The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

He’s also a Patron of this blog (and you can become too!) The concept is very interesting, because it mixes theater with virtual reality. Aegis Wolf from the Neos dev team spent various minutes helping me in solving the issue s (damn Oculus Virtual Audio Device) and in explaining me how to interact with Neos menus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2020

Last week, Oculus has distributed a very interesting v15 Runtime update for the Oculus Quest , bringing with it some very interesting features like: Multiwindow Browser A complete overhaul of the Home Menu UI Fast-activated passthrough. Oculus Quest v15 features how-to & review – Video. You can find it here below.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Oculus and Facebook announced React VR in October last year, an open-source JavaScript library (based on the popular React library) that’s designed to make it easy for web developers and programmers to deliver WebVR experiences that can be served to a range of VR headsets directly through the web browser.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Chris Koomen is a Virtual Reality specialist and consultant at KLM , a Dutch airline company. 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!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2021

Oculus Mixed Reality Capture is a plugin that lets content creators make amazing mixed reality videos of a VR game for the Oculus Quest. Since I had to make some tests with Oculus MRC for our game HitMotion: Reloaded (download it now on SideQuest !) Are you ready to implement Oculus MRC like a boss?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

For sure this is the case of Rob Farquarson-Cole , that you surely know because he comments a lot on this and other VR blogs under the nickname “R FC” He’s not only a VR enthusiast but a professional Industrial Designer that works on “Exploration of Immersive Computing” at Proof Research and Development in London, UK.

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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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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. Oculus still doesn’t doesn’t offer a commercial/enterprise app platform, something that Valve and HTC have been focusing on lately through Steam and Viveport.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The 3D maps of the terrain below you are very accurate, and people can so see in VR a realistic view of the cities from the above, and this is breathtaking scenery in virtual reality. But the advantage is that you can play all the games of the Oculus Store and from Sidequest without Zuck watching you. Of course, no.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 10, 2019

I’m writing my review on the Oculus Quest (it will be out tomorrow!) All the developer studios working on Oculus Quest when the Quest was announced (Image by Upload VR). Oculus wants to ensure that every person buying a Quest will be able to play only high-quality games. So, I am ok with content review.

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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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

When trying to sell someone on the wonder that is virtual reality, it’s better to show than to tell. Explaining the incredible immersion that a solid virtual reality experience provides is difficult to put into words, but showing someone playing or allowing a person to play themselves is the quickest path to amazement.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2020

Blender VR works through the OpenXR standard , for which a runtime has been implemented only for Windows Mixed Reality headsets and Oculus headsets. For more information, refer to Windows’ Getting Started Guide for Windows Mixed Reality and OpenXR. Oculus Rift. Oculus only provides prototype OpenXR support.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Rezzil Secures $2.75M Investment for Oculus Sports Training App “Player 22. ” Facebook Finally Opens Oculus Quest Passthrough Feature to Developers. It had previously been only available to hackers like Tony “Skarred Ghost” Vitillo, who breaks down the tech on his blog. Virtual Reality Is the Rich White Kid of Technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Mixing these two kinds of lenses and having the screen being not a traditional one, but a special laser-emitting screen , the result is the one of a virtual reality headset that is very thin, light, and comfortable. More info (Facebook AI supersampling algorithm) More info (Official announcement on Facebook Blog).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Tokyo Game Show is the first big gaming event that is being held in virtual reality : this is quite a milestone for immersive technologies, and we hope it will be the first of a long series. a Virtual Reality Creative Studio based in Tokyo, Japan. Secondly, cross-play is possible on xambr , including Oculus Quest 1&2.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 18, 2024

Google and Magic Leap Form XR Partnership Google I/O 2024: The Latest XR Updates from Google Google Blocks is a 3D modelling platform for virtual reality that does not require expert knowledge to use. It was originally released for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Google AR Glasses: Is This the Return of Google Glass?

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

Oculus has revealed that the standalone, entry-level mobile VR headset Oculus Go will support refresh rates up to 72Hz and will make use of fixed foveated rendering. One of the many snippets of news was more detail on how the company’s upcoming mobile, standalone VR headset Oculus Go handles rendering and on its display.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2018

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if the app passed minimum standards and a content review to determine it was a complete and polished experience. image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

This proves how the attention towards virtual events is rising , and this kind of entertainment medium is becoming always more popular. Real concerts and public events are not possible anymore, so most of the singers are finding a new way to express themselves and are so experimenting with digital and virtual reality events.

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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. If it follows in the footsteps of the Vader Immortal triology, we could be seeing another Quest-first release.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. Affordable standalone headset ‘Oculus Go’ revealed: Image courtesy Oculus.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 19, 2024

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. It occurred to us that creating the objects while in virtual reality could make this easier. “So

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The most interesting insight of the week comes from analyst Mark Mahaney, that, among other things has analyzed Facebook’s Virtual Reality business, and has reported very interesting data. The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. The revenue from the sold headsets is so around $2.4B

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

“Virtual reality can and should be for everyone. And we’re constantly working to improve people’s experience in VR, gathering feedback from the community to inform our work as we continue to iterate and make improvements,” said Vivek Sharma, Vive President of Horizon via the company’s official blog.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

This afternoon I’m flying to Paris to then go to Laval to attend Laval Virtual, one of the oldest events about virtual reality, where I’ll be as an attendee , a virtual speaker (about the game HitMotion: Reloaded), a host of the AWE Nite Florence (featuring great speakers like Charlie Fink… ), and also as a. Learn more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

NASA and Oculus have launched their collaborative project ‘Mission: ISS’ for the Oculus Rift for free and it’s offers a detailed, visually sumptuous virtual reality trip to space that most of us would otherwise never experience.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. Thanks to Application SpaceWarp, which can be shortened in AppSW, your Oculus Quest 2 experience can run at half the frame rate without impacting how the user sees it.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2022

Here’s how Felix & Paul describe it in a Meta blog post : “They leave knowing the work they accomplished on the ISS will help all those who will come after them to expand the horizon of deep space exploration. But that’s not all. Sights are set to getting back to the moon with the ultimate goal of Mars.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

At Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Oculus today announced it’s both overhauling and rebranding React VR, the company’s open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences. Image courtesy Oculus. “That said, React VR has very real limitations.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Oculus Quest is getting lots of cool updates in these weeks , and after the Oculus Link that lets you use the Quest as a PC VR headset, now we have also the possibility to use our bare hands to control the UI of the device. How to enable hands tracking on Oculus Quest – video tutorial. Do you like video tutorials?

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Our members are always looking to immerse themselves in new experiences and continue to learn,” Regional Director at Craven-Pamlico Regional Library, Katherine Clowers, said in a Rendever blog post detailing the deployment. Virtual reality opens up a world of immersive possibilities for our members.”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2020

I so asked some questions on Twitter to some people from the social media corporate and Chris Pruett , Director of Content Ecosystem at Oculus, has been so kind as to answer them. At OC4, Zuck said that he wanted 1 billion people in virtual reality… inside Facebook (Image by Upload VR). Testing the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In these days I have given a try to the Oculus Link , the amazing feature announced by Facebook at the Oculus Connect 6 that is able to transform the Oculus Quest into a tethered headset… let’s say an Oculus Rift Q. But is it good as people say? Is it really able to destroy completely the Rift S?

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