AR Insider

MAY 31, 2021

The lower-cost locomotion option, Cybershoes , is now on Amazon for $349. Together with cyberchair and cybercarpet (included), Cybershoes allows gamers to walk and run in virtual reality. Since it features no computational unit and no battery, it can be smaller and lighter than “shoebox” headsets like the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Some months ago, the company behind it teased it was going to launch a virtual world, dubbed Oasis, that should have become “The Linkedin of the M-word”.

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

The Omni One is an omni-directional treadmill which lets users walk and run inside games and virtual worlds in VR. Oculus has partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. Rumors surface about a new Oculus Quest Pro VR HMD. Psychic VR Lab raises $8.5M to grow Web-XR platform, STYLY.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The book subtitle is “From Snow Crash & Second Life to a virtual world worth fighting for” : I mention it because it exactly describes what is the theme behind the book. In case you want to read the book, too, you can find it on Amazon: [link] (the link is without affiliation, so you can trust the honesty of my review).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. As the release notes state, Oculus profiles will “evolve” into a new Meta Horizon profile, while ‘Friends’ will become ‘Followers’. More info (Logitech Chorus?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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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. Image by Facebook).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Wondering what Amazon’s videogame development engine, Lumberyard, can do for VR? Lumberyard might not be the most prominent engine in the industry right now, but Amazon is trying to build momentum, especially on the VR side. Tagged with: Amazon , development , lumberyard. The company has some new examples for you today.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 11, 2017

Amazon is going all out today with deals on virtual reality products, running the whole gamut of headset options, computers, and accessories. For extra bang for your buck, make your purchase through the Amazon Smile program for OSgrid , and half a percent will be donated to OpenSim’s biggest non-profit grid and testing ground.

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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. She lists some interesting stats about Gen Z and how is their attitude towards virtual worlds. Minecraft bans NFTs.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

(Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Answer: if people go to a platform just to make money, that platform is not going to succeed) Are today’s virtual worlds so different from Second Life?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. When asked about why he focuses more on AR, Vermeulen says , “I don’t want to completely escape reality, I don’t want to be in a complete virtual world. I just want to augment my world.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The FTC has opened an investigation on Meta about its anti-competitive practices related to applications that propose services similar to its ones on the Oculus Store (Pepperidge Farms remembers when YUR was de facto cloned by Oculus Move). It is just a bit more expensive than the $300 needed to buy an Oculus Quest 2.

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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). Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 12, 2017

The Oculus Rift gets a long-anticipated game this week, but it’s Gear VR that’s the real star of the show. And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. Price: $33.99 (Rift).

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The devices from Oculus VR hit a sweet spot of affordability and performance. If you got an Oculus headset this Christmas — or didn’t, and are planning to buy one ( available on Amazon for $200 ) — this guide can help you learn about the most important features. Oculus devices and developments.

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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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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

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. This shows that the sales were good among us VR techies… I myself have stopped using the Quest 2 and almost always use the Quest 3 now. THREE TO ONE.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 21, 2017

VR experiences are built upon the appeal of immersion and are constantly used to supplement other forms of media, but expanding upon these virtual worlds with other mediums like books adds a degree of credibility to the gaming aspect of the industry. 1 is due to release on Oculus Rift exclusively sometime this year.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

Some of the virtual worlds to visit at the enormous fan convention are likely still under wraps, but we know two major VR-related projects are likely to anchor the week. Worlds To Visit. The Tick: Amazon lists a “virtual reality escape room” as part of its promotion of the live-actions version of The Tick.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Just Dance VR is also part of a big focus on Fitness by Pico , with Pico Fitness already being part of the runtime and tracking the calories you burn while using the headset (clearly inspired by Oculus Move) and sharing them to Apple Health (like Oculus Move). Great job Pico on this one. All the accessories (Fitness Tracker, etc.)

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I truly hope they can create a serious blockchain that can be the foundation for ownership and payment systems in virtual worlds. I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For example, when Oculus released their touch controllers in December, I was amazed by how much more real and complete each experience felt, driven simply by the fact that I could see and articulate my hands within VR. The result for me and other Oculus owners was a dramatic increase in the fun factor and time spent in VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

One of the leading generation-defining gaming studios in the world today, Respawn Entertainment has developed a significant following for titles like Apex Legends, Titanfall 2, and even Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Alta VR, AWS, and Oculus. The combination of sound and visuals allows for a phenomenal gaming interaction.

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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. Who We Are A Silicon Valley-Based Startup on a mission to transform digital engagement from the ground-up by merging the physical and the digital world.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Help OpenSim by shopping on Amazon. Virtual Highway : 766 regions.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

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. In the latest runtime of the Oculus Rift available on the Public Test Channel, there are already various mentions to the Oculus Link. The hype is rising….

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 16, 2017

Kitely was in second place with 1,520 new registered users followed by InWorldz with 1,048, Emilac with 801 and Virtual Brasil with 412. Adreans-World grid lost 218 registered users. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Virtual Worlds Grid : 935 regions.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

You put them on over your shoes, you put on a VR headset, and you walk, and you feel like you are actually going where you’re trying to go in the virtual world and experiencing it from a natural intuitive perspective. In real life, you are staying inside of a 10 by 10 foot or 3 by 3 meter space.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself). from Amazon.

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XROM

MAY 1, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) headsets have gained popularity in recent years due to their immersive and engaging experience. Among the highest-selling VR headsets are the Oculus Quest 2, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive. However, they lack the advanced features of the more expensive headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. AR and VR are bringing a revolution in the way the general public treats virtual worlds, virtual objects, and experiences. I’d say that it’s overwhelmingly positive.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Best VR Games – Oculus Rift + Quest Link. With our Best Of Virtual Reality series we wanted to try a slightly different approach to recognizing the top places in VR. You can watch Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube with others using Bigscreen. Best VR Games – Quest, Quest 2 & Quest Pro. Best VR Games – PSVR.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Oculus owner Facebook is going hard into VR online spaces and it is hoping that its new effort in creating a VR world helps bring the space to a whole new audience of people (and probably make a little bit of money in the sum). amazon bestseller=”oculus quest” items=”4″ template=”table”].

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