The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. But it is impressive anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

There won’t be a physical AWE, but there will be an online one, made through online webinars. 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. More info on my talk here: [link].

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2020

Oculus Link official cable now available worldwide (but Quest is still soldout). Good news for all the Quest fans: the official Oculus Link cable is now available worldwide in 22 countries. Anyway, with future software updates of the Oculus runtime, the official cable will be able to exploit all the maximum speed possible.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Apple ARKit 3.5 It is no mystery that Apple is currently the best mobile augmented reality company, and the latest update to ARKit confirms this. I really can’t wait to see the Apple AR glasses…. Oculus Quest is available again in some countries. In some countries (not US), Oculus Quest and Rift S have got back in stock.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Top news of the week. Image by Engadget). Let’s see….

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Image by Oculus). There is not enough market yet.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole.

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