The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 27, 2016

5 DIY Virtual Reality Projects Include Haptic Glove And Pinball Machine Many of us remember when the Oculus Rift was a pair of ski goggles with duct tape and dangling wires being shown off on forums. I’m Caleb Kraft, Senior Editor for Make Magazine and Maker Faire DIY is my life.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Interhaptics is a software company specializing in Haptics. Interhaptics provides hand interactions and Haptics feedback development and deployment tools for extended reality, mobile, and console applications. Adding a haptic layer to these interactions will only increase the immersion level of any solution.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook came with the Oculus Quest 1 & 2 , then Microsoft with the Hololens2 with hand tracking capabilities; but there are limitations in dealing with occlusions and in tracking outside the camera’s field of view on the headset. Hand-tracking is on the rise in the XR market.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. But the same sense of amazement doesn’t hold for VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The included ‘Playground’ demo shown in the video features a functional shooting range in an underground bunker, littered with magazines to show the multi-object interaction of reloading a gun, along with many other features to highlight the hand animations. SEE ALSO 'Job Simulator' and the Magic of Hand Presence.

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ARVR

JANUARY 10, 2022

And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Oculus Quest 2 grows to 35 percent of SteamVR headset usage. Accenture orders record 60,000 Oculus headsets. Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising. But demand remains strong. million players. billion in 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. Facebook releases the Oculus Quest 2. Even if with the Quest 1 was possible to play Oculus Go games, this support has been abandoned on the Quest 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. Project Cambria may feature facial haptics. According to Brad Lynch, Project Cambria may feature vibrational haptic feedback on the head, exactly as PSVR 2. Funny link.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

How well do the Oculus Touch controllers work with SteamVR apps that are only designed with Vive in mind? Of those 800, all of them support the HTC Vive officially, whereas only 180 support the Oculus Rift. You can still get to Oculus Home by pressing the right-handed menu button, just like you would in any VR app through Home.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Thanks to this, the card will be able to keep two Wi-Fi connections at the same time: one towards a router to have an internet connection, and the other directly to another device, like the Oculus Quest. All VR magazines reported the news with enthusiasm. Timberman VR aims at bringing the popular game Timberman to Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. UnlimitedHand – Armband Haptic Sensor. Teslasuit – E-haptic (sensitization system) Suit.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

But actually, HTC , once the biggest competitor Oculus had, added these functionalities to its devices one month before Meta , but the news was not reported by the main VR magazines. Japanese startup H2L is working on a haptic bracelet. Kudos to the Asian company for this. In VR the obects appear closer than they are.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

He writes for various magazines, like for instance VR Scout and VR Fitness Insider , while slowly growing his own platform at Gluten Free VR. I used VR to lose over 50 pounds (23kg, AN) in the past year , and I’ve also used it to build social connections that later became real friendships at Oculus Connect 5 last month.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Haptic technologies were represented at CES very well especially by two companies: OWO and bHaptics. OWO Haptic Vest (Image by OWO).

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Every new VR headset brings amplified visual fidelity, with Oculus Quest 2 , Pico Neo 3 , Varjo VR-3 and other remarkable VR devices enabling life-like quality of visuals. More experiences incorporate haptic feedback gloves like Noitom , Manus or full body motion capture systems like Noitom that help enhance the extent of immersion.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. Oculus Quest is putting pressure to the Chinese VR ecosystem. All the reviewers are amazed.

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Road to VR

MARCH 3, 2017

At GDC 2017 this week we’ve gone hands-on with the latest prototype of StrikerVR’s ‘Arena Infinity’ haptic VR gun. Built (for now) for the out-of-home sector, the peripheral’s powerful haptics adapt from guns to chainsaws to grenade launchers and more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

A new week has passed by, and it has been a quite good one for me: I’ve been featured again on Authority Magazine and I’ve launched a new series of videos on my Youtube channel where I answer the questions of the community. Virtuactions proposes LBEVR with Oculus Quest 2. Haptic suits can be an advantage to pro gamers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). The second one is a device that should be presented at CES: the OWO haptic suit. (Image from Reddit). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Inside-out tracking was expected after having seen the controllers, but the haptic feedback on the head is a very welcome surprise. Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a new interview given to a New Zealander magazine, Gabe Newell talks about the work that Valve is doing with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Our brain is very plastic and the BCI could trigger the right parts of the brain so that you feel haptic sensations on 6 fingers if your avatar has 6 fingers. Other relevant news. Image by OpenBCI).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves. Alan: "HaptX."H-A-P-T-X,

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. Is Oculus Quest killing PCVR?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Further references Lenovo presents Project Chronos (The Verge) Project Chronos presentation video (Lenovo Youtube channel) bHaptics leaked hardware bHaptics showcased at CES its TactGlove haptic gloves , which got good feedback from the community. And it seems that can also change your Oculus Quest 2 with a total of 2.5

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Available On: Oculus ( Rift ). Rather than inserting a new magazine, weapons are actually ‘disposable’ by grabbing them with both hands and ripping them apart. Both audio and haptics are also frequently abused with extraneous feedback that’s difficult to decipher among the mass of incoming information.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Available On: Steam (Vive, Rift, Index, Windows MR), Oculus ( Rift , Quest ), PlayStation Store (PSVR). Reloading is done by jamming your gun down onto an available magazine sticking out of your hostler, which is less fiddly than it sounds. Espire 1: VR Operative Details: Official Site. Developer: Digital Lode. Price: $30.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Haptic touch feedback from HaptX VR Gloves can add to the effect of immersion, but it’s only perceived resistance. For example, Syndaver has very realistic tissue boundary densities; when you stab a needle in, it will feel very real. If you need to push or pick up something too heavy, the immersion breaks.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 11, 2022

This week finally Meta has given us a follow-up on its previous promise of removing the mandatory Facebook login on Oculus Quest. In August, all users will have to create these new Meta accounts: in 2023, Oculus accounts are not going to work anymore, as previously stated. Ruinsmagus has been reviewed by all the major VR magazines.

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