VRScout

MAY 17, 2020

Every Thursday at 8am PT, video game and software developer and publisher Epic Games offers players a new free game available via the Epic Games Store. So, interested in hitting the virtual streets of Los Santos in your SteamVR or Oculus headset? More information available here.*.

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APRIL 6, 2020

9to5Mac posits that the acquisition may center on NextVR’s patented video streaming technology. Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S.

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MAY 24, 2019

Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video service, outlining that Jump will officially go offline on June 28th, 2019. The ability to upload video will be suspended on June 26th; the 27th is the cutoff date to back up whatever files you may have uploaded via the service.

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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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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

GDC has historically been a key event for both Facebook/Oculus and Sony, with major announcements and previews of what would come from each company’s VR ventures throughout the rest of the year. In years past, GDC was used by both Oculus and Sony to reveal the latest versions of new VR headsets and content.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Coming to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets on Steam and Oculus Home, you can take part in the dimension-hopping adventure starting Thursday, April 20th for for $29.99. Been up all night working on design documents for several VR video games I plan to bring to market for #HTCVive @steam_games I'm so pumped.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

House of Secrets , the Amsterdam-based studio behind acclaimed real-time VR music videos Surge (2015) and Apex (2017) is developing their first full VR game, a puzzle platformer titled KIN. ” The game is due to launch “later this year” on both the Oculus Rift and Gear VR (Galaxy S6 or higher only).

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APRIL 21, 2017

On April 12th, Oculus Medium received the 1.1 Medium is Oculus’ flagship creative tool for the Touch motion controllers, recognised for its intuitive sculpting and modelling features. The Oculus Medium “Large Update” is here! Publié par Oculus Medium sur mercredi 12 avril 2017. The post Oculus ‘Medium’ 1.1

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A purportedly leaked Quest 2 box reveals new games coming to Oculus Quest like The Climb 2 and Jurassic World: Aftermath. Originally released on Oculus Rift in 2017, The Climb by Crytek remains one of the most rated games on Oculus Rift and was successful enough the get ported to Oculus Quest in late 2019.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

While the studio says the game is set to be built exclusively for VR, digital strategy and licensing chief at Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Eugene Evans calls Resolution Games “an ideal partner to bring a new DUNGEONS & DRAGONS video game to life in VR and beyond,” which could possibly point to a non-VR release coming as well.

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VRScout

MAY 13, 2017

Experience the incredibly graphic birth of a Neomorph alien in this now available 360-degree video. Along with partnering with AMD , FoxNext has also announced plans which involve AMD teaming up with computer manufacturer Alienware and Oculus to bring In Utero to 15 Regal Cinema locations. VR experience for Scott’s film The Martian.

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JULY 29, 2017

Following this week’s news that AltspaceVR, one of the first social VR platforms, is shutting down , Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who is no longer with the company, queried the community to ask if he should seek to save AtlspaceVR from closing. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey on stage at Oculus Connect 2015 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Today revealed at Oculus Connect, Lone Echo is a narrative-driven first-person game for Touch from Ready at Dawn , the same studio that brought you The Order: 1886 (2015), a number of mobile God of War games, Okami (2006), and Daxter (2006).

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Arjan van Meerten, the indie 3D artist and musician behind the widely acclaimed Surge VR music video, has confirmed Apex as his next project. See Also: ‘Surge’ is a Real-time VR Music Video You Don’t Want to Miss. See Also: ‘Moderat: Reminder’ is an Energetic VR Music Video set in a Beautiful Dystopia.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Advertisers and agencies will soon have another way to market their content through the use of bite sized 360-degree video on the increasingly popular application known as Snapchat. Sony created this initial video with the help of AvatarLabs , a Los Angeles based digital agency. What Snapchat will do next is entirely a mystery.

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APRIL 12, 2021

AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based company creating on-demand VR video, has raised $9.5 Founded in 2015, AmazeVR previously focused on building out its 360 video subscription service for VR headsets, which features a variety of content. million in funding to refocus its efforts to create virtual VR concerts.

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MARCH 29, 2022

nDreams was an early adopter of VR, starting with early VR tech demos in 2014, followed by small titles for headsets like Gear VR by 2015, and a larger title, The Assembly , which launched alongside the original Oculus Rift in 2016.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Founded in 2015, Moth+Flame currently develop a few VR training platforms, namely READY VR and PromiseVR , which respectively focus on the acquisition of hard and soft job skills. To see PromiseVR in action, check out the three-minute video below, which shows the company’s workplace racial bias training.

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JULY 4, 2016

Eva Hoerth is a VR design researcher & community organizer, and she enjoys recording videos of people as they’re immersed within a VR experience. She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap Motion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest gain PC VR market shares. The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). Oculus explains the logic behind its store curation policy. Top news of the week.

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JANUARY 8, 2017

An HTC Vive phone has been spotted in a promotional video leaked ahead of a scheduled press conference on January 12th. This video may indicate HTC is ready to make that move, using its now established Vive brand. The post HTC Vive Mobile Phone Spotted in Promotional Video appeared first on Road to VR.

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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 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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2018

You might have caught a glimpse of the Feelreal mask prototype when it made headlines back at GDC 2015 , the smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that promised to bring plenty of scents to your nostrils and haptics to your face. Today the company announced that Feelreal is definitely for real, and coming to consumers via a Kickstarter soon.

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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. ALIEN: COVENANT In Utero is a 360-degree virtual reality journey into a living nightmare and offers a terrifyingly close and personal encounter as an alien neomorph at the time of its birth.

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VRScout

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. Zohar Kfir.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The Gear VR headset launched in November 2015, and was the first high-quality VR solution for smartphones. Baxter also highlighted the success of Samsung’s Gear 360 camera, which ‘empowers people to create their own 360 videos and images’, and revealed that consumers have viewed over 10 million hours of video in VR.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Oculus has officially confirmed that Toybox , the highly anticipated multiplayer sandbox application built from the ground up to show off the Oculus Touch motion controllers, will be made available to every touch owner for free after launch. At the time however, it was early days for software Touch support.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2019

NextVR is a leading figure in the world of VR video, offering some of the highest quality and best produced made-for-VR video content available anywhere; the company handles both production and distribution of content. The NextVR app launched initially way back in 2015 on Gear VR, and eventually found its way to Daydream.

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JULY 9, 2019

The physics-based gladiator sim—available on Steam (Rift, Vive, Index) and the Oculus Store (Rift)—is slated to leave Early Access on July 18th. Yes, that’s a rap video featuring a fictitious barbarian language (and yes, it’s awesome). Otherwise, it’s still a mystery what GORN has in store—maybe more giant crab-bros?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Watching the video of the experience, with the mother being able to see her daughter again and crying, it’s so incredibly moving. On the web, there have been many debates around this video. I really hope so.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Unlike video on demand services, each week Bigscreen will be hosting four different films, which premiere every Friday at 6PM ET ( local time here ) and start every 30 minutes. Bigscreen supports Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and all Windows VR headsets. Image courtesy Bigscreen.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Facebook acquired face recognition technology provider FacioMetrics to beef up the social network giant’s photo and video capabilities. FacioMetrics spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 as a response to market demand surrounding use of facial image analysis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. Can you introduce yourself to my readers?

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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). 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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JANUARY 18, 2024

It was partially developed by John Carmack in 2015 for the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR. The news comes as Apple confirmed this week that most of Netflix's major competitors will be available on Vision Pro at launch, including Disney+, Max (formerly HBO Max), Amazon Prime Video, Discovery+, Paramount+, and Peacock.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google’s Tango technology. Actor John Hamm, being captured at 8i’s volumetric video studio.

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