The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. you can feel when a drilling machine is on). Structure of the Unity SDK (Image by Senseglove).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. They are easy to learn and do not require any specific medical knowledge. Currently, the gold standard for BLSD learning is instructor-led courses.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . Automatic Time Synchronization : LooxidVR facilitates time synchronized acquisition of eye and brain data , as well as VR contents and interaction data (Unity event logs).

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Like many other technologies, there is no perfect roadmap to learning XR. Nevertheless, I have tried my level best to come up with a generalized learning process for the same. Learn programming from YouTube, Udemy, Udacity and a thousand other free platforms. There are tons of online resources to learn these.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But she’s not been the only one taking a similar decision: Vogue Business reports that Cult fashion boutique Machine-A and the Institute of Digital Fashion are launching an augmented store environment to promote the London Fashion Week collections of designers like Martine Rose and Richard Quinn. (PS

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for others to learn from. As far as production software, we were torn between our familiarity with Unity and the rendering potential of Unreal. We stuck with Unity for now, and hope to explore Unreal more in future explorations.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. It didn’t take them long to decide their legacy project, a 2D puzzle game called Fantastic Contraption that relied on creative thinking to build machines, could be adapted to VR. Learning New Skills.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

There are a number of companies now using machine learning techniques in order to analyze and make sense of these raw data streams. See Also: Facebook-like ‘Code of Conduct’ Governs Voice Communication in Oculus Social Alpha. Storing this type of biometric data and what it means could have some privacy implications.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Technically speaking, it is amazing. Other relevant news. Upload VR).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. And the video trailer showed a guy playing with a gamepad and the Apple headset , like people playing with the Oculus CV1 at launch. The genius part has been mixing eye tracking with hand micro-gestures. What year is it?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. Panels and presentations will also be offered allowing visitors to learn more about the projects. Learn more from the Lytro team. Rainbow Crow.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One thing that I’m trying to do is continuing my daily job and at the meantime learn as much as I can about AR and VR. When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR. Machine Learning has become a key part of the product, now.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And today we're going to be learning how Holo-Light is redefining engineering across automotive, manufacturing, chemical, and myriad other industries using XR technologies. We need that machine over here. So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something= Florian: Yeah. You have ISAR.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And today we're going to be learning how Holo-Light is redefining engineering across automotive, manufacturing, chemical, and myriad other industries using XR technologies. We need that machine over here. So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something=. You have ISAR. Florian: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Now the full stack of the platform has been made opensource, and it will be easy for tech-savvy people to install it on whatever machine they want. More info Mozilla Hubs changes its plans Mozilla has announced an update to the pricing plans of the open WebXR social platform Mozilla Hubs.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. I learned how to do the coding. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We will learn today how they're using digital twins to add real business value. We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Daniel, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We will learn today how they're using digital twins to add real business value. We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Daniel, welcome to the show, my friend.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Learn all about the effects of super-cooling. I’ve worked on front-end web applications, middleware, server software and databases, but the most fun I’ve had in recent years has been with the Unity game engine. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Mac, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Mac. IoT Projects.

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