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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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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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 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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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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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. SenseGlove gloves are made in blue plastic.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

This could lead to the creation of common APIs and tools that all these studios can use and exchange, unifying the research process, making them all advance faster in creating better games. More info (Oculus Link resolution) More info (Change Guardian when using Oculus Link) More info (Shortcut for screenshot on Quest).

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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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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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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. . Training tools for companies. [Additionally,] I had more ambitions than just driving the community [we built].

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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. million in a seed round to build VR tools that could be used to treat eye problems known as “lazy eye.”San Read more here.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. According to the announcement, Usens’ head and hand tracking capabilities leverages machine learning and computer vision techniques.

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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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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Eventually, Apple could take lessons it learns from the virtual reality headset and apply it to a pair of lightweight AR glasses with transparent displays. Apple is also adding hardware to its iPhones that hint at a headset-based future. In factories, the headset can inform workers about how to fix or operate a complicated machine.

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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

JULY 1, 2016

Generally speaking, this problem can be broken down into three components: hardware, software, and each individual’s own perception. The first method of tackling this problem is through improvements in the hardware. There is a talk on this topic by the creators of Toybox at Oculus Connect 2 ).

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. How did you get involved in VR and learning? And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. How did you get involved in VR and learning? And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar's experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR -- they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. How did you get involved in VR and learning? And by '99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. So this was before Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Technically speaking, it is amazing. Other relevant news. Upload VR).

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2020

There is an unprecedented demand for ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic, yet the physical machines are really only part of the equation. Their hardware-agnostic software solution fuses Cutaneous (tactile vibration) and Kinesthetics (force feedback & position) haptic technologies. Canada, and U.K. UCLH in the U.K.

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Headjack

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Also, none of your editing hardware and software is able to playback 4096×4096@60fps smoothly, which makes editing feel similar to waiting for your dial-up modem to connect to the internet… every time you move to the next frame! Picking the right hardware & software for the job. If you have the budget, make the switch!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Facebook keeps running fast towards its vision of the m verse, both from a hardware and software standpoint. VR came into mind as the ideal tool to provide both.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. It’s basically a monopoly.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g. Since VR is only now starting to grow worldwide and it is not a mature technology yet (it lacks proper hardware and content), there is an opportunity for China to enter this growing field and become a worldwide leader in innovating the technology.

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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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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 22, 2020

There is an unprecedented demand for ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic, yet the physical machines are really only part of the equation. Their hardware-agnostic software solution fuses Cutaneous (tactile vibration) and Kinesthetics (force feedback & position) haptic technologies. UCLH in the U.K. and Sana in Germany.

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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?). Somnium Space gives detail on its new hardware. (Image from Reddit). Other relevant news. Image by Rec Room).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

The biggest news of the week is the one that you can see in the above graph: i n the Steam Hardware Survey for April, it is possible to see a big spike of connected headsets. This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). A rumor about Oculus Go 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

We all know that HoloLens 2 is a very powerful tool for remote assistance and collaboration, and can, for instance, be used to watch a 3D model of an industrial machine by many people together that have to discuss about it. Oculus Quest adds OpenXR, but rolls back new UI. News worth a mention. Image by Immersive Computing).

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Projection based  — Directly overlays digital projections onto the physical world by making use of varied machine vision technology, often by combining visible light cameras with 3D sensing systems such as depth cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

In his video, it seems that the Pico Neo 3 is exactly what we would expect, that is a good clone of the Oculus Quest 2. There is also a companion app (another thing copied from Oculus), through which you can buy the games (of course connected with Alipay and WeChat pay). He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

We have no clue of when it will be released, but if you remember, last week Youtuber Eric For President revealed that some sources of his talk about a September reveal for the “VR hardware we want” from Facebook. It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning and edge computing. Enhanced safety: The industrial metaverse can help to improve safety by providing workers with a safe and controlled environment to learn and work in.

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