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Facebook Slashes Price of Oculus Rift S to $300

Road to VR

We also listed the minimum specs below, although you’d do better with a flagship GPU from at least 2018 onwards. Games not on the Oculus Store like Half-Life: Alyx (2019), No Man’s Sky (2016) , and Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) are all playable on Rift S through Steam. Photo by Road to VR.

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Facebook’s Customer Base Spells Success For The Oculus Quest

VRScout

Oculus’ whirlwind Kickstarter success led many to believe that established entertainment companies such as Sony, Microsoft, or even tech giant Google might look to buy the company, but Facebook’s decisive choice wasn’t something anyone could have predicted. Image Credit: Benjamin Formaker-Olivas.

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Highlights of the Largest VR Expo of the Year – VRLA 2018

VeeR VR

VRLA 2018, the largest & original virtual and augmented reality expo, returned to the LA Convention Center on May 4 & 5, featuring the latest innovations in virtual, augmented and mixed reality across tech, film, gaming, education, architecture, and etc.

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New to VR? A beginner’s guide

VRWorld

Basically every VR experience will allow the user to feel as though they are in this simulated world and look around it, while more advanced systems allow for movement and interaction. from Amazon. Photo from Microsoft. from Microsoft. Detailed instructions are available here. Sony Playstation VR. 399.00-$499.00

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

ARVR

Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. ARCore   — ARCore is an AR SDK released by Google in 2018 for building augmented reality experiences. It is useful to simulate situations that are too dangerous or difficult to recreate in real life. It has applications for creating digital advertisements, visualization etc.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. Billion ad spend by 2022.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. Of course it also has telepresence, so you could be virtually present in a place like Egypt – not in real time, but in space and simulation. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. That is its most powerful use. Alan: Amazing.

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