VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2021

This past July Facebook released its experimental Passthrough API into the wild, allowing developers to harness the Oculus Quest’s built-in cameras to create engaging mixed reality experiences. The post Oculus Quest App ‘Magic Keys’ Teaches You Piano Using AR appeared first on VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2025

Attention Labs Attention Labs is a company working on “Real-time auditory focus” This is a concept that I have found fascinating since the time that Michael Abrash introduced it at an Oculus Connect some years ago. He also said anyway that building VR lenses with metasurfaces would be not cost-effective today.

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VRScout

JUNE 2, 2019

Facebook’s standalone 6DOF headset, Oculus Quest hit retail stores on May 21 st , and in just one week after launch, the VR headset was listed as sold out at many U.S. Douglas Dominguez, a plumber from Hampton, GA who is part of a Facebook Oculus Quest group, shared a Facebook post about a gentleman he knows who is confined to a wheelchair.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

After Venice VR Expanded has come to an end, I have finally had the time to experiment with Oculus Quest AR Passthrough. Anyway, analyzing its situation at the present time, you can find the following problems: The passthrough is blurred and black and white , so it doesn’t offer a believable augmented reality.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2021

As promised, Facebook today introduced its new 128GB version of the Oculus Quest 2 headset for $300, entirely replacing the 64GB base model launched in October last year. You’ll find the 128GB model offered direct from Oculus , as well as from official partners including Amazon , Best Buy , Target , and Adorama in the US.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2019

Facebook’s Oculus Quest seems to be hitting a mark with VR fans all over the globe. On top of that, user reviews have so far been overwhelmingly positive, save for a few users frustrated by Oculus’ strict content curation system. Jason Rubin, Facebook Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies // Image Credit: Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today I made two little big discoveries about the Oculus Quest 2 that together mean that you can use this headset as an AR device whenever and wherever you want. The post Oculus Quest 2 passthrough now works without boundaries appeared first on The Ghost Howls. Let me explain everything to you! Guardian disabling is now persistent.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2020

Some months ago I published a guide for all Unity developers on how to request Android permissions for the Vive Focus Plus, because it took me a while to sort out how to do it to access the camera stream to do augmented reality on that headset. How to obtain permissions for Oculus Quest in Unity. You did it! The low-level way.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2020

In Facebook’s Q1 2020 earnings call today, the company overviewed its latest financial situation and noted that Oculus products were a major contributor to $297 million in non-advertising revenue. Wehner specifically noted that the increase was “driven primarily by the sales of Oculus products.”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Daniel Beauchamp is Head of Virtual and Augmented Reality at Shopify. He’s also an avid VR developer working on some of the most unique projects for the Oculus Quest using the headsets’ newly-implemented hand tracking functionality. Image Credit: Danielle Beauchamp.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2021

Developers have begun using Passthrough API Experimental to create mixed reality experiences on Quest 2 headsets. Last month, Facebook introduced Passthrough API Experimental , a new feature for the Oculus Quest 2 that allows developers to create mixed reality experiences using the headset’s cameras. from OculusQuest.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

When kids in the ‘80s conceptualized “the future” it doubtlessly contained opportunities to run around futuristic gridlines with laser guns in an augmented reality space free of wires or restraints. “He did this without the Oculus,” Bolton continued. ” Image Credit: MANUVR Entertainment.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2023

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!), Image by Ray-Ban).

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VRScout

MAY 20, 2020

A new report by Jon Prosser of Front Page Tech states that Apple’s long-rumored augmented reality headset will work in-tandem with the iPhone, using the devices processing power to generate AR visuals via the wireless headset, just like the Apple Watch. This is supposedly the only camera included as part of the current design.

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VRScout

AUGUST 25, 2020

The company’s VR/AR division will now be referred to as Facebook Reality Labs. Oculus Connect is now Facebook Connect according to an update by Andrew Bosworth, head of the new Facebook Reality Lab. “With the Facebook Reality Labs name, we’re making clear where these technologies are coming from.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2022

It covers everything from virtual reality and augmented reality to mixed reality. Last month, Fast Travel Games revealed that they are bringing the city-building experience from Cities: Skylines to virtual reality. Players can access it via HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index. Augmented Reality.

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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. Oculus improves development time for UE4 developers. Image by Pico).

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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

MARCH 12, 2021

By now, it’s pretty clear Facebook is serious about leading virtual and augmented reality. Facebook has been very forward with its intentions to own the space since acquiring Oculus in 2014 for $2 billions. The report maintains this number accounts for a staggering one-fifth of Facebook’s total workforce worldwide.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store. Finally, Penrose Studios’ award-winning narrative VR experience is available for the Oculus Rift for $7.99. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Less than 48 hours after Meta fully unveiled Quest 3 , John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, expressed doubts about mixed reality’s ability to increase headset sales. Still, it’s clear the key cohort in Oculus’ genesis story has a lot to offer when it comes to all things XR.

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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. For more information on vTime’s growing cross-reality platform visit here.

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ARPost

JULY 28, 2020

XR technology evangelist Stephen Black is the author of Bubiko Foodtour’s Unusual Guide to Augmented Reality. Pokemon Go, for example, was about the possibilities of combining mobile phones, social media, geopositioning, augmented reality, and the Pokemon brand. Some people are fighting for the rest of us.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. And this is possible because they both have big cash cows: Oculus has Facebook’s advertisement, and Valve has the Steam game store.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Two cool news from Oculus App Lab. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

MAY 9, 2022

The cutting-edge experiences, developed by emerging and established creators, will involve the use of augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality. Through immersive storytelling, the selected artworks will cover meaningful themes dealing with how we relate to nature and the society around us.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A virtual reality experience costs money. An augmented reality app costs money. And now consider that virtual and augmented reality tend to have even higher costs than a simple virtual tour. Expectations and reality rarely coincide in the world of virtual reality, augmented reality, and virtual tours.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

A reality check on AR in 2020. Tom Emrich is one of the biggest personalities in the augmented reality ecosystem. He has written a long article on the most important trends in augmented reality in 2020 , and I think you all should read it if you want to understand more about what is happening in the field.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Probably if I had tested it at the Oculus Quest 2 times, I would be here saying that the passthrough of the Varjo is the best I have ever tried.

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AR Insider

APRIL 17, 2020

Grab your Oculus Quest and control your mini lunar rover to collect as many oxygen tanks on the moon as possible before the time runs out in ROVR Run. ROVR Run is currently being featured on the Oculus Browser and the Firefox Reality browsers. rovr in the browser or finding it on the homepage of the Oculus Browser app.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2020

Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S. According to CrunchBase , the company’s total funding comes to $115.5

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VRScout

JULY 23, 2021

If you have an Oculus Quest headset, you can even watch a portion of this year’s events in VR. Available free on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, this nifty little app allows you access to hundreds of hours of Olympic content, from basketball and track & field to boxing and gymnastics, in immersive stereoscopic 360.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

LFF Expanded includes ten interactive works, eleven 360-degree films, and one augmented reality installation. This year, they will be available in virtual exhibition space, The Expanse, on Oculus devices or through a browser experience.

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VRScout

MAY 8, 2021

Work and game on a 148″ augmented reality screen using the companies Pro 3e 5G smart glasses. Similar to existing VR headsets like the Oculus Quest, the Pro 3e allows you to adjust the lenses to fit your personal IPD measurements. Image Credit: NuEyes.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The funding round was led by Europe’s most active proptech VC, Pi Labs, with participation from Silicon Valley-based commerce experts Sugar Capital and deep tech specialists 7Percent Ventures – one of the first backers of Oculus VR – alongside several notable angel investors.

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