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OCTOBER 13, 2017

A new commercial-focused hardware bundle including Rift headset, Touch controllers, three Sensors, and three facial interfaces was revealed at Oculus Connect 4 this week. HTC introduced a $1,200 Vive ‘Business Edition’ in June 2016 , dominating the enterprise sector for well over a year.

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MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, for example, tried and failed to ship better PC VR headsets than the Rift as standalone VR became Zuckerberg's focused strategy. Facebook had around 10,000 employees when it acquired Oculus in 2014.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Back in 2016, Doug Keener released a free mod for 1994’s DOOM 2 that allows you to explore a virtual replica of Jerry’s iconic NYC apartment from the hit sitcom Seinfeld painstakingly brought to life using a combination of custom textures and sprites. Has technology finally gone too far? “Serenity Now!”

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MAY 23, 2019

A new era in VR technology arrives with the Oculus Quest standalone headset. The Oculus Quest shouldn’t exist—at least not at this price. Most importantly, the Oculus Quest ditches the past complexities and considerable expenses of modern VR, ushering in the dawn of true consumer-level virtual reality.

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MAY 30, 2017

Since launching in December 2016 the Oculus Touch controllers have become an essential peripheral for any Rift owner, and Oculus’ latest data proves that. Oculus dropped the price of both Touch and the Rift at GDC 2017 back at the beginning of March, bringing the total of both to $598. Close to that.”

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MAY 3, 2017

As one of the first game genres to embrace VR, sim racing has been successfully transitioning from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage (the first-generation consumer headsets). The HTC Vive launched on April 5th 2016, a week after the consumer Oculus Rift. Assetto Corsa.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The Steam Autumn sale is once again upon us, and this time around this time Valve have flagged close to a whopping 300 VR titles for discounts, including games that support both the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and OSVR. The post Steam 2016 Autumn Sale Discounts Nearly 300 VR Supported Titles appeared first on Road to VR.

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JUNE 21, 2021

2016) , in the future. Last week Oculus announced that it would begin testing a Facebook advertising system inside select VR games. Blaston was the only title specifically named in the announcement, and Oculus used the game to show examples of how ads might appear inside of VR games.

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JUNE 6, 2017

With SteamVR and the Vive on their way to Mac, eyes turn to Oculus, but the company isn’t ready to commit to MacOS. Fast forward two years later to this week; Apple has made a slew of VR announcements including new computers that do indeed meet Oculus’ recommended hardware requirements. Not If, But When (Probably).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Let me give you just a few very well-known examples: Meta bought Oculus VR for 2 billion dollars when there was still only a prototype headset. I could give you other examples, but I think I made my point. Let’s see some examples, shall we? The problem is that this headset has been imminent since 2016.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look at how Facebook’s money is funding battles on all fronts of the industry’s increasingly competitive landscape. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Old Enemies – HTC. Launch – $800.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The age of high-end, commercially available virtual reality began on March 28 with the launch of the Oculus Rift. The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

While users can view Quill artwork in the program itself and inside of Facebook Spaces , the company is hoping to unlock the artwork by making it viewable on Oculus Quest too. SEE ALSO Oculus Artist's 'Quill' Shorts Show the Incredible Potential of Illustrating & Animating in VR. Image courtesy Oculus.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Buying a virtual reality headset in 2016 is difficult, especially if you haven’t gotten hands-on time with the various systems. You’ll find dozens of Cardboard-like headsets on Amazon, for example, some you need to hold to your face with your hands and others with straps on the back. Oculus Rift.

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MAY 23, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey, circa 2012 | Photo courtesy Oculus. Palmer Luckey: I also think so.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

After the project went dormant for years as the developer focused on Ocean Rift (2016) , today we learn that Crashland is about to blast onto Quest after being revived and revamped. Oculus Rift DK1 with Razer Hydra motion controllers | photo by Road to VR. Missions are a short but very intense 5–10 minutes.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Oculus’ Jason Rubin weighs in on how we might come to find it. Today we hear from Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus. Rubin is the head of content, the team at Oculus responsible for collaborating with developers to build games and experiences for Rift and Gear VR. Jason Rubin. VR is still in its early stages.

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Example of a title with '3D' support listed for Vision Pro on Apple TV. Meta (then Facebook) used to offer 3D movie rental and purchase for US-based owners of Oculus Rift, Gear VR, and Oculus Go through an app called Oculus Video, but it shut down the service around the launch of Oculus Quest.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement… including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. It’s not the revolutionary platform shift touted circa-2016. But then a reborn industry sprouts from those ashes and grows at a realistic pace. Horse Race.

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MAY 14, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey throws swag to the crowd at Oculus Connect 2 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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JUNE 7, 2019

A good example is white text on a black background—the text appears to flare in a quite discrete way, directly against and around the text. The Lab came out in 2016 — and I’ve explored damn near all of it —but three years later I experienced something that I never really noticed until better hardware came along and revealed it.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Oculus Quest’s content library eclipsed 100 games and apps back at the end of August and continues to grow at a solid clip. Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. It is currently in development for Oculus Quest.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement… including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. It’s not the revolutionary platform shift touted circa-2016. For example, AR lenses align with demand signals of the shelter-in-place masses.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

I think Oculus is getting there, but I still think it’s behind, to be candid, even with the latest stuff that is coming out for Christmas. For example, we’re investors in Envelop VR and they, ironically, help bring the things you did on the screen into VR. They offer a possible solution from an input device perspective.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

With the official release date and price set in stone for Oculus Touch, the upcoming motion-tracked controllers from Facebook for their flagship VR headset, the Oculus Rift, it’s time to focus squarely on the content. To be clear, Oculus has not given us specific dates at the time of this publication. What We Think: .

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

If 2016 was the birth of modern VR/AR technology, than 2018 was its elementary school graduation. While this past year may have seemed like a quiet one when compared to the more exciting releases featured in 2017 and 2016, these past 12 months have been crucial in the development of the immersive entertainment sector.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The question we’ve been unable to answer all year with Oculus shipping Touch so late in 2016 is one step closer to being answered. Which headset offers a better room-scale experience, the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift? For example, a 3.5 ” Oculus Rift 2 Sensors, 360 Experimental Setup.

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MARCH 2, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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AUGUST 4, 2017

‘Designer in Residence’ Mike Jelinek, for example, has demonstrated how Gravity Sketch is capable of replicating traditional automotive design techniques, such as tape drawing , or ‘Canson’-style rendering (shown above). Image courtesy Gravity Sketch, James Robbins.

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JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Using headsets such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive , artists have been able to produce their creations in a virtual space. For example, Art Basel teamed up with Google for an art project in Hong Kong. Launched in 2016, Google’s Tilt Brush is a 3D drawing and painting app. One such example is the DSL Collection.

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MAY 7, 2021

The remote collaboration company was founded in 2016 but launched in December of 2020. All other updates are also coming to the Consumer version, which is free on the Oculus Store. For example, the audio-zones feature was already a feature of Virbela and FRAME. This is a virtual office.”. Audio Zones.

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JULY 1, 2019

VR Ping Pong Pro is the upcoming sequel to the 2016 ping pong simulator VR Ping Pong. However now the studio is bringing their 1v1 ping pong game to PSVR as well in addition to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Customizable Rackets – racket changes serve a practical purpose as well as a visual one, and can alter your serve for example.

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JUNE 16, 2016

One of the earlier titles to be used by Oculus to demonstrate the potential of virtual realit gaming SUPERHOT is to be completely reworked for a new VR specific version that’s built for motion controls, and in particular Oculus Touch, from the ground up.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

As mentioned in last week’s blog , the Oculus Ques t has blown away sales expectations since launching three months ago. The Oculus Quest, in particular, is a great vehicle for delivering VR experiences. So what use cases do Enterprise clients have for InstaVR + Oculus Quest? VR for Training Using Oculus Quest.

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MAY 19, 2021

Jailbirds – Bwa-Kayiman is a perfect example of this.”. His acting experience includes roles in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Golden Bear-winning film Touch Me Not (2018). If you have Oculus Quest, you can access MOR via Oculus Link or Virtual Desktop application.

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MARCH 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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