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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

He enthusiastically hammered home Oculus’s (and Facebook’s) next phase: great software experiences. Zuckerberg repeated numerous times throughout his presentation that VR/AR is the next computing platform, and rounding out the future-focused theme was Michael Abrash’s final predictions. Moscow-based VR/AR game developer Luden.io

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.25): Quest 2 Pro leaked, Facebook to change its name, and more!

The Ghost Howls

That said, let’s see what have been the most interesting pieces of AR and VR news of the week…. This week, the company has unveiled its form factor: it is an AR headset with the same shape as those little glasses to watch the opera when you are theater. Top news of the week. Image leaked from Oculus runtime).

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.02): Facebook acquires Beat Games, Valve gets the Index sold-out and is maybe working on Left4Dead VR, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Welcome back to The VR Week Peek, the place where you can find the most interesting AR/VR news of the week! A new forecast by IDC shows how 2020 will still be a transition year for AR and VR. This means that in 2020, AR and VR will still be used mostly in the enterprise sector, and mostly for training and maintenance.

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Augmented reality’s half-decade of stagnation

TechCrunch VR

When it finally launched its first product after years of delays, secrecy and hype, tech watchers balked at a device which failed to deliver on many of the claims made by the startup’s eccentric founder Rony Abovitz and instead made largely incremental gains over the competing Microsoft HoloLens which was unveiled years earlier.

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Oculus Deploys New Age Rating System for VR Content

Road to VR

IARC ratings are already used for all Google Daydream VR and Microsoft Hololens AR apps. Applying for age and content ratings for software across multiple regions can be tedious, but once the storefront is participating with the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC), the process is much simpler.

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