The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

After Venice VR Expanded has come to an end, I have finally had the time to experiment with Oculus Quest AR Passthrough. What is impressive on the good side is instead the stability of the tracking : we all know that Oculus Insight is the best in class tracking solution among VR headsets, and in AR this is even more important.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Yesterday Oculus started rolling out the firmware update for the Oculus Quest with the big updates announced at Oculus Connect 6 , that is 3 DOF mode and Passthrough+. 3DOF Mode lets you use your Oculus Quest as a 3DOF headset, like an Oculus Go. As a side note: Oculus tracking really needs little light to work.

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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.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. And while Oculus’ first stab at the feature is reasonably solid, there’s still limitations around accuracy, latency, pose detection, and tracking coverage.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Probably if I had tested it at the Oculus Quest 2 times, I would be here saying that the passthrough of the Varjo is the best I have ever tried.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

Oculus has revealed that the standalone, entry-level mobile VR headset Oculus Go will support refresh rates up to 72Hz and will make use of fixed foveated rendering. One of the many snippets of news was more detail on how the company’s upcoming mobile, standalone VR headset Oculus Go handles rendering and on its display.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In these days I have given a try to the Oculus Link , the amazing feature announced by Facebook at the Oculus Connect 6 that is able to transform the Oculus Quest into a tethered headset… let’s say an Oculus Rift Q. But is it good as people say? Is it really able to destroy completely the Rift S?

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 22, 2019

There is now a virtual reality enabled version of the Firestorm viewer. It requires that people have SteamVR and an Oculus Rift or a compatible headset. It requires that people have SteamVR and an Oculus Rift or a compatible headset. Also known as “AI Austin” in-world, Tate runs the Openvue and AiLand OpenSim grids.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2021

.” nDreams hasn’t tipped its hand yet, however one of the most successful genres in VR right now is fitness titles featuring either annual or monthly subscriptions, which typically target the Oculus Quest platform.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. If you’re going to do a lot of development, you had better use Oculus Link through a USB 3.0 Also, install the Oculus app and the Oculus Hub on your computer.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality games, in particular, have come a long way from the lukewarm response they received in their early years. Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2020

He’s the man managing the CloudXR SDK, the solution that lets you have cloud rendering for virtual and augmented reality , so he has a great vision on how and when we can have an XR headset that offloads everything to the cloud. We’ve also talked about the latencies that we can expect today from cloud rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. Follow my guide on how to update your Oculus Go until you can select the “Cast” option).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. Thanks to Application SpaceWarp, which can be shortened in AppSW, your Oculus Quest 2 experience can run at half the frame rate without impacting how the user sees it.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Stadia, Google’s cloud-gaming company, is looking for new hires with a preference for virtual reality development experience. Four job listings posted or updated as recently as September 7th seek developers and engineers with virtual reality experience among the “preferred qualifications” of the roles.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

These days, I am experimenting a lot with Oculus Quest because of its new amazing features. One of these is the Oculus Link, that lets you connect your Quest to your PC and use it as a PC VR headset. Oculus Link Setup. Oculus Link setup is actually a non-setup, since it is incredibly easy to be done. Are you interested?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600. Unlike Spotify however, HTC is also renting out the Vive alongside the set-top box, making for an all-in-one deal that gives newcomers everything they need to start experiencing virtual reality.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2021

As previously announced, we are also developing a Friends System and a new technology to enable large groups of people to stream ultra-low latency video in VR.” ” The new ad-supported film is coming to all supported platforms today, which includes SteamVR , Oculus Rift , Oculus Quest , and Oculus Go.

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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. We can rejoice: Virtual Reality has a new unicorn company that proves its success.

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ARVR

MAY 12, 2021

Oculus has now brought us a free solution to play all PCVR games wirelessly with the v28 update of the Quest 2. One was Oculus Link, where you had to buy a long USB3 cable and connect it to the Quest and PC. How to set up Oculus Link, Air Link or Virtual Desktop can be found in the tutorials from Nathie below.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. Unfortunately, the tether also keeps us connected to reality (the one we’re trying to escape with VR).

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ARPost

JULY 3, 2020

As virtual reality content becomes increasingly pervasive so do the apps for users to enjoy this kind of videos. See Also: Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest in 2020. There is now a wide selection of VR media players for Android and iOS. However, since the market is still new, consumers are not yet familiar with them.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Dispelling Common VR Myths and Misconceptions Despite the relatively widespread acceptance and use of virtual reality technology, there are still some myths and misconceptions that surround it. He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Launching in early 2017 with pre-orders starting Friday, HTC claims the device will eliminate the direct connection to the PC without any noticeable difference in latency or gameplay. HTC plans to offer a wireless upgrade accessory for the Vive created by TPCAST. The release date for the TPCAST device is said to start in Q1 2017.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Edge computing is an evolving paradigm in cloud computing optimisation, where the typical latency problems associated with the cloud can be mitigated. According to the press release provided to Road to VR , GridRaster leverages this technology “to re-define the network and compute stack at multiple layers – device, network and edge cloud.”.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Oculus Test Users let you use the Quest 2 without a real Facebook account (for sideloading).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Well, now the minimum spec—at least for Oculus—seems to be a little more affordable, more so than their previously stated GTX 970 – Core i5 4590 ‘recommend spec’ that is. ” Asynchronous spacewarp is Oculus’s new solution to fix judder caused by positional movement in the playspace.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tomorrow is the big day of the Oculus Connect 7, which has now been sadly rebranded as Facebook Connect. Every year, Oculus has always made astonishing announcements during this yearly event, and we are sure that this year will be no exception to this rule. Oculus Quest 2. But what can we expect from it? Wireless Link.

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ARVR

JANUARY 25, 2021

Virtual Reality Future?—?Predictions, Since VR technology is becoming more and more mainstream, we decided to look into the future of virtual reality technology to see how people will interact, the role it is expected to play, and, in general, answer the question: what is the future of virtual reality?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Today is a watershed moment for virtual reality : Pico has finally done what everyone in the XR community was waiting for with the launch of Pico Neo 3 Link , the first Quest 2 competitor. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

We’re working to take virtual reality from an early adopter concept to a revolution for all of computing. This process introduces ‘latency’, which is the time it takes to update frames with new user input taken into account. Unfortunately, there are many factors that can increase latency. Research is Vision.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Now stocked on shelves in retail stores across the nation in preparation for the last-minute gift grab, Axe’s $20 gift set includes one 16 oz Axe Body Wash, one 4 oz Axe Daily Fragrance Body Spray, and one virtual reality headset. SEE ALSO Oculus Go is Facebook's Affordable Standalone Headset Priced at $200, Shipping Early 2018.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

It’s clear that there’s an appetite for virtual reality and that the VR industry as a whole has no intention of slowing down. The HTC Vive Pros were tethered, so there was no latency but the game did have a peculiar dense, dreamlike aspect to it, which often stems from lower refresh rates.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 31, 2019

In spite of all the investment from companies such as Oculus, the PSVR is the only hardware that has come even close to tapping that elusive jackpot of mass consumer adoption. Ever since the Playstation was first launched, Sony has been in the business of reinventing gaming. Click To Tweet. The same seems to be the case with VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are technologies that overlay or replace physical environments with virtual content. The degree of immersion in virtual reality vs augmented reality. In VR, the user is completely absorbed in a virtual environment and minimises boundaries and markers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Because there are people in the communities that think that it is (and will be) impossible that wherever we are, there is always a server close-enough to do the rendering with minimal latency. And this would be much cheaper than making something that always answers with 10ms latency. Also, AR has far looser requirements than VR.

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Upload VR

JUNE 7, 2022

Just a few weeks ago Zero Latency announced some upgrades which include ditching the heavy backpacks and opting for a new system that wirelessly streams content to headsets from on-site PCs. The tracking was also noticeably improved and seemed less glitchy than my previous Zero Latency sessions a few years ago. .

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