The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The glasses, codenamed Orion, should be made to replace smartphones and are slated for a release date of 2023–2025, that seems very reasonable, considering that no present tech is able to create truly consumer AR. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! All of this seems cool, but also very confused. Other relevant news.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Palmer Luckey's Anduril is taking over the US Army's IVAS HMD program, replacing Microsoft's customized HoloLens solution. The Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program was first announced back in 2018 , and in 2021 the contract was awarded to Microsoft , with a stated value of up to $21.88

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2023

Microsoft, Qualcomm and Magic Leap announced a partnership to “guide the evolution” of the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), a cross-platform AR/VR development framework which has now gone open-source. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced MRTK3 is on track to reach general availability to developers on the second week of September 2023.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 9, 2023

VRChat is cancelling support for the legacy device on June 30, 2023, in preparation for Meta dropping support for the device’s SDK, which could make the application unstable. The closing of the original Quest device means that VRChat cannot securely facilitate an optimised platform or provide customer assistance. .”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was only on the platform for a few years however, and was gone long before Microsoft shut down Altspace VR in March 2023. Wizards of the Coast partnered with now-defunct social VR platform Altspace VR in 2015 to bring the actual D&D tabletop game to VR for the first time officially.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Meta Quest for Business, unveiled at the Connect conference in 2023, represents a new era for extended reality in the enterprise. This offering could be the key to helping the tech giant preserve its market share, as innovators like Apple , Microsoft, and Magic Leap all increase their focus in the business world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled. First of all, it has revealed “Oculus Publishing”, the publishing branch of Meta which is helping external studios in developing and launching games for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Quest 1 users who currently have access to Meta Horizon Home social features will lose access to these features on 5 March 2023. Thanks to this, the card will be able to keep two Wi-Fi connections at the same time: one towards a router to have an internet connection, and the other directly to another device, like the Oculus Quest.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

Within VR, IDC projects the greatest growth for standalones like Oculus Quest and VIVE Focus. Oculus Quest — the fastest growing standalone — sold about 425,000 units in 2019 according to our calculations. Microsoft committed 100,000 units to the U.S. This is where the momentum lies today, especially Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. We can expect so all big tech companies to comply with it in 2023.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 14, 2023

” Sometime I wonder what the path to consumer VR would have looked like if Palmer Luckey & Brendan Iribe hadn’t sold Oculus to Facebook. What if Oculus hadn’t hired researchers like Abrash from Valve? If you can’t onboard people quickly you can’t have a mass market product.” ” Yup. Got fired today.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry. Screengrab of the VRTUOLUO website.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. It is just a bit more expensive than the $300 needed to buy an Oculus Quest 2. Wendy’s is not afraid of roasting Oculus Funny link. Some XR fun.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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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.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Yet Facebook , Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today. VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper). Facebook Messenger , Instagram , TikTok , Snapchat , Line ).

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Anduril's Lattice software will run on Microsoft's militarized HoloLens IVAS for US Army soldiers. Microsoft's IVAS Struggles The IVAS contract was announced in 2021 as being worth up to $21.9 Following these evaluations and new order ban, Microsoft set out to develop a new upgraded IVAS 1.2 What Is HoloLens IVAS? left) vs 1.0

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

APRIL 28, 2023

This comes despite stronger-than-expected profits at the start of 2023. The Reality Labs division develops and manufactures Meta’s VR headsets, such as the Oculus Quest 2. Microsoft first announced its acquisition in 2022. The division also develops AR and VR technologies like the Quest Pro headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to the regulators, Meta launched a “campaign to conquer VR” in 2014 after buying out VR headset manufacturer Oculus. The company hopes to launch its Quest 3 consumer headset to boost its standing in the mixed reality market later in 2023.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 20, 2024

The report indicated that the global market for smart glasses reached approximately 678,600 units in 2023. per cent from 2023 to 2030. On a regional level, the smart glasses market in the US expanded to encompass around 432,300 units in 2023, contributing to the projected 2030 market forecast.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Meta is coming out of 2023 with a new sense of strength compared to the start of the year. 2023 started off with scepticism. While some pundits felt let down by an underused consumer Metaverse, the firm is now joining enterprise solutions provider giants such as Microsoft and AWS to provide business-ready XR solutions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the VRARA and its Global Executive Director Kris Kolo , Meta’s renewed dive into the business world – following the Quest Pro and other delves during the Oculus era – may be rife with issues. Meta is an openly consumer-first XR solutions provider.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2021, gaming industry veteran and long-time Oculus team member Jason Rubin moved into a role on the executive team at Meta leading “Metaverse Content” and he’s likely leading this charge into the next generation of Quest hardware.

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ARVR

JANUARY 29, 2021

Tech analyst Jon Prosser has already leaked that Apple is working on a set of AR glasses, currently set to be released in 2023 at the earliest (though some industry insiders claim that initial small-volume production of the glasses will start as early as 2021).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Meta Quest for Business, introduced during the Connect conference in 2023, is a subscription service that allows companies to access extra technical support for their headsets and new control features. There’s even a handy feature that lets you automatically remove Meta, Facebook, and Oculus accounts from Quest headsets in bulk.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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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. Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

The story goes on telling that Apple VR headset had realistic visuals and sound, it was super-cool and probably we’ll see a release date of 2022/2023. Ready At Dawn was already collaborating with Oculus since various years, so this is not surprising. You can now buy HoloLens 2 directly from Microsoft. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It is an RPG set in an unforgiving world, and the trailer is pretty cool; Vertigo 2, one of the most awaited sequels of the VR industry, is set to arrive on March 30th, 2023. Shooter Gambit has been delayed (again) to Q1 2023. Does Palmer want Oculus back? billion in Series E funding , for a new value of the company set at $8.48

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Adobe to bring its apps on Quest Pro (Upload VR) All work-related updates of Meta Connect (Oculus blog). Partnership with Microsoft. Highlights of the partnership between Meta and Microsoft. Meta and Microsoft worked together to integrate Quest Pro into the Microsoft ecosystem. Other productivity applications.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

And Meta will keep putting a lot of money towards this vision : in Q1 2023, the losses of Meta Reality Labs have been in the order of magnitude of billions of dollars, again. An important XR manufacturer has just launched a plastic cardboard in 2023. I think this is a wonderful piece of news for the ecosystem. Yes, you’ve read it well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. The guy, which goes under the nickname of HYPEX, is known to be a reliable leaker for Fortnite, so it is quite sure that there are now references to Oculus in the Fortnite code. There are hints about Fortnite coming to Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. Microsoft Build is one of the most important yearly events organized by Microsoft. Other news. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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