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New Oculus Bundle Gets You Rift, Touch, VR-Ready PC, And Four Great Games For $1300

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Facebook’s Oculus VR team is announcing a new bundle for its Oculus Rift VR system. With it, customers can get a Rift headset, the Oculus Touch controllers, an ASUS VivoX PC , and four free games for the total price of $1300. The bundle will be available in “select territories” through Amazon and NewEgg.

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Hands On: Tracking The Progress With Acer’s Development Edition Windows VR Headset

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At an event in New York City this morning Acer showed its latest tech offerings. This included a VR headset that is part of Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, simply called the Acer Windows Mixed Reality headset. Visually, the screen texture felt similar to the Oculus Rift. Here’s what we saw.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

The Ghost Howls

I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership (Road To VR).

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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC

Robert Scoble

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer.

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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

HaptX

We started the year strong, receiving the Lumiere Technology Award in January, alongside companies like Disney and Microsoft. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. This new industrial-grade system offers the most realistic haptics experience to date.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

VPS won’t be available worldwide, though: the company is enabling its VPS system in select cities ?—?San San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for By the end of the year, the cities will hopefully be around 100. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”.

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Get a Glimpse of a New Way to Accelerate Startups with DJ Smith

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In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup. NYVR hosts monthly events focused on virtual reality technology and the premiere venue for the industry networking collaboration within New York City. It basically put me in direct connection with many of the developers in the city.

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