The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

The circle will close with the release of XR glasses, and we know that Niantic is also working on a reference system for them. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. The Public Test Channel of the Quest runtime contains a fix for the Oculus Link stuttering on Windows 11.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

With $2 million raised Lynx is still very much in the early startup stage; while this amount is just a drop in the bucket compared to the resources of XR incumbents, it’s a starting point similar to Oculus which got its start after raising $2.4 million on Kickstarter back in 2012. Image courtesy Lnyx.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. We’re excited to try this headset when it becomes available.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

He has always been a great innovator and I admire his work since the good old Oculus DK 2 times, when he published “Sightline: The Chair” Now he is continuing this innovation work by building a completely open metaverse called Neos , where thanks to object modeling and scripting, it is possible to create everything you want.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It has been founded by Jeri Ellsworth , a former Valve employee that worked directly with Michael Abrash in the lab that was experimenting with AR and VR before Oculus was even a thing. I appreciated having a tour inside them and seeing many gaming references, retrogaming devices, and other fun stuff scattered around them.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. Is Oculus Quest killing PCVR?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different. Lumus Maximus proves to be one of the most interesting reference designs for AR glasses. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. That’s pretty scary for the AR industry because Magic Leap raised $793.5

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. They are based on the Atraxa reference design (Image by Road To VR). Nothing that will shake the ecosystem.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They're a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, "Unity 101: here's how to make a model." Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? From this journey, Circuit Stream's 10-week online course emerged.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They're a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, "Unity 101: here's how to make a model." Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? From this journey, Circuit Stream's 10-week online course emerged.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They’re a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They’re a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” Are they building stuff for Magic Leap? Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago -- I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago -- we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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