The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2019

It is a headset that looks a bit like a Oculus Rift CV1 , is powered by WMR reference design and has the outstanding resolution of 2K per eye! The price is $599 for the consumer edition (that will be available e.g. on Amazon ) and $649 for the enterprise edition (available e.g. on HP website ). 1x DisplayPort 1.3

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design. Qualcomm has finally released the reference design for AR/VR headsets based on the XR2 chipset (a special version of the Snapdragon 865 for XR headsets), and it will pave the way for the standalone headsets of the future. Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Youtuber Brad Lynch of the channel “Sadly It’s Bradley” has discovered, thanks to “a tip”, some references to a device codenamed “Deckard” inside some SteamVR firmware files. Analyzing the references, it seems that Deckard is a standalone VR headset. Facebook hires the first Oculus Ambassadors.

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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 Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. Notice that all of this refers to VR applications.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Following a recent Christmas break where he says he studied a robot vacuum cleaner, tested all available voice-input devices for the home (such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers), and watched every Black Mirror episode, it was voice control that excited Sony’s head of Magic Lab the most.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2018

In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. Notice that this means that you CAN NOT use your SteamVR/Oculus/whatever player controller prefab. The reference for all this process can be found here.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

However, IMU devices suffer from small data errors which start to compound over time: without correction (world reference) IMU based devices tend to “drift away” from their starting point , or become disorientated, something experienced with older 3DoF VR systems which required regular recalibration. After purchasing another active USB 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Protocol’s Janko Roettgers has spotted references to “Pico 4” and “Pico 4 Pro” in a recent FCC filing. 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. Upload VR).

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2020

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Often, the term is used in reference to industrial uses. This category also includes developer tools such as Unity and AR democratization tools such as Amazon Sumerian or Adobe Aero. But there are also confidence signals. AR at Work. But what about the enterprise opportunity?

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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. But maybe we can compare it to the moment Palmer Luckey launched the Kickstarter of the Oculus DK1 : it’s the start of something new. I think the comparison with the early Oculus DK1 prototype holds for many things.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

The project is somewhat divisive, with some VR fans who didn’t like the book’s writing or reliance on ’80s references, while others that did enjoy it are worried about Spielberg’s take on the vision of a future overtaken by VR. This panel will shed a lot of light on the project, which is scheduled to release next year.

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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 23, 2020

It will be a great time for us, as when there was the Oculus Share, and every experiment could have big visibility easily. For sure they’ll tease something (Facebook could do that at F8… and by the way, I think that its AR glasses won’t have the “Oculus” brand ), but a launch will require many years.

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2016

You’ll be able to find it sold by third parties at stores like Amazon and Newegg starting at $249. Our early tests with the GTX 1060 show that the card easily hits the bar for VR Ready, capable of holding a steady 90 FPS in a selection HTC Vive and Oculus Rift titles. The VR Ready NVIDIA GTX 1060 goes on sale today.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

Goertek, one of the main manufacturers of XR devices, proposed new reference designs for smart glasses and AR glasses, and this will make even more companies release products of this kind. Apart from the Amazon top classification, last week I also reported about the Meta Horizon companion app for phones topping the Apple App Store.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for a recap of the major developments that took place in 2018: Enterprises that made the news for using wearables: In 2018, major retailers got more serious about XR in hopes of competing with Amazon and improving the shopping experience. Walmart was very active, beginning with its acquisition of VR startup Spatialand in February.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The reference to the tether is a clear statement about the fact that Sony aims at offering quality, and it is not interested in the casual gamers that are the target of the Quest (for now). Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2021

People started screaming at the “Oculus Quest competitor”, but I wonder why Apple should release a VR headset with just limited AR features after it has repeated for years that it doesn’t care about VR. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. Virtuactions proposes LBEVR with Oculus Quest 2.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

V-eeRie’ is a compound word of 'VeeR' and 'Eerie', referring to VR experiences that are frightening and mysterious. Download VeeR VR Immersive on your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality and Google Daydream to experience the premium Halloween 360/VR contents. Challenge #2: Halloween VR Theater @Facebook Spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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. The first comes from the major consultancy brand Accenture, which has just announced that it is going to deploy 60,000 Oculus Quest 2 headsets for the training of new employees.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2021

Yesterday, Upload hosted its third annual E3 VR Showcase as part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming event, revealing a generous amount of new information for 18 VR games on Oculus Quest, PlayStation VR, and SteamVR headsets. Green Hell VR is scheduled to launch later this year on Oculus Quest and PCVR headsets.

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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

MAY 2, 2019

Yesterday I detailed you what is the Oculus Rift S , while today I want to write you a recap about what is the Oculus Quest , the most awaited virtual reality headset of 2019. What Is the Oculus Quest? Oculus Quest is the first standalone 6 DOF virtual reality headset by Oculus. And with the Oculus Rift?

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2020

It’s already available for order on and available for pre-order on Amazon , both in Kindle and hardcover format. Another big endorsement: Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and inventor of the Oculus Rift, liked the novel so much that in the early days all Oculus employees received a copy of the book.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they’re maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. I think one of the key things was, as I’m sitting here in my office and watching UPS deliver the package I ordered yesterday from Amazon. We also had Oculus participate, which was great.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they’re maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. I think one of the key things was, as I’m sitting here in my office and watching UPS deliver the package I ordered yesterday from Amazon. We also had Oculus participate, which was great.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). New troubles for Oculus Rift users.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. According to MacRumors, internal builds of the iOS 13 operating systems already contain references to AR functionalities and AR glasses. It is intriguing that there are various references to and AR device dubbed “ Garta ”.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Tablet mode may be a reference to how to launch 2D Android apps because a Facebook employee has inadvertently revealed that employees can already use some 2D apps like GDoc inside the Quest. It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. thanks to a better training). thanks to a better training).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

score on the Oculus App Lab now. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store…. The sentence, as highlighted by Road To VR, may be a reference that it will be an enterprise headset. The cube has a 4.5 Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

As someone who has spent a lot of time using different PCVR controllers like Wands, Index, Windows MR, and different versions of Oculus Touch, I wondered: how would these Sword controllers compare? Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole). How would they work with current VR software?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they're maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. In the case of the previous product -- Alloy -- that we did as a reference design, that was one of the few times we'd actually created a fully-hatched device to be used as a reference design in the VR space.

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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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