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Tencent Reportedly in Talks with Meta to Bring Quest 2 to China

Road to VR

Using headsets from Meta would provide Tencent with a ready-made hardware platform so it could focus on creating a game library and its own software, but more importantly it could soon counter ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, the VR headset creator most recently known for its Quest 2 competitor, Pico 4.

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Immerse Raises $1.5M to Expand Its VR English Language Classes Worldwide

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million Series A investment, something the company says will allow them to both expand the current product to Oculus Quest 2, and set up partnerships with institutions in Spain, South America, and other markets affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Immerse , a language learning startup focusing on teaching English in VR, has secured a $1.5

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Emerging Trends in the VR Gaming Industry?—?2023

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Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement. If you’re wondering what the Oculus Rift is, it’s a solid step into VR gaming and its immersive nature.

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Here Are The Nominees For The 2021 VR Awards

VRScout

FundamentalVR partnership with Novartis, delivering groundbreaking Ocular Gene Therapy VR Simulation Untold Games – Daily- act software: VR serious game for the evaluation and rehabilitation of the neuropsychological patients. VR EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE YEAR. & Eminent Air (Thailand) Co., & Eminent Air (Thailand) Co.,

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VRChat Is Now Available On Pico 4

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0:00 / 0:17 1× The platform arrived as a surprising launch title for the original Oculus Quest in 2019, and for Android phones earlier this year. Pico 4 also supports hand tracking, and ByteDance has been improving it with software updates recently, but VRChat on Pico 4 requires controllers for now.

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VRARA Holds Annual Education Forum

ARPost

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. In the same discussion (and other discussions throughout the day) Facebook’s ownership of Oculus also came up as a privacy concern.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A Facebook operating system, pervasive of all devices (Portal, Quest, Smartwatch, etc…) could give Facebook the same power as Apple: having full control of hardware and software , with also complete interoperability. Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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