Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We’ll be keeping an eye on Oculus Rift deals throughout Black Friday 2017 and Cyber Monday. Oculus Rift Baseline. It’s important to keep in mind the base price of the headset so you can make an informed decision when purchasing. Without an special discount, the Oculus Rift + Touch bundle costs $400/€450/£400.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We’re keeping an eye on the best Oculus Rift Black Friday 2018 deals. Oculus Rift Deal Baseline. It’s important to keep in mind the base price of the headset so you can make an informed decision when purchasing. Without an special discount, the Oculus Rift + Touch bundle costs $400/€450/£400.

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VRScout

MAY 14, 2021

A new gameplay trailer teases a brutal survival-horror experience set in the dense, unforgiving jungle of the Amazon rainforest. For more information check out the official Discord. According to Incuvo, the PCVR and Quest versions of Green Hell VR are being developed independently based on their respective platforms.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Based on Creepy Jar’s 2018 PC game, Green Hell VR is an open-world survival game that has you struggling to survive the harsh realities of life in the Amazon rainforest. For more information check out the official website and follow development on Twitter. The full game will be available on PC VR and Meta Quest later this year.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The best Vive Cosmos Black Friday 2019 deal will be $600 (a 14% discount); this deal should become available here on Amazon on the 28th. The best Vive Pro Black Friday 2019 deal will be the ‘headset only’ for $600 (a 25% discount); this deal should become available here on Amazon on the 28th. Microsoft.com.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2019

Luckily there’s a path forward—the Rift S design is relatively modular, allowing both the headstrap and the face gasket to be removed, meaning that Oculus could (and should) offer accessories to improve the experience. SEE ALSO Oculus Rift S Review – A Good Choice for VR Newcomers, a Difficult Choice for VR Vets. Rift S Audio.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Apple has been prototyping headsets for years, and recent reports from The Information and Bloomberg suggest that Apple could release a headset as early as 2022 that could cost as much as $3,000. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Where is Spatial Computing in its Lifecycle?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. Oculus Link is here. Oculus Go won’t support USB memory sticks. If you’re interested, you can check the interview out here.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Top news of the week. Image by Engadget).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Image by Oculus, from Road To VR). John Carmack leaves Oculus. In a surprise move that no one was expecting, the god of programming John Carmack has decided to leave Oculus. More info (John Carmack leaves Oculus) More info (Carmack stating he’s not satisfied with VR pace) More info (Damo9000’s sarcasm on the news).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

As of today, Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, is no longer the CEO of the company he helped create with Palmer Luckey over four years ago in Irvine, CA. Iribe and Thomason, along with Mike Schroepfer, CTO of Facebook, will reportedly all work together to find a new leader for Oculus VR moving forward. We loved them in our review.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2021

Whether you’re on the Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, or a SteamVR headset, you’ll find there’s plenty of VR gaming to look forward to over the next 12 months. Other than that little information is known about this highly-anticipated release, besides the fact that it will be set within the Assassin’s Creed universe.

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

The claim comes from a report from The Information today, citing "a person involved in the talks." The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399. And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. So it was hard for us devs to make visually compelling games.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

TPCast for Vive is priced at US$300, and is sold on TPCast’s website and online retail sites including Amazon and NewEgg. TPCast is also gearing up for the release of its Oculus Rift-compatible trasmitter , with a pre-order page spotted on Overclockers.co.uk. It appears Amazon’s link isn’t active yet.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

based employee using an Oculus Go through STRIVR ’s VR training program. The American multinational company has explored cutting edge ideas such as Post Mobile AR for in-store displays of Nest products, filed patents for a virtual showroom and VR headset, and has even announced plans to train every U.S. Using Apple’s ARKit 2.0,

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. by Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9/29/19.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 18, 2019

But its share will start to diminish, given the rise of standalone VR, most notably Oculus Quest. In fact, the greatest share gains in this five-year outlook will be with standalone headsets such as Oculus Go and Quest. The device is currently sold out on Amazon.

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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.” The Plurality.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

To fill the informational void, analysts typically offer up their best estimates, using third-party services to corral the numbers into what appears to be a solid answer to the question: how is ‘X’ market doing? Amazon does provide a good watermark for how any given product is faring, but it’s not everything, HTC says.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

And for sure there are many internal prototypes that will lead to nothing; Apple also spreads false information. There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. I forecast zero surprises related to the launch of this device … it’s the headset for which Meta has revealed the most information before the actual launch, so we already know everything about it.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Even though they’re not the only VR headsets on the market, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift attract the most attention and command the mainstream media presence. When announced, Oculus Rift launch price of $599 presented a main advantage over HTC Vive’s $799. Oculus Touch controllers to cost £190 in the UK.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 20, 2020

During CES 2020 bHaptics announced it was even easier to delve into this new world, as its haptic vest became available on Amazon. . Previously only available through bHaptics website and marketed towards enterprise users such as location-based venues (LBE), the company is now eyeing up more consumer sales thanks to its Amazon availability.

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VRScout

JUNE 4, 2017

The current trial curriculum, produced by immersive performance training platform Strivr , uses an Oculus Rift headset to immerse associates in education VR simulations. Both Lowes and Amazon are already taking their own unique approaches towards embracing VR as well. Could we be seeing the dawn of VR in retail and shopping?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The program remains in its trial phase with an end goal of determining whether the idea of a VR experience, similar to that of the Netflix VR app or Oculus Venues , would resonate with airline passengers. No word though on whether users will be able to access their personal subscriptions while onboard. Their answer?

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

A separate $13/month app-only subscription is "not compatible" with the bikes or treadmill, as a Peloton support specialist informed my partner.) SEE ALSO: 'Supernatural' for Oculus Quest is a fun cardio game for the exercise-averse. Just think about Amazon, the only potential "suitor" named in WSJ 's story.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. Facebook releases the Oculus Quest 2. Even if with the Quest 1 was possible to play Oculus Go games, this support has been abandoned on the Quest 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. According to Niantic, this moment is coming pretty soon.

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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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Facebook – NASDAQ: FB – Oculus VR, VR headset, VR Camera, VR content, VR platform. Samsung – KRX: 005930 – GearVR (partnership with Oculus VR) and 360 Camera. Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR Content & Game Engine. Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR content. Public Companies involved in VR. Unconfirmed.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico has been a very smart company, and all these years it has been able to evolve from the mediocre Pico Neo 1, to the interesting Pico Neo 2, to arrive at the Pico Neo 3, that on paper, looks like a Chinese version of the Oculus Quest 2 , and it seems to have all the features to compete properly with this device. But is it really that good?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This week, a new report by The Information seems to confirm that things are not going that well: notwithstanding the CEO Rony Abovitz being sure to sell 100,000 headsets the first year of launch (he thought about 1 million, but then executives made him lower the estimate), actually the company may have sold only 6,000.

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