The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Now, this genius that has revolutionized cinema has landed in the mixed reality ecosystem , to try to improve it as well. He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. He was obsessed with Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

Back in 2018, as part of the IBC Masterclass on VR technology, Rob Koenen shared his vision of the future of virtual reality. For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days. HTC Vive and Penn State.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus).

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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. In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2019

It comes as no surprise that Fable Studio is working now in creating credible avatars you can interact with in your life : something similar to what Magic Leap is doing with Mica , but not necessarily so realistic. It is an incredibly polished experience, developed with Unreal Engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In addition to the free Trials on Tatooine virtual reality experience for HTC Vive, the studio released a 360-degree video that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Disney’s ILMxLab has been busy of late. Bredow was recently in Milan, Italy for the VIEW Conference.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. Note that I’m not talking about the confusion that comes from what the industry is struggling to call next-generation augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. 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. We work with regions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. 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. We work with regions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. 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? We've had quite a few ups and downs in virtual reality. '99

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

Alvin Wang Graylin , I’ve been very lucky t o be able to try the new Vive Pro for some minutes and I’m here to describe you my first impressions with the latest device made by the Chinese virtual reality company. Also, the controllers were the ones of Vive 1 and being used to my Oculus Touch , I felt back to the nineties.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

The average person has maybe tried a Gear VR in an exhibition and thinks that that is virtual reality. Maybe you get featured on Road To VR, you get 200 likes on /r/Oculus. When the Oculus Go was released, everyone was excited saying that VR was going to become mainstream thanks to that. You feel like in heaven.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

This week we had no big news from Facebook, but in the communities, the theme of the Facebook login for the Oculus Quest 2 remains pretty hot. Some people have already abandoned the Oculus ship, but many have still bought the Quest 2, that in fact is already backordered by several weeks in some countries (e.g. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fact that the studio behind such a popular game has decided to have a VR port is the sign that Virtual Reality has started to become interesting for famous indie studios. And the fact that there will be a VR version of this important game will give virtual reality even more awareness and popularity inside the gaming community.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I kind of see spatial computing as the antithesis of that, because it’s very difficult to hop into a virtual reality experience for a few minutes, although I will say– Alan: It’s impossible to hop in *in* a few minutes. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I kind of see spatial computing as the antithesis of that, because it's very difficult to hop into a virtual reality experience for a few minutes, although I will say--. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I kind of see spatial computing as the antithesis of that, because it’s very difficult to hop into a virtual reality experience for a few minutes, although I will say– Alan: It’s impossible to hop in *in* a few minutes. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Kent: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Research is being done to evaluate the use of virtual reality also to treat chronic pain.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 14- Kai Liang. 20- Renji Bijoy. 23- Kathryn Yu.

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