The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. On a purely technical standpoint, the two headsets are very similar , since they are both based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 reference design. The Quest has more tracking cameras and more audio jacks.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. HTC launches Vive XR Suite. Doug Lombardi, Valve.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Together with the new chipset, Qualcomm prepared also a reference design (as usual), which gives us a glimpse of how future headsets employing this chip may look like. The headset (that you see in the above picture) is quite slick and features pancake lenses, eye tracking by Tobii, integrated audio, and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It is able to offer this thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset (and its related reference design), that has been conceived with these features in mind. I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. Oculus improves hands-tracking integration on Oculus Quest. I think we’ll discover it “soon”.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. With the upcoming update of the runtime, Vive Focus 3 will be able to track its position in a space up to 33m x 33m, that is 1000 square meters.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This was widely shared – leading to many believing Quest just got body tracking support – but both the name of the API and the illustration are misleading. Meta’s Hand Tracking API provides the actual position of your hands & fingers, tracked by the outwards-facing cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. That guy is doing free marketing for me,” said Stan referring to Zuck, and this was one of my highlights of the week. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin.

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