The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. of units more produced annually. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

These facts have me considering jumping ship from Apple seriously for the first time since 2007. While I’m deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem, Pixel tempts me more than ever before to consider leaving Apple behind completely. Just how embedded am I with Apple? Just how embedded am I with Apple?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tomorrow is the big day of the Oculus Connect 7, which has now been sadly rebranded as Facebook Connect. Every year, Oculus has always made astonishing announcements during this yearly event, and we are sure that this year will be no exception to this rule. Oculus Quest 2. But what can we expect from it?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

But there’s likely another major reason for this partnership—it brings two allies together against a common threat: Apple. Though Apple hasn’t formally announced any XR products yet, all signs point to a long history of R&D and a desire for the company to dominate the space.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 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.” Apple of My Eye.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s a patently Apple recipe though that Samsung may not be able to easily replicate. The question is: what can Samsung bring to the table that Apple and Meta can’t? Now that Apple has released Vision Pro, that landscape is set to change, although maybe not right away. Meta has games and Apple has its ecosystem.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Facebook’s Q1 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — was $497 million as noted. The company has stated publicly that Oculus is the growth engine for this revenue center. If we look at Facebook’s non-advertising revenues pre-Oculus, it was a slow-growth quarterly revenue stream of about $250 million.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

At Oculus Connect 5 in 2018, the company’s annual XR developer conference, Zuckerberg explained that he believed that 10 million VR users was an important milestone for the company to reach in order to make a sustainable ecosystem for VR developers. Image courtesy Oculus.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 14, 2021

Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. And the stakes are high as Apple doubles down on wearables to offset declines from a maturing smartphone market. And the stakes are high as Apple doubles down on wearables to offset declines from a maturing smartphone market. Lighter AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Further references. I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Further references. Further references. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. Further references.

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You can buy headsets at a discounted price, or accessories, or even lots of games on Steam, Viveport, and Oculus Store! It is building the reference design of AR glasses and has a valid SDK for building outdoor AR experiences. Apple XR headset may have great processing power. Read the postmortem of Eye Of The Temple.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. Meta Quest 2. Who saw this coming except everyone?

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JANUARY 20, 2025

Mark Rabkin (@mrabkin) January 20, 2025 AOSP is the Android Open Source Project, the open-source core of Meta's Horizon OS that runs on Quest headsets, ext4 is the Linux file system that Android uses, and R/W refers to reading and writing from the file system at the same time. That problem took Meta (then Facebook) more than 12 hours to fix.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

This week, we dive into Snap’s new AR Spectacles, Google I/O takeaways and Digilens’ new reference frames. Epic tried to establish that Apple is an “essential utility,” meaning infrastructure that can be uncompetitively withheld, like a bridge, but it just wasn’t landing. The Oculus Go was launched under his watch.

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AR Insider

MAY 10, 2021

Facebook’s Q1 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $732 million. As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver. If we look at Facebook’s non-advertising revenues pre-Oculus, it was a slow-growth quarterly revenue stream of about $250 million.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2018

During these days at GDC, Oculus has showcased the Oculus Go (that will be officially released during the F8 in May) and has provided some new insights on the Oculus Santa Cruz. Mister Potato while talking me about some rumors on Oculus headsets (Image by Disney). But are we sure that this is enough?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

MR headsets include Meta Quest Pro, HTC Vive XR Elite, and Apple’s rumored headset which is reportedly set to arrive sometime early this year at around $3,000. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

A few months back, a friend referred me to the Moon VR team, and I found what they do pretty interesting stuff. After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality. He left in 2016 and founded his startup. Moon VR Video Player was just one of them.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Pretty much every headset and runtime (except Apple Vision Pro and PlayStation VR2 on PS5) supports OpenXR, sure. Facebook Deprecates Proprietary Oculus APIs In Favor Of OpenXR Facebook will deprecate its proprietary Oculus APIs in favor of industry standard OpenXR. But the reality, today at least, is more complicated.

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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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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. Apple Maps are going AR. Facebook hires the first Oculus Ambassadors.

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JUNE 24, 2024

In Mark Gurman's latest report he claims Apple is "considering" making the upcoming non-Pro Vision headset "reliant on a tethered Mac or iPhone". Replace Apple Vision Pro's external battery with your iPhone and it could provide not only power but compute too, making the headset both lighter and cheaper.

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APRIL 26, 2024

reaction as the original Oculus Rift. Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! I can't believe this!"

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AR Insider

MARCH 17, 2020

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. We’re of course referring to the AR cloud. Header Image Credit: Apple. But there are also confidence signals. AR’s Scaffolding. appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2021

To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event. Facebook’s cut).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

There is no official confirmation on this, and I hope to be wrong because having to use earphones would be a big hit to its comfort Release date and price : of course the release date (will it come before or after an Apple headset?) Apple headset is rumored to be announced this year. Oh look, we have again an Oculus account on Twitter!

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MAY 30, 2023

As WWDC approaches, Apple continues to drop hints, leading spectators to assume an immersive device is coming that continues the transformative firm’s track record of distributing game-changing consumer hardware. An XR device from Apple could be massive. Apple’s putting a lot of money into this. It’s a lot more powerful.

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2017

This kind of calculation is the basis for what Apple refers to as a “retina display”, a screen that when held at the right distance would generate this kind of pixel density on the retina. Oculus DK1. The following table compares pixel densities for some popular consumer and professional HMDs: VR Headset.

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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 in the end, the beginning of June is a good opportunity to answer whatever Google had announced mid May at Google I/O and at the same time to put pressure on Apple for the WWDC conference in mid-June.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while Magic Leap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. It will be a great time for us, as when there was the Oculus Share, and every experiment could have big visibility easily. nReal glasses (Image by nReal).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Apple’s AR Glasses are Hiding in Plain Sight. With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. by Peter Rubin, WIRED. PHOTOGRAPH: CARSTEN KOALL/GETTY IMAGES.

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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.

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2020

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Often, the term is used in reference to industrial uses. Header Image Credit: Apple. But there are also confidence signals. AR at Work. appeared first on AR Insider.

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