The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). Huawei this week has announced a new pair of smart glasses, available in China for around $270. (Image from Reddit).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. More info (Oculus Quest with keyboard and mouse) More info (120Hz refresh rate on Quest 2) More info (Facebook and BCIs) More info (Rumor on Facebook smartwatch). Steam officially arrives in China. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. In his video, it seems that the Pico Neo 3 is exactly what we would expect, that is a good clone of the Oculus Quest 2. Here you can find the link: [link] Thanks a lot []-).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2017

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. He says that out of the approximately half-a-million PC VR headsets sold to date, HTC Vive “is outselling Oculus 2-to-1 worldwide.” Oculus Home. HTC Vive is outselling Oculus 2-to-1 worldwide.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

And since Epic has violated the rules of the App Store, Apple had all the rights to kick Fortnite out of it, and even to suspend the support in the integration of iOS inside of Unreal Engine. Oculus has a similar practice too, and developers are forced to use its payment system for all IAP, about which Facebook takes a 30% cut.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Facebook is rolling out an update to let multiple users share the same Oculus Quest 2 (the feature is coming also to Quest 1, but at a later time).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The damn Coronavirus is impacting the lives of many people, and I’m incredibly sad about what is happening especially in China, with millions of people quarantined and thousands of dead. Stay strong, China. Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. The coronavirus keeps impacting VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

When I was in China, the last company I visited in Shanghai has been Lenqiy. This is another Vive-X company working in the educational sector and that has given me interesting insights into the educational ecosystem in China , that confirmed what I have learned speaking with Langzou and Judao. He is a great person , for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

Entrance of nReal offices in Beijing, China. nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. That’s why when I traveled to Beijing, I really did everything that I could to visit its HQ.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 1, 2022

Despite being a leading VR brand in China, Pico is nowhere close to the scale of Oculus’s user reach or creator ecosystem. Oculus Quest 2 and Rift S together accounted for 60% of the market. At least in China, Pico is getting a slew of ads on Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese version.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The problem is that we had no idea about the release date for us western people because the device had been announced and released only in China. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

He has clients like the royal families in Dubai, China and his incredible designs have been built all over the planet. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In China I met the company 7Invensun , that is a worldwide leader for what concerns eye tracking. The aGlass SDK contains plugins for Unity and Unreal. As a developer I already experienced all of this with other products: Oculus Rift DK2 headset itself made Unity crash constantly on my laptop and sometimes froze it completely.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Wires are a VR buzzkill, but the untethered VR headsets are powered by smartphones – which are graphics-processing lightweights compared to the robust PCs behind the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. Alcatel is releasing their product first in China at the end of this year and the U.S. EVERYONE WANTS IT STANDALONE.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Developed by 3D Live Axo using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 technology, the experience introduces a brand new virtual reality video game that seamlessly connects with full-sized ATVs that have been customized to authentically replicate the in-game driving action. MediaMation has a factory in China that will build the ride.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. 7Invensun’s eye tracker is only available in China now. Isn’t it a cool device? Yes, it is!

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

million investment round led by China-based UCCVR, with participation from Colopl VR Fund and Vulcan Capital. In March, Polyarc was a recipient of an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project codenamed “Moss.” Bulla and Armstrong also both spent two months last year as prototype consultants for Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I mean, I know how China works (at first copy, then evolve), but they literally copied everything from Quest 2. On 14th, Meta dropped some merch for fans to get for free : a Beat Saber ugly sweater, some Questy (a cute smiling Quest) plush toys, Oculus-branded socks, and cookie cutters. Meta acquires Imagine Optix.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Officially, Virtuix comes Unity and Unreal Engine 4 SDK, speeding the integration in the game or some other VR application. All units are tested at the end of our assembly line in China, and our team fully inspects each Omni again upon arrival in Austin before we deliver the units to our customers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And in fact, the prosumer Pico 4 Pro that has been announced in China for consumers won’t be sold in the West. More info (Pico launches Pico 4 Enterprise) More info (Pico 4 Pro not sold outside of China) More info (Pico 4 Enterprise vs Quest Pro vs Vive Focus 3). Bytedance may have sold 46,000 Pico 4 headsets in China.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it’s truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that’s coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I’m viewing it in, it doesn’t look good. Alan: It really is. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it’s truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that’s coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I’m viewing it in, it doesn’t look good. Alan: It really is. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

and China, the Azure Kinect DK is available for preorder today for $399. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus. Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, then took to the stage to say that Unreal Engine 4 support would also be arriving on the HoloLens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it's truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that's coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. You see Facebook with Oculus. And when I finally put it into my Oculus or whatever I'm viewing it in, it doesn't look good. Alan: It really is. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe. You see Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

If the Paradise was in China, its name would be Qingdao. Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. After his ML experience, Chi Xu has flown to China, where he has founded his AR company.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon. Other relevant news. Image by HTC). has been released.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. The official boxes of the Oculus Quest (above) and Vive Focus Plus (below). Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). The design of everything reminds a bit the one of the Oculus Rift.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. So when I say five iterations, I mean, she would design it, send it to China, they built a sample, sent it to Canada, we looked at it, sent the changes back.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. So when I say five iterations, I mean, she would design it, send it to China, they built a sample, sent it to Canada, we looked at it, sent the changes back.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. So when I say five iterations, I mean, she would design it, send it to China, they built a sample, sent it to Canada, we looked at it, sent the changes back.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Mac, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. I studied under Nick Mitchell at the China Virtual Reality Institute of Technology for 5 weeks to learn how to make games using Leap Motion and Unity.”. IslandofZeus. Warlock VR.

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