The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Varjo launches XR-4 headset) More info (Varjo’s launch on Road To VR) More info (Varjo opens up waiting list for consumers) Other relevant news Quest 3 is selling well, but Quest 2 much better Quest 3 sales are not going bad, and the headset, after Black Friday , has now already 5% of the shares of devices on the SteamVR survey.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Use of VR in the Field of Education Vindevogel goes on to say that VR will be a useful tool in the field of education. More Accessible Developer Tools VR solutions are becoming more popular in commercial settings and it’s expected that developing such solutions will become simpler in the coming years.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Starting with quantitative analysis ARtillery’s recent survey findings can provide more color. Web AR meanwhile lingers at 18 percent of survey responses. As for apps, they perform well in the survey, but we’ll set them aside for now. Oculus, HTC and Playstation are doing it in VR,” said 8th Wall’s Erik Murphy-Chutorian.

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ARVR

JUNE 2, 2022

Physical devices provide the gateway interfaces to the Metaverse, including Augmented Reality (AR) devices such as Ray Ban glasses, Virtual Reality (VR) goggles such as Oculus, mobile phone applications, and computers. ACM Computing Surveys , 45 (3), 1–38. Fusing Blockchain and AI with Metaverse: A Survey.” Accessed May, 2022.

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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). New troubles for Oculus Rift users.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This game although designed for entertainment will also prove to be a supportive tool to allow X to exercise without realising or even being forced to do it. The team did much research including a great survey that is linked in this post. Link to VR Accessibility Survey PDF. I thank the team at ILMX and D.A.G.E.R.

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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). Oculus explains the logic behind its store curation policy. Top news of the week.

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AR Insider

JULY 30, 2019

adults in Thrive’s established survey engine. The category is represented best by the $199 Oculus Go and the more recently-launched Quest. Oculus CTO John Carmack advocates this optimization strategy. To add context to survey findings throughout this report, who’s answering the questions? Start Small. Cross Section.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. For example, the last time we covered one of their reports it was an industry survey with Perkins Coie. Equity and Inclusion. “XR

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Oculus Quest is sold out, and Coronavirus may make the situation even worse.

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AR Insider

MARCH 10, 2020

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. ARtillery’s consumer AR survey with Thrive Analytics shows that 67 percent of AR users reported monthly or greater frequency and 78 percent reported high satisfaction. But there are also confidence signals. Mobile: The Near Term Play. Snap also reports 30x daily use. Revenue Mix.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

Change cannot be achieved gradually, and the pain was obviously not big enough to replace existing tools, even though the problems were known (difficult to understand instructions for complex tasks, wasted time searching for information, unnecessary travel costs for experts, etc.). Urgency is a Catalyst for Change. The Rise of Remote.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

This was a virtual reality (VR) experience called A Ride in 2049 , which then asked users to take a survey, revealing the differences between the two nations. A Ride in 2049 was taken on a six-month tour of automotive and community events across the US and Europe, with over 1,000 guests taking the survey. As Dr. David S.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

According to the Steam Hardware Survey, Pico 4 now represents 0.67% of the player base on Steam. Does Palmer want Oculus back? I tweeted the news saying that “Palmer Luckey is not doing that bad without Oculus…” and Palmer Luckey himself answered to me commenting “Without Oculus for now, anyway”. More info (GameVroom).

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ARVR

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is not only about physical health because these tools are very adapted to bring “useful” entertainment. Top 50 Terminologies related to AR/VR The Medical Staff Abbott uses Oculus Go for cardiologist virtual reality training Abbott chooses VR technology to facilitate the user training on its intracoronary imaging platform.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

On the VR side, Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope in both quality and consumer traction. That’s everything from retailers to brands to entertainment companies using AR tools like Unity, 8th Wall and Adobe Aero. For a deeper indexed and searchable archive, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. That leaves the question of what 2020 will bear.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Palmer Luckey’s intuition in 2012 was realizing that with the launch of the iPhone, finally VR could have its iPhone moment (many of them, actually) and that’s how the Oculus Rift was born. In the middle of this, of course, the Apple Vision Pro was also an iPhone moment, without forgetting Half-Life: Alyx in the mix.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The FTC has opened an investigation on Meta about its anti-competitive practices related to applications that propose services similar to its ones on the Oculus Store (Pepperidge Farms remembers when YUR was de facto cloned by Oculus Move). It is just a bit more expensive than the $300 needed to buy an Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

He also said that the market is big enough for HTC and Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest gets the runtime update promised at OC6. This week, Oculus has started distributing the runtime update for Oculus Quest carrying with it some of the features promised at OC6 : Oculus Go emulation.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

In addition to the low-end Google Cardboard, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Samsung Gear VR and most recently Google Daydream, provide a variety of viewers with different capabilities and price points. Businesses that offer volumetric capture tools and studio time for content creation (such as startup.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info Meta updates Oculus Spatializer Meta has released an update to its Meta XR Audio SDK which introduces a new “Universal HRTF” function that will make the spatialization of the sound around the user even more realistic than before. Let me copy-paste for you what it is about: AR/VR creators, this survey is for you.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

VRChat is one of the most popular social VR worlds, and one of its strong points is the huge community , which every day creates not only new worlds, but also new avatars, events, creation tools, and mods. You can now try games on the Oculus Store. And exactly mods have been at the center of a big drama happening this week.

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AR Insider

APRIL 22, 2021

ARtillery Intelligence authored survey questions and a narrative report while Thrive Analytics administered the survey through its established survey engine and ongoing Virtual Reality Monitor research. On the bright side, Standalone VR – exemplified by Oculus Quest 2 — was a standout in this year’s survey.

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ARVR

JULY 21, 2020

Examples of the former include Oculus Rift and Valve Index , while the latter include Gear VR and Google Cardboard. The displayed data shows the results of a survey conducted in the United States in 2017 on fields of application for virtual reality headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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. Market analysis firm ARtillery Intelligence has conducted a survey about VR in the US. Image by Facebook).

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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. In November, the company launched Vive Focus, a standalone HMD for enterprise, as well as collaboration tool Sync. Walmart was very active, beginning with its acquisition of VR startup Spatialand in February.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. Survey and Medical Image Visualization. PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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AR Insider

MAY 20, 2020

ARtillery Intelligence authored survey questions and a narrative report while Thrive Analytics administered the survey through its established survey engine and ongoing Virtual Reality Monitor research. The Virtual Reality Monitor applies Thrive Analytics’ acumen and time-tested practices in survey research.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

We all know that HoloLens 2 is a very powerful tool for remote assistance and collaboration, and can, for instance, be used to watch a 3D model of an industrial machine by many people together that have to discuss about it. Oculus Quest adds OpenXR, but rolls back new UI. It has been quite an interesting week for Oculus Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. So, if a school would like a one-to-one setup with the Oculus Go, where they buy 20 headsets, and then in addition to that, they want a license to our content, we’ll sell them that package.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. So, if a school would like a one-to-one setup with the Oculus Go, where they buy 20 headsets, and then in addition to that, they want a license to our content, we’ll sell them that package.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. Oculus support at its best Funny link. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

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??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

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