Vive , and the PlayStation VR, to name a few notable examples. Google Cardboard and Gear VR are two well-known examples. AR applications need at least 100 Mbps and latency of no more than 1 millisecond.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Today, Jaunt has applications on just about every consumer VR platform including the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The PS VR is compatible only with Sony’s PlayStation 4 video game console. As of today, however, that exception no longer applies.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2. Oculus Rift S now costs $300.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. This week we had three big news regarding the VR gaming world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus , HTC and Google are all racing to crack the inside-out code first. This take on AR is what Oculus’ chief scientist, Michael Abrash called “ Augmented Virtual Reality. Additional reporting by Az Balabanian. .

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

On the other hand, developers only have to write the code once and it will work on all devices (Oculus, Vive, HTC, Google Cardboard, etc.) Latency, which refers to the delay in communications between a user’s movement and what they see, has to be as low as possible, to create the illusion of reality. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

” He also pointed out the development over at Amazon, where last month the company announced AWS Wavelength for ultra-low latency 5G computing at the edge, something that will have a direct impact on using and building the next generation of AR and VR headgear. “The industry is firing up 5G and that will also be a big push.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The VR spotlight might be on Oculus right now after last week’s developer conference, but we haven’t forgotten about Google’s Daydream ecosystem. Here are five things we learned from Google’s VR figurehead last week. Google has done some really interesting work with social VR already.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

He also said that the market is big enough for HTC and Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest gets the runtime update promised at OC6. This week, Oculus has started distributing the runtime update for Oculus Quest carrying with it some of the features promised at OC6 : Oculus Go emulation.

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ARVR

JANUARY 25, 2021

Some of the most popular VR brands like the HTC Vive and Oculus already offer controllers because they offer users tactile feedback. VR Will Become More Accessible While there are cheap VR headsets like the Google Cardboard, they offer a low level of interactivity and are most suited for watching 360-degree video.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

The concept of using head-mounted cameras to track facial movement has been in development since the early ’90s, and although it later found practical application in the film and video game industries, giving animated characters a more human touch , it seems virtual reality is poised to bring technology to the consumer market in a big way.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

I expected a lot of AR/VR news from there, like the announcement of the price of the Vive Pro or the release of the Oculus Go by Xiaomi and Facebook… but actually I’ve been disappointed by everyone. This new technology standard reduces a lot the latency of communication and increments a lot of its speed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

That’s a bit disappointing and considering that in some months Oculus will release the Quest , that has full 6 DOF support, HTC had necessarily to do something. Watch the video below to see the 6 DOF tracking in action. Screenshot of the above video. Very nice.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

NVIDIA has been one of the first companies that understood the potential of enterprise engineering and design collaboration in XR with its Holodeck software, whose trailer videos are still among the best to show the capabilities of XR collaborative environments. Video courtesy NVIDIA). Video courtesy NVIDIA).

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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. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A worker could use enterprise applications like video conferencing software as an AR visualization, meaning that co-workers and managers can interact with each no matter their location; moreover, some devices include a camera that allows onsite workers to share their point of view for further assistance. .”

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

15 for a Google Cardboard viewer. Additional latency. The experience within the headset will be at least a couple of frames behind what you would experience on the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You will “feel” the latency in ways that you wouldn’t on a full setup. Setup your Google Cardboard with Leap Motion Controller.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. Recorded or not, the result was so cool that videos of Ignite conference became viral in all the XR community. Google stops selling Cardboard viewers. they had no problems in using it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. TwinCam is an omni-directional stereoscopic live-viewing camera that reduces motion blur and latency during head rotation in a head-mounted display.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I’m an early-stage VC focused on virtual and augmented reality, so I pieced this together based on the forward-thinking pitches and demos I’ve been lucky enough to see through my work, plus a lifetime of burning through sci-fi and video games. Those interactions can be mapped to brainwaves and translated into action with almost no latency.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2019

Nvidia has GeForce Now, Sony has PlayStation Now, and both Google & Microsoft have their own future cloud gaming projects in the work too. and Intel, was delivering a total latency between 4 – 6 ms through their mock-up 5G network. Cloud gaming isn’t a new concept, at least in the world of traditional flatscreen games.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The headset, which holds the user’s smartphone, is little more than a plastic shell with lenses which undoubtedly hooks into the massive, but decidedly low-ish quality Google Cardboard content store. SEE ALSO Oculus Go is Facebook's Affordable Standalone Headset Priced at $200, Shipping Early 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. Please watch the video and enjoy this mind-blowing creation. Watch a developer use a cardboard box in VR. This guy lives in 2042.

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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. This doesn't much matter for watching traditional video content, as most of it is in widescreen aspect ratio anyways. He's what he said: "That’s a model we’ve definitely explored.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. As latency over a few milliseconds can disrupt the immersive nature of good VR and create nausea, the dependability of consumer-level wi-fi is brought into question.

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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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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

This means that there are still some challenges to overcome, such as latency and bandwidth issues. Microsoft is also working to develop new technologies that will enable the industrial metaverse, such as: 5G: 5G will provide the high-speed, low-latency connectivity that is needed to support the industrial metaverse.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

From the vantage of the early 90s and the first web pages, not even science fiction authors predicted Instagram influencers, a US president tweeting policy or 300 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute – so we can only make some early guesses! But first, what will the AR Cloud actually be used for?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

The video was astonishing: he has been able to create a portal inside a Minecraft server , and if you enter the portal, you enter into another server, this time playing Doom. I was impressed by seeing your video where you created a portal between Doom and Minecraft. The video is a recording of a proof of concept.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

Beliaeff: If you look at the evolution of video games, they’re trying to control everything a person is experiencing. If you saw those first pictures in Central Park, you got this experiential blend of the video game portion of it and the reality around you. Then we add video game depth to it, as well as the social aspect.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. The last paragraph of this point talks about VR videos. You can find the original text in Mandarin here. Introduction.

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