The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Technically speaking, it is amazing. Other relevant news. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). You’ve got these avatars and these virtual worlds and something just really grabbed me about a future in VR. I learned how to do the coding.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

(Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Answer: if people go to a platform just to make money, that platform is not going to succeed) Are today’s virtual worlds so different from Second Life?

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

With this latest edition, the Immersive Pavilion cements its status as the perfect place to experience, play, and learn about technological advances across the constantly evolving mediums of augmented, virtual, and mixed reality,” stated SIGGRAPH 2019 Immersive Pavilion Chair Victoria Rege, in an official release.

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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. Register to Metaversus.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Beyond News Feed, you’ll also be able to explore Facebook 360 photos in virtual reality with Gear VR. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (6/11/16). Get ready to snap in your phone scouts!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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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. Essentially you do analyze faster and come with better insights.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. Learn more. It’s basically a monopoly.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

In his video, it seems that the Pico Neo 3 is exactly what we would expect, that is a good clone of the Oculus Quest 2. There is also a companion app (another thing copied from Oculus), through which you can buy the games (of course connected with Alipay and WeChat pay). He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If a brand like Nike buys a startup like RTFKT that is still mostly unknown to the average consumer, is because it wants to exploit its expertise to enter the virtual fashion field , creating digital goods to sell in games, virtual worlds, and social augmented reality spaces (e.g. Meta acquires Imagine Optix.

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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. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. Image by Oculus). In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. Oculus Link is coming soon. In the latest runtime of the Oculus Rift available on the Public Test Channel, there are already various mentions to the Oculus Link. Machines can now see through walls.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unless you’re playing with bots—which is actually a pretty great experience on its own—you need to keep communication clear so you can heal fellow players, report where baddies are, and learn the ins and outs of each map. And thus Puzzling Places was born, and has since become the single best rated app on the Oculus Quest store.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

The devices will use positional tracking (which will not require any external sensors) developed from expertise learned through creating Google’s Tango mapping technology and optimized for virtual reality. THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE DISAPPEARING STORY APPS CONTINUES. San Francisco-based Vivid Vision has raised a $2.2M

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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. Co-authored By: Denis Tambovtsev, Natasha Floksy and Olga Peshé.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Traditionally based off of technological developments happening in the real world, some of the first movies with VR technology started coming out in the early 80’s when advancements in computer technology allowed research to begin on more affordable VR. The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003).

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

What we found most notable about the conversation was unexpected: a good 40% of Epic’s VR efforts are outside of gaming and Nick provides a lot of interesting insights and lessons learned between the two spaces. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

We live in an ever-changing world where everything is connected, so the interfaces and the way in which we utilise these connections has the potential to affect billions of people in their day-to-day lives. Over the next two decades, the world’s economy is set to almost double. EON Reality’s Human 2.0

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 16, 2017

Kitely was in second place with 1,520 new registered users followed by InWorldz with 1,048, Emilac with 801 and Virtual Brasil with 412. Adreans-World grid lost 218 registered users. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Virtual Worlds Grid : 935 regions.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

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. When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR. Machine Learning has become a key part of the product, now.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Virtual reality developers aren’t making as much money as they expected. Just ask Vander Caballero, founder of Minority Media , creator of the VR game Time Machine VR. GamesBeat: You’ve launched your initial games in virtual reality, like Time Machine VR. The game had high-quality art and design. Did it make money?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. Panels and presentations will also be offered allowing visitors to learn more about the projects. Learn more from the Lytro team. Rainbow Crow.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. Virtual Reality is used for entertainment purposes like games and in more serious fields, like healthcare.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Most of the focus so far has been on building those worlds and experiences, but if we’re ever to achieve a true sense of presence in these virtual worlds, we need to also be able to create really good avatars. Full immersion and meaningful social interaction can only really happen if we feel comfortable in our virtual skins.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

Hexa automatically converts 2D photos into 3D assets and enable online retailers to create virtual equivalents of their collections and display them online. Vito , a pioneering VR education game studio, inherits the philosophy of Ge Wu Zhi Zhi, which encourages learning through exploration.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 27, 2017

Hexa automatically converts 2D photos into 3D assets and enable online retailers to create virtual equivalents of their collections and display them online. Vito, a pioneering VR education game studio, inherits the philosophy of Ge Wu Zhi Zhi, which encourages learning through exploration.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

From the Global Economics standpoint, this means VR and AR are relevant across the world as they are fast becoming the default ways of learning, training and performing – across the workplace, in education organisations, and beyond. Over the next two decades, the world’s economy is set to almost double. EON Reality’s Human 2.0

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Virtual Worlds Grid : 4,453 regions. Transitions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working– well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus. We work with regions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working– well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus. We work with regions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working-- well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus. We work with regions.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

There’s a lot to learn – you have to learn how to compose, orchestrate music for an ensemble, interaction design, etc. Students in the class make up the ensemble and in the span of 9-10 weeks learn how to program, compose music and build innovative interactive performance works.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Imagine being able to learn, hands-on, exactly how to operate a deep-sea submarine — without needing the submarine! If you want to learn more, you can visit immerse.io. We not only go into it, but interact with all the bits of the submarine and start to learn parts of, “how do I make some things work?” Justin: Hello.

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