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Walmart Brings Tricked Out ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ VR Experience to Select Stores

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Walmart is continuing its onward journey to think outside of the big-box with the help of VR, this time bringing 50-foot tractor-trailers to their megalithic parking lots across the US to let shoppers go head-first into a VR experience for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

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VR Footwear Cybershoes Adds A Bunch Of New Games

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This includes such hits as Doom3Quest , Arizona Sunshine , Population: One , and Half-Life: Alyx just to name a few. . Compatible with SteamVR and Oculus headsets, Cybershoes allows you to physically walk and run in VR from a comfortable seated position. For more information on how to register for the tournament visit here.

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‘Oculus Home’ Update Brings New Improvements, Social Features & More to All Users

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Rift’s new system software, previously known as Rift Core 2.0 , is now rolling out to everyone, bringing with it a number of performance improvements, UI updates, and a more customizable Oculus Home area with support for up to eight people. SEE ALSO HTC Opens Its Viveport VR App Store to Oculus Rift Users. Rift Core 2.0

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‘Sense Arena’ is a VR Hockey Trainer That’s Being Adopted by NHL Teams

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Both the Goalie and Player versions of the system are sold as a complete package including an Oculus Quest 2, controller mounts for goalie gloves and hockey sticks, the Sense Arena software, and a case to store everything. You will learn how to fill the majority of the new when facing shots. Box Control. Shot Replay.

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How To Play SteamVR Vive Games With Oculus Touch and Rift

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How well do the Oculus Touch controllers work with SteamVR apps that are only designed with Vive in mind? Of those 800, all of them support the HTC Vive officially, whereas only 180 support the Oculus Rift. You can still get to Oculus Home by pressing the right-handed menu button, just like you would in any VR app through Home.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

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More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Road To VR) More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Upload VR) Valve releases its own version of Quest Link Out of the blue, Valve has launched Steam Link, which basically is… Oculus Air Link offered directly by SteamVR. Big kudos to them!

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Meta Teases Render Of Advanced 'Mirror Lake' Headset It Says Is "Practical To Build Now"

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The render, showing what the headset would look like being worn, was teased by Meta's Director of Display Systems Research Douglas Lanman during a talk titled "How to Pass the Visual Turing Test in AR/VR" given at The University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.