The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? This is the homepage of Oculus website (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. No one from Magic Leap or nReal is authorized to talk about this topic, so I won’t address it here.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

There I have tried some interesting devices like Weart haptic gloves, OWO haptic suit, but especially the Magic Leap 2, which I found to be a very well-made piece of hardware! Galea has been studied to become the gold standard for BCIs in VR, but this comes together with the gold price of $22,500. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This offering could be the key to helping the tech giant preserve its market share, as innovators like Apple , Microsoft, and Magic Leap all increase their focus in the business world. Is Meta Quest for Business the Same as Oculus for Business? Back in 2017, Meta introduced “ Oculus for Business ”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Let’s take an example from our ecosystem: Magic Leap. There must have been a long study on the User Experience, so that to design everything so that it feels natural, but not too natural to be frustrating. The bigger the hype, the more the business is profitable, but also risky. Has it created hype?

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2019

Magic Leap isn’t far behind, growing from 7 percent of current projects to 12 percent of future interest. Oculus Quest is the biggest mover, not surprisingly , going from 12 to 24 to 28 in the past/present/future split. But more notably, that jumps to 14 percent for reported future projects.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Indeed, web AR has become a go-to channel for AR campaigns for spirits brands, which we’ll cover in Part II of this report series that will do a dive deep on several AR advertising case studies. Magic Leap is building a software ecosystem around its product. Numbers Game. Web AR may have another advantage: platform reach.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR. Or you can also do some kind of other analysis, so you can study your data better. Duck Face, Magic Leap One on and I’m ready to make lots of girls to fall in love with me.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

However, following the release of consumer equipment like the HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Sony PSVR and the various mobile VR headsets , we now have a different situation with a much larger group of people (the general population) using virtual reality on a regular basis, for longer periods of time.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

Researchers are studying hacking in VR. The system is able to procedurally generate levels that follow the planimetry of your house and then you can play them in VR using your Oculus Quest. Researchers are studying if VR can hurt your brain. Oculus Summer Sale has arrived! Of course, I will sustain this effort as I can!

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Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Unless you’ve been studying immersive technologies very closely, you may not have seen the rising use of the term Mixed Reality. Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift are popular solutions that enable this form of immersive experience (in conjunction with a number of controllers and sensors).

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. And Magic Leap, of course, did an amazing job of evangelizing mixed reality across the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. And Magic Leap, of course, did an amazing job of evangelizing mixed reality across the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Björn: It was actually quite funny, while still studying at the university, computer science, and then somewhere else, augmented reality which popped up. It’s a study by IBM saying that over 120 million people are going to need reskilling and upskilling as AI and robotics replace human workers. Magic Leap for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Björn: It was actually quite funny, while still studying at the university, computer science, and then somewhere else, augmented reality which popped up. It’s a study by IBM saying that over 120 million people are going to need reskilling and upskilling as AI and robotics replace human workers. Magic Leap for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. And Magic Leap, of course, did an amazing job of evangelizing mixed reality across the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

And I just found that was really the point of inflection in my life where I studied musical theater in college, I went to UCLA. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to Magic Leap. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

And I just found that was really the point of inflection in my life where I studied musical theater in college, I went to UCLA. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to Magic Leap. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

And I just found that was really the point of inflection in my life where I studied musical theater in college, I went to UCLA. Alan: I don't know if you've tried to Magic Leap. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it's tracking you with cameras. I really did.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

A recent study from Stanford found embodied assistants are trusted more by users which is just one reason why your chatbot requires a face as a virtual being. Chatbots are expected to power 85% of all customer service interactions by 2020 and result in a cost savings of $8B annually by 2022. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Last year, Facebook announced that it was going to release in 2021 a new side content distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. Echo VR , the VR sports game available on Oculus headsets, is getting a ‘battle pass’ system called Echo Pass.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. well, failing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it’s just unbelievable just how far it’s gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it’s just unbelievable just how far it’s gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

If you haven’t seen a Microsoft Hololens or a Magic Leap you probably have no clue about how amazing this will be. Imagine being able to walk around the stadium, or, even, onto the field while the game is going on so you can study what the quarterback is seeing from his perspective, and, even, try to make the same shot he is.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. The Rift never launched here.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it's just unbelievable just how far it's gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

Innovation happens in sprints In life as in technology (Image by LizAndMollie) While I was thinking about what to write in this article, I remembered something I studied at University about innovation. Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers. I was so young and naive.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it’s just unbelievable just how far it’s gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. The Rift never launched here.

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