The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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JULY 12, 2017

Oculus for its part has attempted to kickstart that ecosystem by investing hefty sums in content developers, and now the company says it’s starting to pay off. With the backing of Facebook, Oculus has publicly committed to investing $500 million into VR content development.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2021

Even before Facebook moved to require all new Oculus users to sign in with Facebook , Oculus headset users were rightfully worried about the company’s treatment of user privacy. It’s a treasure trove of user data which has largely gone untapped (and unleaked, as far as we know), but it won’t always be that way.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

The system works pretty well Returning to inside-out tracked controller, I guess in the future some AI inference using body tracking data may help in estimating the pose of the controllers when they are out of range of the tracking cameras, too. The controller of Magic Leap 2 features onboard cameras that perform inside-out tracking, too.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. The Santa Cruz prototype is a modified Oculus Rift which has on-board compute, display, and tracking.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

According to a report by UploadVR , citing emails sent from Facebook to Oculus developers, the rumored Rift S headsets will be revealed next week at GDC. Rift S was first brought to light in a TechCrunch report last year about the leadership shakeup at Oculus and purported shifting product plans. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2018

Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company’s career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. The post Facebook Spent Over $88M This Year on Oculus’ Seattle Area Satellite HQ appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

If you make some calculations using these data, the result is that Meta has probably sold 9–10M Quest 2 units until now. These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. It’s basically a monopoly. But there is also bad news to talk about.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Palmer Luckey's Anduril is taking over the US Army's IVAS HMD program, replacing Microsoft's customized HoloLens solution. The Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program was first announced back in 2018 , and in 2021 the contract was awarded to Microsoft , with a stated value of up to $21.88

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We’ve seen various flavors over the years such as Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D , and of course Google Earth and Street View. Meanwhile, Realworld gets its underlying geospatial data from Bing Maps. This geo-anchored data could have several points of value. Realworld will conversely play on the more accessible Oculus Quest 2.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella. Trust by design.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. See Also: XRSI Releases Report on the Dangers of XR Data Collection. The report did mention that the kind of data collected might be more sensitive, such as the interior layout of a user’s home.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft today announced that the company will be bundling its Windows VR headsets and motion controllers, and making them available for purchase this holiday season starting at $400. Image courtesy Microsoft. In the meantime, check out our deep dive reviews on HTC Vive , Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch. Acer headset.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Microsoft is cutting prices even lower than their Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal with their one day-only sale that reduces the price of two of their least expensive headsets, Acer and Lenovo, to just $200. data) for connectivity. The Deals (with motion controllers). Front hinged display. 105-110 degrees horizontal field of view.

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Road to VR

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. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). The product’s main feature was 3D graphical renderings of U.S. cities, starting with San Francisco.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Data privacy.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Dell’s virtual reality headset may be only one out of an entire fleet of PC VR devices designed with the auspices of Microsoft, but it appears to be the first consumer headset of the bunch currently up for pre-order. data) for connectivity. Dual Sharp LCDs at 1440 x 1440. 2.89” diagonal display size (x2). Front-hinged display.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. Google isn’t as acquisitive for AR cloud endeavors (“ Internet of Places “), which build from existing Google Images and Street View data. In fairness, that’s not always the case. made clear to us.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. supports VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 30, 2021

At the time, I had just started developing things for the Oculus [Rift] DK1 and then DK2, so I was eager to virtually explore the colossal environments of Halo. The post ‘Halo’ and ‘Alien: Isolation’ VR Modder Joins Microsoft’s 343 Industries appeared first on Road to VR.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

The company offers access to one of the most affordable and flexible VR headsets on the market in the form of the Oculus Quest, allowing all businesses, large or small to explore virtual reality. Additionally, Microsoft Mesh also integrates with Microsoft Teams for collaboration.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. Sounded good.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey left Facebook in 2017 to found his own defense technology company, Anduril Industries. SEE ALSO Microsoft Wins $480M Defense Contract to Provide U.S. The post Oculus Founder’s Defense Company Could Make Software for Battlefield-ready AR Headsets appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2025

If you see the classification, you notice that there are some issues, like the mention of the Oculus website, that is no more. This time its been the turn of data miner Gabe Follower, who in the past has already provided reliable leaks, and that has claimed that Valve Deckard should be released in 2025 for an amount of around $1200.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” The Plurality.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Microsoft’s Windows 10 ‘Fall Creators Update’ is available for download today, making the operating system compatible with its line of Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets, which coincidentally are arriving on doorsteps and store shelves starting today too. data) for connectivity. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Since Microsoft provided its list of OEMs the same reference design, all of the available headsets except Samsung Odyssey follow the basic specs below. data) for connectivity. Windows VR Headsets: Basic Specs. Dual displays at 1440 x 1440 per eye. 2.89” diagonal display size (x2). Front hinged display. Front hinged display.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Microsoft announced a bunch of new info related to the Windows VR headsets earlier this week, including a mention that they’d launch this “holiday.” Future Halo experiences” Coming to Windows VR Headsets, Microsoft Says. Hands-on: Microsoft’s “Mixed Reality” VR Motion Controllers. data) for connectivity.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft debuted the lengthily-named “Windows Mixed Reality motion controllers” back in May, but until now we haven’t had a chance to actually try them out. During a recent meeting with Microsoft in San Francisco, I got to try the VR controllers for the first time paired with the Acer Windows VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

The division uses Unity to create a mixed reality pipeline connected to systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data, then deploy applications to multiple platforms, including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus devices, and smartphones.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. He separately broke down the math for us as follows.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Two cool news from Oculus App Lab. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

According to the latest figures from Valve’s Hardware & Software Survey, the Oculus Rift has set a new record for its highest historical market share on Steam, almost certainly driven by a major sale which has also brought the headset its largest ever share increase from one month to the next.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. Microsoft committed 100,000 units to the U.S.

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