The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. It is just a bit more expensive than the $300 needed to buy an Oculus Quest 2. Participate in this AR/VR Survey. New hands-on from CES.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

According to the latest figures from Valve’s Hardware & Software Survey, the Oculus Rift has set a new record for its highest historical market share on Steam, almost certainly driven by a major sale which has also brought the headset its largest ever share increase from one month to the next.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Microsoft admits display problems on HoloLens 2.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

Microsoft released its April Windows 10 update yesterday, and with it comes the official launch of SteamVR support for Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets. Windows VR devices still occupy a pretty minimal spot on Steam, accounting for a total of ~5% of total VR headsets reported in this month’s Steam Hardware Survey.

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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. A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. It’s basically a monopoly. But there is also bad news to talk about.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2018

The challenge is finding a way to square the total number of daily active users on Steam (43 million, per these new figures), with the latest data in Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey (which is presented in terms of monthly active users). Given that—and knowing from the Steam Hardware & Software survey that 0.7%

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. We don’t know what Oculus will present, but we have some hints.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The XR Association is a non-profit 501(c)(6) trade association with members including Facebook/Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Sony, & HTC. They’re focused on general awareness and education,

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Starting with quantitative analysis ARtillery’s recent survey findings can provide more color. Web AR meanwhile lingers at 18 percent of survey responses. As for apps, they perform well in the survey, but we’ll set them aside for now. Microsoft is doing the same with Hololens.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. Let me copy-paste for you what it is about: AR/VR creators, this survey is for you. Take the survey before it closes, on August 6.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Increased Adoption of AR in E-Commerce According to a recent survey, 38% of marketers reported using AR in 2022. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. It’s a significant increase from the 23% reported in 2017. Screenshots taken on the official EQ3 website 4.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

According to the Steam Hardware Survey, Pico 4 now represents 0.67% of the player base on Steam. Does Palmer want Oculus back? I tweeted the news saying that “Palmer Luckey is not doing that bad without Oculus…” and Palmer Luckey himself answered to me commenting “Without Oculus for now, anyway”. More info (GameVroom).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. supports VR. 3D artists rejoice!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Market analysis firm ARtillery Intelligence has conducted a survey about VR in the US. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Oculus Quest is sold out, and Coronavirus may make the situation even worse.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. For example, the last time we covered one of their reports it was an industry survey with Perkins Coie.

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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. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft. ” He expects Meta to continue pushing the narrative for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Palmer Luckey’s intuition in 2012 was realizing that with the launch of the iPhone, finally VR could have its iPhone moment (many of them, actually) and that’s how the Oculus Rift was born. In the middle of this, of course, the Apple Vision Pro was also an iPhone moment, without forgetting Half-Life: Alyx in the mix.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

An MIT study about embracing digital technology reports that 63 percent of surveyed managers said the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to a “lack of urgency.” Zoom leaves Microsoft miles behind with Skype and teams. Urgency is a Catalyst for Change.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Meanwhile, few spaces were frothier in 2016 than virtual reality, but most VCs who gambled on VR following Facebook’s Oculus acquisition failed to strike it rich. We’re seeing some progress in VR and some of that is happening because of the Oculus ecosystem. Niko Bonatsos, General Catalyst.

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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. We’ll be releasing a network aware technology similar to Spacewarp that’s used by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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. Survey and Medical Image Visualization. PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. HoloLens got a major software update , and Microsoft introduced new enterprise mixed reality applications like Microsoft Remote Assist and Microsoft Layout.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. So, if a school would like a one-to-one setup with the Oculus Go, where they buy 20 headsets, and then in addition to that, they want a license to our content, we’ll sell them that package.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. So, if a school would like a one-to-one setup with the Oculus Go, where they buy 20 headsets, and then in addition to that, they want a license to our content, we’ll sell them that package.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

It's also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. So, if a school would like a one-to-one setup with the Oculus Go, where they buy 20 headsets, and then in addition to that, they want a license to our content, we'll sell them that package. Steve: It is.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

While Sony competed in the home console space with several other companies, such as Sega and later Nintendo and Microsoft, what made the PS2 stand out was its built in DVD player. This is made increasingly more likely by the fact that Microsoft is releasing its own VR solutions later in the year. Needless to say, neither lasted long.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. oh, it was a survey from MetLife -- noted that's something like a 15 percent increase of people having to postpone to retirement because of finances. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 keeps showing impressive sales stats. Someone from a major company (Amazon, Apple, Microsoft), with pockets big enough to be able to compete with the rich Facebook, giving users an alternative and stimulating Facebook in doing even better. Road To VR) More info (Steam Hardware Survey?—?Upload Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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