The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It works connected to a phone, and while it doesn’t have any kind of tracking embedded, for tasks like watching Netflix it can be very useful (Thanks David for the tip); Amazon has announced the Echo Frames, its smart glasses that let you speak with Alexa. Oculus Link gets updated to 90Hz. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Time for Oculus to launch a commercial product. The company’s first foray into a worldwide release began on March 28 when it began shipping its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset via its own store and third party vendors such as Best Buy and Amazon. Well it’s that time again.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. The Vive Ultimate Tracker is like a Vive Tracker, but it tracks its pose using two onboard cameras, not requiring any SteamVR base station. THREE TO ONE.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2019

While Facebook appears to be heavily embracing untethered VR with its continued support of the Oculus Quest, HTC seems to be firmly committed to tethered PC VR experiences. Of course, that is until they release a modular faceplate capable of hand-tracking. This is actually part of how the inside out tracking works.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 19, 2024

This week's biggest hardware story is the Quest 3S launch , which became the top-selling gaming device on Amazon. We'll bring you our full review soon but in the meantime, we assessed its hand tracking quality compared to Quest 3.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews. Learn more (DeoVR on Pico Store) Learn more (DeoVR supports hands tracking). with a median of 0 friends.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. One potential downside?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Do you want to read them? Top news of the week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

As of today, Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, is no longer the CEO of the company he helped create with Palmer Luckey over four years ago in Irvine, CA. Iribe and Thomason, along with Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook, will reportedly all work together to find a new leader for Oculus VR moving forward. We loved them in our review.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. Oculus support at its best Funny link. Learn more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The Oculus Touch is the long awaited peripheral that will take the virtual reality experience of the Oculus Rift to greater heights. Be sure to check out our list of 9 of the best Vive games available along with the best Oculus Rift games. Tagged with: Christmas , controllers , delay , oculus touch.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Every year I like to write a detailed report about all the major news from Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect. For the first time, a major company has shown some AR glasses that look ok-ish to wear in public and that have good technical features (good FOV, hand tracking, etc…).

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It’s an exciting day for Oculus Quest as the headset can finally be cabled to a PC to play Oculus Rift videogames, all thanks to Oculus Link. ” So in the meantime what you need is a high-quality USB-3 cable – Oculus Quest’s charging cable won’t work as its only USB-2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. Image from Amazon). Oculus Link is coming soon. The hype is rising….

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes. AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry, though it does not have participation from major players with developer conferences of their own.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

Mostly 3D printed motorized “shoes” you wear while playing a virtual reality game by u/braingame26 in oculus Example Reddit post with DIY motorized shoes I could build a version that works for my giant US size 14 shoes and then woe to be anybody who’s got a women’s 6 and trying to put that version on [laughs].

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Best VR Games – Oculus Rift + Quest Link. You can watch Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube with others using Bigscreen. Get a feel for this playground with controllers in hand and then try the entire game with hand tracking on supported headsets. Best VR Games – Quest, Quest 2 & Quest Pro.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There is even one aspect in which it is better than the Quest 3: its front IR illuminators make hand tracking work even in the dark , which is useful for… some use cases. The headset is already selling well, and it is currently the most-sold gaming console on Amazon. It works incredibly well and has also amazing hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We’re keeping an eye on the best Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2022 deals, don’t blink or you might miss the best Quest 2 sale of the year! The Best Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2022 Sales. Oculus Quest 2 (128GB). Oculus Quest 2 (256GB). Oculus Quest 2 Price Baseline. Resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing. What a great barrier.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing. What a great barrier.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

An Amazon ad appearing on the streaming platform Peacock shows the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S and the caption: “Meta Quest, starting at $299.99”. Regarding the actual release date, we have also a rumor: someone spotted on the Australian Amazon page an entry about the Quest 3S and the availability date being October, 16.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico has been a very smart company, and all these years it has been able to evolve from the mediocre Pico Neo 1, to the interesting Pico Neo 2, to arrive at the Pico Neo 3, that on paper, looks like a Chinese version of the Oculus Quest 2 , and it seems to have all the features to compete properly with this device. But is it really that good?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing. So you need to use the controller to start the experience, because that's a function of Oculus, not anything we have control over.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. But you can’t move around in it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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