VRScout

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This year HTC is celebrating the holidays with $100 off on select Vive VR hardware over on the Vive website , along with other HTC Vive distributors such as Amazon , Micro Center , Dell , Lenovo , and Adorama. Or maybe you need something with a little more power for gaming or work? Looking for suggestions on what to buy?

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2024

The company has made its new pricing scheme available at major retailers like Amazon: Quest 2 (128GB) – $200 Quest 3 (256GB, refurbished) – $270 The new low price can also be found at Walmart , Target , Best Buy , New Egg , and more, including direct from Meta.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Amazon’s US store is either the first, or the only retailer currently to offer the Oculus Rift for its Black Friday-reduced price of $350, a $50 discount off the now normal MSRP of $400. The post Amazon Deal Sees Return of Rift’s $350 Black Friday Price Cut appeared first on Road to VR. Oculus Rift headset.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This week Facebook announced the launch of cloud-streamed games from Facebook Gaming. These are games which are rendered in the cloud and then streamed to your computer. Cloud-based gaming has been seen by the industry at large as a way to make games more widely accessible by making them playable on less powerful hardware.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Pico 4's Black Friday deal sees the headset offered at its lowest price ever, and also comes with three VR games. On top of the hardware discount, the deal also includes three free VR games: Green Hell VR , Warplanes: Battles over Pacific , and the upcoming blockbuster Arizona Sunshine 2 - together worth around €100/£80.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Facebook officially unveiled Quest 2 today along with third-party hardware accessories offered direct from Oculus.com , which includes two new headphones from Logitech and replacement facial interfaces from VR Cover. Availability : Available in North America at Oculus.com and Logitech.com, and through retail partners Amazon and Best Buy.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2020

With the recent release of Half-Life: Alyx , VR has been thrust into the spotlight of the mainstream gaming audience. Arguably the best consumer-focused headset out there, Valve Index , does cost $1,000 for new customers who don’t already have any VR hardware. That’s like investing in a new game console!

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2021

Today during the company’s GTC 2021 developer conference, Nvidia announced that its CloudXR tech is now available on Amazon Web Services, and it’s coming soon to both Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Google Cloud.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 25, 2022

SAVE $50: The Amazon Glow is on sale for $249.99 (normally $299.99) as of April 25. Amazon's hardware event livestream in September introduced us to the Amazon Glow , a peculiar little gadget for kids that's part video-conferencing device, part tabletop projector. Credit: Amazon. Amazon Glow.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Amazon have announced they’ve started selling the SteamVR powered HTC Vive VR system in their US online store. “VIVE offers consumers the most immersive virtual reality experience available today with the most complete hardware system and a robust portfolio of content. Check out the Vive at Amazon here. Interested?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

While there’s a steadily growing number of quality VR games, it’s still well understood that VR is in need of more great content. But what kinds of VR games should developers focus on creating? The survey will take 5 to 10 minutes to complete and at the end you’ll be entered to win a $150 Amazon gift card.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Sony today announced a new PSVR Mega Pack hardware bundle for 2020, launching this month across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The new pack for 2020 is keeping Astro Bot, Everybody’s Golf VR, and PSVR Worlds, and subbing in two other awesome games: Moss and Blood & Truth. Voucher codes for five games.

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ARPost

JANUARY 19, 2022

Chances are, everyone reading this has streamed digital content like music, video, even games. Streaming – running content over an internet connection instead of off of a local device – has been a game changer in the last few years. Varjo, NVIDIA, and Amazon Join Forces.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2024

.” The free social VR platform has been available on the original PSVR since late 2017, bringing its user-focused maker tools alongside a host of first-party games and activities. Notably, PSVR 2 doesn’t support backwards compatibility with games designed for the original PSVR, leaving the onus on developers to port.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Amazon’s UK retailer seems to have already jumped the gun on today’s supposed announcement taking place at Oculus Connect opening keynote, where we’ll likely hear official word on price, release date, and everything else surrounding the long awaited Touch controllers. Oculus Touch controllers to cost £190 in the UK.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Lenovo first released its smartphone-powered Mirage AR headset last year alongside its sole title, Star Wars: Jedi Challenges (2018) , a collection of short AR games that let you do things like fight Darth Vader & Co. Now, Lenovo is returning with a new AR game, MARVEL Dimension of Heroes , and a pair of 6DOF controllers too.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Vision Pro isn’t exactly revolutionizing XR hardware (though the external display is pretty cool), but its real advantage stands to be a mature software platform that’s easy to use and easy to develop for. It hasn’t helped that after a strong launch, Sony doesn’t seem to be giving the headset much attention.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. They’re a hardware and camera heavy company and are hiring for engineers with optical and imaging experience and software engineers who have experience with machine learning and mobile devices.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2021

You’ll find the 128GB model offered direct from Oculus , as well as from official partners including Amazon , Best Buy , Target , and Adorama in the US. Outside of Quest 2’s impressive hardware, that’s even more true today than it was at launch.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Together with this announcement, Sony has also announced 11 new games that will be compatible with the console, including 4 titles that have never been released before. Since PSVR 1 games won’t be compatible with PSVR 2, Sony has to build a content catalog for this headset from scratch, and this will require time, money, and commitment.

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. It runs all the games and experiences that UploadVR Jamie Feltham Flash forward to early 2023, and Samsung announced that it was working on XR hardware, with Google handling the software.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

He claimed that the announcement of “Alien: Rogue Incursion”, the first big-budget VR game that is compatible only with Quest 3 , marks the beginning of the end for Quest 2 and Quest Pro. So it was hard for us devs to make visually compelling games. April’s hardware survey of VR headsets on Steam.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

That is why the thinking behind Nreal Air is very focused on the aesthetics, display quality, and its connectivity with other hardware devices.” Finally, Nreal Air starts at $379 (available on Amazon ) – $220 less than Light. We don’t only have new information about the hardware. Software Announcements and Updates.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pico’s latest standalone headset signals a new era in consumer VR hardware. ” As part of the launch of their new all-in-one mass market VR headset, Leland Hedges talked about four important pillars for the company that they felt would deliver huge value to their consumers: Games, fitness, video, and social.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the first part , I dealt with investing possibilities in hardware that will take us to the metaverse. There are and will be games for PCs, consoles, mobile devices, VR, and AR. Roblox (Nasdaq: RBLX) for Decentralized Gaming Creation. Roblox owns a platform on which anyone can devise and publish their own game.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

While many of the popular use cases of AR and VR are still in the realm of gaming and entertainment, other industries are finding practical use cases unique to their sectors. Developments in extended reality are expanding from innovating hardware to elaborating experiences through advanced technologies and accessible systems.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Every year I like to play the speculation game about what to expect from there… and every year I predict a lot of things wrong (like that year that I said that the Quest Link was not going to happen… shame on me). Tomorrow is the day the Meta Connect starts! This is a tradition I can’t skip this year, too.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

It will be able to bring the full Android phone and tablet app ecosystem over, something it refused for Meta , while Samsung will be able to leverage its expertise in hardware and get priority access to key components like OLED microdisplays from its subsidiaries. Meta also lacks any real moat beyond its game studios.

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2019

In October of last year, a report by Techcrunch claimed that Facebook’s Oculus would be abandoning its plans of a proper Oculus Rift 2 in favor of minor hardware updates to the existing Rift headset. Reports indicate Oculus’ next headset will make its debut later this month. Dubbed the ‘Rift S’, the 1.5 Oculus Quest / Image Credit: Oculus.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Skin in the Game. After examining Amazon last week, it’s time to zero in on Microsoft. In addition to standard audio fare like music and phone calls, they’ll integrate natively with Microsoft products like Office. ’ It turns out that its motivations are similar to Amazon’s. But what’s everyone else doing?

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The video game industry is a source of constant innovation, with many of its breakthrough technologies being adopted by the business world. The concept of the metaverse is not new to gamers either – persistent, avatar-driven digital environments and even digital currencies have long been accepted as part of mainstream gaming.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 13, 2024

The biggest hardware-related difference between XH405i kits and previous generation XH305i kits is undoubtedly the inclusion of iCUE LINK hardware, which Corsair recently debuted with its iCUE LINK H150i RGB AIO cooler. The iCUE LINK XH405i kit is available now at Newegg and Amazon , as well as through Corsair’s own website.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

However, the industry should not forget the importance of VR solutions and hardware. Similarly, the nature of XR headsets means that the hardware can be taken anywhere easily; it’s even possible to set up a portable private 5G network, like GReigns. VR headsets are at the heart of XR and spatial computing.

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Road to VR

MAY 6, 2017

Right now, Amazon and Best Buy are running a promotional bundle which includes the core PSVR package with a PlayStation Camera thrown in for free, saving you a respectable $59. The PlayStation Camera | Image Courtesy Sony.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Amazon and Microsoft launched wearables lines in the past quarter and smaller players like Bose and Snap are planting seeds for a wearables-heavy future. Google meanwhile acquired Fitbit to accelerate its lingering WearOS platform with some hardware in the game. Apple is already far ahead given the success of Watch and Airpods.

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Upload VR

JUNE 13, 2022

The hardware is remarkably similar to Meta’s Quest 2, with some minor differences such as a native DisplayPort PC VR mode and included hard strap. Meta is also funding Assassin’s Creed , Splinter Cell , and Grand Theft Auto VR games. The ByteDance owned company launched Neo 3 Link in Europe over the last month.

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