The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

As a software developer, this makes me wonder what is the real business value of releasing an XR app on the Vision Pro: a market of 150K units is breadcrumbs, is more than 10 times smaller than the one of PCVR, so it is almost impossible for a studio that develops an XR experience for the Vision Pro to be profitable.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

At CES in Las Vegas this week, Humaneyes revealed that the first commercial units will finally begin shipping on March 7, 2017. At 12x12x3cm, the Vuze is a fairly portable “point-and-shoot” VR camera, and it also ships with a VR headset, tripod, and software. So the 3D audio is a particularly key addition to the Vuze Camera.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

CES 2017 is officially “begins” tomorrow but the behemoth conference is already revving up in Las Vegas. CES is not typically a place for major software announcements but we know that there will be space and time for demos following the executive speeches. Oculus (Facebook). — What do you think?

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JANUARY 3, 2017

The Chinese company revealed its first VR headset shortly ahead of CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week. Selected HoloLens software is reportedly also due to be ported to the headsets. Lenovo also has a new VR ready laptop, though the video below only shows the Oculus Rift, and not its own headset.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The 2016 Autodesk University event kicked off in Las Vegas yesterday, and the design software company wasted no time in making some big announcements for the VR industry. For those that don’t know, Autodesk creates software for various industries, allowing designers to make 3D models and environments for professional use.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

Or better, maybe it’s not totally merit of HTC, it is mostly the fact that everyone is hoping for a good headset that can compete somehow with the Oculus Quest , even just in the prosumer segment. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps its march towards 10M users. The Oculus Quest 2 keeps selling incredibly well. This is amazing.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Penn & Teller’s Desert Bus VR is finally here, letting you take the wheel of a crappy old commercial bus for a mind-numbing 8-hour trip from Tuscon to Las Vegas. The new VR version was brought to life by Borderlands developers Gearbox Software , making it their first VR production. image courtesy Gearbox Software.

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APRIL 5, 2021

And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Oculus’s Android App?—?an Oculus Quest 2 is now the most-used VR headset on Steam. - General/Industry Milestones - Oculus Quest App Lab reached 100 apps in less than two months. That decline was Covid-inflected, given supply-chain impediments.

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MARCH 31, 2017

It feels like just yesterday the Upload team was gathered in Las Vegas to kick the year off at CES. The news only hit yesterday, but already Palmer Luckey’s departure from Facebook and its VR team, Oculus, has become one of our biggest stories of the year. Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook. Fallout 4 VR Is Coming To E3.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It lets you experience what it’s like to be at the helm of the action, driving all the way from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada, in real time. The game is also playable outside of VR, so if you don’t own an Oculus Rift or a HTC Vive you can still play.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Micah showed me how to get in and out of the massage chair, where to place my hands, and helped me get the Oculus Rift S on. I’ve used Passthrough+ on Oculus Quest, but this looked so cool in a spa setting than in a living room. Micah says a special software allows fans, heat lamps, and diffusers to sync together.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

And subscribe to my newsletter to not miss my upcoming CES roundup, which will contain all the news I’ve read about XR from Las Vegas! More info (Apple XR headset to feature three displays) More info (Quest 3 and Project Cambria leaks) More info (Social Oculus Home is coming) More info (Meta to unify its social VR experiences).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

This hilarious tweet thread by Nima Zeighami shows you all the worst uses that have been of the M-word on the Las Vegas showroom. I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Thunderbird) AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

In the American sin city of Las Vegas, there has been an enormous showcase of every kind of innovative technologies and of course, AR and VR have been part of the show. It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. You may ask what has done Oculus at CES while HTC was generating hype around its devices.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He was the VR technical adviser for the VR Pain and Anxiety Management pilot program at Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center , and has been actively involved in the VR scene since the 2012 Oculus Kickstarter. He has been a professional computer programmer for over 20 years.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Industrial Training International is readying their VR Mobile Crane Simulator for the March ConExpo Event in Las Vegas. The simulator uses an Oculus Rift headset in combination with a modular rig, in order to significantly reduce the costs of training, compared to both real-world and older VR solutions.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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JULY 14, 2016

With the introduction of Google Cardboard and the Daydream VR platform, Oculus and HTC discrete VR headsets and GearVR headsets for even smartphones like the Samsung’s Galaxy S7, the first tentative steps towards virtual reality gaming are being taken. The Virtual Reality software will allow players to feel a genuine part of the game.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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JUNE 16, 2021

THE IMPLICATIONS OF VIRTUAL LEARNING In 2012, the first crowdfunding campaign was started for the Oculus Rift, a popular virtual reality headset now owned by Facebook. EXPERIENCED-BASED LEARNING In 2019, a major breakthrough product was released by Oculus. CONCLUSION Technology is ever-growing. Graziano (Ed.),

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They've created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware's useless with software.

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas made it clear: virtual reality is taking on serious forms ! Shooting in a major soccer stadium is great, but creating an accurate stitching template, with software like PTGui , for a video where nearly half the screen is composed of grass is a mission impossible.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software."

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software."

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software."

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. I was just in Vegas at the Experiential Marketing Summit, and as I was driving to it, I was seeing the new home of the soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders going up. We also had Oculus participate, which was great. Or has it been we?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. I was just in Vegas at the Experiential Marketing Summit, and as I was driving to it, I was seeing the new home of the soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders going up. We also had Oculus participate, which was great. Or has it been we?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. I was just in Vegas at the Experiential Marketing Summit, and as I was driving to it, I was seeing the new home of the soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders going up. We also had Oculus participate, which was great. Or has it been we?

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