VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. In college I was a Lafayette undergrad, and then I studied at the National Theater Institute. I studied Shakespeare and all of the great classics like Jacobean and Restoration and Greek tragedy.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. I mean, besides the Oculus Quest 2, there’s hardly anything to get locally. Your best bet is Amazon and dealing with the international shipping charges.

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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

JUNE 19, 2022

The name has changed and it is now called “Engage Link” , because after TPLink, Oculus Link, Looxid Link, and Pico Neo 3 Link , we needed something else with the name Link. Meta study the use of iPhone for scanning Codec Avatars. Quest runtime v41 is rolling out. Some articles on the metaverse.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

We’ve linked Spotify here for the sake of easy embedding, but you can see the full 10 track list on a variety of services including iTunes, Google Music, and Amazon Music. Jaroslav: I started an early demo of this idea a few years back when I was studying in UK. 100 Bills (105 BPM).

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

The Tick: Amazon is bringing a virtual reality escape room to Comic-Con for their upcoming original series. The Oculus Rift experience will utilize D-Box chairs in an immersive 24-seat theatre. Power Rangers VR – Case Study. San Diego Bayfront Lawn – Daily 10AM – 6PM]. Saturday, July 22 at 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

cable extender left over from my ownership of an Oculus Rift CV1 with a 3-camera tracking setup. cable extender of the same style from Amazon for £10, it was easy to use the USB extension cables to place two Vive Tracker dongles right into my playspace, by passing under the door alongside the headset tether. Image by Rob Cole).

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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. It becomes even more necessary in a world beyond the website with AR and VR.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others. Right away you see why this startup is gathering accolades.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Amazon, Tesla, Google, Facebook, and others, including most autonomous vehicle companies, are building the same for various purposes. Disclaimer.

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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. Interesting research: A number of reports and studies circulated in 2018. Body-worn.

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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. Everything appears carefully studied to be pleasant for the user when he/she opens the box.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. We can do larger scale studies. It takes a little bit time to do the studies to demonstrate safety and efficacy, but we’re in the process of doing that. It’s just amazing. We know that. And we can go deeper now with the technology.

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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 recently we've acknowledged this study that was done by PWC and a few other organizations to compare VR training to classroom training for soft skills. What's next, then?

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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 recently we've acknowledged this study that was done by PWC and a few other organizations to compare VR training to classroom training for soft skills. What's next, then?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Björn: It was actually quite funny, while still studying at the university, computer science, and then somewhere else, augmented reality which popped up. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. And I got the Oculus Go, thinking, “Oh, this is gonna be great for VR.” 120 million people.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Björn: It was actually quite funny, while still studying at the university, computer science, and then somewhere else, augmented reality which popped up. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. And I got the Oculus Go, thinking, “Oh, this is gonna be great for VR.” 120 million people.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. And it's working.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. And it's working.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab has a focus on exploring and studying how VR technology can promote pro-social behavior, such as helping us better understand how our behavior affects the world's ecology, how our behavior affects other people, and studying how we can shift attitudes and shift behavior using virtual reality technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. We can do larger scale studies. It takes a little bit time to do the studies to demonstrate safety and efficacy, but we’re in the process of doing that. It’s just amazing. We know that. And we can go deeper now with the technology.

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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 recently we've acknowledged this study that was done by PWC and a few other organizations to compare VR training to classroom training for soft skills. What's next, then?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

What we saw– we did an A/B study. Obviously HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, but are you seeing more deployment now or more excitement around the standalone units? And we just finished a really large– actually I think it’s going to be the largest enterprise study. Amazon did $750-million. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

What we saw– we did an A/B study. Obviously HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, but are you seeing more deployment now or more excitement around the standalone units? And we just finished a really large– actually I think it’s going to be the largest enterprise study. Amazon did $750-million. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. And it's working.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

What we saw-- we did an A/B study. Obviously HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, but are you seeing more deployment now or more excitement around the standalone units? And we just finished a really large-- actually I think it's going to be the largest enterprise study. And this is this is a publicly-available thing on Oculus Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. That is just amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. That is just amazing.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pico has also studied the headset to be balanced thanks to the battery installed in the rear of the headband and that counterbalances the front weight of the computational unit. It is called Pico MRC, exactly as we had Oculus MRC on the Quest… let’s say that naming is not where Pico has big fantasy… Accessories.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

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. The second one is a Chinese video comparing some technical characteristics of consumer Pico Neo 3 and Oculus Quest 2. We should rebrand the Oculus Elite Strap Funny link. It looks like a refreshed Vive Focus Plus.

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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…. As for the controllers, they look like a mix of the Oculus Touch and the controllers of the Vive Focus Plus, with some important ergonomic adjustments.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Facebook says that Beat Games will remain independent and the game will remain the same, but these are the same words that I’ve heard when in 2014 it acquired Oculus, and we all know how the story ended (and in fact, the popular Damo9000 ironized about it). Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link. Image by Valve).

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