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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

A report on Thurrott.com indicates Microsoft is skipping an incremental hardware update to its Hololens in favor of a generational upgrade in 2019. These upcoming headsets will feature a range of specifications, allowing Microsoft partners to release a variety of hardware solutions with different capabilities priced all the way down to $300.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

At today’s Oculus Connect keynote, a number of new hardware announcements were made, including the reveal of a new pair of Oculus ‘Earphones’ that replace the removable headphones that come with the Rift. Looking back, it’s almost surprising this wasn’t the original audio solution for the headset.

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Digitalnauts

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Tips on Trying VR for the First Time. Here are our top tips for purchasing and trying virtual reality for the first time, including what to expect and what to pay close attention to. If you’re willing to go past these, you’ve found your VR hardware match! What are your best tips for trying VR for the first time?

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MAY 4, 2017

In a surprise announcement, Facebook is announcing today that it will be shuttering Oculus Story Studio. Story Studio is the team within Oculus that focused on the creation of narrative driven virtual reality content like the emmy award winning Henry, emotionally moving story Dear Angelica and breakout content like Lost.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JANUARY 24, 2022

And we can already see the signs of a booming market – a lot of newcomers are getting into the VR hardware business, while established players continue to innovate and push the boundaries to performance. A Few Tips Before Buying a VR Headset. VR hardware is available in two versions: tethered and untethered. Meta Quest 2 .

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AR Insider

JANUARY 2, 2020

Those are further subdivided by hardware, software and other revenue sources. That includes things that consumers pay for, currently dominated by hardware. As that hardware base grows, it becomes a larger addressable market which attracts and incentivizes content creators. Hardware: Tip of the Spear.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Those are further subdivided by hardware, software and other revenue sources. That includes things that consumers pay for, currently dominated by hardware. As that hardware base grows, it becomes a larger addressable market which attracts and incentivizes content creators. Hardware: Tip of the Spear.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. In the last 12 months, the Facebook brand has become increasingly visible and involved with the Oculus subsidiary. Wednesday, April 19.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Speaking of which, Vuzix’s new hardware represents a design target we’ll see more of. Enterprise AR’s Tipping Point Pushes Back. Due to this organizational inertia and the dreaded “pilot purgatory,” enterprise AR’s tipping point won’t happen in 2021.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2016

Steam’s legendary seasonal sale is now underway, but this year, virtual reality consumers have two competing platforms from which to browse bargains as Oculus joins Valve in a summer VR game sale head to head with some attractive discounts. Oculus Home Summer Sales (Rift). Oculus Home Summer Sales (Gear VR). Project Cars.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fresh hardware, a bold new social platform, and Vive Pro eye-tracking are on the way. In actuality HTC was teasing the latest addition their VR hardware lineup, the HTC Vive Cosmos, a PC-based 6DoF VR headset featuring inside-out tracking and a flip-up visor.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 14, 2021

Those subdivisions include hardware and software, as well as consumer and enterprise use cases. And the underlying hardware continues to evolve, such as LiDAR. That will continue to be propelled by Facebook’s investments in content and hardware, most notably Oculus Quest 2. The Spatial Spectrum. There are 3.46

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. There will be a tipping point for industrial AR, after which adoption accelerates in a sort of herd mentality. We believe the tipping point won’t come in 2020 but momentum will be gained so that it can come in 2021. But there are also confidence signals. Boiling it Down.

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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. Thanks David for the tip!).

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2020

The Oculus Quest has been my daily driver for standalone VR ever since its release. Here are 20 tips & tricks for new users (and maybe even a few for seasoned Questers). The Oculus Quest can be front heavy for many. If tip #1 doesn’t help, then you can buy comfort accessories or make one yourself. Optimal Tracking.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

VIVE hand tracking has a number of features, though which features a developer uses depends on their target platform and hardware. So, the processing power of the hardware that developers want their projects to work on should be considered. “ Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking. It’s also a user interface question.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). Chinese VR manufacturer Pico has just got a big round of financing of 242M yuan (circa 37 million dollars) to continue developing its hardware and software platforms.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2018

The VR ecosystem is approaching a tipping point with the release of ‘Ready Player One’. With hardware prices coming down, stand-alone headsets like Oculus Go and Vive Focus on the horizon, and developers discovering best use cases, VR is on a sure path to become mainstream,” said Adam Arrigo, TheWaveVR CEO and co-founder.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2017

Now however we’re getting a little more clarity about the hardware: both will be built around Qualcomm’s VR headset reference design. Interestingly, neither design showed so far includes on-board headphones (which is definitely a scale-tipping feature). Qualcomm’s VRDK reference design | Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Youtuber Brad Lynch of the channel “Sadly It’s Bradley” has discovered, thanks to “a tip”, some references to a device codenamed “Deckard” inside some SteamVR firmware files. The new Oculus device was by the way another piece of hardware that was by chance “leaked” in a timely way so that to excite everyone for Facebook Connect 2.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Oculus Quest is sold out, and Coronavirus may make the situation even worse.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

I found the news a bit worrisome because Facebook currently owns the most used hardware, and is acquiring all the studios creating the best content for the headsets. If you are interested in these Photon glasses, check out the Kickstarter campaign tomorrow! (Thanks David @spatialpixels for the tip!). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The company provided us with the hardware, the haptic patterns (thanks Alex VR !), You may be noticing that I’ve mentioned no hand-tracking hardware: competitors like Senseglove Nova or HaptX Gloves all have some integrated sensors to detect the pose of the fingers and use some external systems (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Thanks Gianluigi Perrone for the tip!). Some tips and tricks for the new Quest runtime. 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.

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MAY 11, 2017

We still don’t have many details on the new controllers beyond the fact that they are said to offer full six degrees of freedom — like Oculus Touch and Vive’s wands — but that they need to be in sight of the headset’s outward-facing cameras and sensors to be fully tracked.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

These changes will also impact Reality Labs and CTO Andrew Bosworth is deciding these days which hardware projects to kill during this spending review operation. Thanks to Ivan for the tip!). Thanks Mathew Olson for the tip). Meta provides tips to optimize content for Quest by using the Showdown app as a showcase.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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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

MARCH 12, 2024

It is always a matter of money and I think this case makes no exception, especially because Meta subsidizes hardware costs with the Store sales. Meta is most probably banning cloud services because they offer a backdoor to access another store where people can play games without giving Meta the 30% cut that it gets from the Store.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Of course, this is still a research project, so, for instance, it works only with green light (I mean, there is also a prototype with all three RGB colors, but it is bigger and only sits on a desk), and there is no hardware on the glasses (no SOC, no tracking cameras, etc…). Oculus Quest v18 adds colored Guardian and voice commands.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

While it works well for drawing in the air, a pressure-sensitive tip also makes it great for drawing (and potentially evening writing) against a physical surface. There’s also on-board haptics, and the end of the stylus has a pressure-sensitive tip which allows for pressure-sensitive writing against physical surfaces.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Now, a little under four years since the big names in hardware released their first generation consumer headsets, we live in a time when a number of VR games have actually approached the best that any gaming platform has to offer. Available On : Oculus (Rift). Available On : Oculus ( Quest , Rift ). Developer : Sanzaru Games.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

Robot Head (Oculus Medium) – By: hymer. Robot head made in Oculus Medium. Who would have thought that a boxer, a bird, a robot and an alien would be created in three dimensions using only your hands, your hardware and two big scoops of imagination. On with the show. Muhammad Ali (Tilt Brush) – By: Tipatat .

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

According to the Steam Hardware Survey, Pico 4 now represents 0.67% of the player base on Steam. Does Palmer want Oculus back? I tweeted the news saying that “Palmer Luckey is not doing that bad without Oculus…” and Palmer Luckey himself answered to me commenting “Without Oculus for now, anyway”. More info (GameVroom).

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