XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The company offers access to one of the most affordable and flexible VR headsets on the market in the form of the Oculus Quest, allowing all businesses, large or small to explore virtual reality. Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022.

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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. The Quest 2 is expected to have 8–9M units sold in 2021 (and this is compatible with the estimated sales data we have now), while the new device should sell 18–20M units in 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. The post AWE 2022: SyncReality turns your room into a cross-realities playground appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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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

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Meta (Oculus). With the Oculus ecosystem, schools and professional training companies alike are beginning to scale their virtual curriculums for a wide range of use cases. That’s where Unity comes in. There are even special deals on Unity technology available for the educational industry. Pico Interactive.

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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?). But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. (Image from Reddit).

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Alternatively, companies looking to provide their customers with more fully immersive experiences can build applications for the Oculus VR headset. Unity provides users with access to a comprehensive real-time development platform, ideal for building 3D, immersive experiences.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022? Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Image by Oculus, from Road To VR). John Carmack leaves Oculus. In a surprise move that no one was expecting, the god of programming John Carmack has decided to leave Oculus. More info (John Carmack leaves Oculus) More info (Carmack stating he’s not satisfied with VR pace) More info (Damo9000’s sarcasm on the news).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

Meta is also the company behind Oculus, one of the more accessible and affordable VR headsets on the market. Unity represents one of the most flexible environments in the XR landscape for companies looking to build their own collaborative experiences from scratch.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

For years, the company has been helping brands to unlock next-level promotional opportunities with AR ad campaign creation, and Oculus experiences. The Unity real-time development platform has become one of the industry-standard choices for the creation of powerful XR experiences over the years.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. Every year, the Oculus Connect, later (sadly) renamed as Facebook Connect, is the biggest event about XR from Facebook. You can now invite your Oculus friends to play with a web link.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

The Unity CEO opened the event with a keynote where he defined the word “metaverse” and stated that XR devices should reach similar distribution numbers of game consoles in the next 5 years (this means they won’t reach the volumes of smartphones anytime soon). In the latest Oculus SDK, Meta has included Room Setup functionalities.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. 10M is the magic number for a self-sustaining ecosystem, and 2022 seems to be the year when finally Quest will take off and can start chasing other home appliances like gaming consoles. Unity releases free guide on mobile development optimization.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The rumors also talk about a headset coming in 2022 with AR/VR and another one coming in 2023 as a smartglass.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

My silly app The Unity Cube is now in 20th place among the best-rated applications on App Lab ! Finally, Facebook has released passthrough APIs for Quest 2, so you can create AR/MR apps for the Oculus standalone headset. Space Pirate Arena to come soon to Oculus Quest. Absolutely not bad for an app… that is just a cube.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta’s App Lab will host the First Hand demo for developers to create their own games and creative content, inspired by Oculus First Contact’s six degrees of freedom (6DoF) Touch controller features. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

I can’t wait to discover more on Q3 2022 when the headset should be launched. Shiftall MeganeX, the very slim SteamVR-compatible headset announced at CES 2022, has been delayed from “spring 2022” to “end of 2022”. Quest Fitness Tracker “Oculus Move” is Getting Baked into Apple Health & Oculus App.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2022

I have made things in Unity ever since, now with 4 published titles: Custom Home Mapper (on Sidequest and Itch), as well as Space pilot Alliance , Pocket Racer , and RamCastle on App Lab. Unity is the game engine, Photon handles the networking and Dissonance is amazing for VOIP. Hello Ryan, can you introduce yourself to my readers?

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Only PSVR2 will be able to exploit the true power of this console , but it seems that this new headset won’t arrive until 2022. These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. What a pity! More info (PS5 review?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. I see 2020 as a good year of consolidation, where VR will grow linearly before the expected explosion around 2022. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections. The Quest will still be the king.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. Since his cylinder still had numbers, he also picked up 2022, the year in which the VR + passthrough AR headset by Apple, that will weigh 100–200 grams (it is made of thin air) and cost around $1000 will be released. It’s believable. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either. Learn more. News from partners (and friends).

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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. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This price is ridiculously low: it is less than what a nreal glass costs, a lot less of a HoloLens 2 and perfectly in line also with the prices of VR headsets like Oculus Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3. Lone Echo 2 will be available for Rift S (yeah, the forgotten headset) and Quest + Link from October, 12th for $40 as an exclusive Oculus release.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Respawn Entertainment and Unity. When creating the new “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond” title, Respawn wanted to reboot an entire franchise for access in the Oculus VR platform. Following a successful experience with Unity Hybrid Scaling for Apex Legends, Respawn decided to work with Unity once again on its new immersive experience.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. 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. And don’t worry, your favorite ghost will keep haunting you with VR news all over the year, not only during Halloween!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2022, the firm internationally debuted Horizon, a metaverse hub for socialisation, work, and education. The Horizon Metaverse Experience Meta first introduced a home application during the early vision of the Quest headset – originally known as the Oculus Quest, before the rebranding from Oculus to Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s called AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) and it will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world when it will be fully built out in mid-2022. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Some weeks ago, Meta announced that it was going to remove the name “Oculus” from almost all its products and services to substitute it with “Meta”.

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