VRScout

JUNE 4, 2017

Walmart Academies have begun using various VR retail scenarios to educate new employees. The current trial curriculum, produced by immersive performance training platform Strivr , uses an Oculus Rift headset to immerse associates in education VR simulations. Working in retail is anything but easy.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) brings the game development community together to exchange ideas, solve problems, and shape the future of the industry across five days of education, inspiration, and networking. Attendees include programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, and business leaders.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2020

Looking at the future of immersive education in a post COVID-19 world. It not quite up to par with other standalone devices, such as the Oculus Quest , the Classroom 2 still manages to deliver engaging educational experiences perfect for the classroom. Image Credit: Lenovo.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. Facebook invested heavily in Oculus Rift to bring in believable character avatars using generative models through deep learning. Phase-Functioned Neural Network (PFNN).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The thought is that when “full AR” arrives, it won’t require rigorous uphill consumer education. “We Specifically, audio features let users listen to music and receive phone calls, making the device a sort of love child of Snap Spectacles and Amazon Echo Frames. Moreover, audio content will be a key component of AR experiences?—?both

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VirtualiTeach

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Partly this was due to geographical limitations (Oculus never released the Rift or Go in the Middle East for some reason) and partly it was due to the relationship I built with the awesome Vive team based here in Dubai and their continued support of my work. Right now the biggest issue with the Quest is the lack of educational content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2016

I had a chance to catch up with AMD’s Roy Taylor , VP of Alliances, Content, and VR, at VRLA to hear more about AMD’s recent announcements, their open source philosophy, their support for VR storytellers, and the upcoming VR on the Lot event on October 13 & 14th that will be helping to educate the film industry about VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. I mean, besides the Oculus Quest 2, there’s hardly anything to get locally. Your best bet is Amazon and dealing with the international shipping charges.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The name has changed and it is now called “Engage Link” , because after TPLink, Oculus Link, Looxid Link, and Pico Neo 3 Link , we needed something else with the name Link. With a video on Youtube, the always amazing Chris Madsen introduced us to the spaces of this new virtual ecosystem. Quest runtime v41 is rolling out.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

An ecosystem to create workshops and educational lessons inside VR , for a maximum of 50 attendees per room (but rooms can be cloned). Anyway, it is like if Oculus had partnered with Google here in the Wes t, so I envision that great things could come out from this collaboration; A partnership between HTC and HP.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

New 3D services for things like music, fitness, education, and more. I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Using the new Siri you will be able to ask “how much are 20 of these on Amazon?”

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s been difficult for me to have an in-depth and honest conversation with Google about privacy or with Facebook/Oculus about privacy because the technological roadmap for integrating biometric data streams into VR products or advertising business models have still been in the theoretical future.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Enhanced reality devices – especially AR — will be ubiquitous in another decade or so, and used in nearly every aspect of our lives and in nearly every industry, from automotive to medical care, education to neuroscience, engineering to shopping.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

According to UploadVR , Oculus intends to release their higher-end standalone VR headset named Santa Cruz at the first quarter of 2019. Oculus is ambitious on taking the market share by designing a VR headset with cameras added for inside-out tracking of 6DOF head movement and two Oculus Touch-style controllers. Social VR Apps.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. The “Cablegate” is hurting Oculus Rift CV1 owners. After the “Cablegate” has become pretty popular, Oculus stated that is thinking about solutions on how to solve this problem , but nothing has been announced until today.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Really, it works with all platforms: PC, Mac, smartphones, PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest , even Cardboards! Liv Ericksen explained to us that depending on the Amazon Virtual Machine you’re going to buy, you can have a certain number of people together. Not just your room, but your custom Hubs infrastructure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 is selling incredibly well because it offers the right combination of affordable price, good hardware, and a good software ecosystem. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance). The Quest will still be the king. Me wearing a Valve Index.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Rori: I’d say, about two years ago, I think a lot of the time with with our clients was spent on educating people on what VR is, on what AR is. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Rori: Well one is I think just educating themselves, familiarizing themselves with the experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Rori: I’d say, about two years ago, I think a lot of the time with with our clients was spent on educating people on what VR is, on what AR is. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Rori: Well one is I think just educating themselves, familiarizing themselves with the experience.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I can’t think about an AR-app that is actually popular : many have tried to make AR games, AR educational experiences, AR sports… but they all ended up being tech demos or gimmicks. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy. When Airpods were launched, they were welcomed by many memes.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Oculus Quest is available again in some countries. In some countries (not US), Oculus Quest and Rift S have got back in stock. If you’re interested in these devices, have a look at Amazon and Oculus websites. Oculus rolls out runtime v15 for Quest. The update also fixes many bugs with Oculus Link.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. The $100 consumer Gear VR also debuts during this same period, arriving alongside a virtual arcade from Oculus to let people play some classic games.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

Mars Odyssey – An interactive single-player VR educational simulation that takes you to the distant red planet to repair NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers – including Viking, Pathfinder, Curiosity, and Opportunity – which have fallen under disrepair. The Oculus Rift experience will utilize D-Box chairs in an immersive 24-seat theatre.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. I was at the I/ITSEC conference and that's in your backyard. Brandon: It is the Interdisciplinary-- uh.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. I was at the I/ITSEC conference and that's in your backyard. Brandon: It is the Interdisciplinary-- uh.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

But it also can be educational. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. Alan: Yeah, it was the Amazon Prime show, Jack Something Or Other. ” And all of those shoes are interactive pieces of content. Alan: Interesting. You guys are an entertainment company.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

But it also can be educational. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. Alan: Yeah, it was the Amazon Prime show, Jack Something Or Other. ” And all of those shoes are interactive pieces of content. Alan: Interesting. You guys are an entertainment company.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

But it also can be educational. So we've launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It's on Steam and Oculus. Alan: Yeah, it was the Amazon Prime show, Jack Something Or Other. And all of those shoes are interactive pieces of content. So you can collect points or play a game or all of that stuff is possible.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. I was at the I/ITSEC conference and that's in your backyard. Brandon: It is the Interdisciplinary-- uh.

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