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MAY 5, 2017

Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. At the start of 2015, that made a lot of sense.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Embark on an epic pint-sized quest September 23rd on On Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport. After five grueling years of development, critically-acclaimed filmmaker Jon Favreau ( Iron Man, The Mandalorian ) is finally set to launch his long-awaited dream-like VR adventure Gnomes & Goblins later this month on Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The (uncomplete) Immersive Technology in Healthcare digest?—?Decembre Decembre 20, 2020 Hello, this is a short summary of my technological watch on this amazing domain of immersive technology in healthcare ! The program is done with Oculus Go device and shows amazing results : learning engagement +45% and knowledge retention +72%.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Strivr , the immersive VR training company, announced the successful completion of a $30 million financing round, something the startup says will help it further expand adoption of enterprise-focused immersive learning. Strivr is focused on building immersive learning software using VR headsets. With more than 1.5

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MAY 4, 2017

The studio’s 50 staffers are encouraged to apply for new jobs within Oculus. The news was announced by Oculus Thursday afternoon in a blog post by Oculus VP of Content Jason Rubin. The post Facebook Shutting Down Oculus Story Studio appeared first on VRScout.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have. We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. The day is finally upon us — the Oculus Touch launches tomorrow.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Surge , launched freely back in early 2015—the days of the second Rift development (DK2)—was a curiously compelling piece of music set to a real-time VR rendering of abstract shapes and scenery that reacted to the music. See Also: ‘Surge’ is a Real-time VR Music Video You Don’t Want to Miss.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Back in April 2015, Oculus was a long way away from its current position as one of VR’s most influential organizations. The company had only recently been acquired by Facebook and was still in the process of prepping the Oculus Rift for its 2016 launch. One of these hoaxes was ThinkGeek’s ‘ VR Sensory Immersion Generator.’.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Originally started in 2015 as a traveling VR film festival spanning 10 cities in North America, Kaleidoscope has really come into its own this year. Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. This is despite the fact that new sales for the DK2 ceased in late 2015. The data suggests 6.5

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APRIL 22, 2020

The immersive nature of virtual reality makes the often dull world of finance more compelling for people. Immersive learning environments provide visual and tactile stimuli. Saatchi & Saatchi Sri Lanka , for example, made a virtual reality campaign for Hatton National Bank in 2015. Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Marcos has since left Mozilla in order to work on the Supermedium WebVR browser, which creates a desktop VR browser designed for the Vive or Oculus to easily go in and out of viewing WebVR content as a seamless VR experience. spec include Firefox Release 55, Oculus Browser, Samsung Internet, & Microsoft Edge.

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APRIL 24, 2017

The forthcoming Alien: Covenant movie is getting a VR experience, Alien: Covenant In Utero and it launches this Wednesday on Oculus platforms. Fans will be able to experience the world around them, reliving the very first memories of the neomorph in an immersive environment.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

The creators Immersive VR Education are taking Apollo 11 VR’s commitment to realism one step further though with their newly remastered version, dubbed Apollo 11 VR HD, which is now set to launch on Steam November 7th for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows VR headsets. Image courtesy Immersive VR Education.

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MAY 10, 2017

So here’s a confession: before Oculus announced it was closing down Oculus Story Studio last week, I hadn’t actually seen any of the team’s VR movies from start to finish. Henry the hedgehog, as Oculus executives would repeatedly tell us, just wanted to be loved.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Robin Hunicke, executive producer on Journey (2012) and now co-founder of game studio Funomena , is creating a visually rich new Oculus Touch title that wants to be played by anyone and everyone. ” The studio has four games currently in the works, one of which is Luna for Oculus Touch. The post Exec.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Left: Visitors interact with a Football Experience on the Ibench Mobile Right: Oculus HMD and Microsoft’s Kinect make for a fun interactive experience. To achieve accurate results safely and in a short space of time, Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies provide innovative and immersive, hands-on learning and practice.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Games, as one of the prime sources of entertainment, could be more prominent by becoming more interactive and immersive. Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Founded in 2013, Jaunt became known not only for producing its high-quality 360 video for consumers, but also a 360 camera dubbed Jaunt One (formerly NEO) aimed at idustry professionals looking to get into immersive video capture. SEE ALSO Hands-on: Oculus Link Makes Quest Feel Like a Native PC VR Headset.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

It was well over a year ago that the promise of Xbox streaming to the Oculus Rift was first promised by Phil Spencer during a June 2015 press event in San Francisco. The idea was to allow your Rift to function as a highly immersive monitor for your Xbox console. The app will release on December 12 on the Oculus Home store.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Resolution Games was also involved in its making , a title that does away with the standard side-scrolling gameplay for a more immersive first-person experience of physically shooting a slingshot at the 3D piggy fort. ” SEE ALSO Brilliant Sole Wants to Put a VR Controller in Your Shoes.

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It was partially developed by John Carmack in 2015 for the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR. Netflix does have a VR app on Meta Quest , with a cosy cabin environment, but it's capped at 480p and hasn't been updated in years. 0:00 / 0:17 1× Media watching on Apple Vision Pro.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Announced nearly a year and a half ago, Oculus and Microsoft are finally making good on their promise to stream Xbox One games into a virtual theater on the Rift. Most likely it’s an expression of the ongoing partnership between Oculus and Microsoft, and hopefully heralds more useful joint offerings between to the two companies to come.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Creating a VR that truly immerses the user is no easy feat. A Brief Foray into Funktronic Labs Founded a decade ago at the intersection of art, technology, and design, Funktronic Labs took the plunge into VR development back in 2015, a time when the industry was still in its infancy and precedents were scarce.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Do you want to discover them with me? Top news of the week.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The NextVR app launched initially way back in 2015 on Gear VR, and eventually found its way to Daydream. In the second half of 2017 it began rolling out to PC VR platforms starting with Windows VR, and became available the Oculus Rift, Vive (via Viveport), and Oculus Go in 2018.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The VR app that XRHealth and Nord-Space designed shows five 360-degree immersive videos; Sunset on the Hill, Mountain Path in Europe, Swimming with Dolphins, Western Sea, and Wetlands. Oculus swapped out the Rift's built-in tracking system for a third party solution better suited to be customized for microgravity.

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JULY 17, 2018

The multi-dimensional platformer-meets-VR adventure is slated to arrive on PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets July 31st. Image courtesy Arvore Immersive Experiences. Development of the game since shifted to São Paulo-based Arvore Immersive Experiences , with Ribiero as a developer.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

That’s the question Oculus, Tool of America, and director Kevin Kornish set out to answer with the new experimental VR experience, Fall in Love VR. A 360° video he shot with Taylor Swift inspired the director to combine that idea with first person, immersive storytelling to test whether or not people could experience intimacy with an avatar.

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APRIL 5, 2017

APEX is the latest real-time VR music video experience directed by Arjan van Meerten, the creator of the acclaimed Surge (2015). VR is a really intense and immersive way to experience music. And there’s of course also the teaser released last year: Surge , the predecessor to APEX launched in 2015 to much acclaim.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Before the calendar ever turned over from 2015 to 2016 people were already dubbing this as the “year of virtual reality.” It may seem hard to believe now, but just a few months ago the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR HMDs were available active developers only. ” This monicker was given for good reason.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

Positional tracking is the dream for immersive video content, but it is a complex hardware and software challenge. The company haven’t provided details about their process, but 6DoF support has been on their road map for some time, having spoken about the use of light field technology for this purpose in 2015.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

In our third annual Game of the Year Awards, we again celebrate those VR games—those stories that can only be told through the act of suspending your disbelief and immersing yourself in another world, head-first. Available On : Oculus (Rift). Available On: Steam (Index, Vive, Rift, WMR), Viveport , Oculus ( Rift , Quest ).

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Cast your minds back to E3 2015. Oculus has its very own press conference where it revealed the final version of the Rift and announced Touch. The Windows maker took to the stage during the show to reveal that Oculus Rift and Xbox One owners could stream their console games into the headset via a Windows 10 PC.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

We first reported on 8i back in 2015 , when they unveiled their 360 volumetric video capture system, capable of capturing imagery and data from different viewpoints and stitching them back together in realtime, allowing the video to be viewed from different angles.

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MAY 2, 2017

“We know we can make a conventional game in VR more immersive, but can we make it as fun?” The studio is also very particular about movement within VR, noting that it doesn’t want to use teleportation, as it breaks immersion. Multiverse itself assembled in 2015 and is currently comprised of 30 people.

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