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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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 XR Week Peek (2021.10.25): Quest 2 Pro leaked, Facebook to change its name, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image leaked from Oculus runtime). The design of Oculus Quest 2 Pro and controllers has been leaked. The negative reputation could stick with the social network, but not influence products like Oculus headsets, for instance. Facebook releases the Oculus Go unlocked runtime. Top news of the week. Some news on content.

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Augmented reality’s half-decade of stagnation

TechCrunch VR

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey called the device a “tragic heap” and sales of the device flopped — The Information reported that the company sold just 6,000 of the devices in the six months following its long-awaited launch. But, I’m excited to see what Apple thinks it is.” other things. added things.

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The sentences about XR I’m tired of hearing

The Ghost Howls

I mean, yes, it’s dead… I like to put on my dead Oculus Quest 2 to play dead beautiful games like InDeath: Unchained and have dead fun. At the end of 2017, VR Porn dot com published these statistics that proved that people were more interested in adult VR content than on Oculus’s official website.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.12): Altspace VR to introduce safety measures, Horizon audience is growing, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple has just caused big troubles to its ad model with its restrictions on iOS , and some rumors say that Android wants to implement similar restrictions on data gathering in the upcoming months. Apple may announce its device in 2023. Like every week, I have a new rumor about the Apple AR/VR headset. SuperNatural). Learn more.

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Top XR Stories of 2019

Tech Trends VR

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.