The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the Vive tracker this seems to be related to power management whilst on other hardware like Index controllers it’s mainly related to finger tracking and grip sensors. GREEN: Firmware (“embedded” programs in hardware). cable extender left over from my ownership of an Oculus Rift CV1 with a 3-camera tracking setup.

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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 Image Credit: Nielsen Company. “On

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Facebook today announced that it’s working with Rockstar Games to bring Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) exclusively to the Oculus Quest 2 headset. This follows a trend of established studios reformatting older games, such as Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 (2005), for the Oculus Quest 2 hardware.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Today, virtual reality promises to take online gaming to new heights as it delivers an immersive interactive experience to gamers around the world. VR companies are developing hardware: helmets, sensor gloves, hand controllers, and more. See Also: Can Virtual Reality Games Lead to Violent Behavior? Types of Games.

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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. 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.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Virtual reality (VR) caught the imagination of a generation from its foundation stages at the end of the last century up through Meta’s acquisition of Oculus; now, VR in business is becoming a serious consideration for many international firms. Virtual Reality in Business is Growing. Nike came in at the No.2

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2020

Last month Oculus released the Oculus for Business program for enterprise customers. Based in Switzerland, Onno is a freelance senior solution architect working on a virtual reality platform for a multinational enterprise. What is Oculus for Business ? Image courtesy Oculus. First, a quick primer.

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VRScout

JULY 10, 2018

The hardware was so uncomfortable that even the system itself would tell you to take a break every 15-minutes in-game. For those of you who share a love for this bizarre line-up of long-forgotten games, you’ll be delighted to learn of a new emulator that brings all the eye-bleeding magic of the Virtual Boy to Oculus Rift headsets.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2020

In Facebook’s Q1 2020 earnings call today, the company overviewed its latest financial situation and noted that Oculus products were a major contributor to $297 million in non-advertising revenue. Wehner specifically noted that the increase was “driven primarily by the sales of Oculus products.”

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Apps, Hardware, and Immersive Experience Showcases. Unfortunately, some of these events have required specific platforms or hardware that have excluded some individuals. For example, LFF Expanded required an Oculus headset. See Also: How Is Virtual Reality Changing Animation? A Distribution Platform for 3D Film.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

And while Facebook probably won’t release any hard data on hardware sales until a future product is in sight, Zuckerberg said in an earnings call late last month that Quest 2 is “on track to be the first mainstream virtual reality headset.”

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our product LooxidVR has three key features: Hardware usability : What’s unique about LooxidVR is that it helps researchers integrate VR into their research in the simplest way. Hardware: [link] SystemConfiguration: [link] Software: [link]. Full specifications of the headset (Image by Looxid Labs, click to enlarge).

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with CNET for an interview where he speaks about the company’s progress on its next generation of VR devices, namely what it might include in the ‘Oculus Quest Pro’ standalone headset. ” he told CNET.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and key player in the VR startup’s genesis story, says Sony’s upcoming PSVR 2 headset may be see a bumpy road to adoption based on its high price and potential for scattershot geographic distribution. Looking to learn all about PSVR 2 before it launches this month?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

Headsets compatibility Me trying the Somnium VR-1 headset inside a plane simulator at Somnium Connect (Image by Tyriell Wood) When HTC Vive came out, it was a revolution for the virtual reality field : Oculus tried to copy its tracking system, but the Constellation tracking was not comparable and I say this as a Rift CV1 owner.

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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. Receiving funding was not only a blessing, but an incredible learning experience for me.

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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. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together.

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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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VRScout

MAY 1, 2018

The $200 Oculus Go is the most accessible VR headset today. But now the Oculus Go is finally here and it’s a big deal, especially for the millions of iPhone users out there who up until today have had limited options to get into VR. Starting today, the Oculus Go standalone VR headset is available for purchase for $199.

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ARPost

MARCH 16, 2020

After decades of speculation, anticipation, hype, and disappointment, is 2020 virtual reality ’s breakout year? As someone who studies the psychology and ergonomics of virtual and augmented technologies, I’ve long known the key to mass adoption lies in a positive user experience, which virtual reality is now poised to deliver.

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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. Hey, Antony.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2019

A new era in VR technology arrives with the Oculus Quest standalone headset. The Oculus Quest shouldn’t exist—at least not at this price. Most importantly, the Oculus Quest ditches the past complexities and considerable expenses of modern VR, ushering in the dawn of true consumer-level virtual reality.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

“Last night was an extraordinary celebration of the advances made in virtual reality across what has been a highly unusual twelve months,” said AIXR CEO Daniel Colaianni. Despite the constraints that COVID-19 has presented, it is evident that innovation and progress in delivering virtual reality to all has not been hindered.”.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Learn the ins-and-outs of Unity development and have your project reviewed by Oculus experts. From the initial prototyping stages to testing and final submissions, students will be guided through every stage of VR development for Oculus Rift/Rift S and Oculus Quest headsets on the Unity platform. Image Credit: Oculus, Unity.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Then you may be interested in Oculus and Unity’s new intermediate level VR game development course, which is not only free, but can get you some valuable feedback from Oculus on your creation. After you complete the course, you have the option to submit your vertical slice for review by the team at Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2019

At Sandbox Immersive Festival , I have been able to try some interesting hardware solutions. I have already detailed in another post my impressions on the Pico Neo and the HP Reverb … in this one, I will talk about other hardware manufacturers. Veer Chair. I so went there, eager to try the new LG devices.

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AR Insider

APRIL 22, 2021

Adults Have Tried Virtual Reality. New data from Thrive Analytics & ARtillery Intelligence reveals who’s using VR, how often, and with what hardware. On the bright side, Standalone VR – exemplified by Oculus Quest 2 — was a standout in this year’s survey. About Virtual Reality Monitor.

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2019

Despite the lack of an actual release date, Oculus’ upcoming 6DoF standalone headset, the Oculus Quest, has found new trouble in garnering large amounts of attention from both industry veterans and consumers alike. The post ‘The Under Presents’: Interactive Live Theater For The Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2021

Before him, there was Darshan Shankar, the CEO of Bigscreen VR , because his company must compete with Facebook’s own movie rental service and Cix Liv , the previous CEO of YUR, a software that Facebook has copied in its new Oculus Move service. It works across any game, without any hardware, across most headsets.

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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. Use Oculus and SteamVR beta releases.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Oculus improves development time for UE4 developers. Image by Pico).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

During Facebook’s Q4 2020 earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Quest 2 is “on track to be the first mainstream virtual reality headset,” noting that the device drove a 156% increase in the company’s non-advertising revenue. Image courtesy Oculus.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

for the “ Elsevier Simulation Learning System for RN with Virtual Reality (SLS with VR). ” Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. VR Inn for “Virtual Reality training for container glass manufacturers.” with Novartis.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360 videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality.

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