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First Look: Oculus Venues and Oculus TV

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These apps hope to make the Oculus Go your next entertainment device. The $200 standalone VR headset from Oculus has finally arrived. Available for sale on Oculus.com in 23 countries, online from Amazon , or in Best Buy Stores in the U.S., the Oculus Go is part of Oculus’ larger goal to getting one billion consumers into VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.24): Apple opens applications for Vision Pro devkits, Meta may stop the production of Quest Pro, and more!

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Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.17): Big tech companies’ battle for talents, PSVR 2 still not confirmed for 2022, and more!

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It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. It is just a bit more expensive than the $300 needed to buy an Oculus Quest 2. Participate in this AR/VR Survey.

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The transition between Quest 2 and Quest 3

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The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399. And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. April’s hardware survey of VR headsets on Steam.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

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It is also able to understand vocal commands in noisy environments, like the ones of factories Cisco and Google have joined forces and now Webex Expert on Demand, the platform for remote assistance by Cisco, will be available for Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2. More info (Realwear Navigator 500) More info (WebEx on Google Glass 2).

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

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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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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.11): Gear VR is over, Go long term future is uncertain, Huawei teases its metaverse and much more!

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Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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