The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today I’ve played around with Oculus Quest , trying to hack it a bit via command-line tools (ADB), hoping to activate some cool features. There’s no intent associated with taking a picture, there’s no media service launched, and there’s not even “camera” listed as a hardware capability of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

I know that your team has created a tool called Holo-BLSD. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. A self-instruction tool can solve many of these problems if it is indeed effective in achieving the same learning outcomes of a traditional course. And is it a reliable self-evaluation tool? Presentation video of Holo BLSD.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you were one of the poor souls desperately trying to purchase an Oculus Quest this holiday season, you know better than anyone how difficult it’s been to locate a headset whose price hasn’t been inflated hundreds-of-dollars by third-party sellers. Image Credit: Oculus, Facebook. “We’ve Feature Image Credit: Facebook Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Because of his work, he finds himself working every day on XR headsets in professional settings, and he was one of the first people to share a photo of the Oculus Quest 2 For Business on my Linkedin feed. Here you are my chat with him about Oculus For Business! What are the advantages that Oculus For Business has given you?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Oculus brand will be phased out, with the Quest product line becoming Meta Quest. The Oculus brand, which has existed alongside the company’s other products, will be phased out in order to allow the company’s metaverse and XR efforts to be positioned under Meta as the parent brand. Image courtesy Meta.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it’s fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development going forward. OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making hardware and software more interoperable.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Spatial , the social collaboration platform for XR devices, is now available for public download on Oculus Quest, which includes cross-platform support for HoloLens, Magic Leap One, Nreal, Web browsers, and iOS & Android mobile devices. SEE ALSO 'Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR' Beta Updates Hint at "Upcoming hardware releases".

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. ” Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR. .”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. That’s a wrap on Oculus Connect 6. Oculus Link launches this November ; Oculus will be offering its own official USB-C cable as well. .

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2019

Yesterday, Facebook unveiled a slew of new details surrounding the next generation of its VR hardware line-up. The company taking time during their F8 developer conference to reveal an official price tag for the enterprise-grade edition of the Oculus Quest. Image Credit: Oculus. Image Credit: Oculus.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

NextVR , the live event VR broadcasting company, today announced a partnership with Oculus to bring live VR events to Oculus Venues , the company’s upcoming social viewing app that will allow mass viewing of events such as sports, concerts and comedy. NextVR has built a passionate fan base around leading VR content experiences.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2021

Niantic announced today that long-time Oculus employee Dan Morris, Head of Developer Relations, is joining as the company’s new Director of Developer Relations as Niantic ramps up its Lightship AR platform, which aims to bring to third-party developers the same ‘world scale’ tech that enables Pokémon Go.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2023

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.”

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2020

Check out this next-gen office powered by Oculus’ Passthrough technology. Earlier this week Facebook’s head of AR & VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed off an experimental mixed reality workspace powered via prototype Oculus hardware. “This is real footage using prototype headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Meta is going to hand the design of its headsets to Goertek , and gradually stop working on hardware altogether, to concentrate on the Horizon OS platform. Boz also denied that the whole VR hardware division of Meta is going to be laid off. I still think that there may be some true parts of the rumor , though.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. The majority of our team consists of USC students.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A newly public FCC Test Report uncovered by Road to VR shows that HTC, the company behind Viveport and the Cosmos Elite VR headset, has recently submitted a new filing for what looks to be a new VR headset that would expand HTC’s lineup of immersive tech hardware. But it doesn’t mean the company has moved away from its hardware endeavors.

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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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VRScout

MARCH 27, 2021

By employing a unique combination of haptic technology and hardware-agnostic software, Fundamental Surgery is able to deliver a genuine sense of touch when performing key surgical actions, interacting with specific medical tools, and operating on different tissue variants. Anyway, things were going great.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Earlier this year the Mozilla Corporation announced plans for a powerful new version of their popular Firefox browser tailored specifically for web-based mixed reality content on standalone VR & AR headsets including the Lenovo Mirage, Oculus Go, Vive Focus, as well as other standalone devices capable of running on the Vive Wave Platform.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2019

On the run up to the headset’s Spring release, Oculus today confirmed a handful of new Quest launch titles. The app also lets users get creative with in-game building and logic tools for designing and sharing their own spaces and activities. SEE ALSO Oculus Rift S vs. Oculus Quest – Specs & Features.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

During Oculus Connect 6 , the company announced Facebook Horizon , a social VR world where you can literally step into a virtual version of your Facebook page. The future of Facebook appears to be centered around VR and AR. The company also confirmed the long-rumored development of its own dedicated AR glasses.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Navigate the Quest Home interface and first-party Oculus apps with your bare hands. Originally revealed during Oculus Connect 6 this past September, native hand tracking for Oculus Quest headsets is scheduled to begin rolling out this week as part of software update v12. . Image Credit: Oculus. Image Credit: Oculus.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When you think about “haptics,” particularly in the sense of extended reality , you probably think about hardware and wearables that let you interact with and feel your environment. Haptics require hardware but they also require software. However, I had to ask, is hardware in the roadmap? However, that’s only half the story.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

Oculus is giving the Rift & Touch their biggest discount yet for a six week-long sale. At the start of 2017, the Oculus Rift + Touch controllers cost $800, the same as the HTC Vive. Oculus had dropped the price to $600 earlier this year, which is what it will return to after the special six week-long sale. In The Box.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

” Given my recent experience with Unity developing, I could give myself only a clear answer: “NO” With nowadays Unity tools, it is much easier to make cross-platform content, and with OpenXR this will be even better. How to make a VR application compatible with Oculus, Wave and Steam VR runtimes. Add Oculus Support.

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ARPost

JUNE 14, 2021

Tools like Mirror help a user see their physical reflection while working out so that they can see their actions next to a professional. Unfortunately, tools like Mirror (and most VR headsets) are highly mobility limiting. However, AR fitness with its smaller form factor and greater environmental awareness has greater potential.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

We took these incredible tools and “workified” them, making them persistent, secure, and integrated with the most important business and communication tools, for the optimal headquarters.” ” Image Credit: HeadOffice.Space. HeadOffice.Space offers 20+ spaces to choose from.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2020

Valve just released its Steam Hardware Survey for May , and it seems there’s been zero pull-back in connected headsets one month after the usership surge. Connected Oculus Quest headsets, which account for 7.46% of the total number of connect headsets now, made a gain of 1.43% in May alone—making for the largest increase among the lot.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2019

As first reported by PocketGamer , Facebook is advertising a few new posts at its VR subsidiary Oculus, laced with the notion that a Facebook-built AR headset is definitely on the rise. “We are building hardware products. ” SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. The hardware itself is nothing short of amazing.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2018

GDC, hosted later this month in San Francisco, has long been an important event for Oculus. GDC 2018 is a little more than one week away; Oculus is planning a big presence at the show this year, and, in a post to the company’s blog , says they’ll be bringing “never-before-seen demos” to the event.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leaks in advance of Facebook Connect, particularly around the time that VIVE Flow was announced , had many anticipating new devices from Oculus. There were announcements, mainly involving hardware and new titles and game updates in the coming year, and a new headset was announced though it won’t be here until next year at the earliest.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, this article helps you learn these: How to setup hand-tracking in Unity The different uses for hand tracking in your VR projects A quick guide to hand-tracking design for AR/VR with the Oculus Quest When you should use controllers or hands When and how to use levers Other interesting facts about hand-tracking. What is the Risk of Failure?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Each year over 70 experts in immersive technology come together to meticulously inspect everything from innovative new hardware to groundbreaking VR experiences to other colossal advancements that will push VR into brand new directions. VR Hardware of the Year – Index by Valve. You can read more about FundamentalVR’s work here.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2022

Windows 11, Oculus, and SteamVR. If you have Windows 11, you may have issues with virtual reality, especially if you are using Oculus Link or Oculus Air Link. These problems become even worse when you use Oculus in conjunction with SteamVR. How to solve SteamVR performances issues with Oculus Link on Windows 11.

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