The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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AR Insider

MARCH 23, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” Elevating AR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Well played Apple. And this is possible because they both have big cash cows: Oculus has Facebook’s advertisement, and Valve has the Steam game store.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

I think these numbers are important also for us XR people because next year Sony is going to launch its PSVR 2 accessory for PS5, and the bigger the userbase of the console, the bigger will be the target market for PSVR 2 , that can so hope to rival in some way the Oculus Quest 2 and maybe also trigger the interest of Xbox executives.

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AR Insider

MAY 25, 2021

At the center of this master plan is the thing that kicked off the current AR & VR era: Oculus. As Google Glass learned the hard way, there are deep-rooted cultural barriers that stand in the way of social acceptance. Though Facebook’s VR moves stand out, they’re just one piece of the puzzle. Social Experiment.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. Then, PSVR Without Parole has reported that Sony has learned from the errors of the PSVR 1, and so it has made the cable of the PSVR 2 detachable.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some of the news coming from there have been: NVIDIA announced new Grace Hopper chips to empower AI algorithms on server machines , and AI workbench to allow everyone to play around with AI models. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

We often talk about Apple and Meta, but we should not forget that Google is still in the match, and that in the AR Cloud race, it has still many cards to play, like the mapping of all the world already made with Google Maps. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If we pair it to the fact that this device is connected to a PS5, which is a quite powerful machine, we see that the whole system is truly the next-generation VR that PlayStation users (and not only them) were waiting for. Apple headset is rumored to be announced this year. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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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. Image by Apple). Apple may implement WebXR in Safari.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple. For one, it includes the thing that kicked off the current AR & VR era: Oculus. As Google Glass learned the hard way, there are deep-rooted cultural barriers to sensor-infused glasses gaining social acceptance.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

This year, new standalone headsets from Oculus and Vive debuted. To illustrate, readers will learn how VR helps kids and people with special needs learn to use an MRI machine. To learn more about these exciting and industry-changing applications visit the link at the top to get the report.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

International Business Machines Corp. . % Change. Rank Change. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC. Intel Corp. LG Electronics Inc. Ford Global Technologies LLC. SEE ALSO Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Thinks AR/VR is a Solution to the Housing Crisis.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! At Facebook Connect this week , Facebook has: Released the powerful Oculus Quest 2 , powered by Snapdragon XR2, and with a 4K display. Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. Apple leads when compared with other giants in terms of acquisitions made. See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S. Source: CBINSIGHTS.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The advances in haptic technology mentioned above have, for example, enabled much better training applications to be developed for dentists and surgeons, and this type of experiential learning could have a significantly positive impact on patient safety. Immersive Journalism. Training and Education.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. Triangulating Clues in Apple’s AR Roadmap.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Today’s news will determine tomorrow’s leaders, so keep your ears on the ground to learn about tomorrow’s XR champions. Microsoft HoloLens Loses $22 Billion Life Line to Oculus Founder Microsofts HoloLens has taken another major hit , potentially signalling the end of the mixed-reality headset in the future.

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ARVR

MARCH 29, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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Upload VR

JULY 28, 2022

It was part of a response to an employee asking how Apple’s upcoming headset and absence from the Metaverse Standards Forum will affect Meta: Employee question: Apple is absent from metaverse standards and are coming out with their own AR glasses. How does that affect Oculus and our ecosystem?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. It didn’t take them long to decide their legacy project, a 2D puzzle game called Fantastic Contraption that relied on creative thinking to build machines, could be adapted to VR. Learning New Skills.

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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. But this poses a tricky problem for MR headsets: how should users interact with a machine that they’re wearing on their faces? Implicit in such a machine is the conclusion that it must function as an extension of your brain.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The advances in haptic technology mentioned above have, for example, enabled much better training applications to be developed for dentists and surgeons, and this type of experiential learning could have a significantly positive impact on patient safety. Immersive Journalism. Training and Education.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Strap on your Oculus Rift or Meta Quest + a PC, dawn your virtual jumpsuit and let loose the glory of your inner superstar. (A Underneath the hood, far harder to see, is a musical creation engine that uses machine learning to analyze the most popular 10,000 songs of the last 40 years. And we can’t claim we’ve been full-time.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. This saves companies a significant amount of time and money while building machines. Learning Credit: Unsplash.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning and edge computing. Enhanced safety: The industrial metaverse can help to improve safety by providing workers with a safe and controlled environment to learn and work in.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While on the topic of acquisitions Facebooks takeover of Oculus initially was somewhat hostile with internal disputes between Oculus founders and Zuckerberg and his leadership team. On the surface it would appear that VR / AR adoption is rising steadily. and many other emerging technologies all working together to advance mankind.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And they're selling often these big industrial coffee machines, these big Nescafe machines. And often when they were trying to make a sale, in order to do this, they had a paper cut-out, 2D of the machine. Or usually what would have to happen is we would have to actually ship a machine out before a sale.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

If you look at what you have now as a convergence of big data and analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, ubiquitous connectivity — all these things come together. When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

You can learn more about them at ar-experts.de. But really, what they’re– what you’re discussing here, what you’re talking about is being able to look at a machine and the machine providing you with the story on how to fix it, or how to deal with it. It’s ar-giri.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

You can learn more about them at ar-experts.de. But really, what they’re– what you’re discussing here, what you’re talking about is being able to look at a machine and the machine providing you with the story on how to fix it, or how to deal with it. It’s ar-giri.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: So, would the things like computer vision and machine learning, would that fit? Accenture has different groups, like a group headed dedicated to artificial intelligence, things like cloud computing, and machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence. Would you bundle those under XR as well? Alan: Incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: So, would the things like computer vision and machine learning, would that fit? Accenture has different groups, like a group headed dedicated to artificial intelligence, things like cloud computing, and machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence. Would you bundle those under XR as well? Alan: Incredible.

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