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JUNE 28, 2017

When the Oculus Touch controllers launched on December 6th, 2016, there were over 50 titles available on the Oculus Home store ready to take advantage of the input method. Luckily, the controllers were worth the wait and are easily the best commercially available motion controllers for VR we’ve seen yet.

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JULY 12, 2022

The latest Meta Quest software update adds more features to in-built fitness tracker Oculus Move, as well as improving the available options for parental supervision. After recent updates added smartphone support to Oculus Move , the in-built Quest fitness tracker will receive a new achievements feature in v42.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

At Facebook Connect , Facebook/Meta announced that Oculus Quest was getting a new runtime update, the v34, bringing with it very interesting features to the Quest 2. I have also made a video version of this article, where you can see everything I saw when I had Space Sense activated! What is Space Sense. Thank you!).

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Oculus Quest is getting lots of cool updates in these weeks , and after the Oculus Link that lets you use the Quest as a PC VR headset, now we have also the possibility to use our bare hands to control the UI of the device. How to enable hands tracking on Oculus Quest – video tutorial.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Today at Facebook Connect the company formally revealed Oculus Quest 2, its latest and greatest standalone VR headset. In this article we’ll outline the major details of the headset, but you may also want to dive right into our full Quest 2 review. Controller Battery Life. Resolution (per-eye). 1,832 × 1,920 LCD. Refresh Rate.

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MARCH 21, 2021

Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. One month after the reveal of a “next-gen VR headset for the Playstation” (whose name is not known, but I guess it will be PSVR2), Sony has revealed one important detail of its new VR system: the controllers. The controllers will be given to selected developers very soon.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel. In this article, I want to share some lessons I learned on how to stay on track when bootstrapping your first VR game. Cubism originally used every button on the controller and the onboarding tutorial would walk users though each one. Prototype & Playtest as Soon as Possible.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Today I want to propose you a quick solution for one big problem of the Vive Focus apps: the controller pairing popup always appearing in front of your eyes. If you don’t do it, the controller becomes simply unusable, because there is no relation between what you are pointing at physically and what you are aiming virtually.

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MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Kids who weren't born when he made that decision can now wear , with parental controls, a $500 wireless all-in-one headset with markerless inside-out tracking, precise 6DoF controllers, hand tracking, and mixed reality.

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JULY 10, 2017

Oculus is giving the Rift & Touch their biggest discount yet for a six week-long sale. 400 will get you both the Rift headset and the Touch controllers, and a slew of bundled content. At the start of 2017, the Oculus Rift + Touch controllers cost $800, the same as the HTC Vive. Xbox One Controller (with adapter).

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

HTC is soon launching a new VR headset without controllers and their own metaverse called “Viveport Verse”. But latest leaks testify that HTC is launching a new VR headset without controllers at all. More about this later in the article. Facebook had already tried a similar experiment with their Oculus Go. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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APRIL 5, 2024

Before we start, let me tell you just a few caveats about this article: What I did was a prototype , so the solutions I’ve found are not optimized. I removed the Main Camera from the scene, then I selected the menu voice Oculus-> Tools -> Building Blocks and added the camera rig and the passthrough to my project.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Yesterday Oculus started rolling out the firmware update for the Oculus Quest with the big updates announced at Oculus Connect 6 , that is 3 DOF mode and Passthrough+. Watch it here: If instead you prefer a textual description, keep reading and I will tell you the same things (and even more) in the remainder of this article.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity – Video Tutorial.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Last week, I published my post about the latest update of Oculus Quest that provides new interesting features like Passthrough+ and 3 DOF mode. How to update your Oculus Quest (video tutorial). Here I am again with another shiny video tutorial, this time teaching you how to update your Oculus Quest. Automatic update.

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JUNE 21, 2018

One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. Today, a year after the last update, we have new info about Knuckles controllers.

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APRIL 21, 2017

Oculus has provided an unreleased build of the Quill VR paint app to an artist to experiment with animation features. Oculus Story Studio, the company’s VR film division, built Quill initially as an internal tool for creating the VR film Dear Angelica. We’ve reached out to Oculus for comment.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

and make it work with Oculus Quest , Vive Focus+ and all other Vive Wave standalone devices… plus all PC SteamVR-compatible headsets! I made a video about how to develop an Oculus+Wave+SteamVR compatible Cube application in Unity , and you can find it here below! Add Oculus Support. Isn’t it cool?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Yesterday I was reading the comments on Reddit regarding my post with the predictions for Oculus Connect 5 and the kind redditor /u/SilverWhite2 provided me the link to the latest available patent with the design of Santa Cruz. So, take this article with a grain of salt. Front view (Image by Oculus). Rear view (Image by Oculus).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Oculus Quest (formerly Santa Cruz) has been officially revealed, launching Spring 2019 for $400. Update (3:00 PM PT) : In a previous version of this article, it was stated that Oculus Quest and Oculus Go shared the same resolution. This is incorrect, and has been corrected in the body of the article.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For whatever reason you may be reading this article, I wish you a lot of happiness. A must-read article. In his article, he says that it is better than other headsets, but it still shows issues, like uneven white color across the display. Glad to have you here again. describes how they ported Puzzling Places to the Vision Pro.

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JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. If you already know the headset very well, and just want to read my considerations, go straight to the final part of this article. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In case you don’t know what VRidge is and you are too lazy to read my first article about it , I will explain it briefly to you here. It is simple: imagine that you have little money and can’t afford to buy a full VR rig, but you can only afford to buy a Samsung Gear VR or an Oculus Go , for instance. VRidge controller.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Editor’s Note: Valve has started shipping the prototype Knuckles controllers to select VR developers in limited quantities. We know that now with the Oculus Touch and the HTC Vive, but even when VR was simply a screen strapped to your head many felt that hands were the future.

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MAY 2, 2024

A few days ago, I was reading an interesting article by (the always great) Scott Hayden on Road To VR. I’ve found the statement correct, but the article let me also think about when and how this transition will happen. The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Lucky’s Tale (2016) was a launch title for the original Oculus Rift, and now the plucky little 3D platformer has surprise released exclusively on Oculus Quest 2 today. It launches on the Oculus Store for $20 today, coming exclusively to Quest 2 (re: not original Oculus Quest).

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Sanzaru Games has been working closely with Oculus Studios since the early days of the Oculus Rift. And while the studio has three other VR games to its name, none of them come close to the scale of Asgard’s Wrath —in fact, Oculus believes that the game is the largest VR production to date. A Toybox and a Sketch.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The reconstructed model also gives us a closer look at the headset’s Touch controllers, which have a noticeable inward slope in comparison to the flat button area in previous Touch designs. Like we’ve seen in previous leaks, the Touch controllers appear to house their own optical sensors, or depth sensors of some sort.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Next week, on September 26th-27th, Oculus will perform its annual showcase event: Oculus Connect , that has now arrived at its 5th edition. The latest event, the OC4 has been full of news and interesting information , both on Oculus products and VR in general and I think that this year won’t be different.

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MAY 2, 2019

Yesterday I detailed you what is the Oculus Rift S , while today I want to write you a recap about what is the Oculus Quest , the most awaited virtual reality headset of 2019. What Is the Oculus Quest? Oculus Quest is the first standalone 6 DOF virtual reality headset by Oculus. And with the Oculus Rift?

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Starting this spring, gamers can watch their own cities come to life in Cities: VR using Oculus Quest 2 (Meta Quest 2). Crafted with a range of tools and an easy-to-use control system, its precise and tactile feedback makes it a great entry point to the Skylines universe. See Also: 21 Most-Read ARPost Articles of 2021.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

MANUS creates gloves for both motion capture as well as for controlling sensitive VR applications. The most recent MANUS product is the SteamVR tracker for precise gesture controls and motion capture. “As These include hand-held controllers, hand tracking devices for use with AR glasses, and the ever awe-inducing Finch Ring.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Valve’s monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out again, and it appears HTC Vive is holding firm ground on the platform after Oculus Rift took majority market share in March as the most popular VR headset on Steam. There’s still a contingent of diehard Oculus DK2 owners still playing through Steam. tracking standard.

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JULY 22, 2020

In June, Oculus announced that it would no longer carry Go. It may not seem like it, but it’s been over two years since Oculus launched the Go. The model was more affordable than just about anything out there but also had more limited memory and controls. Oculus has since made good on its promise. Pico G2 4K Enterprise.

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JUNE 1, 2017

On June 20th, action RPG The Mage’s Tale will launch on the Oculus Store. Announced at GDC 2017 as one of several pieces of ‘high profile content’ for the Oculus platform, The Mage’s Tale is inXile Entertainment’s first major project built from the ground-up for VR, set in the world of classic fantasy RPG The Bard’s Tale.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Oculus is today launching their ‘Expressive Avatars’ update on Rift and mobile VR; it’s a significant step up in realism thanks to a few additions including cleverly simulated eye models, lipsync, and even microexpressions. Oculus previously used eye wear to avoid off-putting stares, Image courtesy Oculus.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vacation Simulator launched in 2019 and, over a year later in late 2020, got controller-free hand tracking support on Quest. Vacation Simulator Adds Experimental Quest Hand Tracking Support Owlchemy Labs added experimental hand tracking support to Vacation Simulator on Oculus Quest. The controllers are a barrier.

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