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‘Oculus Venues’ Live Event App Now Available on Go and Gear VR, Event Schedule Here

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Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. Most Gear VR-compatible smartphones work with Venues, excluding Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy Note 5. May 30 // Vance Joy // 7:30 pm PT.

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Palmer’s Post-Oculus Interview, Part 2: Virtual Relationships, Sleeping Under a Bridge, & His Next Project

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Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey throws swag to the crowd at Oculus Connect 2 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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VR: Fad or Fiction?

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Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012.

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Oculus Founder Expects No Next-gen VR Headsets From Market Incumbents Before Mid-2018

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Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, circa 2014 | Photo courtesy Oculus. This roughly affirms what we’ve heard from other key figures in the VR space.

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Bigscreen Boasts 5,000+ RSVPs for SpaceX Launch Viewing Today

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Bigscreen supports HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung Gear VR. Oculus Store ( Rift , Go , Quest , Gear VR ). Most recently, the platform hosted a free viewing of Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical film The Dictator (2012).

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On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Samsung’s VP of Immersive Products & VR, Nick DiCarlo

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Samsung’s Nick DiCarlo weighs in on how we might come to find it. Today we hear from Nick DiCarlo, VP of Immersive Products & VR at Samsung. Phones have evolved at a blistering pace for the last 15+ years and the phone innovations that excited users in 2007 or 2012 are different from those that excite users in 2017.

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

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This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The growth in the volume of investments in VR is more than $2.5