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 ! Talking about the hardware, we have confirmation about the 2K x 2K per eye resolution and the eye-tracking used for foveated rendering. Google Tensor chip is made for AI and AR.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

” To quantify that, Oculus has sold $100 million in content to date. But I think what you’re starting to see is the hardware is getting out of the way. ” Hardware lead Andrew Bosworth likewise walked a fine line between blue-sky visions and realities of today. 20 percent of that was purchased on Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One thing that I’m trying to do is continuing my daily job and at the meantime learn as much as I can about AR and VR. When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR. Machine Learning has become a key part of the product, now.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While on the topic of acquisitions Facebooks takeover of Oculus initially was somewhat hostile with internal disputes between Oculus founders and Zuckerberg and his leadership team. On the surface it would appear that VR / AR adoption is rising steadily.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. We’ll discover it in some months… Learn more on: Next Reality Upload VR. Nothing that will shake the ecosystem.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

But this poses a tricky problem for MR headsets: how should users interact with a machine that they’re wearing on their faces? Today’s MR hardware seems a bit like a 1970’s IBM. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook). Decamove attracts $350K in its preorder campaign.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. 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?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. 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?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. Then, off the track we may also have been spoken about Half Life 3… but I can’t tell you anything. The Vive Wands.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? And by '99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. 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? We work with regions.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The Oculus Rift S was Facebook’s only previous headset with a halo strap. It’s a welcome reversal after years of field of view stagnation in Oculus headsets.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 5- Pradeep Khanna.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. As hardware and software mature, awareness is driven by wonderful things like Pokemon Go. Instead of having to install applications to do this, it’ll be part of the OS and part of the hardware itself.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. And it's pretty cool that we get to experiment with the latest and greatest machine learning models, and try to get the most out of those chips.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. And it's pretty cool that we get to experiment with the latest and greatest machine learning models, and try to get the most out of those chips.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. I work in XR, organizing events and writing about AR and VR for my livelihood and yet, unlike some of my male peers, I purchased my very first piece of VR hardware just this year with the release of Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. And it's pretty cool that we get to experiment with the latest and greatest machine learning models, and try to get the most out of those chips.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! HoloLens is a Windows 10 machine that runs Universal Windows Apps (UWP) , and it is a completely different beast than Android, which is the usual operating system of XR headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

You can learn more about Cameron and Sector 5 at Sector5Digital.com. I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. It's almost like it's a time machine, because it's giving you time back in your day.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

You can learn more about Cameron and Sector 5 at Sector5Digital.com. I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. It's almost like it's a time machine, because it's giving you time back in your day.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

If you’re not already following Tony, you can learn a lot by connecting with him on LinkedIn and subscribing to his newsletter at skarredghost.com. Oculus Quest is coming out. The Oculus Quest is a great device that is coming — very polished by Oculus, it will be quite cheap, only $400. Antony: Hello, Alan!

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

They end up chatting about the principles behind the idea that XR is an “empathy machine.” But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

They end up chatting about the principles behind the idea that XR is an “empathy machine.” But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap — and we weren’t really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently — were the only players in that market.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

If you're not already following Tony, you can learn a lot by connecting with him on LinkedIn and subscribing to his newsletter at skarredghost.com. We have a lot to go through; we're going to go through all of the different hardware aspects involved in Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality -- XR -- and it's not just the headsets or headphones.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

To learn more about the great work that Lew and his team is doing, you can visit circuitstream.com. So we began with a kind of a core philosophy that was, the only way to learn anything really in it — and especially this technology — was to get hands-on and just start building things. Lou, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

To learn more about the great work that Lew and his team is doing, you can visit circuitstream.com. So we began with a kind of a core philosophy that was, the only way to learn anything really in it — and especially this technology — was to get hands-on and just start building things. Lou, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. Alan: My last interview earlier today was with Jonathan Moss, the head of learning for Sprint. ” So, we’re all learning. You can do it with an Oculus Quest. It was pretty awesome. It’s tough.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. Alan: My last interview earlier today was with Jonathan Moss, the head of learning for Sprint. ” So, we’re all learning. You can do it with an Oculus Quest. It was pretty awesome. It’s tough.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

They end up chatting about the principles behind the idea that XR is an "empathy machine.". But for a while that really looked like they and Magic Leap -- and we weren't really sure what Magic Leap looked like until very recently -- were the only players in that market. Visualization is the key here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

You can learn more about Cameron and Sector 5 at Sector5Digital.com. I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. It's almost like it's a time machine, because it's giving you time back in your day.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

You can learn more about Cameron and Sector 5 at Sector5Digital.com. I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. It's almost like it's a time machine, because it's giving you time back in your day.

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