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Led by Former Oculus Exec, Facebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Paves the Way to VR Streaming

Road to VR

Rubin joined Oculus in 2014 as was a key spokesperson for the company’s VR before his role expanded into Facebook’s broader gaming initiatives | Image courtesy Jason Rubin. It’s critical for us to start with latency-tolerant games so we can deliver a good experience for players across a variety of devices.

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The 5 Best VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift & HTC Vive

VR Geeks

Virtual reality racing simulators are some of the most immersive experiences available today, but finding the best ones can be difficult. There are several intriguing options to test now that the bulk of PC racing simulators support VR. We’ve compiled a list of our top five favorites for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Assetto Corsa.

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Hands-on: Infinadeck’s Latest Prototype is the Most Natural Feeling VR Treadmill Yet

Road to VR

I’ve had a chance to try out the Infinadeck at several key milestones during its development, as far back as 2014 when the device made its debut at the very first SVVR Conference & Expo. Photo by Road to VR. Photo by Road to VR.

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How to choose an LBVR product?

The Ghost Howls

BIO: Anton Zaitsev started in 2014 with writing real-life escape room scenarios and launching real-life ERs as a creative director. Image Credit: TripAdvisor, Zero Latency Madrid. Zero Latency was the first to provide such experience. Seated VR: hand tracking games, movies and simulators. Are you interested? And they sit.

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After 6 Years in Person & 3 Remote, Why is Meta Connect Still Not Held in VR?

Road to VR

Started by Oculus in 2014, Connect was where the earliest of early adopters could meet and learn how to make their games and apps happen for the first consumer VR headsets. Pandemic notwithstanding, they all had one important thing in common: none of the conferences used the company’s core XR technology to virtually connect people.

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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

VRScout

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Black Box VR – VR Workout Simulator. Birdly – Flight Simulator. Since then, we have seen a movement. VRGO – Pivoting Seat.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

I was lucky enough to get a job at UC Santa Barbara in a combination social psychology lab and computer science hub , where we were using VR to run experiments, to simulate the social world. Or how does resolution or latency affect simulator sickness? The latency, I think, was about a quarter second. This is 1999.

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