EON Reality

JUNE 6, 2020

Mary and the Martyrs), in Rome , Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). The building is cylindrical with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher. Still no news on Oculus For Business program and Multiplayer SDK for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

There was (and still is) quite a good hype for these headsets, exactly as there was hype for what was Oculus Santa Cruz, the codename of the Oculus Quest. If you add VAT, in Italy it will cost €600. Bu t the outcome for these headsets is a bit different than expected. Let me tell you why. That’s a good amount of money.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. First of all, no one has ever heard about Deca before.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2022

On Thursday, April 21st, in Italy there has been the first edition of the On|Metaverse Summit , an amazing hybrid event of which I have been a co-organizer. On|Metaverse Summit has been the first international event on the “metaverse” organized in Italy. I think we all worked very well together as a team.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. Oculus has just started rolling out the update to the Quest runtime v23 , that introduces a lot of new features and improvements to this device: All the applications in the headset can now run at 90 Hz (including the passthrough vision); Oculus Link upgrades to 90Hz as well and finally exits from beta.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

Spatial supports one to one or group holographic meetings using Magic Leap 1, with a range of features so that employees can productively work from home. They can then upload 3D models to assist in presentations, pin holographic sticky notes to the walls or share videos which everyone in the group can watch.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

And then there is the need to coordinate people from Russia, Italy, France and lots of other countries and this is not always easy. So… it’s complicated, it’s stressful , but at the same time when you see what is being created, it is also very rewarding. You can use whatever device you have to join the experience, completely FOR FREE.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2019

I’ve returned to Italy, but there is still so much I have to tell you about the Sandbox Immersive Festival in Qingdao! I mean, Spheres is a good experience, but it has not been my favorite VR experience at Sandbox festival, not even in the group of the first three. Are you ready for some new reviews? Let me explain why.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

As for me, I’ve been flooded by worldwide requests asking how I am here in Italy. The coronavirus outbreak is getting worse here in Northern Italy. We have more difficulties in going to Milan, that is the economical heart of Italy, and now a red zone with all its region. That’s a disaster.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 17, 2017

For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Meanwhile, the hypergrid as a whole is beginning to function more and more like one large grid, with an increasing number of multi-grid events, communities, and groups. Dynamic Worldz : 297 active users.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 29, 2021

It’s a sunny lockdown day here in Italy, the sun is shining and the trees are blossoming. The investment round has been led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures and includes Madrona Venture Group. Oculus Quest 2 may detect people in your play space. I hope that your day is sunny too and you are safe and happy.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

While in Italy we get ready for the “Phase 2” of the lockdown, I write the best AR/VR news of the week just for you! This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). A rumor about Oculus Go 2.0 Oculus makes developers’ life easier on Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 is selling incredibly well because it offers the right combination of affordable price, good hardware, and a good software ecosystem. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance). The Quest will still be the king. Me wearing a Valve Index.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The work of the Chronos group will be very important in this sense, for example. Encourage the development of group standards that lead the promotion, improve the group standard conversion mechanism, and form a new standard system mechanism that is coordinated by the government-developed standards and coordinated by the market.

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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? So this was before Oculus. And then we have a third group we call Industry 4.0, We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy.

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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? So this was before Oculus. And then we have a third group we call Industry 4.0, We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy.

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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? So this was before Oculus. And then we have a third group we call Industry 4.0, We've just done one in Bologna in Italy.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Lorne: That’s definitely a great concern that enterprise groups need to be aware of. We’re seeing the brands like HTC and Oculus start to catch up with their business solutions that are going to start to offer enterprise management. Things like the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go make it really easy for adoption.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Lorne: That’s definitely a great concern that enterprise groups need to be aware of. We’re seeing the brands like HTC and Oculus start to catch up with their business solutions that are going to start to offer enterprise management. Things like the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go make it really easy for adoption.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Lorne: That's definitely a great concern that enterprise groups need to be aware of. We're seeing the brands like HTC and Oculus start to catch up with their business solutions that are going to start to offer enterprise management. Things like the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go make it really easy for adoption.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

I and my partner Gianni bought every new headset on the market : the Oculus Rift DK2, the Vive, the Rift CV1, the Gear VR, etc… We also went to almost every event we were invited to, even the smallest one (I remember once we went to a public plaza with like 7 people listening to our talk about VR…). The reasons?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Lorne: That’s definitely a great concern that enterprise groups need to be aware of. We’re seeing the brands like HTC and Oculus start to catch up with their business solutions that are going to start to offer enterprise management. Things like the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go make it really easy for adoption.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

I’m back in Italy, and finally, I can eat again some good pasta… even if I will miss ?? Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. The Quest is selling well, and Oculus itself didn’t expect billions of sales. Oculus starts its Halloween sale. Grove wants to take support groups to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Anyway, today should be a vacation in Italy, but here I am writing this roundup for you, so if you want to show your appreciation, don’t forget to make a donation on Patreon ! It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. 10 Years of Oculus. Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

And this is even truer for countries that are not at the cutting edge of technology : what is new in Italy, is probably old in the US. I have been in a toxic group once and it was a terrible experience. Avoid that at all cost: in toxic groups, things can’t work, even if the members are talented. People like you and me.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

Me participating at the press conference of Rome Reborn, in Italy. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. He was very impressed and offered us direct access to executives of Oculus, who helped us in various ways to develop our VR applications. At the moment, this means solutions such as the Samsung Gear VR and the Oculus GO.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

This is ridiculous, not only because the Pro costs a lot of money, but also because it is sold as a “work device” I don’t know how things work where Zuck lives, but here in Italy, a typical workday is 8 hours, not 2. Adobe to bring its apps on Quest Pro (Upload VR) All work-related updates of Meta Connect (Oculus blog).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Today is a special day in Italy when families prepare the Christmas Tree, so I decided to publish a very special post that is a big gift to the whole XR community. I applied the “empty.fw” file to remove my suspect JSON and once reset checked that the HDK was again receiving optical hits from the Lighthouse base station above my desk.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And all of this when in 10 days there will be the Oculus Connect 6, where there will be announced something cool for sure… I’m rather thrilled while I write this e-mail! Oculus Rift has already OpenXR support. It seems that Oculus Rift has already hidden support for the OpenXR environment. Dirt Rally is free on Steam (again).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2021

We all agreed, but the best we could think of was like a lounge where people could enjoy a video of the concert together , like an interactive version of Oculus Venues. Instead, we just made the poor version of Oculus Venues. The result is that I got no personal gain in Italy from the visibility of this event. There is a road.

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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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