The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. If a family can afford spending the money for 4 Magic Leap Ones, they can play this board game together (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

The release date should have been early 2024, but it seems that the Korean company has informed its suppliers that this date may have been moved forward of “one to two quarters”. But the bad news is another one: it seems that the release schedule of the Apple Vision “had to be pushed back”, probably into 2026.

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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? Oculus Quest is available again in some countries. In some countries (not US), Oculus Quest and Rift S have got back in stock. Oculus rolls out runtime v15 for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

A report this week shows how these changes have been quite important: The first version of the “Project Nazare” glasses will be still released in 2024 as originally planned, but it will be targeted only at developers (a bit like today’s Snap Spectacles). Only the second edition in 2026 will be actually released to the market.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 20, 2024

2024 may be the start of an XR shift. In its “Residential and Commercial Smart Glass Market Outlook from 2024 to 2034” report , Future Market Insights states that the global residential and commercial smart glass market size will reach $58,248 million in 2024, eventually reaching $187,475 million by 2034.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. Unity and Magic Leap.

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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2024

Across VR gaming, Oculus Publishing Ignition is a new funding initiative for Quest 3 developers. You may have seen that we spent last week attending GDC 2024, going hands-on with Laser Dance , VRIDER , Anarchitects , Runaways , Underworld Overseer , the Angry Birds MR Mode and more.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. well, failing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 30, 2022

That’s why its greatest bet is AR glasses that are coming from 2024 or 2026. Do you remember when everyone was criticizing Magic leap because it got $2.5B So, Magic Leap was even cheap in comparison. So, Magic Leap was even cheap in comparison. Meta never spent $10B/year for Horizon.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 19, 2024

Google and Magic Leap Form XR Partnership Google I/O 2024: The Latest XR Updates from Google According to the computer graphics news website CG Channel, the original version can still be accessed via Steam and the Meta store, but it is no longer receiving updates. It was originally released for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 18, 2024

Google and Magic Leap Form XR Partnership Google I/O 2024: The Latest XR Updates from Google Google Blocks is a 3D modelling platform for virtual reality that does not require expert knowledge to use. It was originally released for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Google AR Glasses: Is This the Return of Google Glass?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The product is still being built, and the expected release date is 2024. Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to the rumor, the collaboration should end in 2023, with the first product launched in 2024, a year that is compatible with a consumer-prosumer release of an XR device. Good news for us developers: Meta has updated the Oculus SDK, and now it is possible to implement voice commands and spatial anchors in our Quest experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

I mean, yes, it’s dead… I like to put on my dead Oculus Quest 2 to play dead beautiful games like InDeath: Unchained and have dead fun. At the end of 2017, VR Porn dot com published these statistics that proved that people were more interested in adult VR content than on Oculus’s official website.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. More info (Oculus Quest Store numbers) More info (Meta talks about content curation and revenues). Meta plans AR glasses for 2024. 10 Years of Oculus. In the meanwhile, Happy 10th birthday, Oculus!

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