The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It will be possible to shoot 4K videos of the augmented applications, body tracking has been improved , and the system will be able to perform better environment understanding The new ARKit features will be used by a new tool provided by Apple for all its iPhone users: RoomPlan. I think the news is the final nail in the HoloLens coffin.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. For sure some surprises: we don’t know anything about the 2nd gen of XR that Oculus has in mind. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

According to the CMA: “Microsoft already enjoys a powerful position and head start over other competitors in cloud gaming and this deal would strengthen that advantage giving it the ability to undermine new and innovative competitors.” So I wonder if this suspension could also change Microsoft’s future plans concerning the M-word.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. Photoshop is doing the same.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2022

Extended Reality, the umbrella term used to refer to all forms of immersive technology, from AR to VR, presents a host of valuable opportunities for consumers and brands. Like Meta, Microsoft has quickly emerged as one of the leading innovators in the XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It is able to offer this thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset (and its related reference design), that has been conceived with these features in mind. These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. More info (Growth of headsets on Steam). No availability.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Some days ago, two developers have found references to “RealityOS” both in the Apple Store logs and in an opensource repo by Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Qualcomm is the company making almost all the chipsets and the reference designs upon which almost all XR headsets of nowadays are based upon. At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. Whenever I’ll mention VPNs in the remainder of the article, I’m always referring to these ones. Oculus Quest Me and my Quest 2 When I’m at home, the Quest is the headset that I use the most. Absolutely not.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. HoloLens has not shipped any new version of the device, as expected. Leap Motion.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

At the very beginning of September, a leaked internal build of iOS 13 was found to contain a “readme” file referring to StarBoard, a system that allows developers to view stereo-enabled AR apps on an iPhone. Inside that set of tools lurked data files for what appeared to be two different headsets, codenamed Franc and Luck.

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

Microsoft Microsoft is one of the few companies that has approached augmented reality wearables more successfully. We expect to see Microsoft still at work for a long time in this area and we think it can succeed where it has failed with mobile devices.

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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. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2018

I immediately clicked on the link and so I discovered that on February, 15th 2018, Mozilla has published a tool to create WebVR projects inside Unity : it is a plugin for Unity that you import and that “hacks” the WebGL exporter so that it can actually export a WebVR page. The reference for all this process can be found here.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. thanks to a better training). thanks to a better training).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space. MB: Our very first prototype was literally a Microsoft Kinect plugged into my laptop, and we would walk around the house trailing a power cord.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Further references. 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. Further references. Further references. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. Further references.

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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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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

You’ve been able to pop on a VR headset and watch any Netflix content on a flatscreen TV in a virtual living room for a year and a half, and according to a recent job posting you’ll soon be able to do the same with the Microsoft Hololens. followups to their $30K reference camera blueprints that they released a bit over a year ago.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

More sharp eyed readers of this post can see the pixel grid on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, and this is where Varjo hopes to make the difference. “This technology, along with Varjo VST, jump-starts the immersive computing age overnight – VR is no longer a curiosity, but now can be a professional tool for all industries.”

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The reference to the tether is a clear statement about the fact that Sony aims at offering quality, and it is not interested in the casual gamers that are the target of the Quest (for now). Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

MasterpieceVR is a 3D creation tool that’s looking to get an edge on the competition by offering something no other volumetric art program has so far; a multi-user, spectator-friendly, sculpting and painting tool that promises to house everything you need in a single place. VR was the medium to do this in.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some examples include the Oculus Quest and Vive Focus platforms. Among such are HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. . XR is a tool that we can utilise to improve our experiences in the real world, with actual positive change. . This is the latest immersive technology and is sometimes referred to as hybrid reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features. References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. HoloLens got a major software update , and Microsoft introduced new enterprise mixed reality applications like Microsoft Remote Assist and Microsoft Layout.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. The first comes from the major consultancy brand Accenture, which has just announced that it is going to deploy 60,000 Oculus Quest 2 headsets for the training of new employees.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

Introducing VIVE Sync Open Beta, a VR collaboration tool that allows businesses to hold virtual meetings/presentations in real-time from the comfort of home. Unlike earlier Vive headsets, or the Oculus Rift or the Hololens, you can walk around, spin around, move your arms, without worrying about getting tangled in the wires.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 is selling incredibly well because it offers the right combination of affordable price, good hardware, and a good software ecosystem. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance). The Quest will still be the king.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. I mean, there's VR collaboration tools and stuff, but 99.9 You've done all sorts of things. Tell us, what is Happy Finish? Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. I mean, there's VR collaboration tools and stuff, but 99.9 You've done all sorts of things. Tell us, what is Happy Finish? Alan: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Tablet mode may be a reference to how to launch 2D Android apps because a Facebook employee has inadvertently revealed that employees can already use some 2D apps like GDoc inside the Quest. It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. was a lot of money?).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

As a consultant, I am receiving many requests for remote collaboration tools now during the lockdown, and with my partners Massimiliano Ariani and SIDI , I am also hosting some workshops in VR. Mozilla Hubs is an immersive meeting tool that lets you meet online with other people, and speak with them.

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