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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (Nathie going around the streets with the Vision Pro on) More info (Vision Pro guy with a robot dog) More info (A girl staying in the pool with the Vision Pro) More info (Photos and videos of other people wearing the headset in public places) Unity has released the tools to build for the Vision Pro. I sincerely hope so.

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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. 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. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. Mozilla will shut down its demo server residing at hubs.mozilla.com, subscriptions, and community resources on May 31, 2024. describes how they ported Puzzling Places to the Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The game is still in full development, aiming for a release in 2024. The emulation tool can take these files, and spawn several rooms next to each other directly in the Unity editor. Players walk back and forth between two buttons, and each button press spawns a new parametric laser pattern they have to navigate through.

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Oculus

OCTOBER 16, 2024

This year, we upped the ante and pushed the limits of what could be achieved using Horizon’s integrations with tools like Unity and Blender, while improving the live, stereoscopic 3D video broadcast of the keynotes in the event space. In 2022, we brought Connect to Meta Horizon Worlds for the first time.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%. FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

announced) More info (A full tour of the XR area at CES) More info (Tyriel Wood and I commenting on the CES in XR) Other relevant news (Image by Meta) Meta Quest 3S has been the most-sold console on Amazon in 2024 A piece of news that sparked joy in me is that Meta Quest 3S has been the top-selling console on Amazon US in 2024.

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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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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). “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. VR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024. Facebook’s cut). Critical Mass.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.), Chris Pruett (Oculus). Room 2024, West Hall.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

And since then, it has failed to build its own software development platform besides a fragmented series of integrations for game engines like Unity, nor has it built out its own suite of vital first-party applications beyond Horizon Workrooms. Until 2018 it was mostly focused on PC VR, a market it has mostly abandoned.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JUNE 20, 2023

VR solutions can make workplaces feel less isolating, improving unity and presence in a distributed workplace. In fact, 60% of employees say they want their companies to invest in VR headsets by 2024, and 62% say they want to experience VR spaces and avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

So (a bit late) here you are a list of some of the most relevant XR trends to follow in 2024, with some predictions of what to expect next. Contextual AI is on the rise Couldn’t I write a tech article in 2024 without mentioning AI? In 2024 there will be even more co-use of AI and XR. Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6. Unity 6 is bringing many new features that are helping with cutting-edge technologies like XR and AI. I mean, we, it’s an overall success story that we see.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Experience with 3D content creation is a plus, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work with AR design. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 25, 2025

According to Pruett, the usage per month of Quest headsets increased by 30% in 2024 compared to the year before. $2B 2B has been spent in total on the Quest Store, and in 2024, the spending has actually increased by 12% compared to 2023. 21 games are currently supported by the Oculus Publishing Ignition initative.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. The 2024 edition will happen again in Rotterdam (Netherlands) from the 4th to the 6th of December 2024. Funny link This is too funny to watch!

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry. Experience with 3D content creation is a plus, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work with AR design.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

I started working in VR in 2014, and if you asked me what the XR landscape could have been in 2024 , I would have totally missed the predictions. Absolutely not, I still think it’s a good exercise to make and that’s why I myself wrote some predictions for XR in 2024. licensing).

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The product is still being built, and the expected release date is 2024. The new update for Oculus Quest brings with it some interesting features, like the tracking of the Apple Magic Keyboard, some updates to the UI, and a new menu for hand tracking. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You can see that the user is holding a Touch Plus controller (with the Oculus logo on the home button as some devkits have) confirming this. I forecast Meta will announce the death of the PC Store which will be closed maybe at the end of 2024. It’s a big bet, and I think Zuck doesn’t want to make it wrong.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

When Microsoft launched Windows Mixed Reality in 2017, it wanted to take advantage of the rapidly growing PC VR market, which was previously dominated by Oculus and HTC. It did note that the depreciation didnt affect the HoloLens headsets, but as of Windows 11s 2024 update, all previous devices using WMR have essentially been bricked.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Meta is reported to launch a devkit of AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2024. More info Meta updates Oculus Spatializer Meta has released an update to its Meta XR Audio SDK which introduces a new “Universal HRTF” function that will make the spatialization of the sound around the user even more realistic than before.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Owlchemy Labs will also develop “Inside [Job]”, the introductory experience to teach people who just turned on their first AndroidXR MR headset how to interact with it (it will be something similar to Oculus First Contact). You need the latest Unity 6 to develop this new platform.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. Meta updates the SDK for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). (Image provided by Rob Cole). The Guncube. Image by Rob Cole).

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