The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

My feed on social media is full of posts about the Apple Vision Pro, which has just been released a few days ago. So, as you can expect, a big part of this newsletter will be about Apple’s device, but actually there are also a few interesting pieces of news that regard other products and other companies.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

This is a very useful resource for all of us XR developers that are going very soon going to experiment with Mixed Reality applications on a headset by Meta, Apple, or one of their competitors. More info Immersed VISOR to support hand tracking and eye tracking It seems that Immersed truly wants to compete with Apple with its VISOR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” billion in 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

We plan to continue maintaining the system software with critical bug fixes and security patches until 2024. Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Could this really be the year of the Apple headset? Timberman VR aims at bringing the popular game Timberman to Oculus Quest 2. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2024

Meta announced last week it’s set to release Horizon OS (ex-Quest OS) to select third-party OEMs , marking a monumental shift in how the company hopes to compete with Apple now that it’s released Vision Pro. Image courtesy Meta “You could drive the Apple displays from Quest silicon.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The question on everybody’s mind is AR glasses…, particularly what Apple will end up doing. Many signals indicate that we won’t see Apple AR glasses in 2021, but we’ll see the ball moved forward from other companies like Vuzix which just unveiled its MicroLED smart glasses at CES. billion by 2024. Other takeaways?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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Upload VR

MARCH 6, 2025

Pretty much every headset and runtime (except Apple Vision Pro and PlayStation VR2 on PS5) supports OpenXR, sure. Facebook Deprecates Proprietary Oculus APIs In Favor Of OpenXR Facebook will deprecate its proprietary Oculus APIs in favor of industry standard OpenXR. But the reality, today at least, is more complicated.

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Upload VR

JUNE 3, 2024

Meta is gearing up for Meta Connect 2024 on September 25 and 26 for its next set of major updates in VR and AR technology. The event has been held late in each calendar year since 2014, first as Oculus Connect , then as Facebook Connect , and since 2022 as Meta Connect.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 20, 2025

Back in 2018 every Oculus Rift stopped working due to an expired certificate. More recently, every internet-connected Quest headset stopped working for around an hour in March 2024 due to a server error, leading to Meta vowing to make Quest headsets "more resilient" to server issues going forward.

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Upload VR

JUNE 8, 2023

Apple confirmed Vision Pro's display refresh rate. In a WWDC23 developer talk, Apple confirmed that the display refresh rate is 90Hz for most content. So why does Apple Vision Pro use 96Hz for 24fps content? This is also why Oculus chose 72Hz as the refresh rate for Oculus Go and Oculus Quest - 72 is also a multiple of 24.

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Voices of VR

APRIL 8, 2025

Ant Williams is a freediving athlete featured in the third episode of The Adventure Series titled “Ice Dive” that’s co-produced by Apple and Atlantic Studios (formerly Atlantic Productions). Apple Immersive Video is a different format than spatial video.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Road To VR) More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Upload VR) Valve releases its own version of Quest Link Out of the blue, Valve has launched Steam Link, which basically is… Oculus Air Link offered directly by SteamVR. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 14, 2024

UploadVR had been receiving review units multiple days in advance of launch under embargo from Oculus/Facebook/Meta for 8 years now: both Rift headsets, the Touch controllers, Oculus Go, and every Quest to date - until now. Slide about Quest 3S from Meta Connect 2024. Why Doesn't UploadVR Have A Quest 3S Review Yet?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399. And in the end, the beginning of June is a good opportunity to answer whatever Google had announced mid May at Google I/O and at the same time to put pressure on Apple for the WWDC conference in mid-June.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Following funding via COVID-related investments, the region gained the support required to kick off the VR immersive learning program, starting with just 50 Oculus Gos, before reaching its current hardware figure. ” A new wave of XR influence emerges with the Apple Vision Pro recording sales figures of roughly 200,000 headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? Apple ARKit 3.5 It is no mystery that Apple is currently the best mobile augmented reality company, and the latest update to ARKit confirms this. More info (ARKit 3.5

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

units by 2024, which is a compound annual growth rate of 81.5 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. million units, up 23.6 percent from 2019.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

iFixit took a microscope to Apple Vision Pro's OLED microdisplays to reveal their true active resolution. Apple Vision Pro Teardown Reveals The Secrets Of EyeSight iFixit tore down Apple Vision Pro, giving a fascinating look at its intricate design and revealing the secrets of EyeSight. From iFixit's extended teardown.

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Upload VR

APRIL 26, 2024

reaction as the original Oculus Rift. Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! I can't believe this!"

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Upload VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

There's already a Chinese knockoff of Apple Vision Pro, and we tried it on at CES. EmdoorVR's AX162 It's clearly designed to resemble Apple Vision Pro as closely as possible, to ride the wave of Vision Pro's reputation and popularity. A to-scale 3D render of the real Apple Vision Pro at a very similar angle.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For example, several sources suggested Quest Pro would be named "Quest 2 Pro" and that Apple Vision Pro would be called "Apple Reality Pro". Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was manufactured and co-designed by Lenovo. How LG's branding will appear on the reported 2025 headset is not yet known.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2024

Apple officially revealed the Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. Some other headsets like Meta Quest Pro and Pico 4 have their battery in the rear of the strap, but Apple's design takes it off your head entirely with an external battery tethered to a magnetic connector on the left arm. hours (video) 1.5-2.5 5 GHz) 6E (2.4+5+6

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The development studio behind UploadVR's Game of the Year for 2024 will continue with bug fixes for the game, but the Batman: Arkham Shadow team is starting to close the book on this chapter of the Arkham saga starting at version 1.4, Meta-owned Camouflaj released Arkham Shadow in October 2024 with monthly updates following until now.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 3, 2022

There’s a lot of hardware on the horizon, with confirmed and rumored AR and VR headsets abound — PSVR 2, an Apple mixed reality headset, the Lynx R-1 and more. Apple Headset. Apple has yet to officially confirm the existence of its mixed reality headset. You can read more about Apple’s rumored headset here.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Meta and Apple are building from different directions a path to the same future with virtual worlds to visit, spatial calling with hyper-realistic avatars, and all day augmentation. VR: Starting With Meta Quest Meta started with VR as Facebook in 2014 by acquiring Oculus.

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Upload VR

MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, for example, tried and failed to ship better PC VR headsets than the Rift as standalone VR became Zuckerberg's focused strategy. Facebook had around 10,000 employees when it acquired Oculus in 2014.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This could bring over services like Netflix, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Hulu, Paramount+, and VUDU with no extra developer effort required. Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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. Is Meta Quest for Business the Same as Oculus for Business? Back in 2017, Meta introduced “ Oculus for Business ”.

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Upload VR

JUNE 17, 2024

AirPlay Mirroring to Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 2 dramatically expands the headset's capabilities, and new features better integrate your iPad, Mac, keyboard and controllers too. enjoy a simple head-tracked game like Proton Pulse inside a literal cardboard box – just as you can today on a $3500 Apple Vision Pro.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 14, 2024

Virtuix’s timeline has coincided with a rise of interest around mixed reality, led by Oculus/Meta, HTC and now Apple, among others. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event. Facebook’s cut).

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. Samsung’s Google-Powered Headset Set To Launch Late 2024 Samsung’s Google-powered XR headset is set to launch, in very limited quantities, in late 2024. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Quest 3 Specs vs Apple Vision Pro While Apple Vision Pro is a much higher end device with a starting price seven times higher, Quest 3's specs actually hold up fairly well.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Goodbye Oculus brand. More info (Meta stores) More info (Oculus website disappearing). For sure he knows that pros will be Apple’s target and hopes to beat Apple with his device (AHAHAHAH). Intel CEO says chip shortages will end in 2024. Confusion LVL 9000. Cambria will be a pro headset to substitute your laptop.

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Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

At SID Display Week 2024 LG Display unveiled a micro-OLED display with "4K" resolution and 10,000 nit brightness. micro-OLED displays from Sony are used in Apple Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro Extended Teardown Reveals Its Resolution iFixit took a microscope to Apple Vision Pro’s OLED microdisplays to reveal their true active resolution.

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