ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

Options like the Oculus Quest 2 make it easy for anyone to jump right into virtual reality and VR gaming, and it’s nice to know you’re not alone. In traditional video games, adult women actually represent a greater portion of the population (33%) than boys under the age of 18 (17%). Google Earth VR. Who Is Playing Games?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Yesterday I was hanging around on Reddit, where I found a video getting very little attention, but with very interesting content: it talked about how to use the Quest 2 without having a Facebook account. But the advantage is that you can play all the games of the Oculus Store and from Sidequest without Zuck watching you.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

More info (NYE parties in VRChat) More info (Video streaming of Jean-Michel Jarre’s concert) More info (Animations around the space needle) More info (Editorial on virtual events becoming always more popular). More info (PR Statement about the new glasses) More info (Teaser video). Other relevant news. Is VR safe to be used by kids?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

Valve has shared more details and gameplay videos about Alyx. This week, we had tons of materials and news coming : First of all, Valve has released 3 new gameplay trailers, plus one long 9-minutes gameplay video made in partnership with the popular magazine IGN. Oculus rejects Crisis VRigade again, causing backlash from the community.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus.

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VRScout

MARCH 21, 2018

Study 33 new languages in the first AR language learning app with integrated speech recognition. Physiological studies have shown that bilingual individuals show not only an increase in multitasking capabilities and problem-solving, but a decrease in the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia as well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). Specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

score on the Oculus App Lab now. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store…. As for the controllers, they look like a mix of the Oculus Touch and the controllers of the Vive Focus Plus, with some important ergonomic adjustments.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Image by Acer).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

First, they acquired Oculus and said that nothing would have changed for the startup, and they promised Palmer that no Oculus Rift would have required a Facebook account. Then they slowly kicked away all the previous executives from Oculus and took control of the company. Then they absorbed Oculus into Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It talked about SIFT features and how the inventor used this kind of features to add 3D model of rabbits and teapots on top of a desk and over the hand in a camera video stream. A virtual teapot added to a real scene in a video stream. So, I googled around and found a workshop from a Unity event that taught how to do a Unity game.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So let’s try to rephrase this last paragraph using the same style used by VR Youtubers in the title of their videos to attract more people: THIS EXPLOSIVE WEEK IN VR HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!! Oculus Quest and Vive Focus 3 get interesting updates. More info (Oculus Quest 2 update) More info (Vive Focus 3 update). Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Last year, Facebook announced that it was going to release in 2021 a new side content distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. Google has just announced that the VR painting program Tilt Brush has been put opensource on GitHub.

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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. Image by Oculus). In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. New Oculus Venues gives us a glimpse of Facebook Horizon. First of all, there have been released some interesting short videos about the gameplay.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg and the other Facebook executives have spent around 80 minutes explaining with many words, images, and videos what is the “metaverse” , why it is our future, why Facebook should invest in it, what could be Facebook’s business model in it, and how Facebook is already working on it. Oculus brands disappears.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

There are both 360 video experiences and interactive CGI ones. exits beta) More info (Video of 6d.ai The video lasts 2 hours and a half, and frankly speaking, it is not completely worth watching it. My review of Google Hand tracking library. But don’t worry, people that will release an app using 6d.ai More info (6d.ai

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

That’s why Mozilla, the makers of the popular FireFox web browser, are advocating their open source JavaScript API WebVR platform and HTML framework A-Frame to make it easier to design internet-based VR apps that run within cheap smartphone headsets or the more powerful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Image Credit: Mozilla.

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VRScout

JUNE 27, 2017

YouTube tells you where people are looking in your 360 videos AND embraces 180 degree video, Google’s 180 degree camera, the Meta-Cookie project gets weird and alters your taste, and Intel leans into sports in a big virtual way…. It turns out that 75% of people watch only the front 90% of 360 videos.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. Impressive. “ [My story] goes way back to theater if we want to go that far, ” Benzing told me over our Google Hangouts call. “ In college I was a Lafayette undergrad, and then I studied at the National Theater Institute.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The age of high-end, commercially available virtual reality began on March 28 with the launch of the Oculus Rift. Since then the HTC Vive , PlayStation VR and Google Daydream View have all entered the arena. It’s most recent study centers around likely sales figures for the major VR headsets.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

That’s why the creators behind Dynamic Spanish, an immersive Spanish learning video course, decided to appeal to prospective crowdfunders in their new Kickstarter campaign. Pause and rewind the videos if you need to. Try to be alone when you do the lessons. You’ll feel more confident. Speak when spoken to.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

A student studying at the Syracuse University in New York thinks VR might have the answer. Pritesh Desai this month released Little Maxima for the Oculus Rift. This is a VR news reading app that lets users travel the world, exploring stories from countries across the globe a bit like you might spin around the world in Google Earth VR.

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Headjack

DECEMBER 1, 2015

One of the most time consuming and frustrating tasks we encountered during our first 360 3D video productions was finding the optimal encoding settings for each of the currently available VR headsets. Therefore we decided to analyze what some of the legendary VR video producers were doing to solve this problem…. Studying Chris Milk.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014. With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

360 virtual reality video is transformative. And share in the quieter moments of study and hard work that pave the way to their victories along the way. The films will be screened in VR through a variety of systems such as the Oculus Go, Google Daydream, or Samsung Gear VR. It is wholly immersive and completely engaging.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2017

Google Tango with Unity. At Unite LA, Google Product Manager Nathan Martz announced the launch date for Daydream and confirmed that a Unity integration was on deck for Unity 5.6. Fast-forward six months and he took the stage to make possibly an even bigger announcement: that Unity is now integrated with Google Tango.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 29, 2016

With over one million active monthly users of the Samsung GearVR, millions of Google Cardboard units and high-end Oculus Rift and HTC Vive pre-orders, Smithson believes that brands that are early to develop unique and engaging content for VR and will have a huge advantage over their competition.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR. SteamVR integrates full support for OpenXR 1.0.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

While Oculus has decided to discontinue the Oculus Go and abandon completely the 3DOF sector, Chinese vendor Pico has decided to double down on 3DOF offering two new models , the Pico G2 4K S and the Pico G2 4K Enterprise , that are two improvements of the original Pico G2 4K. Pico G2 4K Enterprise video review.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 2, 2016

We compared commercially available virtual reality headsets (Google Cardboard, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear/VR and Oculus Rift) for ease and quality as well as virtual reality cameras — the (more expensive but expansive) GoPro and the (more affordable) Ricoh Theta S. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

Google acquires Raxium. The news about Google being willing to acquire Raxium had been leaked a few weeks ago, but now it has become official. Snap has bought Compound Photonics, Meta has established a strategic partnership with Plessey), and Google has just done this important move, too. You should watch the video linked below.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Its most recent study centers around likely sales figures for the major VR headsets. The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units. Read more here.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

An MIT study about embracing digital technology reports that 63 percent of surveyed managers said the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to a “lack of urgency.” Google Trends indicates a smaller impact for the term “Augmented Reality,” while “Remote Support” shows much stronger relevance.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Here 19 Crimes not only turned a printed label into a video, but the same engagement metrics you would expect with a video ad can now be measured from a consumer interacting with a physical bottle.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Quest Pro announcement video. Don’t expect the passthrough to be like your normal vision, though… it is a bit like seeing reality through a video (washed-out colors, a bit of blurred resolution, etc…). I’m sure you will appreciate my choice. Meta Quest Pro.

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