The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by VRTUOLUO) A leak shows a prototype of the Samsung XR headset We finally have a leak of the Samsung headset that makes us see something about it. The report talks about Samsung wanting to target the $1000–2000 range, which in my opinion risks being neither expensive nor affordable.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In December of last year, Khronos group made headlines for adding Epic Games to the list of companies in support of their pursuit of an API standard for virtual and augmented reality. A couple months later, that standard now has a name as Khronos unveils the OpenXR working group at GDC 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). Vive Focus comes to the west.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

It’s been said it only takes one visionary to champion VR within an organization; that one passionate (and sometimes crazy) person who “gets it” early and then slowly but surely gets others in the group on board. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. But according to an animal rights group, the situation is different from the one depicted and 15 out of 23 monkeys have died because of the experiments among terrible sufferings. Other relevant news.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Osterhaut Design Group sells their R-7 glasses for $2799.99. Most importantly, the SDK comes with support for Unity Engine and Unreal Engine – you can build and test your own application almost immediately. Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000.

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