The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. Follow my guide on how to update your Oculus Go until you can select the “Cast” option).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. You can watch me unboxing it in this Youtube video. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? This is the homepage of Oculus website (Image by Oculus).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Today, the majority of people try VR for the first time on a Samsung Gear or Google Cardboard and, more than likely, they watch a 360-degree video. That’s a shame really, because most 360 video experiences are terrible, especially when streamed over the Internet. The SPIN Player demo consists of several 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

He promised us all to show images and videos on his social media profiles. Is it for some patents on video streaming? 10 minutes of Youtube video have been enough to make all game developers hype. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Yes, Airpods.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

The most important info shared Friday is a (weird) video with the external new design of the device. 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. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Top news of the week. Image by Engadget). Let’s see….

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Below is a step-by-step guide for authoring, publishing, and distributing an Oculus Quest app. We’ll update this as Oculus expands Quest publishing options for our clients. Please reference this InstaVR Authoring Guide for the basics of adding Navigation Links, Hotspots, adding your branding, and much more.

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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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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

Mario Kart comes to VR, E3’s VR news, Intel’s new VR eSports league AND wireless VR solution, Samsung buys their way into social, the investment & funding wrapup, and more…. Teaming up with Oculus and ESL, Intel declared the world’s first virtual reality eSports league — with a prize pool of $200K.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

But Samsung isn’t stopping there… THE NEXT GENERATION OF GEAR VR MAY COME WITH CONTROLLER. Although not yet officially confirmed by the Korean company, a recent FCC filing indicates that the next version of the Samsung Gear VR will boast its own controller. OCULUS RIFT ARRIVES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So let’s try to rephrase this last paragraph using the same style used by VR Youtubers in the title of their videos to attract more people: THIS EXPLOSIVE WEEK IN VR HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!! Oculus Quest and Vive Focus 3 get interesting updates. More info (Oculus Quest 2 update) More info (Vive Focus 3 update). Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand. You just turn them on and they work.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Further references. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props. Further references. Further references. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. Further references.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2017

If you jump into Facebook Spaces with your Oculus Rift, now you’ll be able to live stream your virtual world to your regular Facebook feed. Slate had been considering a VR show for a while, and were planning to build their own VR video environment. NOW YOU CAN LIVE STREAM YOUR CARTOON AVATAR ON FACEBOOK.

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InstaVR

JULY 8, 2019

For authoring, you can refer to our authoring & publishing guide for iOS. Oculus Go . There’s two main ways to publish to Oculus Go: via sideloading (using a USB cable + Android Debug Software) or through Oculus’ internal store (which allows only you and people you select to access the app). Oculus Quest.

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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. It’s not clear on what platforms this functionality will be working on, but if I had to guess, I would say Project Cambria, since its body tracking was already revealed in a video some months ago.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). Vive Focus comes to the west.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). The video regarding the UX attached to the hands has become viral pretty fast. Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I speculate on this for the following reasons: Valve has not announced a standalone headset yet while customizing the Qualcomm reference designs would be “easy” for it. Also, since the designs of the two controllers look very similar, I wonder if there is a company that is offering a “reference design” for this kind of tracked controllers….

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

. “This is groundbreaking because almost all mobile VR solutions currently on the market — including the excellent Samsung Gear VR and Google’s impending Daydream — have only three degrees of freedom tracking,” Dacuda spokesperson Vicky Sue told Hypergrid Business.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming.

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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. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift are popular solutions that enable this form of immersive experience (in conjunction with a number of controllers and sensors). I’m currently developing a non-headset / non-screen based solution which I also refer to as a Mixed Reality solution.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Despite the marked absence of Samsung, all the usual players were there. MECHANICS: This is a roomscale Vive experience, which, at New Frontier was done as a 2-person thing, but I’ve also seen it referred to as a 3-player experience. Who: Oculus Story Studio (Saschka Unseld, Wesley Allsbrook). I came, I saw, I critiqued.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And we provide more than 10,000 immersive videos and features, over more than 500 4K high resolution videos, and more than 30 games in various genres, such as sports, and shooting, horror, and rhythm action. And the interesting thing is that many Korean customers are more satisfied with videos, rather than games.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And we provide more than 10,000 immersive videos and features, over more than 500 4K high resolution videos, and more than 30 games in various genres, such as sports, and shooting, horror, and rhythm action. And the interesting thing is that many Korean customers are more satisfied with videos, rather than games.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Video games have been known to have a wide variety of effects on the mind of people. What if you could delay the onset of dementia – not with a drug, but by playing a video game or maybe, even entering the virtual reality? It hasn’t been long since Virtual Reality became a vital part of gaming industry as such.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

For this reason, virtual reality creators have invested greatly in spatial audio creation to bring the audience "into" their VR videos and we have received many requests from our users on supporting advanced audio setting. When watching a virtual reality video content, viewers can very often get lost and not know which direction to look at.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

V-eeRie’ is a compound word of 'VeeR' and 'Eerie', referring to VR experiences that are frightening and mysterious. Download VeeR VR Immersive on your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality and Google Daydream to experience the premium Halloween 360/VR contents. Who can survive? Down for the challenges?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And we provide more than 10,000 immersive videos and features, over more than 500 4K high resolution videos, and more than 30 games in various genres, such as sports, and shooting, horror, and rhythm action. And the interesting thing is that many Korean customers are more satisfied with videos, rather than games.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It’s worth noting that that majority of this first batch of ‘Widows Mixed Reality’ VR headsets are built around a nearly identical lens/display/tracking camera foundation (which we understand to have stemmed from a Microsoft reference design).

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