VRScout

MAY 27, 2020

Our goal was to provide virtual reality COVID-19 training for healthcare workers and those working in post-acute care and long-term care facilities who are being asked to engage in care that is outside their normal practice as well as for those whose training is out of date,” Morgan explains.

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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. Oculus Move is the fitness tracker of the Oculus Quest. YUR trailer.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In 2019, the demand growth for augmented reality and virtual reality engineers skyrocketed 1400% from the previous year, surpassing the demand for blockchain engineers (the most in-demand skill in 2018). Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1 Guest Post.

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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

JULY 19, 2019

Elon Musk unveiled Neuralink earlier this week, a startup that aims to not only revolutionize the growing field of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), but eventually wants to make neural implants as common as LASIK outpatient procedures are today—that’s the long-term goal at least.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this article, we will explore seven XR trends that have been taking shape over the past year to be the top trends in not only 2022, but within the long-term future of AR, VR and MR. Machine Learning. Virtual reality has existed for decades even manifesting itself in impractical forms such as Nintendo’s Virtual Boy from 1995.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2020

Researchers claim the approach is “the first learned supersampling method that achieves significant 16x supersampling of rendered content with high spatial and temporal fidelity, outperforming prior work by a large margin.”. Oculus Varifocal Prototypes, Image courtesy Oculus.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

We all know that HoloLens 2 is a very powerful tool for remote assistance and collaboration, and can, for instance, be used to watch a 3D model of an industrial machine by many people together that have to discuss about it. More info (Blender now supports Virtual Reality) More info (How to activate VR support in Blender).

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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. According to Meta, Resident Evil 4 VR is the “fastest selling game” ever on Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Oculus Connect 6 is starting today, and ahead of the festivities Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a video showing off some pretty nuanced hand interaction, something he says will be apart of his talk today. Update (1:15 PM ET) : Mark Zuckerberg announced on stage at Oculus Connect 6 that Quest will soon have hand-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind. One thing that I’m trying to do is continuing my daily job and at the meantime learn as much as I can about AR and VR. Machine Learning has become a key part of the product, now.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 Learn more (New policy on 18+) Learn more (Horizon is theoretically all 18+). Learn more. NBA is training referees using Virtual Reality. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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ARPost

AUGUST 4, 2020

See Also: VR Experience Review: Guide Your Mind To Relaxation With “The Marvellous Machine”. Devices: HTC VIVE, Oculus Rift. Devices: Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go. With one of the most innovative VR meditation apps, Chakra VR, you can learn how to unblock all the chakras with the specific poses for each of them.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2019

This means that you may just wear your plain Oculus Go , without using any additional sensor, and the Virtuleap software may be able to “read your mind” I can read in your mind that you are intrigued, so keep reading… How Virtuleap has born. How can I offer biometric data on a cheap device like Oculus Go?”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2021

The tour used to run in-person for the first 24 people to show up at the lab at 4 pm each Friday, and let people explore and discover what is virtual reality, and some key experiments that the Virtual Human Interaction Lab was doing. According to Upload VR, even Mark Zuckerberg took the tour before deciding to buy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. I learned how to do the coding.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2019

Oculus is today launching their ‘Expressive Avatars’ update on Rift and mobile VR; it’s a significant step up in realism thanks to a few additions including cleverly simulated eye models, lipsync, and even microexpressions. Oculus previously used eye wear to avoid off-putting stares, Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

We find ourselves fully immersed in the virtual world. For example, In Lucky’s Tale for Oculus Rift, the player controls a funny little fox, and is present in the game world as an invisible observer who follows the game’s main character. content developer company transforming our perception about learning and socializing in VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Privacy in VR is an ever growing issue, especially now that all new Oculus accounts must login to Facebook with their real identity, which includes anyone who wants to use a Quest 2. “With the rise of virtual reality, body tracking data has never been more accurate and more plentiful.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! The first one is that Reality Labs had $10B of losses in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If we pair it to the fact that this device is connected to a PS5, which is a quite powerful machine, we see that the whole system is truly the next-generation VR that PlayStation users (and not only them) were waiting for. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Other news. Some XR fun.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2020

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) researchers unveiled a prototype motion controller recently which showcases experimental techniques into full hand tracking using machine learning and capacitive sensors. Image courtesy SIE. Like the Index controller, Sony’s prototype features an open-palm design using a wrist strap.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

This may be a local server on your pc (Apache, IIS), a server on a local virtual machine, or a web server that you own. I have the one of this blog) , or use Glitch , or install a LAMP/WAMP server on your machine (in this case, don’t forget the SSL certificates). A web server, with SSL certificates. Plugin Analysis.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2020

Looking at the hardware survey, it is also easy to spot that the headset gaining more market quotas in PC usage has been the Oculus Quest, which now represents more than 7% of the PCVR landscape. Image by Oculus). Oculus For Business may need some improvements. Mark should be proud of it. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

I think these numbers are important also for us XR people because next year Sony is going to launch its PSVR 2 accessory for PS5, and the bigger the userbase of the console, the bigger will be the target market for PSVR 2 , that can so hope to rival in some way the Oculus Quest 2 and maybe also trigger the interest of Xbox executives.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Our primary research areas are Computer Graphics and Mixed Reality and our works span different topics like MR for serious games, human-computer interaction, usability in MR, virtual heritage, and so on. The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 28, 2020

The biggest hurdle of Tap is learning how to use it as a keyboard. Can you really learn to use Tap? The training app is so well made, that y ou can learn how to type with Tap easily and without spending too much time every way (10-20min is enough). Tap showcasing the use of Tap in VR inside the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

I had this fascination with the concept of a Holodeck and as I grew up that never sort of left me and when virtual reality became the thing with Oculus, I just saw this opportunity to actually build my own holodeck. Regardless of how you summarize, it’s only sort of one single view down into that dataset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2021

Some days ago, Facebook has distributed its new Facebook Avatars system, promising many possible customizations, a machine-learning algorithm able to reliably reconstruct the pose of your upper body, and a visual appearance that is the right mix between realism and cartoon-style. New Oculus Avatars – Final Impressions.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Then, PSVR Without Parole has reported that Sony has learned from the errors of the PSVR 1, and so it has made the cable of the PSVR 2 detachable. Now if you use the Oculus Developer Hub on your PC, you can record a video on Quest with the settings you want, including stereoscopic view and 4K resolution. Learn more. Learn more.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

This year, new standalone headsets from Oculus and Vive debuted. See Also: Virtual Reality in Senior Care Communities: What Are the Benefits? To illustrate, readers will learn how VR helps kids and people with special needs learn to use an MRI machine. Do these issues sound familiar?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Theoretically, the SenseGlove can be used outside VR, but practically speaking it is inside the virtual reality that it shines , because it is able to give more realism to your VR experiences by offering more realistic touch sensations. you can feel when a drilling machine is on).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some of the news coming from there have been: NVIDIA announced new Grace Hopper chips to empower AI algorithms on server machines , and AI workbench to allow everyone to play around with AI models. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR. The startup just raised $1.6

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Other relevant news.

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