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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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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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey, circa 2012 | Photo courtesy Oculus. Palmer Luckey: I also think so.

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ARVR

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, it was popularized in the late 20th and early 21st centuries through science fiction literature and media, and more recently, through the development of virtual and augmented reality technologies.

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ARPost

JANUARY 18, 2022

Defining a 3D realistic world in which he could virtually be a part of, the term ‘metaverse’ was born, and hasn’t been forgotten since. On the back of Facebook’s large announcement in October 2021, as they changed their name to Meta, sparking a horizon of a virtual future, many tech giants are following. ” Microsoft.

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ARPost

JANUARY 27, 2022

People of all ages found meaningful experiences in the virtual world and managed to fight off the negative impacts of isolation caused by stay-at-home mandates. Companies like HTC, Oculus (Meta), and Apple will continue to innovate and launch devices equipped with the latest technological developments. from 2020 to 2027.

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2020

In light of the global pandemic, Facebook announced last week it was making way for more productivity and collaboration apps on the Oculus Store to help bridge businesses together in a time of social distancing. SEE ALSO Facebook's 'Oculus for Business' Quest Enterprise Platform is Finally Openly Available.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leaks in advance of Facebook Connect, particularly around the time that VIVE Flow was announced , had many anticipating new devices from Oculus. He also more than suggested at a couple of points that Facebook logins would no longer be required for Oculus headsets in the near future. Horizon Updates and an Interoperability API.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2022

. “You can play with friends in the same physical room or productivity experiences that combine huge virtual monitors with physical tools, and it’s a step toward our longer-term vision for augmented reality.”

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The degree of immersion in virtual reality vs augmented reality. In VR, the user is completely absorbed in a virtual environment and minimises boundaries and markers. Conversely, global VR revenues will surpass $12 billion USD by 2024, which indicates a smaller market.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience. That’s what I’m doing here.”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

Finally, Facebook has released passthrough APIs for Quest 2, so you can create AR/MR apps for the Oculus standalone headset. It is like an exhibition of real and virtual products, but all made inside VRChat, with a level of detail that is impressive. More info (Virtual Market 6) More info (DecaGear at Virtual Market 6).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 27, 2019

This is the setting that I used to shoot the video , where I activated the camera vision when I wished to; The second option will let you use the cameras to have a mixed reality chaperone , in a similar way to the original Vive. You see the real world around you , fully colored, without any fancy effect like edge-glowing.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. There are some typical questions that arise in the mind of the AR enthusiasts of the world: how is it? Anyway, there’s still a lot of confusion and mistery about this device. Is it good?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2018

During these days at GDC, Oculus has showcased the Oculus Go (that will be officially released during the F8 in May) and has provided some new insights on the Oculus Santa Cruz. Mister Potato while talking me about some rumors on Oculus headsets (Image by Disney). But are we sure that this is enough?

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

It not only refers to the monolithic online 3D environment where a part of the story takes place, but also the sum of all virtual worlds, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and the Internet as a whole. And yes, it’s still hiring a lot more people to make that happen.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The FTC has opened an investigation on Meta about its anti-competitive practices related to applications that propose services similar to its ones on the Oculus Store (Pepperidge Farms remembers when YUR was de facto cloned by Oculus Move). Looking back at augmented reality in 2021. New hands-on from CES. Some XR fun.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. However, where as Palmer Luckey explored the possibilities with VR technology, Vermeulen explores the possibilities of augmented reality, and how AR experiences grounded in real-world physics can co-exist with reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This week we had tons of news about new upcoming augmented reality glasses and smartglasses: Oppo has revealed the second iteration of its augmented reality glasses. Oculus Link gets updated to 90Hz. After one year from the release of the Link , Oculus finally puts it out of beta with a big update.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

I’m also an emergent technologist in virtual and augmented reality, medtech, climate, and applied sciences here in Silicon Valley. The key areas I’m currently focused on and am exceedingly happy to contribute towards their growth are Medical XR and Virtual & Augmented Reality for common and Global good.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. With Oculus having launched hand-tracking on the Quest this past December, I wonder how far we are from consumer-ready mind-control systems.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Some months ago, the company behind it teased it was going to launch a virtual world, dubbed Oasis, that should have become “The Linkedin of the M-word”.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 She lists some interesting stats about Gen Z and how is their attitude towards virtual worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“OpenSim and a few other open-sourced virtual world platforms were designed for creating a distributed open metaverse, where no single company would control the platform,” Kitely CEO Ilan Tochne rtold Hypergrid Business. “Most such attempts were based on building company-owned virtual worlds.”

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4. Although we do not yet know who will participate in the concert series, it will stream later this year on Oculus’ Venues app and Tidal. The timing is also great for Oculus since it recently unveiled the second generation of its flagship Quest headset.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest. Hands-On Review Unlike AR, VR is entirely simulated and disconnected from the physical world.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

SNAPCHAT PREPARES FOR EVEN MORE AUGMENTED REALITY FEATURES. Snapchat’s World Lenses currently overlay graphics like falling leaves or stars onto your real-world environment using your phone’s rear-facing camera. HULU WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN VIRTUAL REALITY.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Following the recent unfavorable court decision which saw a $500 million judgement levied on Oculus and some of its founders last week , Facebook has shared a glimpse into what they call “the most advanced virtual and augmented reality research center and team in the world.”

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As another year hurtles inexorably towards Christmas, it’s an opportune time to take stock of how far XR has come so far, and what 2020 might hold in stock for building a virtual world we might actually want to live in. . If there’s an elephant in this virtual room, its name is Apple. One More Thing….

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. Mainstream venture capitalists pumped up startups in virtual and augmented reality in the third quarter, with a record $2.3

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! Oculus support at its best Funny link. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I tried it with the Leap Motion controller, the one that most of us have bought years ago to experiment with the OG Vive or the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1… but actually, UltraLeap (the previous Leap Motion) has created a second-generation camera sensor. I could interact with objects in a truly natural way. UltraLeap 2 vs Quest hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

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