The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

This is what the homepage of Oculus website shows now (Image by Oculus). As we were all expecting (also thanks to the amazing speculations of the Best Buy guys on Reddit :D), Oculus has launched both the Oculus Quest and the Rift S during the keynote of the F8 event , that happened at 10AM PT. Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Next week, on September 26th-27th, Oculus will perform its annual showcase event: Oculus Connect , that has now arrived at its 5th edition. The latest event, the OC4 has been full of news and interesting information , both on Oculus products and VR in general and I think that this year won’t be different.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

HTC today announced a partnership with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) to bring the HTC Vive to sites in Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Sanya. More interestingly, they’ll also be able to try some of the content from HTC’s Viveport storefront in their own rooms. In a prepared statement, Alvin W.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia Documentation What is WebXR? ? A-Frame ? —?A SteamVR ? —?SteamVR

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. Oculus Del Mar” may be the next Oculus headset. The documentation was the same as before, if not for the fact that in the page about headset Input page, there was also a reference to “Oculus Jedi” controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 25, 2020

For instance, you can take the shells and the magazines with your fingers exactly as in real life , and you can throw grenades opening the whole hand while launching them. Runner-up: Oculus Rift (CV1 & S). Runner-up: Oculus Rift (CV1 & S). With the Oculus Rift, you can play Half-Life: Alyx having a very good experience.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2020

Launching on May 5th, the update will be available on all supported platforms, which includes Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows VR headsets, and PSVR. Check out the changes coming to the game below: New Weapons. SEE ALSO 'Espire 1: VR Operative' Review – Solid Snake, But Rough Around the Edges.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Oculus Test Users let you use the Quest 2 without a real Facebook account (for sideloading).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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ARPost

MAY 19, 2021

Digital Rise co-founder and Creative Director Villepoux freely adapted Philippe Foerster’s comic story “Paulot S’évade” (“Paulot Escapes”), published in 1985 by top-rated magazine Fluide Glacial. The MOR app is available only for users with Rift, HTC VIVE, Windows Mixed Reality, and Valve Index.

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JULY 31, 2018

Available now for the PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Pixel Ripped 1989 is an epic retro adventure centered around classic 8-bit video games of the late 80’s, early 90’s. Pixel Ripped is available now on the PlayStation VR , Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for $24.99. Image Credit: Steam.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

on HTC Vive, connected to a computer, for home training and presentations there is adapted for Oculus Quest. All actions are predetermined, each new step is highlighted. VR simulators are available in two versions: for training classes?—?on Perfect during self-isolation.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

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. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. AR glasses.

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ARVR

JUNE 18, 2021

With large tech players like Facebook with Oculus Quest 2 , Varjo with Varjo VR-3 , HP headset HP Reverb G2 , launching their new VR headsets. Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 HTC VIVE VR The HTC seemingly new device, HTC VIVE Air VR, has recently made headlines after winning a design award from the World Design Guide.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Oculus Quest’s parallel content distribution platform slated to come in Q1 2021. We all know that is not possible to publish experiences on the Oculus Quest Store without passing through Facebook’s thorough review process , and this is frustrating many developers. A new HTC headset may come in 2021. Top news of the week.

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APRIL 25, 2017

But now that the landlady has sold the house where it all started, CLR has turned to VR, or specifically, AltspaceVR, a social VR platform which established itself on early Samsung, Oculus, and HTC headsets back in 2015, and now supports all major VR hardware including Daydream.

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APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Before starting, I remind you that if you find what I do useful, you can donate to my magazine on Patreon to express your appreciation. Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. The Tracker is good, but since HTC has never had competition in the field, i t has always been the same since the launch year. Some news on content. Learn more.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The included ‘Playground’ demo shown in the video features a functional shooting range in an underground bunker, littered with magazines to show the multi-object interaction of reloading a gun, along with many other features to highlight the hand animations. SEE ALSO 'Job Simulator' and the Magic of Hand Presence.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Virtual reality systems, such as the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive, use headsets and motion controllers to allow users to fully immerse themselves in a virtual environment.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos and its controllers, just announced at CES (Image by HTC). HTC has been the VR star of this CES 2019. The biggest announcement has been the HTC Vive Cosmos , a headset that has generated a lot of hype also because HTC has not revealed all its features, but it has only teased them. FinchShift.

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JUNE 7, 2023

I was looking back at my 8+ years in the field, and I could identify already a few cycles of consumer XR: The devkit cycle: it’s the era of the good old days of Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2. This era ended with the launch of the first consumer-oriented PC VR headsets: the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift CV1.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen. The primary component is a ZedMini camera hooked up to an HTC Vive headset, that allows for AR pass-through while he is in VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 20, 2020

After hyping up players for months with the promise of brutal zombie combat featuring their favorite The Walking Dead characters, Survios’ apocalyptic VR experience officially launched this past month on Steam, Oculus, and PlayStation VR headsets to somewhat negative reviews. on SteamVR , Oculus Rift , and PlayStation VR headsets.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Based on our recent talk with VP of content, Joel Breton, HTC has plenty of experiences in the works for its Vive VR headset across a wide range of categories. Vive this week announced Vivepaper , an intriguing new VR app developed in partnership with the Chinese-branch of magazine publisher Condé Nast.

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JUNE 27, 2022

The most popular devices include currently: Meta Quest 2, Pico G2 / Neo3, HTC VIVE Focus and Flow (coming up as the glasses?—?size Meta is however still struggling with adaptation to business / education use since it abandoned Oculus for Business solution and now you need to have one Facebook account per each headset. size headset).

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

The amount of the deal has not been disclosed, but Chinese magazine VRTuoLuo reports that it has been 5B RMB (a bit less $800M), while another Chinese portal reported the sum of 9B RMB, but then removed this detail from its article later on. As it has happened with Oculus, this news is good and bad for Pico and VR in general.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

The game will also launch on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift. at an enemy guard to make them stop in their tracks, filching a weapon right off of a distracted guard, and creating distractions with loose weapon magazines.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

How well do the Oculus Touch controllers work with SteamVR apps that are only designed with Vive in mind? Of those 800, all of them support the HTC Vive officially, whereas only 180 support the Oculus Rift. You can still get to Oculus Home by pressing the right-handed menu button, just like you would in any VR app through Home.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Early development of Frogworld was also generously supported by the Oculus LaunchPad program. The current build has been fully tested with the Oculus Rift/S Touch. Controller support for the Valve Index and HTC Vive has been built-in, but is currently untested. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The biggest factor driving that hardware base today is Facebook’s VR investments , most notably the Q4-launched Oculus Quest 2. It’s making little to no margin on Oculus Quest so that it can get the price down and get more people into VR. Over time, software spending catches up and builds on that base?—?a a common pattern.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. Facebook releases the Oculus Quest 2. Even if with the Quest 1 was possible to play Oculus Go games, this support has been abandoned on the Quest 2. Top news of the week.

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