The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no point if you have face tracking and it doesn’t work well… and the positional tracking alone is very difficult to provide well even for established companies (only Oculus’s one is very fluid) In the video they say confusing things like “R&D is cheap now” (really? Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?)

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

He has always been a great innovator and I admire his work since the good old Oculus DK 2 times, when he published “Sightline: The Chair” Now he is continuing this innovation work by building a completely open metaverse called Neos , where thanks to object modeling and scripting, it is possible to create everything you want.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Other relevant news. Funny link.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Dynamic generative applications The lightbulb in my brain powered on by reminding my interview with the amazing John Gaeta (when he still was at Magic Leap). file, that points also to a 1-hour long video where I comment in detail about the architecture of the code, the problems I had, and how I solved them.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

We are a stock 3D models marketplace , where designers share and sell more than 640,000 models for everything from VR, games, architectural visualizations, video production, AI training, to 3D printing. Most of our customers come from video production, advertising, architecture, game and software development.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. I know that I’m saying something unpopular, but I understand Microsoft’s decision.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

These range from anime, comics, beauty, makeup, sport, through to art and architecture with personalized content sent to users based on the spaces and profiles they interact with. Headsets already planned for include PlayStation VR, Oculus, HTC Vive, Gear VR and even Magic Leap.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

. “Fifty-eight degrees doesn’t sound like much compared to an Oculus Rift, but compared to an nreal Light, which is 52 degrees, it’s already pretty competitive,” says JC Kuang, an analyst with AR/VR market intelligence firm VRS. “I’ve always been skeptical of 2020,” he says.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

This could be for something like a Magic Leap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning. Magic Leap just raised another $280-million. And when I say this, it’s for headset-based experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

This could be for something like a Magic Leap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning. Magic Leap just raised another $280-million. And when I say this, it’s for headset-based experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises. So I actually started out in architecture. Jamie: Sure, yeah. For starters, this is Jamie.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises. So I actually started out in architecture. Jamie: Sure, yeah. For starters, this is Jamie.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking.

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Ryan Schultz

OCTOBER 12, 2022

VR is currently being used to train surgeons, analyze road scenarios for automobile companies, and design architecture. HTC, Magic Leap, and other enterprise companies tend to emphasize how long their products will last — offering either comparatively long-lasting batteries or swappable ones. And maybe they will. Ugh, okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 4, 2019

As you know, I do some work with Magic Leap — I don’t speak on their behalf — but they just launched the headsets at several AT&T stores, and one of the demos is an AR…well, no, a spatial computing experience for Game of Thrones. So that was really exciting. You know, Game of Thrones as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 4, 2019

As you know, I do some work with Magic Leap — I don’t speak on their behalf — but they just launched the headsets at several AT&T stores, and one of the demos is an AR…well, no, a spatial computing experience for Game of Thrones. So that was really exciting. You know, Game of Thrones as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

This could be for something like a Magic Leap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning. it wasn't architecture, but it was in the sort of B2B use cases for spatial computing. Magic Leap just raised another $280-million.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. At Oculus, they said 10 years. You've seen Magic Leap pivot to enterprises. So I actually started out in architecture. Jamie: Sure, yeah. For starters, this is Jamie.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. We had good participation.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. We had good participation.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! Anyway, the unboxing above is very interesting to evaluate how VR Expert sends its devices… I’ll come to this in a while.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a -- for the first time -- a VR architecture event. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. We had good participation. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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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. The Metaverse is simply an evolution of many of those past ideas coming together with newer device architectures.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Companies like Magic Leap and Hololens, those are great devices where most of the compute is done on the headset… well Magic Leap is actually done on a pack that’s wired in. We also had Oculus participate, which was great. So what we want to do is increase the pipe, right? Hey, we are Switzerland.

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