The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. Today the interview will cover the first two topics: dataviz in VR thanks to BadVR solution and Magic Leap. and many other interesting stuff!

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. Beach Body Bros – While showcasing Oculus Medium as a production-ready sculpting tool, Beach Body Bros takes you on a ridiculous musical journey through a world of pure muscle, intense strength, and stupid greatness.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. along with Magic Leap support. Updated Oculus SDK. Updated AR SDKs & Magic Leap. with development support for Magic Leap was released earlier this year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. Walmart seems to have leaked the price of the upcoming Oculus Quest S.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2016

The timing for this event comes on the heels of an announcement that ILMxLab have been collaborating with Magic Leap , a company shrouded in secrecy that is promising revolutionary augmented reality technology. Where: VRChat to join live with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or monitor. billion in funding. billion in funding.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2018

During these days at GDC, Oculus has showcased the Oculus Go (that will be officially released during the F8 in May) and has provided some new insights on the Oculus Santa Cruz. Mister Potato while talking me about some rumors on Oculus headsets (Image by Disney). But are we sure that this is enough?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Further References Razer Quest Accessories (Road To VR) Magic Leap gets medical certification Me wearing Magic Leap 2 glasses Magic Leap announced at CES that its Magic Leap 2 glasses obtained IEC 60601-1 certification. And it seems that can also change your Oculus Quest 2 with a total of 2.5

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. thanks to a better training). Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Eye-tracking is an important technology that many would consider a ‘must have’ for the next generation of VR headsets, although that’s just one step towards resolving a long-standing issue in VR that prevents users from seeing the virtual world like they would naturally in the physical world.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It’s an immersive virtual world that includes all types of content, data, scores, stats, along with other ways for fans to experience the game.”. It’s currently available for Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus , and Google Play. It’s different,” he said.

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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. And since you are in VR, you are in a virtual world… well, it is just Unity, just C#, you can do whatever you want to modify the reality that you are seeing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

He has always been a great innovator and I admire his work since the good old Oculus DK 2 times, when he published “Sightline: The Chair” Now he is continuing this innovation work by building a completely open metaverse called Neos , where thanks to object modeling and scripting, it is possible to create everything you want.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. This is followed by 36% who shared that they’re planning to use the metaverse for interactions with colleagues, as well as for creating virtual content for their audience.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

Hardware, too, has evolved significantly this part year, with the long-awaited launch of Magic Leap and the release of the Oculus Go , which means that it is now possible to have untethered, six degrees of freedom experiences in a headset costing under $200.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

The cost is €399 + VAT , which is not cheap, but we have to remember that is an enterprise device, so its cost is higher than consumer devices like the Oculus Go. I think this creates another level of blending of virtual and real, which will be typical of the metaverse. This is going to be big!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Inarguably, Meta in 2023 is the leader in VR with combination of Quest 2 and Quest 3 likely to make it one of the hottest selling game consoles in the world. Could something rivaling the introduction of Mac, iPod and iPhone really follow this?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Another interesting thing is that Pico is not copying Meta or Magic Leap in proposing inside-out tracked controllers : these ones still have a tracking ring. Some people switched to other virtual worlds like Neos. You can now try games on the Oculus Store.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. I know that I’m saying something unpopular, but I understand Microsoft’s decision.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I truly hope they can create a serious blockchain that can be the foundation for ownership and payment systems in virtual worlds. I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and Magic Leap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

There had been some sexual harassment scandals in VR/AR (UploadVR, Magic Leap), and, as more women are going into developing for VR, one of them drew our attention to the fact that there were many oversexualized female models on 3D marketplaces. What do you think of 3D models creation inside VR, like Google Blocks or Oculus Medium?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One. Rear view of the Magic Leap One. Magic Leap. Magic Leap will work a lot in trying to have new compelling experiences on its marketplace.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. So this was before Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

AR, you can have your friends and family around and share an experience that’s blended with your world. GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. VR is inherently isolating.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. We're going to find out how Clay will bring our real hands into the virtual world. Varag, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Today we're speaking with Varag Gharibjanian, the chief revenue officer at Clay AIR, a software company shaping the future of how we interact with the digital world, using natural gesture recognition. We're going to find out how Clay will bring our real hands into the virtual world. Varag, welcome to the show, my friend.

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Ryan Schultz

OCTOBER 12, 2022

HTC, Magic Leap, and other enterprise companies tend to emphasize how long their products will last — offering either comparatively long-lasting batteries or swappable ones. The back-mounted battery isn’t easily removable like the Vive Focus 3’s, so you can’t just swap it out and keep going.

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