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AUGUST 20, 2021

The annual Burning Man event has been canceled for the second year in a row due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, live entertainment and events have become at-home, personal experiences. Although the annual live event has been canceled, Burners around the world can still connect with the community using VR.

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APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. Top news of the week.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Social VR networking app AltspaceVR is set to arrive on the Oculus Quest on September 12, according to an official announcement made via Twitter. Users can also join large-scale events, the most prominent example being the recurring live shows thrown by Reggie Watts.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info The Vive Focus Vision has been released HTC has decided to release the Vive Focus Vision the same week as the Quest 3S. It seems that HTC has invested a lot in providing a standalone headset that is great for PCVR and so it features a lossless wired Displayport connection, very high display resolution, and integrated eye tracking.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

The typical summer week has passed by, with some interesting XR news, but mostly no amazing event to talk about. Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Image by Oculus).

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JUNE 23, 2019

HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has told in the past that this is a headset more consumer-oriented , but Sebastian Ang of Mixed Reality TV has reported that, according to a reliable source, the price will be 899. Oculus has teased the OC6.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. Image by OceanX).

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Of course, they have been leaked as well , so now we can all sleep during Meta’s event. There were mainly two problems with the launch event. IVAS is the modified HoloLens that Microsoft is experimenting with the US Army and thanks to this partnership it could show better and more useful data to its soldiers.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Oculus has its very own press conference where it revealed the final version of the Rift and announced Touch. It was a busy event, and there was some news that inevitably slipped under the radar. One such announcement was from Microsoft. The Xbox One Streaming app has finally launched on Oculus Home.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Microsoft’s special Windows “Mixed Reality” event today saw the unveiling of its latest addition to the VR family, the Samsung HMD Odyssey, and also announced that all VR headsets slated to ship before holiday season are currently in pre-order.

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JUNE 13, 2017

We’ve seen a routinely strong showing for the tech at the games industry’s biggest event over the past few years, but it hasn’t yet truly dominated the conversation. It was Microsoft that dropped the ball the hardest. Couldn’t we have had at least something in the way of new Oculus and Vive Studios games?

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MARCH 3, 2017

GDC is nearing its event but the VR events won’t be stopping there. Tickets just went live over on the event’s meetup page. HTC and AMD will also be giving talks on the night. Tickets to the event are absolutely free, which means they’ll no doubt be gone very soon.

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JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. We don’t know what Oculus will present, but we have some hints.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Speaking at an official Ready Player One press junket, Spielberg went into detail on how he used a mix of HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets to immerse his cast in the world their characters would be seeing in the film: “You have to understand that we made the movie in an abstract set,” said Spielberg at the event.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

AltspaceVR , the virtual reality social network that hosts events like stand-up comedy or presidential debate-watching parties, is now part of Microsoft. After a sudden shutdown due to a drop in funding in July, Microsoft obviously has now come to the rescue. The post Microsoft aquires AltspaceVR appeared first on VR World.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The 2018 Winter Olympics is about to kick off in PyeongChang, South Korea today, and this year you’ll be able to watch a total of 30 events in VR, shared across live and on-demand 360/180 recordings. Samsung Gear VR – Oculus Store. Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ VR Headsets – Microsoft Store.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Other relevant news. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. Oculus Link is here. If you’re interested, you can check the interview out here. Other relevant news. I love him.

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MAY 2, 2017

Last week we broke news that , for the first time in a while, Oculus isn’t set to attend E3, at least not on an official basis. The alien logo ringing out across the various other stalls and rows is arguably now as identifiable as the designs sported by Microsoft for its Xbox and Sony for its PlayStation.

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MARCH 18, 2018

When it comes to HTC, most everyone’s mind is on the Vive Pro. With GDC being the last major event in Q1, hosted just a week before the end of the quarter, and given the presence of HTC at GDC in years past, it certainly seems like the appropriate place and time to reveal the price and release date of the Vive Pro, if not a delay.

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APRIL 28, 2017

One of Microsoft’s newest leaders in mixed reality, Mark Bolas, took the stage for a few minutes at Acer’s press conference this week and put into human terms the company’s goals with the technology. Now he is helping define the company’s strategy and vision moving forward into the new medium.

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The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe. Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content.

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MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. base stations and a 20m fiber cable.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC launches Vive Flow headset for relaxation, priced at $499. After endless teasings and leaks, in the end, HTC has finally unveiled its headset: called Vive Flow, it is a lightweight device for media consumption. Varjo is organizing an event for October, 21th in which it will be announcing a new device.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Plus, if you are in Karlsruhe, I’ll be attending the LEARNTEC event and I’ll be there on Thursday morning… if you’re there, we can meet! That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one?

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

But it seems like Microsoft isn’t too impressed — even if they won’t come right out and say it. At E3 2016 it was revealed that Fallout 4 VR would be coming to Project Scorpio, though the only headset we know for sure it’s appearing on is the HTC Vive. Does this mean that the Vive will get Xbox Scorpio support?

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JANUARY 27, 2021

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). The product’s main feature was 3D graphical renderings of U.S. Force Multiplier.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Vive is the ‘room-scale’ VR system created by HTC and Valve. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location. HTC hosts a list of stores across the US and Europe where you can try the Vive for free. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR.

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APRIL 5, 2021

In the meantime, Bloomberg published a report saying that Apple is going to launch its XR headset in the “next several months” (a timeline that goes from now to 2023, I guess), and that it is probably waiting until there could be physical events again before doing it. The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption.

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MARCH 24, 2018

Fashion Week may be one of the most talked about events of the year, but any true fashionista knows that the best looks are served by models and trendsetters off duty. VR provides a new avenue for Refinery29 to reach their large vast network base of young women,” said Inception CEO Benny Arbel.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Just ahead of Microsoft’s E3 conference last week the company filed a trademark for Direct Reality. Speaking to Giant Bomb during last week’s event, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer clearly outlined exactly what this trademark pertained to. Sadly that wasn’t the case, but do now know what Direct Reality really is.

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JUNE 12, 2017

At Bethesda’s E3 briefing last night, the studio announced that Fallout 4 VR will be coming this year for the HTC Vive, but with AAA virtual reality PC content, comes prices to match. Fallout 4 VR is available on the HTC Vive headset via Amazon (US only currently) or direct via SteamVR for $59.99

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive.

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JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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MARCH 8, 2018

The showings coincide with the three-episode Stargate Origins finale event coming today, March 8th. No ticket or sign-up is required, simply download Bigscreen from the Oculus Store , Steam , or the Microsoft Store. image courtesy Bigscreen.

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