The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality. He was part of the team behind the GearVR app store and developed some of Oculus’ first native apps, e.g., Oculus Video and Oculus Social.

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VRScout

JULY 16, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Additionally, you’ll also be able to purchase or rent high-quality digital movies (US only) to enjoy in Oculus Video on Rift just as you have been able to on Gear VR. Now you can. SAMSUNG VR CONTENT.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

A conversation could be coming to your home in the next five years and it is probably as unavoidable as those previous ones: Are you on a Meta Quest or do you have Apple Vision? But, right now, Apple just showed up to VR in a very big way and validated almost all the most forward - thinking work at its fastest-moving competitor.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

For this project, codenamed Steno, they partnered with the University of California San Francisco’s Chang Lab, who performed some experiments implanting electrodes into the brain of patients to let them type sentences just by thinking about them. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. At the upcoming WWDC, Apple may unveil its operating system for XR glasses, dubbed RealityOS. Most probably, it won’t also unveil the glasses, but it may just talk about upcoming features for Apple XR developers. or no reason?

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Upload VR

MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, for example, tried and failed to ship better PC VR headsets than the Rift as standalone VR became Zuckerberg's focused strategy. Facebook had around 10,000 employees when it acquired Oculus in 2014.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Facebook’s service will launch on the desktop web and Android, but not iOS due to what Facebook frames as usability restrictions outlined in Apple’s App Store terms and conditions.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. Rachel Franklin, Head of Social VR, came on stage to announced Facebook’s first social VR app, Facebook Spaces , available now in beta on Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The market is at best 50% reopening , and we have seen the continued shutdown of California. Playing with the Oculus Quest 2 at home (Image by Facebook). Yullbe is one of the new lbvr companies to keep an eye on (Image by Yullbe). North American has been a mixed bag with State confusion. Is LBVR dead? ” [cit.

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TechPrior

APRIL 10, 2020

Apple has always been at the forefront for all kinds of augmented reality innovations and has always had ambitious plans for the future of AR and VR. As a part of its next promising venture, Apple is in the process of acquiring NextVR; a California based VR company. Apple is expected to acquire NextVR for around $100 million.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. At the moment, this means solutions such as the Samsung Gear VR and the Oculus GO. Rome Reborn 3.0

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

The San Francisco, California-based firm demoed its Mobile Dock solution at the event; the immersive wearable allows users to stream media and gaming content to their device on a 120-inch virtual screen. Consumer-facing products are much more mature than the enterprise category, thanks to popular headset providers such as Oculus [Meta].

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Apple (ecosystem) 2.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It’s rumored that Oculus is working on getting Apple Health to track VR workouts , and a leaked HTC Vive concept shows that getting sweaty in VR is definitely something headset makers are thinking about. Virtual reality fitness games have become a thing. Now popular VR fitness game Supernatural is adding a new workout… Read more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

Compatible with Apple’s iOS operating system, it will enable ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) on smart glasses and wearables. The former Apple executive previously worked with the Cupertino-based tech giant as its Product Design Programme Lead. While there, he developed the company’s supply chain technology platform.

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InstaVR

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Galago Vision is a Southern California based 360° video production company that uses Virtual Reality or VR video tours and experiences to get clients’ messages across with the highest possible retention rate available today. This also marks the first Galago Vision app available on the Oculus Store. Apple Phones.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 5, 2024

Late last Monday afternoon, my prescription lenses for my new Apple Vision Pro arrived via UPS, and I was finally able to set up my AVP and download apps from the App Store (mostly educational and workplace stuff, because Im not a gamer, and this is not a gaming headset). It is a surprisingly compact unit.

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Upload VR

JULY 26, 2024

In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg spent $3 billion for Oculus VR and $19 billion for WhatsApp. When I was in California, too, I used the glasses for work and encountered my first robot with them as I made myself its trolley problem. Quest 3 can pair to the Meta Ray-Ban glasses to privately download videos and photos anywhere.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., left, plays the new video game “Eagle Flight VR” during an Ubisoft news conference before the start of the E3 Gaming Conference on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

From Rift to Apple Watch to Snap Spectacles, the trend is toward wearable computing. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices. Brainwaves were first discovered in humans in 1924.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Today's guest is Kevin Kunze , an award-winning interactive filmmaker based out of Berkeley, California. We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. And Will.i.am But it's very difficult.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Lindero Edutainment is 2-year-old VR production company based out of California. Lindero's first product was an educational application/software called “ Milo and Brandie’s Jungle Adventure ”, released on Apple Store and Google Play. PR and Online Marketing - 10% To make the best content is only laying the foundation.

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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. Kura is a little startup in California that is working on a pair of lightweight AR glasses. Internal iOS 13 code seems to point at Apple AR glasses. What we don’t know is what Apple is creating and when it will be released.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I do a lot with Apple technology. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I do a lot with Apple technology. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I do a lot with Apple technology. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Apple's a $1.7-trillion Golf, I think. everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Apple's a $1.7-trillion Golf, I think. everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Apple's a $1.7-trillion Golf, I think. everything.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Staffed by a team that comes from Industrial Light and Magic, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Apple, Osso VR makes generic educational content for training purposes and then produces company specific virtual reality educational videos for companies like Johnson and Johnson.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Previously she was one of the first employees at NextVR ( acquired by Apple ), a virtual reality company focused on live entertainment across music and sports. While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA.

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