The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

It has been a watershed moment, because before this week many people were skeptical about Mojo Vision since they thought the hardware was cool but there was no way it could work safely inside a human eye. It’s incredible how we will have the first smart contact lens product before 2030… it seems like hardware coming from a sci-fi movie!

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

But just how far are we from becoming one with the metaverse and what can we learn about ourselves through sensory technologies? It was an optimistic estimate as consumers and hardware alike have required a transition and adoption phase. Brain-Computer Interfaces. It’s a risky business, but also an absolute reality. “ Eye-Tracking .

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

I think these numbers are important also for us XR people because next year Sony is going to launch its PSVR 2 accessory for PS5, and the bigger the userbase of the console, the bigger will be the target market for PSVR 2 , that can so hope to rival in some way the Oculus Quest 2 and maybe also trigger the interest of Xbox executives.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

I n 2018 during the Oculus Connect 5 conference, Facebook showed off research towards semantic room scanning, and the device shown appeared to have a depth sensor: But the depth sensor was dropped from Quest Pro in the months before it launched.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

This year, new standalone headsets from Oculus and Vive debuted. As software, hardware, and applications improve, so do the mental health and medical fields. Being able to just pick up a piece of hardware, put it on, and get started is amazingly helpful in actually getting people to use your application.” .

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It’s been a very interesting chat, and I’ve learned a lot from it. As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. It’s a royal pain to get hardware in Chile.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Yes, it is a sign that Facebook is all in for XR , as someone made me notice, but hiring 10,000 people and losing billions every year in R&D and hardware sold under cost wasn’t already a clear sign of it? Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. The spokesperson described the technology as a combination of inverse kinematics (IK) and machine learning (ML). That’s our current strategy.”.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

VR hardware startup Weasel Labs aims to deliver the first ZephVR units to customers in May 2018. This audio-based approach—if it works well—means the hardware should function with all VR headsets; the PSVR-compatible version is more expensive, as it requires an additional audio processing box and cable. Image courtesy Weasel Labs.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

He said that Apple is going to “ make VR into something everybody wants before it’s something that everybody can afford ”, like the original Oculus The trademark XROS has been registered by a shell company owned by Apple. Meta has silently ended support for Oculus Home on PC. That’s so sad. They could be able to save many lives.

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Upload VR

MARCH 29, 2023

Meta plans to add legs to its avatars some time this year, but they will be estimated by machine learning rather than driven by body tracking hardware. Meta’s hand tracking tech was first released for the original Oculus Quest in late 2019, but is only now starting to be supported by social VR platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2020

This has caused a big bump in the SteamVR Hardware Survey, that made us happy. In the latest hardware survey, the number of connected headsets has reached a new all-time high , growing a bit from the one of the last month. Image by Oculus). Oculus For Business may need some improvements. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2018

Qualcomm says that XR1 is made for “high-quality” XR devices (low-end, like Oculus Go), a distinction they make against “premium” devices (high-end like Vive Focus). So XR1 isn’t about bringing the most powerful or feature-rich devices to market, but rather to enable affordable, “mainstream” devices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Facebook operating system, pervasive of all devices (Portal, Quest, Smartwatch, etc…) could give Facebook the same power as Apple: having full control of hardware and software , with also complete interoperability. Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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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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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

APRIL 17, 2020

The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. They are easy to learn and do not require any specific medical knowledge. Currently, the gold standard for BLSD learning is instructor-led courses.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

International Business Machines Corp. A number of the company’s hardware and software-related job listings last year made a prescient mention of Facebook-built AR headset. Here’s a quick look at the top ten in comparison to Facebook, courtesy of Fairview Research: Organization. 2019 Grants. 2018 Grants. Rank Change.

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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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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 price and performance created a challenging situation for competitors. However, the financial strength of Facebook allowed them to sell Quest 2 at a relatively low cost, which is unrealistic for for-profit searching hardware manufacturers. The premium feel of the headset also has high-end hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). I hoped that the setup of SenseGlove gloves could have been a bit easier , but being a development kit of experimental hardware, it is not strange that it requires some time. you can feel when a drilling machine is on).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. 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.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

Time Machine VR Details: Developer: Minority Media. Available On: Steam (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift). This would not exactly be my first instinct but it’s the premise for Time Machine VR , now available as a full launch on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive through Steam following an Early-Access period which started back in August, 2015.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

From the Global Economics standpoint, this means VR and AR are relevant across the world as they are fast becoming the default ways of learning, training and performing – across the workplace, in education organisations, and beyond. Workplace learning and on-site service processes usually take place ‘on’ a 2D environment.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At Facebook Connect this week , Facebook has: Released the powerful Oculus Quest 2 , powered by Snapdragon XR2, and with a 4K display. an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). Learn more. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

It is impressive the speed at which the Quest is updating, and the new v19 runtime now lets the users select what kind of graphical quality they want for the Oculus Link , that is if Oculus must prioritize performance or graphical quality. Learn More. A short review of the StarVR One. News from partners (and friends).

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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). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The following paragraph is directly quoted from one of these job descriptions: Our team is building the software components that control and manage the hardware on our Augmented Reality (AR) products. These are the software components that run on the AR devices and are the closest to the hardware. Meta acquires Imagine Optix.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Pinball FX2 VR arrives tomorrow on Vive and PlayStation VR along with a popular new The Walking Dead themed machine. Originally a launch title for the Oculus Rift, the game will now be available on all three major VR platforms. Available On: Oculus Home (Rift), SteamVR (Vive, OSVR HDK), PlayStation VR. Developer: Zen Studios.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

More info (Windows 10 update improves the visuals of the Reverb) More info (The cable clip of the headset is easy to be broken) More info (Sebastian Ang explains some problems of the tracking of the controllers) More info (A redditor writes his first impressions on the headset) More info (Cas and Chary’s review) More info (Tom’s Hardware review).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our product LooxidVR has three key features: Hardware usability : What’s unique about LooxidVR is that it helps researchers integrate VR into their research in the simplest way. Hardware: [link] SystemConfiguration: [link] Software: [link]. Full specifications of the headset (Image by Looxid Labs, click to enlarge).

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2020

I went to Oculus Connect One and that’s where a lot of the XR community solidified and I love it.” A continued focus on polished hardware development and software creation, especially for B2C. . [Additionally,] I had more ambitions than just driving the community [we built]. Doornink: “1. It’s about singularity.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Launched last year , it lets developers design and build massively detailed environments by using distributed cloud computing infrastructure, incorporating machine learning technology and other advances. He was hired in 2012 by founder Palmer Luckey directly; they were longtime friends before Dycus became the first Oculus employee.

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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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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

It’s drawing from a philosophically introspective yarn, exploring the what-ifs of humanity giving society over to intelligent machines. Besides the occasional item or easter egg, does Labrodex reward developers for learning and applying development skills outside of their immediate role? “It The fun aspect.

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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. Gribetz often speaks of a “zero-learning curve” computer, a machine that is so intuitive that you’ve always known how to use it.

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