The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

PS @oculus you may want to consider changing that tagline – the irony with the "out of stock" notes is hilarious – as it applies to ALL HEADSETS! Companies are delaying the developments of their devices and are reorganizing their strategies, so it is no more clear when XR2-powered headsets will launch.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It’s a catalyst that accelerated our digital strategy implementation. If you are in retail, entertainment or any other consumer-facing location based business with no model for digital operation, your days are numbered. We think of COVID as a catalyst for the industry,” he goes on.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It comprises a series of camera filters that are fun, engaging, and can provide a transaction between a customer and a brand or retailer.” ” See Also: Instagram’s New AR Features Will Force Brands to Change Strategy. This is true through both retail and advertising. Most AR experiences take place on a mobile phone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 28, 2017

In the middle of August 2012 I wrote my first article about Oculus. I’d previously seen some expensive VR installations, like those used by Disney , but my view inside the Oculus Rift — and the interviews I conducted with researchers at Stanford and USC — convinced me VR had a good chance of actually going mainstream. .”

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Its strategy is more akin to wanting to be a second Apple than what Google did with Android. But Meta's strategy also harms its reported own long-term goal of being an Android-like player. The Meta Quest platform on the other hand is exclusive to Meta's own devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In a summary of Black Friday videogame and hardware sales analyses, UK-based CfK Chart-Track, citing “retail/web sales where the data is captured electronically each day via EPoS systems,” says that PlayStation VR had a “huge” week in the UK. Sony’s success in moving PlayStation VR headsets—with an estimated 1.5

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Cool gadgets such as the Oculus Quest (due in Spring of 2019), GoPro Hero 7, Beyerdynamic Amiron wireless headphones , and a Litter Robot that helps clean up after you cat does their business, are just a few of the examples found in this year’s gift guide. AR has proven to be a big sales booster for retailers. “61%

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

More info (Meta’s reported financials) More info (Some graphs on Meta’s financials) More info (Meta may have to slow down some investments) More info (All the official financial numbers by Meta) More info (Zuck commenting Meta’s strategy) More info (11–12M Quests estimate). Its first retail store is opening in Burlingame, CA on May 9th.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. I mean, besides the Oculus Quest 2, there’s hardly anything to get locally. It’s a royal pain to get hardware in Chile.

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ARVR

JUNE 2, 2022

For example, Santa Monica offers users who download a social gaming application the ability to collect tokens as they move through and a mixed-reality version of the city’s retail district (National League of Cities, 2022). In 2021, Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its intention to invest $3.3

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 8, 2019

From marketing and sales to logistics and training to design and remote collaboration, you will learn how the world’s largest organizations are implementing an XR For Business strategy and why you should too. We have been working in XR since 2014 when I first tried the Oculus Rift DK1.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

launched its combat experience Swords of Gargantua for PC VR headsets as well as Oculus Quest. Swords of Gargantua – Oculus Quest screenshot. ” Vive Cosmos will be released on 3rd October, the new high-end head-mounted display (HMD) from HTC Vive, retailing for £699 GBP/$699 USD. .

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2022

What’s worth recalling is why Meta pursued the strategy of selling headsets at-cost to begin with. This wasn’t the company’s initial plan, the Rift headset and its controllers retailed for nearly $800 when they launched and it was only after years of price drops that the company was able to scale sales of the device.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2016

And while training football players might still technically fall under the umbrella of entertainment and not utility, STRIVR has extended its reach into training the employees of an anonymous international retailer. STRIVR has used HTC Vive, Samsung Gear, the Oculus CV1 and Oculus DK2 headsets. “Out Photo courtesy Fox.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 8, 2019

From marketing and sales to logistics and training to design and remote collaboration, you will learn how the world’s largest organizations are implementing an XR For Business strategy and why you should too. We have been working in XR since 2014 when I first tried the Oculus Rift DK1.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 25, 2021

The company’s technology, including integrated circuits, 3D sensors, camera modules and AI-based software, have a wide range of applications, such as robotics, touchless controls, autonomous vehicles and smart retail. eYs3D’s products have been used in the Facebook Oculus Rift S and Valve Index virtual reality headsets, and Techman Robots.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others. Think about dwell times in retail stores.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Before Oculus can have its three days of fun later this week, Google will be getting its time in the spotlight at its own Made By Google press conference in San Francisco tomorrow. This isn’t a VR-dedicated event like Oculus Connect, but we are expecting some pretty significant announcements on this front from the tech giant.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Extended Reality evangelist Rori DuBoff from Accenture joins us to advise the businesses of today how not to miss the same boat, and shares strategies on staying ahead of the curve. As a virtual, augmented, and mixed reality evangelist, Rori advises companies on strategy and marketing opportunities for brand and business transformation.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Extended Reality evangelist Rori DuBoff from Accenture joins us to advise the businesses of today how not to miss the same boat, and shares strategies on staying ahead of the curve. As a virtual, augmented, and mixed reality evangelist, Rori advises companies on strategy and marketing opportunities for brand and business transformation.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Their facial tracking modification technology eventually enabled the popular “Lenses” feature.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 27, 2017

“We’ve actually built a CAVE system using the tech, which was deployed into 15 stores of a major home improvement retailer,” Jones wrote in an email. Lightform is funded by Lux , Seven Seas , the National Science Foundation , and Steven LaValle (a former principal scientist at Oculus).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 30, 2017

Oculus, too, quietly raised the price of its Rift from £499 to £549 when it launched at domestic retailers. With Brexit plunging Britain into uncertain times, are those business strategies at risk? In the following weeks and months HTC raised the price of its Vive VR headset , from £689 to £759, and that price remains today.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Over the past 15+ years, Alice has helped many start-ups, corporations and institutions shape their communications strategy and tell their stories to a global audience. Cathy Hackl was selected as a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad Fellow, a program designed to support promising VR content creators and help them bring their unique ideas to market.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I've been with the company for over three years across a variety of different functions, including business strategy, B2C business, and B2B business. So we are focusing on looking at new business models and emerging technologies, then tying those to our strategy businesses. Alan: No, not AR, but more VR, but in a small form factor.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I've been with the company for over three years across a variety of different functions, including business strategy, B2C business, and B2B business. So we are focusing on looking at new business models and emerging technologies, then tying those to our strategy businesses. Alan: No, not AR, but more VR, but in a small form factor.

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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. As always, they’re doing a great job not only with the product but also with the communication strategy. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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Upload VR

MAY 16, 2023

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says he saw an "earlier version" of the unannounced Apple headset. Luckey went on to say that the headset will be expensive, which aligns with other reports indicating it could retail for up to $3000. The Oculus Rift was kind of a flagship headset. It is gonna be a huge deal."

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I've been with the company for over three years across a variety of different functions, including business strategy, B2C business, and B2B business. So we are focusing on looking at new business models and emerging technologies, then tying those to our strategy businesses. Alan: No, not AR, but more VR, but in a small form factor.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Retail and consumer was a big one as well. So we’ve got an update from HTC and Oculus on what’s the state of the hardware. Alan: I think retailers need to stop thinking in terms of recreating a store, and think in terms of recreating an experience or a feeling that you want your brand to be associated with.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once the retail version has launched, we’ll be able to drill more into specifics in our full review. There’s still plenty more to do to get the game in retail condition though, so in these next three weeks we may see all the missing pieces come together.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Retail and consumer was a big one as well. So we’ve got an update from HTC and Oculus on what’s the state of the hardware. Alan: I think retailers need to stop thinking in terms of recreating a store, and think in terms of recreating an experience or a feeling that you want your brand to be associated with.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

According to UploadVR , Oculus intends to release their higher-end standalone VR headset named Santa Cruz at the first quarter of 2019. Oculus is ambitious on taking the market share by designing a VR headset with cameras added for inside-out tracking of 6DOF head movement and two Oculus Touch-style controllers. Social VR Apps.

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