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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). So, are you ready?

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Experience of the Year.

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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

HaptX

At HaptX, our team is celebrating a milestone-filled 2018. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012.

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Is Oculus Quest killing PC VR?

The Ghost Howls

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. Learning New Skills.

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. In 5 years or such, in VR we will be able to do that every time we want.

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NVIDIA’s New High-end Quadro RTX First to Include VirtualLink VR Port

Road to VR

Today at SIGGRAPH 2018 NVIDIA announced ‘Turing’, their next-generation GPU architecture aimed at real-time ray tracing, and the first high-end GPUs built atop it, the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000 and 5000. Image courtesy NVIDIA. Based on USB-C, VirtualLink provides high data bandwidth and power in a single small connector.