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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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. AR Wins With “Training Wheels”. Though the successful case studies get disproportionate attention, panning back to the larger market’s resistance is required for a full view. But there are also confidence signals. This includes five predictions, listed below. billion in 2020.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

Retention can be improved when focus is improved, which headsets can also help with, according to Esther Tang, a graduate student in UX studying XR at the University of Michigan. “[In In the same discussion (and other discussions throughout the day) Facebook’s ownership of Oculus also came up as a privacy concern.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. I started off training in theater all over the world. In college I was a Lafayette undergrad, and then I studied at the National Theater Institute. We’re working with Unity on this project.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Concept picture of SenseGlove used in industrial settings for VR training. SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

WorldViz virtual reality solutions are being used in a variety of ways in learning institutions, from enhancing virtual learning and collaboration, boosting academic research, studying human and behavioral interactions, to enhancing student language and culture. The university is now using Unity heavily. Eric Hodgson.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico has been a very smart company, and all these years it has been able to evolve from the mediocre Pico Neo 1, to the interesting Pico Neo 2, to arrive at the Pico Neo 3, that on paper, looks like a Chinese version of the Oculus Quest 2 , and it seems to have all the features to compete properly with this device. But is it really that good?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??”

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Top news of the week. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now they’re pivoting the technology to suit more training-based use cases, and CEO Brandon Naids is on the show to explain how. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. It's a big hub.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now they’re pivoting the technology to suit more training-based use cases, and CEO Brandon Naids is on the show to explain how. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. It's a big hub.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now they’re pivoting the technology to suit more training-based use cases, and CEO Brandon Naids is on the show to explain how. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. It's a big hub.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. Dean: I've trained theirs, but I haven't tried that particular demo. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Charles ( @cwan2011 ) is a software developer experienced in both iOS and Unity game development. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Bad Dreams.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. This means that in 2020, AR and VR will still be used mostly in the enterprise sector, and mostly for training and maintenance.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2017

The paper describes a system which has been trained with a ‘deep learning / neural network’ approach, using eight hours of reference footage (2,543 sentences) from a single speaker to teach the system the shape the mouth should make during various units of speech (called phonemes) and combinations thereof.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

You can now actually grab the floating Oculus DK2 and try to put it on! We’ll come back to the Interaction Engine later when we look at designing the brand-new Weightless Training Room. Now with our Unity Detectors Scripts , giving users feedback on their current hand pose is extremely simple. The Training Room.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course). After all this study, a random light pattern appears, and I don’t see it. The Unity SDK for NextMind is just fantastic. Then I go on with “C” and I get 3Hz, and so on.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. score on the Oculus App Lab now. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store….

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. I’ve listened to a lot of his lectures, and the way he communicates very old philosophical concepts through engaging, elegant trains of thought always gets me. Training yourself to break things down to understand them transfers to all aspects of life.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. So, you know, factories, training — that type of thing. It’s to train social care workers using virtual reality. I have read that the case study, and I will put it in the show notes for anybody who wants to read it. That is just amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. So, you know, factories, training — that type of thing. It’s to train social care workers using virtual reality. I have read that the case study, and I will put it in the show notes for anybody who wants to read it. That is just amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

And let’s unpack this, because if you’re somebody who’s in the aviation world, this is a technology that can be used right across your enterprise; from previsualization, marketing, sales, training, remote assistance, remote collaboration — it can be used everywhere. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

And let’s unpack this, because if you’re somebody who’s in the aviation world, this is a technology that can be used right across your enterprise; from previsualization, marketing, sales, training, remote assistance, remote collaboration — it can be used everywhere. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering.

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