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JUNE 15, 2018

Here’s how you can spend this weekend immersed in football’s most elite competition: OCULUS VENUES. Chat about the your favorite moments while you catch free live streams of select FIFA World Cup matches thanks to FOX Sports using your Oculus Go or Gear VR headsets. Oculus Venues is available free via the Oculus Go and Gear VR.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Following the announcement in September that Facebook will discontinue the Rift product line in 2021 , it appears the company is gearing up for a final sendoff by offering its latest PC VR headset, Oculus Rift S, for just $300. Oculus Rift S headset. Oculus Touch controllers (2). Photo by Road to VR. What’s in the box?

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2018

You can experience the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in entirely new ways. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games is getting a big technology boost when it opens on February 9th in Pyeongchang, South Korea. 18 of them being live-streamed, while the remaining 12 will be broadcast the very next day through video-on-demand.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

A sequel to one of 2018’s most polished VR titles heads to the Oculus Rift 2019. Announced earlier today at the Oculus Connect 5 event in San Jose, California, Lone Echo 2 throws players back into the metal feet of Jack as they join Liv for another mysterious set of deep space circumstances. Not by a long-shot.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day zero’ of CES 2018, served in bitesize chunks. Intel’s tiny VR-capable PC, Tactical Haptics’ reconfigurable controller, NextVR updates, TPCast Plus, HTC Vive Pro, and Xiaomi’s re-branded Oculus Go. NextVR’s Immersive Video Upgrades. Xiaomi Branded Oculus Go. Stay tuned!

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MAY 25, 2018

John Carmack, Oculus’ CTO, has revealed work on a new VR video playback technology which he says is coming to Oculus Go and newer Gear VR phones. To show it off, the company is planning a re-release of the animated short Henry, which Carmack says will “set a new bar for immersive video quality.”

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VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

Though I would love to let my birthday piggyback on that accomplishment, credit actually goes to Facebook-owned Oculus, which launched its Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets on that day. Having participated in a VR tournament using this cutting-edge headset, I can honestly say that Oculus’ hard work is apparent.

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MAY 19, 2018

NextVR , the VR video streaming platform the brings live events to headset users, is introducing the 2017-2018 season NBA MVP highlight reel on the NextVR app. The NextVR app is available on Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go, Google Daydream, PlayStation VR, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets. Image courtesy NextVR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. Receiving funding was not only a blessing, but an incredible learning experience for me.

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MAY 1, 2018

NextVR , the live event VR broadcasting company, today announced a partnership with Oculus to bring live VR events to Oculus Venues , the company’s upcoming social viewing app that will allow mass viewing of events such as sports, concerts and comedy. NextVR has built a passionate fan base around leading VR content experiences.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2018

Beat Games (ex-Hyperbolic Magnetism) has now revealed exactly how to get the highest score in their block-slicing VR rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) in a new video. Check the video pic.twitter.com/vzY50JRPB7. — Beat Saber (@BeatSaber) July 5, 2018. . — Beat Saber (@BeatSaber) July 5, 2018.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 9, 2018

We expect stand-alone headsets like the Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus to ignite a new wave of growth that will help broaden the appeal of virtual reality, particularly with businesses and in education,” says George Jijiashvili, CCS Insight’s senior analyst for wearables. billion in 2018 appeared first on Tech Trends.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2019

Oculus Quest—and one of its main launch titles Beat Saber (2018) —has only been out for a week now. This modder found out how: Brian Tate released a video last week showing off his preliminary work, however the custom songs weren’t properly synced with the corresponding blocks.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. NVIDIA RTX 2080 videos and photos. If you’re interested in this, just watch the below video (sorry for the bad audio, I have to buy a mic, i know).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Rated Apple’s 2017 App of the Year and Google Play’s 2018 Editor’s Choice Award winner, the original mobile version of Calm has celebrated a measure of success over the years with its growing list of soothing guided meditation routines and nighttime stories to put a restless mind to bed. Image courtesy Calm.com Inc, Oculus.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2018

Survios , the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018), showed off Electronauts at GDC this year, their upcoming VR music creation app for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that makes DJ’ing so easy that even the least musically talented person can do it. Electronauts is still slated to release sometime in 2018.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2018

Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls: Blades mobile experience will support everything from iPhone to Oculus. The idea of delivering Elder Scrolls: Blades to every console, phone and headset with cross-platform support may seem insane, but it also could be the start of one of entertainment’s most accessible video game ecosystems.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2018

NextVR , the company specializing in live VR sports and entertainment broadcasting, has already begun its public debut of the new high-resolution video format teased back at CES earlier this year, which comes via free, on-demand game highlights of the 2018 NBA Finals featuring the Golden State Warriors vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Along with a whirlwind of updates coming out of Oculus Connect 4, Oculus VP of content Jason Rubin took the stage to showcase the company’s next wave of VR games we should be getting hyped about. No additional details were shared, but with the short video teaser shared on stage, we can expect the VR title to drop in 2019.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. Use static lightning [ video guide ].

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

The app is also soon to launch on the Oculus Rift. 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 you’ll find anywhere. SEE ALSO NextVR Partners With Oculus to Bring Live Events to 'Oculus Venues'.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Today at Oculus Connect 4, Facebook announced several major updates to their social VR hangout app Facebook Spaces, expected in the coming year. Quill , the art creation tool built by Oculus Story Studio, would be available within the Spaces platform as well. Social VR just went next-level. Stay tuned as we bring more updates from OC4.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Oculus today announced a new sweepstakes that could nab you a free Oculus Rift + Touch bundle. Dubbed the ’12 Days of Rift’, the sweepstakes was announced via the Oculus Rift’s Twitter account today. Check back every day for awesome holiday surprises, including an Oculus Rift giveaway!

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Don’t look down, because Crytek’s aptly-named climbing game The Climb (2017) is headed out of Rift exclusivity soon with its impending launch on Oculus Quest. In the video’s description UploadVR maintains the trailer was encoded with a low bitrate, which causes some unsightly blockiness in the video capture.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2018

There’s only a few days left until the trick-or-treaters come knocking at your door, but as you break out the dull kitchen knife and inevitably cut yourself on your real pumpkin this year to make a haphazard Jack-o-lantern, you might consider entering in Oculus’ spooky pumpkin-carving contest instead. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2019

Red Matter (2018), the sci-fi puzzle-adventure from Vertical Robot , is slated to launch on Oculus Quest on August 15th. The post Sci-fi Adventure ‘Red Matter’ Coming to Oculus Quest in August appeared first on Road to VR. In the meantime, check out why we gave Red Matter a solid [8.3/10]

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VRScout

JULY 23, 2021

If you have an Oculus Quest headset, you can even watch a portion of this year’s events in VR. Available free on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, this nifty little app allows you access to hundreds of hours of Olympic content, from basketball and track & field to boxing and gymnastics, in immersive stereoscopic 360.

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VRScout

APRIL 6, 2020

Apple’s purchase would gain the company access not only to the platforms’ numerous existing partnerships, but it’s patented live streaming technology that upscales video streams. Back in 2018 reports began circulating that Apple was in development of a hybrid VR/AR headset. Image Credit: NextVR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2017

An Oculus Rift without wires is the best thing ever. Among the slew of updates that came out of Oculus Connect 4, everything from new updates to Rift software and Facebook Spaces upgrades, there were two devices we hoped to get our heads in—the Oculus Go and Oculus Santa Cruz headset.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2019

Oculus released a video yesterday highlighting some of the upcoming games for Quest, the 6DOF standalone VR headset set to launch in Spring 2019. The post ‘Job Simulator’ & ‘Vacation Simulator’ Are Both Coming to Oculus Quest appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Since the launch of the popular VR rhythm game back in 2018, players have been having a field day designing their own custom beat maps set to a catalog of unlicensed music. In a video posted to YouTube , Mawntee shows off the carefully-crafted map in all its 8-bit glory. via the Oculus Store and SteamVR. Image Credit: TougeVR.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2020

The sequel to 2018’s retro VR adventure offers double the action and triple the nostalgia. Today, the 90’s is considered to be one of the most important eras for video games, marking the dramatic transition from 16-bit to 32-bit platforms as well as the introduction of affordable at-home consoles.

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InstaVR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

2018 was a phenomenal year at InstaVR! January 2018 – Published Customer Success stories featuring Hello Kitty & Toyota High System. February 2018 – Great interviews with clients & industry experts. March 2018 – The UK government starts using InstaVR. Below are some of the highlights.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Following today’s Oculus Go launch announcement at Facebook’s annual F8 dev conference, the company also revealed that Rooms , the social VR space first launched on Gear VR, is getting revamped to inaugurate Go. A new gallery app is also coming from Oculus, aptly named Oculus Gallery. Oculus Venues (coming soon).

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Meta published a quick explainer video recently showing off how local multiplayer works between two Quest Pros. Starting in 2018, the company showed off an arena-scale multiplayer prototype based on VR shooter Dead & Buried, which we hoped would eventually lead to the company opening up colocation services for the Quest platform.

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