The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2018

Henry has been one of the first content that I’ve tried on my Oculus Rift CV1. A great work by Oculus Story Studio, for sure. That’s why when I heard that Oculus was going to publish a new version of Henry for Oculus Go , I could do nothing but try it. That said, how is Henry on Oculus Go?

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JULY 19, 2017

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have good content and roomscale capabilities, but they’re tethered and the resolution isn’t great. The first demo I tried was a basic game-like demo powered by Unreal. The more impressive demos were the 360-videos and other 360 scenes.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. The rover has also started sending the first images, and I imagine that NASA will also use them to create cool 360 photos of the red planet…. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

This is a new cinematic VR series built in Unreal Engine 4 from phoenixmirror. Designed for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it’s being worked on part time by co-creators, writers and directors, Barret Phillips and William Gerardi, writer Robbie Barnett, and producer and designer Stewart Garner.

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VRScout

JULY 5, 2016

The experience was developed in Unreal Engine, using 4D character scanning and a specialist array of 125 Digital SLR cameras to capture the hero tennis player and 24 other hero characters, and motion capture technology for animation. The experiential is powered by Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 1080 graphics cards and Oculus Rift headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2019

It is a real-time rendered experience (I guess they have used Unreal Engine), in which you can navigate in the cosmos and see the planets, the stars , etc… You can hear the sounds of the universe, you can see things that you are not able to see in real life (e.g. The second is about the universe and the black holes.

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APRIL 21, 2017

These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. Or you can get photoreal capture of live subjects and live environments, but you’re stuck with the tyranny of 360 video.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). Or Unreal if that’s your language. I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In addition to her 360 video for Stonemilker, exhibit-goers can check out Black Lake, Mouth Mantra (get inside Björk’s mouth!), Wires are a VR buzzkill, but the untethered VR headsets are powered by smartphones – which are graphics-processing lightweights compared to the robust PCs behind the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

These developers make impressive 360 videos like their Strictly Come Dancing footage, immersive experiences like the enjoyable Home , and artistic experiments like the one it created in partnership with popular singer, Björk. So how did this unexpected partnership come about?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Todd Hooper: We have an SDK for Unity and Unreal 4. We also have a way to do 360 video capture so you can render that and consume it on a mobile VR device as well. Most games are GPU-bound not CPU-bound so so far that hasn’t been a challenge. Road to VR: How does a developer make a game work with VREAL?

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Digitalnauts

MARCH 23, 2022

I managed to see “most” XR projects and companies and what they were showcasing (including some 360 videos, lidar scan with an artistic touch , AR and VR as well).?It Paper Birds” an interactive VR story from Oculus (best story). The Sick Rose” a 360 stop motion movie from HTC (best 360 video experience).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and-- including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360's too hard. I've spent a week just exporting this video.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. You have video that you’re doing; maybe think about how 360 video could enhance the experience, or bring it a step further. So I say, first, don’t think uber-complicated; start off more simple. Start understanding those incremental changes.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. You have video that you’re doing; maybe think about how 360 video could enhance the experience, or bring it a step further. So I say, first, don’t think uber-complicated; start off more simple. Start understanding those incremental changes.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

While VR communities are full of posts like “ 360 videos are not VR “, 360 videos are still widely used for marketing. 360 tours of houses made with 360 cameras are still not widespread and that many people still don’t know them. You have to think about this when starting up your business.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2023

They are not CGI concerts (a la Ariana Grande on Fortnite), or pure 180-360 videos (like the concerts that Meta was used to do inside Oculus Venues), but something in the middle: 180 degrees 3DOF experiences that mix a stereo recording of the singers together with CGI elements.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. Alan: I've got a call one thing, that I saw here on your site, and I just got to ask: VR bungee jumping? And I won't talk anymore about that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. Alan: I've got a call one thing, that I saw here on your site, and I just got to ask: VR bungee jumping? And I won't talk anymore about that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

But also, beyond that, it allows a user — as we know, the full VR technology is extremely effective at doing — it allows the user to feel completely immersed in the experience, and it allows them to drive it as well, in the way that it’s built is the same as the way that you build VR video games. You mentioned Unreal Engine.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. Alan: I've got a call one thing, that I saw here on your site, and I just got to ask: VR bungee jumping? And I won't talk anymore about that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

But also, beyond that, it allows a user — as we know, the full VR technology is extremely effective at doing — it allows the user to feel completely immersed in the experience, and it allows them to drive it as well, in the way that it’s built is the same as the way that you build VR video games. You mentioned Unreal Engine.

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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). Google is also moving all its G-suite to AndroidXR, giving the apps also some extra XR-related features.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Alan: There's VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there's also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. I jumped back.

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