Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

Since its launch in 2019 Oculus Quest has represented a major shift in Facebook’s VR strategy by moving away from the PC. While there’s a handful of hand-tracking games available on the headset, the entire Quest menu, including the Oculus browser, can be controlled completely by your hands. Image courtesy Oculus.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

After the free September 9th update, the VR game will expand to allow 2 players wearing Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets to freely roam in 100 square feet of shared playspace. This is now only possible wearing a backpack PC and VR headset in special locations like Sandbox VR, Zero Latency, and Dreamscape.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 31, 2019

In spite of all the investment from companies such as Oculus, the PSVR is the only hardware that has come even close to tapping that elusive jackpot of mass consumer adoption. Ever since the Playstation was first launched, Sony has been in the business of reinventing gaming. Click To Tweet. The same seems to be the case with VR.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. The system shown isn’t fully accurate though and has 160ms latency – more than 11 frames at 72Hz. That’s our current strategy.”.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2017

OmniVision specifically positions the OV9282 image sensor as ideal for VR headsets thanks to the low latency. SEE ALSO How Google's Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus' Mobile Strategy. Snapdragon 835 SoC with Kryo 280 CPU based on 10nm FinFET | Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

And I have to say that this strategy is paying off. Oculus Quest Me and my Quest 2 When I’m at home, the Quest is the headset that I use the most. I have to warn you that the quality of the tethered connection is not the same as Quest Link (there is more latency and more blur), but it’s ok enough to work.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It was in the air in the last weeks and finally, the time has come: Facebook is being sued for monopolization and anticompetitive strategy. The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

HTC and Valve do this with their Vive controllers that are super low latency and extremely accurate and Oculus does this with their touch controllers and their extremely natural ergonomics. Ultimately, hands free VR is the holy grail and I think that Qualcomm has brought us one step closer to that reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. More info (RealityOS trademark) More info (Robert Scoble’s take on Apple’s reveal strategy). Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The overseer may be powerful, but it can’t watch everything all at once; with a blend of strategy and cunning, saboteurs can prevail. Since the game isn’t latency intensive, it can feel like a nearly native experience, so long as both the host and the remote player have decent and stable bandwidth for the stream.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the same time, there are a number of development platforms out there specifically designed to assist companies in their AR strategies. VR is becoming more affordable for a wide range of gaming customers, thanks to tools like the Oculus Quest, which sold 15 million units during just 20 months on the market.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 19, 2017

The founder and CEO of some Finnish company I’d never heard of had just told me he and his team of 19 people had managed to leapfrog virtual reality 20 years into the future—and he gives me an Oculus Rift ? Because this was an Oculus Rift, the image quality was exactly what I expected it to be: fine. It’s just the housing,” he said. “We

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

HTC is a very practical company and doesn’t give you the pleasant unboxing experience typical of Oculus. You can also clearly spot the 4 tracking cameras in positions that are similar to the ones of the Oculus Quest. Most people don’t care but I have a fetish for headsets that have a box designed in an original way.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2020

While the headset isn’t bad, competitors on both sides (Oculus’ Rift on the low-end and Valve’s Index on the high-end) seemed to offer better value propositions considering their price and performance. But, Cosmos has a trick up its sleeve—a detachable faceplate which gives it some interesting modularity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Prior to co-founding holoride, I was working in various fields such as product marketing, development, and strategy at the German car manufacturer Audi. I’ve been a VR fan ever since the 90s and its early beginnings, but like many, I was disappointed back then with the final performance. Should we buy a new Audi to test our apps?

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. We have a twofold strategy to broaden out our offering within each sport. That I was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Alex: Near zero latency. We saw Burning Man go online this year. So, Alex, welcome to the show. Very quick.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Alex: Near zero latency. We saw Burning Man go online this year. So, Alex, welcome to the show. Very quick.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Alex: Near zero latency. We saw Burning Man go online this year. So, Alex, welcome to the show. Very quick.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. It’s like yep yep, it’s got six milliseconds latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

You’ve been building and advising brands and companies around their strategy for production. And I got the Oculus Go, thinking, “Oh, this is gonna be great for VR.” And so when the Oculus Quest came out, we kind of said, “We’ll just wait, it’s not going to be as good.” Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

You’ve been building and advising brands and companies around their strategy for production. And I got the Oculus Go, thinking, “Oh, this is gonna be great for VR.” And so when the Oculus Quest came out, we kind of said, “We’ll just wait, it’s not going to be as good.” Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

He’s the marketing director of Insta360 and leads North American marketing strategy, partnerships and communication efforts. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I’m viewing it in, it doesn’t look good. Today’s guest is Michael Shabun from Insta360.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

He’s the marketing director of Insta360 and leads North American marketing strategy, partnerships and communication efforts. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I’m viewing it in, it doesn’t look good. Today’s guest is Michael Shabun from Insta360.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

He's the marketing director of Insta360 and leads North American marketing strategy, partnerships and communication efforts. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I'm viewing it in, it doesn't look good. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Every major company in the world is working on an XR strategy right now and communications are gonna change forever. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Every major company in the world is working on an XR strategy right now and communications are gonna change forever. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. But you can't move around in it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Every major company in the world is working on an XR strategy right now and communications are gonna change forever. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Mike Abrash, formerly of Valve, now at Oculus, their chief scientist, he made this interesting observation about Moore’s Law. GB: Is it a tradeoff against what you’d call latency, maybe? But then the software is also accelerating. Everyone always thinks that Moore’s Law is inevitable, that it’s going to happen no matter what.

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