VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Microsoft ‘Mixed Reality’ Headset Discounts. Microsoft’s Windows “Mixed Reality” headsets are now on sale for up to $100, bringing the cheapest among them to just $300. Only available in Microsoft retail and online stores in the US and Canada, the sale goes on until 11:59 PM PST on November 27, 2017. Oculus Rift Discount.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

VR headsets have already seen some pretty drastic permanent price reductions in the past few months, including the new $400 Oculus Rift + Touch price, the new $600 HTC Vive price, and the new $450 ‘all-in’ PlayStation VR bundle. Samsung HMD Odyssey $450 $500 (includes headset and controllers). The Best VR Headset Deals.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. And if they have these features from Microsoft, they won’t need to get them from Meta.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. IDC themselves predicted in 2011 that by 2015, Microsoft’s then new (and now dead) Windows Phone platform would overtake Apple’s IOS as in the mobile phone market. billion in 2021. billion in 2016 to $18.6

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Of course if you’d like to include various other 3rd party models you can import objects from popular 3D model sites such as Sketchfab or Turbosquid. Fill them with various characters and objects, then direct how they interact with the user as well as one another using a visual scripting tool. You can even use the tool to create your own!

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JUNE 3, 2017

Well VR support of course. A year ago, the safe money was on Microsoft’s upgraded Xbox One console, Project Scorpio, supporting the Oculus Rift. But Microsoft’s own line of Windows 10 headsets, coming later this year, threw a wrench in those plans. Naughty Dog knows how to tell a story better than anyone.

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AR Insider

JUNE 4, 2020

This timing prompted Spatial to launch on Oculus Quest and make its PRO tier free. Starting at the beginning, the Spatial user experience (UX) is the first thing you’ll notice when entering the app (I accessed via Oculus Quest). Oculus Quest support likewise follows the device’s growth , especially for shelter-in-place use.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

This is the first day of this sunny season (if you live in my same hemisphere of course), and I hope that you won’t have any Summertime Sadness like Lana Del Rey, but you all will enjoy the sun, have some relax, and forget for a moment all the hard times we are living in. Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. “Decent” to be a devkit, of course. Apple glasses.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. This is happening.

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OCTOBER 29, 2016

Oculus Touch Is Here In December, Standalone Inside-Out Headset Coming. Oculus’ Connect conference was packed with news, but the two biggest headlines were the date and price for its Touch controllers (launching in December for $199), and the reveal of its standalone headset prototype, Santa Cruz , with inside-out tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. Vive Focus comes to the west.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. of units more produced annually. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Since Microsoft provided its list of OEMs the same reference design, all of the available headsets except Samsung Odyssey follow the basic specs below. Samsung HMD Odyssey. Samsung HMD Odyssey Pre-order. The post 5 Windows VR Headsets Now Available for Pre-Order Including Samsung Odyssey appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Of course, the object must be in the FOV of the cameras of the headset to be tracked, even if HTC says that the tracking can somewhat continue also when this condition is not true (i guess using just IMU data). Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Further references. Road To VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Yes, of course: all the computational units are in the external computer, not in the headset , that’s why it is so light. This lets you experience scenes that are a bit more complex than the ones that you can live on Microsoft’s device; The field of view is 40° Horizontal and 30° Vertical. How can it be so light?”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Remember that Oculus is going to release Infinite Office and an AR SDK , so Valve had better replying to this move. But after some initial growth, the platform never took off, and Gear VR , thanks to the push from Samsung (one of the best brands of Android phones) and its great catalog of content (funded by Facebook), won the battle.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This acquisition signs a new course for Facebook strategy in XR: after having just partnered with external studios for the development of its top-notch exclusive titles (e.g. The consumer spending will increase and the dominant form of media consumed will be games, of course. Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Of course, it would be almost 600 years before the birth of modern VR technology and VR headsets). It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. 2012 was also a big year for Palmer Luckey, he launched a Kickstarter campaign for Oculus Rift that raised $2.4

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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. Training, of course, was a huge application area, with banks and even restaurants employing XR to recruit and train the next generation of workers. Body-worn.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Since it features no computational unit and no battery, it can be smaller and lighter than “shoebox” headsets like the Oculus Quest that must contain everything inside; Thanks to the use of pancake optics, the screen can be closer to the lenses , for a very compact design. You have been warned! 6DOF Devkit components.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

At that time, Oculus had ambitions of releasing an affordable VR headset in the near future that would allow players to step into the game. Over the course of the last four years, the VR industry has become bigger, more complex, and more competitive than most could have imagined. A Tale Of Two Headsets. Old Dog, Old Tricks?

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

Of course, not everyone wants to—or can—be on their feet for long periods, and plenty of immersive entertainment, like watching movies, is sedentary. Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. That gives users more than enough space to walk, run, and even sprint while in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy. Sounded good.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Microsoft’s Windows 10 ‘Fall Creators Update’ is available for download today, making the operating system compatible with its line of Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets, which coincidentally are arriving on doorsteps and store shelves starting today too. Samsung HMD Odyssey. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7B. The biggest news of the week has been the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft for $68.7B. With it, Microsoft acquires many popular games like Overwatch, Starcraft, Call of Duty, and even Candy Crush. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

The working group, that includes all the major XR companies (Oculus, HTC, Intel, NVIDIA, Valve, etc…), facilitated by the Khronos group, has finally agreed on a set of specifications, after having listened to all the feedback that come after the release of the version 0.9. Oculus wants to make people control AR headsets just using the brain.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

Ellsworth: I’m another huge Star Trek nerd, and Star Wars of course. GB: Mike Abrash, formerly of Valve, now at Oculus, their chief scientist, he made this interesting observation about Moore’s Law. Above: Microsoft’s HoloLens in action. Image Credit: Microsoft. He’s also a very big Star Trek fan.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

VR, of course, is a different beast, or so I tell myself. 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. Of course not. It’s not a passing fad but an eventuality. That’s impressive.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Above: The Oculus Touch controls let you navigate independently with each hand in VR. Image Credit: Oculus. With what’s going on from Project Tango and Microsoft, there are definitely big players in this space. I’m generally an optimist, of course. Above: Oculus Rift is just the start of the VR marketplace.

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