XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

With Extended Reality technology, training professionals can deliver incredible experiences to students all over the globe, without the risks or resource requirements of traditional education. Meta (Oculus). The company offers state-of-the-art technology to those interested in using Augmented Reality to empower and inspire users.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2022

At the connect event last year, Facebook officially rebranded as Meta, diverting the company’s vision from the social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to the Oculus brand of virtual reality (VR) hardware. Refocusing Hardware Ambitions. Instead, Meta is preserving the hardware for developers only.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Back in May, the Washington Post reported a significant proportion of Quest users were letting the headset gather dust after just a few weeks. I haven’t been this excited about a headset since the Oculus Rift back in 2016. But the market has not expanded in the way Meta clearly hoped.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Virtual reality and its virtual cousin augmented reality are big business nowadays. Oculus, one of the biggest names in VR, refers to this in its Health and Safety manual. The future of reality. For example, Otolith Labs, of Washington DC, is developing a prototype device that sits behind the VR user’s ear.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Rezzil Secures $2.75M Investment for Oculus Sports Training App “Player 22. ” INMO, another Chinese augmented reality company, puts new AR glasses on Indiegogo. Facebook Finally Opens Oculus Quest Passthrough Feature to Developers. From the Washington Post. Virtual Reality Is the Rich White Kid of Technology.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

TM Roh, Samsung’s president and head of mobile experiences, didn’t reveal any more than what was said on stage, namely the existence of the partnership itself, however speaking to The Washington Post he announced the companies are “getting there,” and that the XR device was “not too far away.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Remember that Oculus is going to release Infinite Office and an AR SDK , so Valve had better replying to this move. Google tried again to make its platform revive with the Mirage Solo , but even this headset has never been successful , and the HTC Vive Focus and the Oculus Quest took the standalone market in its place.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. And among these platforms onto which the game could be ported in the future, he has also mentioned the Oculus Quest. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Oculus Quest is putting pressure to the Chinese VR ecosystem. Oculus Touch protection systems are a thing. OpenXR slowly increases its adoption.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

Soon we won’t be able to imagine living life without devices that not just correct our vision but add new virtual and augmented reality capabilities to them. Some people denigrated early efforts, like the VR headsets that HTC and Oculus produced, as a fad, comparing it to the Segway or earlier 3DTV attempts.

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VRScout

MARCH 15, 2021

As reported by The Washington Post , operators-in-training can interact with virtual duplicates of multimillion-dollar military satellites using an Oculus Quest headset, removing the need for conventional training simulators which can cost millions to build and deploy. Image Credit: SAIC. Image Credit: VRgineers.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

So training is the magical use case for virtual/augmented reality, and I think right across any enterprise, that is going to be more and more applicable. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. Well, not just Oculus; PlayStation with the PSVR, and very soon, Valve is coming out with their own headset next month.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

So training is the magical use case for virtual/augmented reality, and I think right across any enterprise, that is going to be more and more applicable. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. Well, not just Oculus; PlayStation with the PSVR, and very soon, Valve is coming out with their own headset next month.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

And something that I've been sharing in my presentations the last couple of months is -- and actually I just I read another statistic just from an article today that made me think about it again -- I had the chance to attend a conference in Washington in December called the Longevity Conference, and it's all about the aging community.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. So, is there…?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. So, is there…?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Mr. Graylin graduated top of his department with a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, where he had specialized in VR and AI over two decades ago under the tutelage of VR pioneer Tom Furness. He received his MS in computer science from MIT and MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. It was a disaster.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Mr. Graylin graduated top of his department with a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, where he had specialized in VR and AI over two decades ago under the tutelage of VR pioneer Tom Furness. He received his MS in computer science from MIT and MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. It was a disaster.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

VR had a great Christmas, and in particular, Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. A team of researchers from Princeton and the University of Washington created a new camera that captures good-quality images and measures in at only a half-millimeter. What to do with an Oculus Rift S in 2022 Funny link. Funny link. Funny link.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do expect augmented reality to be as pervasive as mobile is. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Where does this go from here? Bharat: So just the technology as a whole is still evolving, as I'm sure multiple guests have said this. It may take years. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do expect augmented reality to be as pervasive as mobile is. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Where does this go from here? Bharat: So just the technology as a whole is still evolving, as I'm sure multiple guests have said this. It may take years. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

We do expect augmented reality to be as pervasive as mobile is. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. Where does this go from here? Bharat: So just the technology as a whole is still evolving, as I'm sure multiple guests have said this. It may take years. Alan: Amazing.

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2022

The metaverse, defined here as the collective possibilities of virtual reality and augmented reality , is a relatively new part of the public consciousness. Despite this long history, it was Facebook’s purchase of Oculus in 2014 that signaled the beginning of what has been an eight-year gold rush for AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. That's what I worry about.

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