AR Insider

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

For example, our September estimates for 333,000 cumulative Oculus Quests sales were based on disclosures at the OC6 conference that $20 million in games had been sold for the device. As we’ve done with past Oculus content volume disclosures, we can extrapolate and back into hardware estimates. Let’s pull on that string.

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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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MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 31, 2019

If anybody can do it, it’s probably Sony. Ever since the Playstation was first launched – if, like myself, you’re old enough to remember it, you may pause a moment here to consider your own age and mortality – Sony has been in the business of reinventing gaming. Easier said than done… This isn’t your regular video streaming of course.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta. 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). Image by Sony). Other relevant news.

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MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, circa 2014 | Photo courtesy Oculus. The hardware will not change.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2017

Here are the latest PlayStation VR games Sony teased at E3. With other VR military shooters such as Onward and Pavlov gaining much attention by Vive and Oculus owners as of late, Bravo Team could be just what the PSVR needs to further expand its community. The post Sony Reveals 7 New Titles Coming To PSVR appeared first on VRScout.

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MAY 26, 2016

Microsoft may be preparing a new, much more powerful version of their Xbox One games console codenamed ‘Scorpio’ to power the Oculus Rift some reports are suggesting. It’s also claimed MS are pursuing a partnership with Oculus to supply headsets to go with the new console, said to be released in 2017.

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AR Insider

APRIL 27, 2020

Oculus Quest has been the accelerant that the VR industry needs. But perhaps a more telling metric goes straight to the source: Oculus Quest Store data. Oculus seems to be betting that people will be happy with a convenient, lower-powered headset that plays a smaller number of games,” said the Verge’s Adi Robertson.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Though it’s Facebook’s newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company’s most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Released earlier this year, Oculus Quest has entered the fray and made a big splash. Data courtesy Sony, chart by Road to VR. Peak search volume for Quest in the US was 1.6

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Of course, the king has still been No Man’s Sky , that with its Beyond update has added VR support, transforming it in the biggest VR world to this date. At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. Image by Oculus). Sony has acquired Insomniac Games.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“In the beginning [of VR] of course it was very hard, as a new platform emerges, to do multiplayer, because there isn’t the concurrency [of users] you need to meet other people. On stage at AWE 2021 this week, Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm announced that his company is spinning up a new division dedicated to AR game development.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Of course, this is still a research project, so, for instance, it works only with green light (I mean, there is also a prototype with all three RGB colors, but it is bigger and only sits on a desk), and there is no hardware on the glasses (no SOC, no tracking cameras, etc…). Oculus Quest v18 adds colored Guardian and voice commands.

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AR Insider

APRIL 13, 2020

Because hardware sales figures aren’t disclosed ( except from Sony ), this becomes an ongoing exercise in piecing together known quantities to extrapolate unknown ones. Of course this isn’t perfect, as not all VR users access Steam in a given month. For example, it doesn’t fully reflect PSVR, nor Oculus Quest.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

Facebook’s Q4 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $885 million. As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver. That’s of course a general statement but we can zero in using other signals. That yields $336.96

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers. Oculus proved that VR was more than a product when they officially released numbers about their ecosystem last September at Oculus Connect 6.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, you’ll need a reasonably powerful gaming PC to plug your headset into. If you’re looking to play content that’s exclusive to the Oculus PC library (like Asgard’s Wrath ) you can use the free but unofficial Revive mod to play Oculus PC content on Valve Index. Oculus Quest 2 Specs.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

Today I start a short series of post that talk about the three headsets of the moment: Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest and Valve Index. The Oculus Rift S is the new PC VR headset by Oculus. It has been made in collaboration with Lenovo, and it represents a refresh of the Oculus CV1 , that is better and easier to be used.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Like with Meta (formerly Facebook), plans to create its version of the metaverse have remained fairly nebulous—par for the course since the concept of ‘the metaverse’ was co-opted to mean any virtual world, a summation of virtual worlds, or a monolithic virtual platform (metaverse with a capital ‘M’).

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

It’s February 2 nd , so of course that means Groundhog Day. In homage to the greatest movie ever made, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality – the VR arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment – has developed a virtual reality game that puts you in a Punxsutawney time loop. And don’t forget your booties cause it’s COLD out there… .

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You can buy headsets at a discounted price, or accessories, or even lots of games on Steam, Viveport, and Oculus Store! This headset would so have a quite big processing power, being able to deliver far better experiences than the Oculus Quest. The visuals would be provided by two 4K OLED microdisplays from Sony.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2017

We know that Samsung has confirmed more than 5 million Gear VR units are now in the wild for example, and of course the headlines of Sony surprising themselves with PlayStation VR’s early sales figures – approaching 1 Million going in to 2017. But just how much is VR on people’s radar? Image courtesy Nielsen.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Virtual reality has figured prominently at the event in recent years of course, quickly rising to become one of the shows hottest technologies. CES 2013 however gave us the first glimpse of Oculus VR operating as a company. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2018

With mostly prior confirmed PSVR titles presenting at E3 2018 , we expected Sony to dedicate a few moments during its E3 2018 keynote to highlight the platform’s upcoming VR games, of course with the understanding that high-profile PS4 titles would mostly overshadow VR titles. Well, that’s a bit of an understatement.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The demo got more than 100k downloads on Steam so we decided to push on and now it’s available on Steam, Oculus, VivePort, WMR, PSVR, Pico Neo2, Nolo X1. Git is of course a god-send. Of course, we needed to add some basic FPS mechanics like running, jumping, and crouching. We released the demo on Steam in May 2018.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

After 14 years of working on home and portable consoles, Ready At Dawn this month released Lone Echo and its multiplayer spinoff Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift & Touch. He’s referring to a conversation he had with Jason Rubin—Head of Content at Oculus—way back in late 2014. “We From there Oculus decided to sign it on.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens. PSVR2 will surely have its dedicated controllers, but since Sony is trying to guarantee retro-compatibility of games (especially gems like AstroBot), this headset should also be able to work with the DualSens controller.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Back in October, Sony announced Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle , the long-awaited sequel to the 1995 Robin Williams classic—only this time staring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan. “A game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind”…literally.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

When the acclaimed Tilt Brush ‘VR paint’ app launched alongside the HTC Vive in early 2016, it made sense for the program not to support the Oculus Rift as only the Vive at that time had motion-tracked VR controllers. We redesigned interactions to take advantage of the Oculus Touch controllers.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2019

Data is captured over the course of the month, which tells us how many headsets were connected to users’ PCs over that time period; we call the resulting figure ‘monthly-connected headsets’ for clarity. Doing so suggests some 2.15 million monthly-connected headsets by May 2020. Data gap from seven months of data misreported by Valve.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

It had a compelling reason to exist, which is why Microsoft directly competed against iPod Touch over the course of three device generations before eventually giving up the goat in 2011 and discontinuing the third-gen Zune. Currently major contenders are Meta, Sony, HTC, Valve, Pico, Pimax, and Apple starting next year.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Of course, the object must be in the FOV of the cameras of the headset to be tracked, even if HTC says that the tracking can somewhat continue also when this condition is not true (i guess using just IMU data). Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony reveals the design of the PSVR 2. Finally, Sony Interactive Entertainment has unveiled the design of the PlayStation VR 2 headset. Oh look, we have again an Oculus account on Twitter! Header image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Top news of the week. Some XR fun.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

In the case of VR headsets, that means that the figure we’re estimating is how many unique headsets are connected to Steam users’ PCs over the course of a given month; it’s the closest official data point we have to active headsets , but doesn’t tell us the extent to which those headsets are actually being used.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2023

The end of 2022 marks more than a decade since the Oculus Kickstarter sparked the modern era of VR. Although Sony has technically continued selling its original PSVR headset over the years, it’s been on the market for more than six years now—and gained ‘last-gen’ status well before that. The Elephant in the Room.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The sale will most likely find its way to other big box stores and online stores too in due time, as Sony tends to keep its Black Friday pricing pretty even across the board. Of course, you’ll also need some flavor of PS4 to play, which includes all PS4 models such as the original PS4, PS4 Slim, and PS4 Pro.

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