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Shortening the Distance Between Family and Friends With Oculus Go

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end in divorce, with even higher divorce rates in Spain, Portugal, Hungary and Belgium. Staying in touch during the non-visitation days means phone calls, text messages, and video chats. The potential of Oculus Go doesn’t stop there either. The inexpensive VR headset is the latest way to help connect with loved ones.

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The Next VLC Media Player Update Will Include VR Support

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In November of 2016, VideoLan broadened its already stellar compatibility lineup with support for 360-degree content, including panorama, video, and audio. While speaking at FOSDEM 2019 in Belgium earlier this week, Jean Baptiste Kempf, President and Lead Developer of VIdeoLan, spoke in-depth regarding VLC 4.0. Now, with Update 4.0

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Spatial Beats: Snap, Niantic & Facebook

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This week, we look at Snap’s latest lens craze, Niantic’s next AR gaming title, new XR funding and more Facebook/Oculus acquisitions. Let’s dive in… E3, the big trade event for the video game industry, concluded this week. Hopefully not like the Slaughterbots in the infamous video above. Who’s next?

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

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I’m back from Belgium, where I took part in the nice Stereopsia event! Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

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Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.08): VR usage on Steam remains steady after Alyx, and much more!

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Looking at the hardware survey, it is also easy to spot that the headset gaining more market quotas in PC usage has been the Oculus Quest, which now represents more than 7% of the PCVR landscape. Image by Oculus). Oculus For Business may need some improvements. A new technology to make video presentations. More info.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

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More info (Quest 2 deal) More info (HP Reverb G2) More info (Star Wars Squadron) More info (Official blog post on how to watch Oculus Connect 6) More info (HTC Sales). At first, we had something bad happening: Meta shared on its social media an embarrassing video of Godzilla stepping into Wendy’s inside Horizon World. Image by Vuzix).

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