The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

It also shows that at the moment the idea of subsidizing the cost of the hardware with the software sold in the store is not working, so probably the Quest ecosystem is less healthy than we initially thought. You can now try games on the Oculus Store. A game that supports this is for instance Zombieland: Headshot Fever.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Oculus Quest had a good Christmas. And this is proven by the fact that the Meta Quest app (previously known as Oculus app) on the App Store has been at the first place as the most downloaded app on iOS for like two days after Christmas. Saudi Arabia fund gets control of Magic Leap. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip).

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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2024

Missed this week's biggest VR games and hardware stories? With VR hardware, Meta confirmed Quest 3 has higher retention than previous headsets and is reportedly still planning to bring a cheaper Quest 3 to China via Tencent. Across VR gaming, Oculus Publishing Ignition is a new funding initiative for Quest 3 developers.

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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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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. If a family can afford spending the money for 4 Magic Leap Ones, they can play this board game together (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

thanks Alessio for the tip!). Thanks to the control of software and hardware, Apple is far ahead of all the Android systems for what concerns AR , something that many experts (like Robert Scoble) already forecasted years ago. Oculus Quest is available again in some countries. Oculus rolls out runtime v15 for Quest.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2018

While it’s only been released on the Vive Focus so far, Western audiences may soon have access to Beat Reality and/or similar visualizer apps with the proliferation of MR passthrough cameras on standalone headsets, similar to features we’ve seen on hardware such as Magic Leap One Creator Edition, Oculus Quest and the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

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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 then-- Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense. So it'll work across all those types you just said. Varag: Yeah.

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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. Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense. So it'll work across all those types you just said. It's pretty quick.

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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. Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense. So it'll work across all those types you just said. It's pretty quick.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

You can do it with an Oculus Quest. But you also need to think about the hardware, and that it’s supporting front-facing cameras in AR. Think about the hardware, and think about how do we — from a transmedia point of view — tell that story, and leverage all the different technologies? Security training issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

You can do it with an Oculus Quest. But you also need to think about the hardware, and that it’s supporting front-facing cameras in AR. Think about the hardware, and think about how do we — from a transmedia point of view — tell that story, and leverage all the different technologies? Security training issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

You can do it with an Oculus Quest. But you also need to think about the hardware, and that it's supporting front-facing cameras in AR. Think about the hardware, and think about how do we -- from a transmedia point of view -- tell that story, and leverage all the different technologies? Hardware sales are growing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Among the many features of this piece of hardware, there is the one that it is able to perform ray tracing. Thanks Marco Giammetti for the tip).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. The Rift never launched here.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. The Rift never launched here.

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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! Notwithstanding all my critics, this is still an amazing piece of hardware. You don’t have this nice stuff on the vertical side, though. Final Considerations.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It makes sense for Samsung, which is great in manufacturing hardware, to partner with Microsoft , that is doing a good job in creating a platform for XR, to compete with the other companies. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale. Learn more.

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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. If lawyers start entering the metaverse, we are f *ed… (Thanks Cathy Hackl for this tip).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And all of this when in 10 days there will be the Oculus Connect 6, where there will be announced something cool for sure… I’m rather thrilled while I write this e-mail! HoloLens 2 is a fantastic product, not only for the hardware but also for all the infrastructure based on Azure that it can offer. DisplayPort 1.2

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? laughs] Lou: Yeah, it’s totally transformed to just some of the kind of IT enablements and hardware enablements that have happened. What are people leaning towards when they’re building stuff? Are they building stuff for Hololens? So the industry is evolving so quickly.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? Lou: Yeah, it’s totally transformed to just some of the kind of IT enablements and hardware enablements that have happened. What are people leaning towards when they’re building stuff? Are they building stuff for Hololens? Are they building to kind of scale to all devices?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? Lou: Yeah, it's totally transformed to just some of the kind of IT enablements and hardware enablements that have happened. That's what was used to kind of as the kernel for a curriculum that Circuit Stream started with. What are people leaning towards when they're building stuff?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? Lou: Yeah, it's totally transformed to just some of the kind of IT enablements and hardware enablements that have happened. That's what was used to kind of as the kernel for a curriculum that Circuit Stream started with. What are people leaning towards when they're building stuff?

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