The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

Augmented Virtuality and the connections between the real and virtual worlds One thing that fascinates me the most about mixed reality is creating a connection between the real and the virtual world. The kitchen is the virtual setting, and the box is the real element living in it.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2021

Facebook is rolling out its latest avatars, Oculus Avatars 2.0, which it hopes will finally unify virtual identify across Oculus applications and Facebook products. ” Three applications now support the Oculus Avatars 2.0 ” Three applications now support the Oculus Avatars 2.0

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. The best VR headset on the market just got even better.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today I made two little big discoveries about the Oculus Quest 2 that together mean that you can use this headset as an AR device whenever and wherever you want. The post Oculus Quest 2 passthrough now works without boundaries appeared first on The Ghost Howls. Let me explain everything to you! Guardian disabling is now persistent.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Palmer Luckey, the creator of the original Oculus Rift headset, says he’s modified a VR headset such that it can kill the user for real. The provocative art project is inspired by the anime Sword Art Online in which players who are trapped in VR die for real if they die in the virtual world.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2018

During the Warriors Parade, Under Armour is launching a pop-up event in Oakland along the parade route at 1500 Broadway where you can experience the piece in a VR gallery via Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus. The post Under Armour Builds Virtual World to Celebrate Stephen Curry’s 3rd NBA World Championship appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Blair Witch: Oculus Quest Edition will cut you out from reality and drop you into the mysterious lore of the Blair Witch. Unlike other VR horror games that rely on basic jump scares to spook players, Blair Witch: Oculus Quest Edition features more psychological horror. Thankfully you’re not alone in Blair Witch: Oculus Quest Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

After Venice VR Expanded has come to an end, I have finally had the time to experiment with Oculus Quest AR Passthrough. What is impressive on the good side is instead the stability of the tracking : we all know that Oculus Insight is the best in class tracking solution among VR headsets, and in AR this is even more important.

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Slashgear

JULY 21, 2021

Facebook’s acquisition of modern VR pioneer Oculus has always been a mind-boggling one. Naturally, the social media giant wants to leave its imprint on anything that can be remotely tied to being social, including in virtual worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today I’ve played around with Oculus Quest , trying to hack it a bit via command-line tools (ADB), hoping to activate some cool features. Oculus Go was codenamed “Pacific”, instead. Oculus Assistant. I’ve made some interesting discoveries, and of course, I want to share them with you, the VR community!

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

There are very few virtual worlds more perplexing than VRChat. Perhaps it’s due to the open-source nature of the application; users are responsible for the creation of most of the game’s content, whether that be hand-crafted avatars and activities or entirely new worlds. Tired of your current, boney form?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. And while Oculus’ first stab at the feature is reasonably solid, there’s still limitations around accuracy, latency, pose detection, and tracking coverage.

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2020

Check out this next-gen office powered by Oculus’ Passthrough technology. Earlier this week Facebook’s head of AR & VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed off an experimental mixed reality workspace powered via prototype Oculus hardware. “This is real footage using prototype headsets.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The post New ‘High Fidelity’ Partnership Makes it Easier to Host Your Own Virtual World appeared first on Road to VR. Check out this handy guide on how to deploy your own domain using DigitalOcean’s cloud tech.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The virtual world will add native NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) integration allowing users to place any NFT directly onto Somnium Land Parcels they own and explore them in full VR in headsets like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Valve Index. “We are putting a lot of effort into the immersive aspect of our VR world.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2021

The new avatar system will debut first on Facebook Horizon for Oculus Quest headsets. Yesterday, Mark Rabkin, VP of Oculus, sat down with CNET’s Scott Stein to chat about the companies advancements in VR avatar technology, during which a brand new VR avatar system for Oculus Quest/Quest 2 headsets was revealed.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The latest iteration of its one-size-fits-all Forte Data Glove can now be combined with the Oculus Quest controllers, integrating BeBop’s hand tracking technology with the Quest’s 3D tracking. According to Bebop Sensors, the latency between your real-world actions and what happens in VR is virtually unnoticeable.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2017

On stage at Oculus Connect 4 today, Oculus revealed the Oculus Go headset, the company’s affordability-focused standalone VR headset. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the new Oculus Go headset today during the Oculus Connect keynote. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Gravity Jack

APRIL 14, 2023

The virtual reality (VR) landscape has been rapidly evolving over the past few years, and one of the most promising advancements that are set to change the game is the Oculus passthrough functionality. First and foremost, the Oculus passthrough functionality brings a new level of safety and convenience to VR experiences.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Mixed reality is a way to give spectators a window into virtual experiences, showing how the player inhabits a virtual world. Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2019

Oculus’ new ‘Defy Reality’ ad spot for Quest effectively uses mixed reality video capture to show players in VR, instead of just showing first person footage that’s hard to understand if you haven’t actually been in a headset before. Oculus is far from the first to use mixed reality capture for VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 25, 2017

Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action. We only saw them through a picture at first, but now a video has surfaced online showing them in action.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2017

Oculus Connect 4, the company’s fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what’s coming to the company’s VR Audio SDK.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following its expansion onto new VR and non-VR platforms alike, social virtual world Rec Room is seeing serious growth. Pair that breadth of accessibility with built-in tools which allow creators to make and share their own virtual experiences, and you’ve got a recipe for a thriving virtual world.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The tech world is abuzz with news of the metaverse and how it can open up a world of opportunities. This vast network of virtual worlds is the stuff of science fiction brought to life with today’s technology. A Network of Virtual Worlds. Virtual Real Estate . Digital Relationships.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2022

Starting next month, Venues will officially merge with Horizon Worlds , a VR social platform where users can build and share their own virtual worlds, host live events, and develop interactive games and activities. The company says you’ll still be able to catch highlights and replays via Oculus TV.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Facebook looks to up the Oculus ante by investing in eye-tracking technology. With 2016 coming to a close, it’s time to start looking toward the state of virtual reality in 2017. This saves an immense amount of computational power since the system doesn’t have to render the entire virtual world all at one time. .

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, as-ever delivered an inspiring presentation at today’s F8 conference, this time on the topic of Augmented Reality. Oculus Research is hard at work on AR, and we’re far from the only ones”, says Abrash, but notes that many of the necessary enabling technologies do not currently exist.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To bring your entire body into the virtual world, Ikimasho turned to Barbara Chane-Kane, who was responsible for all of dance choreography featured in Ubisoft’s Just Dance VR game. Chane-Kane’s design approach connects you with the game not only physically, but on an emotional level as well. Image Credit: Ikimasho.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

You see, Tux is my artificial pet dragon in the virtual world of Beast Pets. Launched in early access on SteamVR and the Oculus Store in 2019, Beast Pets allows players to play with and care for virtual pet dragons. Though new to the world of VR, the idea behind these digital companions was spawned over a decade ago.

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Upload VR

MAY 23, 2023

Four years ago this week, Oculus Quest started shipping and changed VR forever. For the majority of people, who owned neither a gaming PC nor a PS4 and simply didn't want one, the only real option for VR was the Oculus Go, which lacked positional tracking. What it really offered was PC VR on a diet, not just Go on steroids.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2021

The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity includes a beta release of a spectator camera capability which will allow developers to show a third-person view to spectators watching on a smartphone or web browser. Soon, developers on Quest will be able to add the same kind of feature to their games.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A Dallas, Texas jury awarded half a billion dollars to ZeniMax Wednesday after finding that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, and by extension Oculus, violated the terms of a non-disclosure agreement in the early days of developing the Rift VR headset. In January, Oculus Luckey took the stand to deny the claim.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The team at VRrOOm developed the worlds and functionalities in VRChat , working 24/7 to ensure that every artist’s work was correctly uploaded and accessible. The virtual worlds of Venice VR Expanded became a forum for discovery of the virtual world and the people who are in them.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2022

Participants joined using various VR devices such as Oculus, mobile devices, desktops, and MacBooks. Orlando aims to create an immersive and functional digital twin that will showcase the city in a virtual world, helping people like potential investors experience the metro without leaving their offices or homes.

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