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SIGGRAPH 2017 In Los Angeles Showcases The Latest In VR and AR

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Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. Based in Prague, the Czech Republic, the group brings to SIGGRAPH 2017 their new Digital Playgroundz augmented reality platform for large-scale applications.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.02): Facebook acquires Beat Games, Valve gets the Index sold-out and is maybe working on Left4Dead VR, and much more!

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The details of the deal are undisclosed, but Facebook guarantees that the studio will continue working as an independent studio based in Prague (Czech Republic), and that Beat Saber will continue being distributed and updated on all platforms it is currently available on. Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.15): PS5 revealed, SteamVR implements OpenVR and more!

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Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Unity details its MARS solution.

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