The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

He is a very smart professional, and he’s very passionate about AR and VR technologies, and for this reason, I have already interviewed him on my blog. Here you are my chat with him about Oculus For Business! Let’s talk about Oculus For Business… can you remind my readers what is it?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

You will be able to finally buy it in Europe and North America for $599, from the dedicated page on the HTC website. HTC Vive Focus Specs. The Vive Focus is HTC’s standalone headset , the one that the Taiwanese/Chinese company wants to use to start making virtual reality widespread.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

HTC’s new headset gets leaked. HTC has been teasing its headsets for a lot of weeks by sharing images of small black corners of the upcoming device. More info (Quest 2 deal) More info (HP Reverb G2) More info (Star Wars Squadron) More info (Official blog post on how to watch Oculus Connect 6) More info (HTC Sales).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Following their highly successful Summer of Rift Sale, Oculus have announced a permanent price cut of the Rift headset and Touch controller package to $399. The new price was revealed by Hugo Barra, Oculus’ Vice President of Virtual Reality at the opening keynote to Oculus Connect 4.

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VRScout

MARCH 18, 2019

This years highly-anticipated Game Developers Conference kicked-off with a bang today as Oculus confirmed the release of Beat Games’ insanely popular beat-slashing rhythm game on the upcoming Oculus Quest. Beat Saber running on the Oculus Quest / Image Credit: Beat Games. “I

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 13, 2017

A new commercial-focused hardware bundle including Rift headset, Touch controllers, three Sensors, and three facial interfaces was revealed at Oculus Connect 4 this week. HTC introduced a $1,200 Vive ‘Business Edition’ in June 2016 , dominating the enterprise sector for well over a year.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Viveport , HTC’s storefront for SteamVR-compatible headsets, is again celebrating the holidays by giving developers 100 percent of revenue for the rest of the year. Starting in 2018, Viveport also supports all major SteamVR headsets and not just HTC Vive products, such as Oculus Rift, Valve Index, and Windows VR headsets.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Since it was first available , the HTC Vive room-scale VR system has been priced at $800. For comparison, the Oculus Rift and its Touch controllers will hit that same price when they start shipping in December. Individual HTC Vive retailers might also have additional discounts, deals or bundles beyond this one too.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Facebook’s extension of Spaces to HTC Vive somewhat clashes Oculus’ with historical practice of creating exclusive content to drive headset sales. Arctic Open.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Killing Floor: Incursion was once thought to be an Oculus exclusive, thanks to last year’s initial announcement that carried no mention of future support for other VR platforms. Now on Steam , the game is set to support both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift (with Touch).

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VRScout

MAY 15, 2019

We’re less than a week away from the long-awaited release of the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset and with over 50 launch titles already confirmed, it appears as though we’ll have plenty of content to look forward to this coming Tuesday. Until then, I guess you’ll just have to make do with the fifty over Quest titles available at launch.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2021

DecaMove is said to support SteamVR-compatible headsets, including Valve Index, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest (via Link), HP Reverb G2, HTC Vive/Pro, HTC Cosmos, Samsung Odyssey, and DecaGear 1. “Hip based navigation is natural, it brings immersiveness to the next level and also helps to reduce motion sickness. .”

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Earlier this year Oculus began offering additional Sensors for sale along with and their new Earphones. The pricing seems fairly reasonable, though is largely more expensive than similar replacement accessories offered for the HTC Vive. SEE ALSO Oculus Earphones Review and Comparison with Ultra High-end Earbuds.

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JULY 4, 2017

Oculus recently revealed in a blog post that in the past months they’ve been working on bringing native mixed reality capture support to Oculus Rift, and it’s available today for developers to start creating mixed reality videos. image courtesy Oculus. 3D printable mixed reality mount, image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Mozilla launched Firefox Reality back in 2018 on a host of early standalones, including Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus. Firefox Reality is set to be removed from app stores within the coming weeks, Mozilla says in a blog post , with the newly announced Igalia Wolvic taking its place starting as soon as next week.

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JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. There are a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

Firefox Reality , Mozilla’s made-for-VR web browser, has been available on standalone devices for some time now, featuring support for Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HTC Vive Focus, and Pico standalones. Now Mozilla has brought its WebXR-capable browser to PC VR headsets with its new PC Preview version.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Digital Trends recently published a report entitled ‘VR is in a tailspin, and the sales numbers prove it’ It seems HTC has taken umbrage with the article’s thesis in its newest blog post however, which pushes back against some of the article’s claims, saying it’s “not the whole story.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Oculus). The Oculus Quest is now one year old.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This past September VR developer Stress Level Zero ( Boneworks, Hover Junkers, Duck Season ) announced it was working on a brand new VR game for the Oculus Quest. mechanics and core systems to Oculus Quest in an all-new project that we will have more to show from as the year goes on.”. We’re working on bringing ?Boneworks?’

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As detailed in a recent entry on the official Vive blog , both games are second entries from Vive Studios development partners 2 Bears Studio and Fantahorn Studio, creators of Arcade Saga (2016) and Front Defense (2017) respectively.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the end, the time has come: Oculus has officially revealed the name and the price of the Santa Cruz headset. Its name will be Oculus Quest and will cost $399. I followed today’s OC5 conference via Facebook streaming only for this moment and Oculus has not disappointed my expectations. ” and he has satisfied us.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift ’s are often pretty extensive with games spread across genres and plenty of non-gaming experiences like short films and experimental forms of education. HTC Vive’s blog reveals that their partners have collaborated to do just that and Amazon has also put together an Oculus Rift deal.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I host a new post by my friend and VR professional Rob Cole , who has already published many interesting posts on my blog, including a review of Pimax Sword controllers , a series of hack on how to modify the Valve Index , and his experiements in creating new innovative controllers for SteamVR. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Pavlov VR , the Early Access VR shooter from indie developer davevillz , has a new badge under the ‘VR Support’ category on its Steam page which now indicates official support for Oculus Rift. ” Davevillz admits however “there’s still a few issues that need to get improved and fixed overtime.”

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, recently published an article with his thoughts on what it will take for VR to reach the mainstream. Perhaps not coincidentally, the piece published on Luckey’s personal blog this week comes just after reported priority shuffling at his former company, Oculus.

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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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VRScout

APRIL 30, 2021

May the 4th, aka Star Wars Day, is right around the corner and developer ILMxLAB is celebrating the occasion with several out-of-this-world deals on a handful of popular Star Wars VR games for Oculus Quest and PlayStation VR headsets. Check out these exclusive Star Wars Day deals for PlayStation VR and Oculus Quest Platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Considering that Facebook is very smart also in leaking misleading info (as it has happened with the “Monterey” headset ), this can also be a move from Menlo Park to create hype for the upcoming Oculus Connect 6 and the AR glasses that will be teased there. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Qualcomm’s latest reference headset supports Vive Wave, HTC Vive Focus international launch, Oculus talks about their 2018 ecosystem, announces ‘Positional Timewarp’, reveals new Oculus Go details, and Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing demo. image courtesy Oculus. image captured by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

White Lotus Interactive have announced that their VR-enabled adventure title XING: The Land beyond is now coming to the HTC Vive with full motion control support. ” As ever, to deal with the introduction of HTC Vive’s room-scale brings with it locomotion challenges, so the team have integrated two methods from which to choose.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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