XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. Some of the leading companies like Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Lenovo, and Varjo Technologies, among others, have been leading global markets with their devices.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

update “one of the biggest updates […] made to the MOR ,” which includes new architecture, art, and some quality of life updates such as an improved avatar creation, wayfinding and navigation of the space. ” SEE ALSO 'Quill Theater' Brings Incredible Immersive Artwork & Stories to Quest. .”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

After roughly two years in early access, this one-of-a-kind VR art exhibit has finally opened its doors to the public, allowing those with PC VR headsets the chance to slip into VR and immersive themselves in a carefully-curated selection of multidimensional artwork that would be impossible to showcase at a brick-and-mortar gallery.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

NUMENA GmbH for “ SSI VR ,” an immersive training application to help surgeons avoid infections that can occur at the site of operations. Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. Bhd for “ TM One XR City: Immersive Opportunities.”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Its owners are not trying to be discreet—by design, the cyber-funky facade and neon-lit interior stand out against the gray and soft brown modern architecture of the notable neighborhood. She’s always felt profoundly connected to immersive technology from the start, seeing it as a tool for empathy, spirituality and storytelling.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 29, 2019

The aim of MIXR is to provide students with the knowledge required to engineer XR experiences, specializing such skills in four high-potential domains: design, architecture, fashion, and medicine. This brand new master’s degree has been created in response to Industry 4.0, Over 40 million people worldwide have downloaded these applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2018

Qualcomm says that XR1 is made for “high-quality” XR devices (low-end, like Oculus Go), a distinction they make against “premium” devices (high-end like Vive Focus). On that front, the company says that HTC, Vuzix, and Pico are already developing products based on XR1. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2017

It’s been a good week for fans of FORM : the game has made its way to the Oculus store (and received Rift support on Steam), and now the developers have confirmed work on a new VR project. This week the game also got proper Oculus Rift support on Steam and launched on the Oculus store, with a discount on both.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2017

The wildly popular puzzler The Talos Principle (2014) from Croteam is soon to be making its way to VR in a separate version, playable on SteamVR-compatible headsets; i.e. HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. And you know us, we like immersion.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

will see persistent server architecture arrive to ensure that no one will experience. The virtual world will add native NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) integration allowing users to place any NFT directly onto Somnium Land Parcels they own and explore them in full VR in headsets like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Valve Index.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2017

Microsoft’s Windows Holographic is the company’s immersive initiative built on foundations begun with their first foray into the augmented reality world with their HoloLens visor.

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Transporting you to a strange inner universe via an enigmatic black obelisk, you experience what it must feel like to make contact with a higher intelligence, with its intense interlocking geometric constructions and imposing, dream-like architecture— FORM is an unexpected delight for anyone looking for something truly out of the ordinary.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Varjo’s soon-to-launch headset catapults us a decade into the future in terms of what we’re actually able to see in immersive reality. It’s a Helsinki-based company (“varjo” is “shadow” in Finnish) that’s been in stealth until now, working to develop a 70 megapixel solution for XR (by comparison, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive run about 1.2

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

As you can see, it is a hybrid event, a bit like the just organized HTC event that was held simultaneously in Shanghai and on ENGAGE. You can use whatever device you have to join the experience, completely FOR FREE.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

But therein lies the problem: we’ve yet to see an experience that embodies an equal combination of all the features we want in an one immersive VR social app. There’s also live collaborative editing functionality as well as an extensive plugin architecture.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Immersive streaming service for live events NextVR has collaborated with the NBA for a number of years, offering NBA League Pass holders the chance to watch games in virtual reality (VR). “This season comes on the heels of our recent launch on Oculus Quest. .

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

I have anyway selected four news that can be relevant for you: NVIDIA has announced a new GPU architecture, called Hopper, that represents the evolution of Ampere. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. A genius has found a smart way to cover the Oculus Home button on Quest controllers for public demos.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

The wall in front of me shifts and transforms as I’m seemingly immersed into a great white void before me. I look skyward and close my eyes inside the Oculus Rift I’m wearing, reaching up instinctively with my hands, now holding Oculus Touch controllers, to shield my eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2016

billion PCs worldwide, only 13 million (just 1%) this year will have the graphics power needed to run high end virtual reality like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Further, the company found that cost is the leading factor preventing adoption.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 10, 2016

With VR, that adoption is even more important as digital immersion can be overwhelming. Oculus and HTC are both promising numerous experiences that will push those boundaries, such as Top 7 games from Oculus Connect 3 conference. Nowadays, Oculus launched a new technology call Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Available On: Steam (Oculus Rift & HTC Vive). Reviewed On: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift. Although technically not finished, this VR experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive offers a lot more than you might expect and leaves a lasting impression of its strange, alien world. Immersion.

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InstaVR

AUGUST 4, 2019

Since launching in early 2016, over 50,000 companies have created over 300,000 immersive 360-degree applications for iOS, Android, Web, Gear VR, Google Daydream, HTC Vive, and Oculus Go and Rift headsets. InstaVR requires no prior VR experience and no specialized engineering knowledge.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Today marks the launch of Exemplar 2, the second generation of our high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. See Road to VR’s guides to supersampling on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.). Exemplar 2 Ultimate is Road to VR’s internal test bench for VR reviews and benchmarking.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2016

Today we’re are pleased to announce Exemplar 2, the second generation of our high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. See Road to VR’s guides to supersampling on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.).

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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. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 20, 2017

You place your gadget on and escape into a digital venue – the racetrack and its surroundings with carefully rendered city architecture. Such experience allows fans to participate in live events in a way that’s more immersive and personalized as ever before.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. We don’t really have any software to show on it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For us here at UploadVR, what we care most about is the immersive medium of virtual reality. And since the GPU is powered by AMD’s ‘Polaris’ architecture, it’s actually increased to 4.2 It won’t ever approach the same level of detail possible on a high-end gaming PC powering an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive owners will have the extra benefit of experiencing Lantern in VR. Enjoy four beautiful East Asian-inspired worlds, each with a different theme, nature and architecture. The whole family can enjoy its landscapes, rich with colors and ambient East Asian Soundtrack.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

This also ties into the fact that, unlike its competitors who have been quick to embrace mobile VR, Linden Lab opted to restrict Sansar to working on tethered HMD’s such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStationVR. “I

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” How quickly and easily you can become immersed. We had good participation.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” How quickly and easily you can become immersed. We had good participation.

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