The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest gain PC VR market shares. The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). Image by Sony). Oculus explains the logic behind its store curation policy.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Top news of the week. Facebook announces Wi-Fi streaming and Resident Evil 4 for Quest.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

OpenXR includes all the major companies in the space such as Meta, Sony, Valve, Microsoft, HTC, NVIDIA, and AMD – but notably not Apple. Meta deprecated the proprietary Oculus API almost two years ago in favor of OpenXR, so Pico’s change should make it easier for certain OpenXR apps to be ported over.

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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. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

This week, we look at Sony’s tease for PSVR2, new features in Snapchat’s Lens Studio, and a whole slate of new AR glasses emerge. Let’s dive in… Sony Confirms New Playstation VR2 for PS5 with New Controllers. The product allows users to create 3D content on top of CAD models without a game engine like Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. Unity details its MARS solution.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

The very first Vision VR/AR Summit was home to keynote addresses from established leaders in the emerging industries, leaders such as Gabe Newell of SteamVR, Palmer Luckey of Oculus, and Dr. Richard Marks of PlayStation VR. The “VR Game Dev” track will tackle platform-specific development, case studies, and tool/service demos.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I like everything that we know on the PSVR 2 device because it is visible that Sony Interactive Entertainment is putting a lot of effort into releasing a high-quality headset that is on par with what the competition is offering. Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet. The Oculus Quest 2 is selling incredibly well because it offers the right combination of affordable price, good hardware, and a good software ecosystem. The Quest will still be the king.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

By the virtue of its Windows operating system, the basis of which nearly every PC VR headset uses to function, Microsoft joining the OpenXR initiative represents a win for the others involved, which include industry players like Google, Oculus, HTC, AMD, NVIDIA, Epic Games, Unity, Intel, Qualcomm, Sony, Samsung and Valve.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Soon Oculus will begin to adopt OpenXR with support reportedly coming in the latest Oculus Public Test Channel release. Appearing on the Oculus Forums , the preview release is available for testing now , just don’t expect to be running an HTC Vive or Valve Index on Oculus Home anytime soon. The current OpenXR 1.0

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

The Rec Room community is growing pretty steadily, also thanks to the great sales of the Oculus Quest. Sony announces new games for PSVR. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud. Facebook is slowly gaining a monopoly also in the PCVR market, after having dominated the standalone one. News worth a mention.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2018

Jumanji: The VR Adventure is an official VR experience created by Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and Madison Wells Media Immersive (formerly Reality One). Here, Twitch streamer XatomUK shows what the endgame looks like. We haven’t played the game, so we can’t be sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. Image by Unity Technologies). Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision). Some news on content.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In addition to releasing Oculus Quest 2, Facebook spent $150 million on content for the device (to bring you VR games from brands like Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Medal of Honor).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe. Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. A partial list of exhibitors includes: AMD Studios, Barco, Create VR, Dell, Google, HP | Nvidia, Intel, Koncept VR, Legend, LOOT Interactive, Lytro, Positron, Sony Music, Technicolor, Time Inc., LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

After 14 years of working on home and portable consoles, Ready At Dawn this month released Lone Echo and its multiplayer spinoff Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift & Touch. He’s referring to a conversation he had with Jason Rubin—Head of Content at Oculus—way back in late 2014. “We From there Oculus decided to sign it on.”.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

The Oculus founder and a girl in a cape stole the gaming show. Some 110 VR games for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive got all the attention with new demos and mixed reality performances. This was a huge year for VR during Japan’s premier Tokyo Game Show. See our video below. — コヤ所長 (@mayanmoyan) September 15, 2016.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. Once the base becomes big enough, the platform becomes extremely interesting for marketers and advertisers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

After Oculus, that has expressed concerns on the manufacture of the Quest, this week Tilt Five has stated that it will have difficulties in shipping devices to the first backers, while nReal , that is based in Beijing, has completely stopped its production. News worth a mention. Add custom environments to your Oculus Quest… if you can.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2016

First, Nate Mitchell announced during his Oculus Connect 3 keynote that Oculus will be supporting the WebVR ecosystem with the React VR framework and a VR-enabled browser called Carmel. There’s been a couple of key developments in the evolution of WebVR during the month of October. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. we can’t use OpenVR and choose to execute directly in Oculus runtime); that will be dictated by the API/SDK we are using instead. .:

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The demo got more than 100k downloads on Steam so we decided to push on and now it’s available on Steam, Oculus, VivePort, WMR, PSVR, Pico Neo2, Nolo X1. Going deeply technical, how you managed your workflow for handling so many different Unity projects? We released the demo on Steam in May 2018. You mentioned about VRTK.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The peripheral supported span from Oculus and Ultraleap Hand tracking, to Go Touch VR haptics devices and all commercial XR controllers. All are already included in Unity. PS5 by Sony Credit: Sony The haptics industry is at a great hype after the announcement of the release of Sony’s latest gaming console, the Playstation 5.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

“ We offer developers SDK’s for Unreal, Unity and web and serve avatars in many technical specifications — different animation rigs, file formats, avatar quality levels, etc.” “We’re not aiming to be the only avatar in the metaverse,” Tõke wrote. ”

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Sony) Sony shows the behind-the-scenes of PSVR 2 In a recent blog post, Sony Interactive Entertainment has shown the internal evolution of PSVR 2, from the initial experimentations to the final release. I suggest you take some time and read this post, because it has very cool insights.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

According to the report, analyzing the orders made to the lens manufacturer, the two new headsets by Sony and Facebook should be released in 2022. Do you remember that leaked email when Zuck told that he wanted to control all the technological stack Facebook works on and he wanted to acquire Unity?

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