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Can Virtually Live Replace Pay Per View Television?

VRWorld

We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences.

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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

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). Or Unreal if that’s your language. I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. In one scenario this may be some kind of AR browser, equivalent to today’s web browsers, like WebXR running on Chrome.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

But then you look at Unreal. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017. Alex: Near zero latency. Now, you could say, "OK, maybe that's an outlier." You look at Epic. Anyway, they bought the product.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

But then you look at Unreal. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017. Alex: Near zero latency. Now, you could say, "OK, maybe that's an outlier." You look at Epic. Anyway, they bought the product.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

But then you look at Unreal. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017. Alex: Near zero latency. Now, you could say, "OK, maybe that's an outlier." You look at Epic. Anyway, they bought the product.

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Grids close year with record active numbers

Hypergrid Business

The 2016 OpenSim Community Conference was responsible for about a quarter of the increase, but many other grids also saw gains. For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Land area of OpenSim’s public grids, in standard region equivalents.