Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help Wanted (2019), the VR adaptation of the immensely popular horror game, is getting an Oculus Quest version. You’ll find Five Nights at Freddy’s VR on Steam (Rift, Vive, Index, Windows VR), Viveport (Rift, Vive, Index, Windows VR), Oculus Store (Rift), and the PlayStation Store (PSVR).

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2020

Nate Mitchell, Oculus co-founder and former Head of VR Product at Facebook, has opened a new game studio called Mountaintop Studios. ” Mountaintop has a number of positions available , however none of them specify VR/AR experience as a prerequisite. “Games are a reflection of the teams that make them.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Thankfully, John Nagle and John Paul Sommer, co-founders of Texas-based AR & VR contract development and consulting company Thrust Vector, have begun utilizing VR technology inside the cockpit to assist in real-time navigational guidance. We have been asked, wouldn’t AR be a better base technology to use for this? “We

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Fast forward more than 10 years, Andrea and I are still in touch, and sometimes we collaborate on AR/VR projects (once I also did a lesson to his students!), It is a real pleasure for me to be interviewed for your blog. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. or just meet and talk about immersive realities.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Earlier this morning Adobe announced the purchase of Oculus’ 3D VR sculpting app, Oculus Medium. Adobe is one of the world’s leading creation software companies, and they’re committed to providing best-in-class 3D and immersive tools for artists, including Adobe Dimension and the Substance tools suite,” states Oculus in a blog post.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Oculus Research, the VR and AR R&D division of the company, today announced a new display technology that they’re calling the “Focal Surface Display.” ” Oculus Research’s Focal Surface Display prototype | Photo courtesy Oculus. .” An accompanying blog post offers additional detail.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It’s no secret that Walmart, the biggest retailer in the world, is actively embracing the full potential of AR and VR to keep them ahead of their competition. based employee using an Oculus Go through STRIVR ’s VR training program. Would customers use their AR Scanning option if it was fun and simple to use?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a tradition of this blog to have a long roundup of the best XR news from CES every year. So here you are a collection of the best news in immersive realities from the CES 2023, with many links to go deeper! Resolution and color are very good in VR, and also in passthrough AR. Could I make an exception for this year?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

A bit late, but this new roundup of best AR and VR news of the week is out! More info (Official blog post) More info (Explanation on Upload VR) More info (Very good explanation on Road To VR) More info (Jeri Ellsworth saying this technology will arrive “soon-ish”). Oculus Quest v18 adds colored Guardian and voice commands.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Happy Holidays , my dear AR/VR community! Even if these should be holidays, my will to inform you is not in vacation, so here you are my roundup of the best AR/VR news for this week. But the advantage is that you can play all the games of the Oculus Store and from Sidequest without Zuck watching you. Top news of the week.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Today, I’m going to share with you the APK that lets you have passthrough vision with blue edges on your Oculus Quest 2. I so started to share the APK with them via e-mail, and now, after all these weeks, I have realized that it is worthwhile sharing it with everyone on this blog. Why am I sharing this app? Oh yes, the irony.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

VTime’s cross-platform social network vTime XR is now available on Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, offering standalone users a premium socialVR experience centered primarily around intimate group meet-ups. Chat with friends across multiple platforms via this intimate socialVR app. Image Credit: vTime.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Lee Vermeulen is breaking new ground with his experimental AR prototypes. . Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. It’s his most recent work, however, that has been garnering a lot of attention from both the AR & VR communities as of late.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

After months of speculation, Facebook today confirmed that Facebook Reality Lab is, in fact, developing a pair of AR glasses. According to Facebook, LiveMaps will serve as the core foundation for their upcoming AR glasses. Facebook wants to create a 3D map of the Earth by crowd-sourcing geo-tagged images. Image Credit: Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” Immotionar and the first contact with AR and VR. Some people even ask if I can become their mentor.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

This is the first newsletter of the new year, and I hope it will just be the beginning of a wonderful year in AR and VR for all of you! A reality check on AR in 2020. AR is a widely used feature on smartphones now, while smart glasses are slowly growing, waiting for the big shots of 2023 (yes, Apple, I’m looking at you).

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2020

Facebook today announced that a prototype version of OpenXR , the royalty-free open standard from The Khronos Group, will be available to Oculus Quest and Rift developers in an update coming later this month. SEE ALSO These Are the Countries Where You Can Still Buy Quest & Rift S Direct From Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

It has all been because of these three pieces of news: My blog is now 5 years old ! With a lot of enthusiasm because of these three things, let me tell you about the best AR/VR news of the week! AR/VR developers, rejoice! The Quest is now officially an AR/VR hybrid headset. Space Pirate Arena to come soon to Oculus Quest.

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AR Insider

MAY 25, 2021

common AR industry sentiment is that the smartphone will pave the way for smart glasses. Before AR glasses achieve consumer-friendly specs and price points, AR’s delivery system is the device we all have in our pockets. There, it can stimulate demand for AR experiences. Wearables: Paving the Way for AR Glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These glasses are powered by the new X1 chip that XREAL is developing in-house. I think its a very interesting thing that an AR startup is already manufacturing its own chips something that even Meta didnt succeed in doing. And Im not talking about suggestions, Im talking about listing. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

AR glasses are on the rise. Don’t hold your breath to see it in your Oppo shop soon, because it is just an experimental device and not a commercial product yet; Unbox Fantasy has conducted a successful Kickstarter campaign for the GodView 5K, a smart glass able to put 2D screens everywhere in AR. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

MAY 28, 2020

Having just brought its award-winning VR experience Vader Immortal out of Oculus platform exclusivity to PSVR, ILMxLAB today announced its working on a new VR experience called Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s since when I launched my blog that I always dreamed of interviewing someone from Oculus , and finally today this dream has come true. The VRX conference will be held in San Francisco on December, 12-13th and will feature very high-level speakers from companies like Oculus/Facebook, HP, Snap and many others.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2018

So it’s good news to know that the talented studio behind the game, Tender Claws, is pushing ahead with a new project, this time backed by Oculus, and slated for 2019. And … we’re collaborating with Oculus on a new experience coming next year! E3 attendees can see a demo of tendar in the IndieCade zone in the West Hall.

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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. version of Specs, its AR glasses, which are now in the hands of select developers. Specs have received a significant upgrade and can now actually show users AR. The Oculus Go was launched under his watch.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This next-generation wearable could have a major impact on VR & AR technology. But no weirder than wearing an AR or VR headset in public, which is slowly becoming the norm. . Wearables are becoming a big part of how we access and consume information. At first glance, the 5G Neckband looks like a beefy lanyard.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 18, 2024

Google AR Glasses: Is This the Return of Google Glass? Key Info for Google Blocks Creators According to a recent Google Open Source blog post, Google Blocks will no longer be actively developed, and no pull requests will be accepted. It was originally released for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The company says in a blog post that they took a “different approach from a traditional multiplayer networking solution” to create the unique third-person view. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Supports "Arena-scale" Tracking and Multi-room Guardian. The phone and PC communicate directly via WiFi.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 19, 2024

Google AR Glasses: Is This the Return of Google Glass? Open Blocks In an Open Blocks Docs blog post, it reveals that Open Blocks will soon be available on Steam, as the original version is too. It was originally released for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The Launch of Google Blocks Google blocks was introduced in 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2023

And for this reason, I want to celebrate the great results that they had by talking about the last demo I had with the device at AWE US last year , a hands-on I haven’t described yet in this blog. The VR demo showed a circular UI similar to the one I tried in AR: I could point at icons and activate some popups. A new path.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. . A version of this article originally appeared on the Unity Blog , published here with permission. . Find out more or contact us to participate here. How Daimler uses Unity across its automotive lifecycle.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

10,000 people are working on XR at Facebook. Zuck has released an interview to The Information and inside it, we can find the interesting information (pun intended) that now more than 10,000 people are working on AR/VR at Facebook. In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This means that professionals from these countries will be finally able to buy the best AR headset on the market in an easy way without using foreign stores. These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I had a few highlights, and the most mindblowing one has been trying the demo of Mojo Vision’s AR contact lenses , while the product that won my developer’s heart has been The 8th Wall’s new Reality Engine. There are also the amazing creatives of Lucas Rizzotto’s AR House showing their artistic projects.

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2017

While most of us are used to dealing with resolution figures that describe pixel count (ie: a 1920×1080 monitor), pixel density stated as pixels per degree is a much more useful figure, especially when dealing with AR and VR headsets. He frequently shares his views and knowledge on his blog. Oculus DK1.

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