Road to VR

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Oculus finally revealed that Quest will get controllerless hand-tracking input. We got to test the feature at Oculus Connect 6 last week and came away impressed. Hand-tracking is coming to Quest early next year, Facebook announced last week at Oculus Connect 6. Quest Hand-tracking Demo.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

As a consultant, I am receiving many requests for remote collaboration tools now during the lockdown, and with my partners Massimiliano Ariani and SIDI , I am also hosting some workshops in VR. Really, it works with all platforms: PC, Mac, smartphones, PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest , even Cardboards!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2021

I had already an Oculus account, then I have been forced to create a Facebook account to use the Quest 2, and you told me that it was necessary because “so we can leverage Facebook’s powerful platform for your life in VR”… and now I should create a separate account for this??? The old Oculus Desk for DK2.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Everyone with an Oculus headset is told every single time they put it on to play safely in the little play area, as if we are children being relentlessly supervised by Mark Zuckerberg. Ram Dass recordings, even his earliest workshops that became the book, Be Here Now are are still on the Internet. h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22557280

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VirtualiTeach

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Partly this was due to geographical limitations (Oculus never released the Rift or Go in the Middle East for some reason) and partly it was due to the relationship I built with the awesome Vive team based here in Dubai and their continued support of my work. My Vive Pro is still my “main” headset and the one I use for all the #CPDinVR events.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

He has always been a great innovator and I admire his work since the good old Oculus DK 2 times, when he published “Sightline: The Chair” Now he is continuing this innovation work by building a completely open metaverse called Neos , where thanks to object modeling and scripting, it is possible to create everything you want.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

In his video, it seems that the Pico Neo 3 is exactly what we would expect, that is a good clone of the Oculus Quest 2. There is also a companion app (another thing copied from Oculus), through which you can buy the games (of course connected with Alipay and WeChat pay). He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The Meta team is exploring augmented reality solutions designed to work with smartphones and smart glasses, as well as virtual reality environments compatible with a range of Oculus headsets. The toolkit is secured to enterprise standards, and includes access to a variety of workshop tools to assist individuals in getting started.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

So he’s there and he’s rolling out this VR/AR strategy for Shell out across the world. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. He has a sort of workshop there, working with universities and also working on tools for training and simulation in VR. We have Jack McCauley, I like that.

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EON Reality

MARCH 13, 2020

This experience included ideas such as the College Collaborative Network, Emergence Learning, multiple business plans, locations and implementations across KCTCS, the KCTCS IDC, the University of Kentucky TRY-IT program, Fayette County Teacher Workshops, and part of an NSF Grant also with UK.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

So he's there and he's rolling out this VR/AR strategy for Shell out across the world. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. He has a sort of workshop there, working with universities and also working on tools for training and simulation in VR. We have Jack McCauley, I like that. He's a really great guy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

So he’s there and he’s rolling out this VR/AR strategy for Shell out across the world. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. He has a sort of workshop there, working with universities and also working on tools for training and simulation in VR. We have Jack McCauley, I like that.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This year, the Venice VR event, called Venice VR Expanded, is going to be held mostly in VR , with the participating movies and artworks that are being distributed through Viveport and Oculus TV and the event being hold in VRChat with a world built by VRrOOm. There are two VIP worlds, that are available only to accredited guests.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Hypergrid Chamber of Commerce is proposing a Virtual Worlds Fair.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2022

I have worked on VR workshops where people had fun choosing crazy avatars and then going partying together. But they are also easier to understand: you don’t need a dedicated team to explain to attendees how to install VRChat and that no, the VRChat website is not the actual virtual world.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. The organizers are still looking for volunteers, presenters and sponsors.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Carillon was really built for VR: the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller are key components in the work. However, to get optimal framerates for the Oculus Rift, this work really should be performed using faster video cards. Testing with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller within Unreal has been pretty fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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