The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. The device is going to be retailed at $95 , and its advantage will not only be the $30 less but the fact that its dongle can connect to more trackers together. How it does feel publishing on Oculus App Lab Funny link. Some XR fun.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Cool gadgets such as the Oculus Quest (due in Spring of 2019), GoPro Hero 7, Beyerdynamic Amiron wireless headphones , and a Litter Robot that helps clean up after you cat does their business, are just a few of the examples found in this year’s gift guide. AR has proven to be a big sales booster for retailers. “61%

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

Anyway, it is like if Oculus had partnered with Google here in the Wes t, so I envision that great things could come out from this collaboration; A partnership between HTC and HP. So, I made a prototype with Unity and the Cosmos XR where I can actually take out a PC from an Amazon page and try it on my desk. Some relevant points.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Vive Pro headset launches April 5th for $800, original Vive drops to $500.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. A while ago you announced a partnership with Pico and Unity. Can you tell us more about it?

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AR Insider

JANUARY 2, 2020

But those wheels are slowly turning and are accelerated by things like Oculus Quest. This will be a growing category among retailers, gaming and entertainment. Over time, revenue-per-user metrics can then improve, and around we go. We’re certainly not there yet with this virtuous cycle in VR. million units this year and 48.5

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But those wheels are slowly turning and are accelerated by things like Oculus Quest. This will be a growing category among retailers, gaming and entertainment. Over time, revenue-per-user metrics can then improve, and around we go. We’re certainly not there yet with this virtuous cycle in VR. million units this year and 48.5

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. This includes software for AR experience creation for brands, retailers and other consumer-facing enterprises. An example of this is AR creation software such as Unity, and it includes spend/adoption by consumer-facing enterprises (B2B2C). Boiling it Down. billion in 2020.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

On the VR side, Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope in both quality and consumer traction. That’s everything from retailers to brands to entertainment companies using AR tools like Unity, 8th Wall and Adobe Aero. For a deeper indexed and searchable archive, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. VR’s Steady Gains.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Salesforce uses Oculus Rift to create an immersive 3D environment for analyzing data.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

Retail brands are experimenting with XR to bring new purchasing experiences to consumers. For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In addition to releasing Oculus Quest 2, Facebook spent $150 million on content for the device (to bring you VR games from brands like Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Medal of Honor).

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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). We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to do the coding.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Magic Leap has decided to put on sale its remaining units of the Magic Leap 1, its previous device, for just $550 , which is something like a -75% discount on its standard retail price. The Public Test Channel of the Quest runtime contains a fix for the Oculus Link stuttering on Windows 11. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

2: Augmented Reality in a Browser We’ve seen AR experiences become increasingly popular in our daily lives, from Snapchat filters to at-home retail try-on applications. You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these Mozilla has recently released the 2.0

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

"We're thrilled to provide the highest quality content for VR developers, while exploring innovative applications for the technology across entertainment, healthcare, journalism, travel, manufacturing, retail, live events, real estate, training, and so much more."

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Facebook—sorry, it’s calling itself Meta now —is planning on dipping consumers’ toes in the so-called metaverse by launching retail stores to showcase AR and VR products, the New York Times reported on Friday. Read more.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

And since then, it has failed to build its own software development platform besides a fragmented series of integrations for game engines like Unity, nor has it built out its own suite of vital first-party applications beyond Horizon Workrooms. Until 2018 it was mostly focused on PC VR, a market it has mostly abandoned.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years. All key retailers begin offering VR shopping models. AI enables life-like VR companions for the elderly and lonely.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). The standard 1.2 After purchasing another active USB 2.0

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. 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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Manufacturing companies, enterprise brands, and even retailers build metaverse environments to enhance collaboration, unlock new levels of creativity, and improve customer experience. Currently, the metaverse space is expected to reach a value of approximately $426.9

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Some people choose to create a Unity 360 virtual tour, since this game engine has multiple plugins and extensions that make development easier. Virtual tours for retail Our company developed a VR experience for Magrabi Optical, an eyewear provider based in Dubai. If you have a VR headset, you can get even more from the experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

So, I opened a chain of retail computer stores in the 90s, I ran a fairly large chain in Oregon with five computer stores and then in 2000 I started working in Silicon Valley doing electronics and engineering… and eventually, I got into doing consumer products. after that, I’ve always been a bit of an entrepreneur also. The Vive Wands.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And we went in quickly with our solution.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And we went in quickly with our solution.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

They were spread between the training, the retail layout team, and the network team. So we just-- through a process called photogrammetry, we quickly were able to recreate the digital twin of that retail store, and bring it and show the team. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And we went in quickly with our solution.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. At expos like VRLA, I got to see what a powerful pairing the Leap Motion Controller and Oculus are and believe there is still so much left to explore!”. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift (optional). AstroHoops VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Previous to that, Rori was a partner and director of strategy at Ogilvy, where she focused on developing digital marketing strategies for health, retail, and media industries. It can also be around planning the future retail store, and using plan-o-grams to set up spaces for future retail. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Previous to that, Rori was a partner and director of strategy at Ogilvy, where she focused on developing digital marketing strategies for health, retail, and media industries. It can also be around planning the future retail store, and using plan-o-grams to set up spaces for future retail. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. So a company like a Macy's or a large retailer in Europe.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. So a company like a Macy's or a large retailer in Europe.

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