VRScout

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The show was directed by famous music video director M ark Romanek and employs a unique combination of practical effects and XR elements to deliver a captivating virtual experience unlike anything we’ve seen in Venues. “Foo Those who miss the show can watch a replay anytime in Venues’ “Always On” room or Oculus TV.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 12, 2017

First of all I want to thank everyone at Oculus and Facebook for allowing me to be part of an amazing opportunity. So many individuals to thank but I will start with Ebony Peay Ramirez-Program Manager, Diversity & Inclusion at Oculus VR. I was a bit down but decided to go to Oculus. wait they can. So Mote It Be.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2021

Beat Saber today launched its official Skrillex Music Pack on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift headsets. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Beat Saber is available now on Oculus Quest , Oculus Rift , SteamVR , and Playstation VR headsets for $29.99. To see it come to life is amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

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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ARVR

JUNE 10, 2022

After using oculus for Development, Playing games, socialising and for fitness. Games: The first thing I did in Oculus was to play the over hyped BeatSaber. Gaming in any VR would give you an immersive experience and oculus joins the list of one among. Oculus is worth the money for playing games. Unity-tutorial ?

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2020

Nate Mitchell, Oculus co-founder and former Head of VR Product at Facebook, has opened a new game studio called Mountaintop Studios. SEE ALSO Google Takes a Step Closer to Making Volumetric VR Video Streaming a Thing. Mitchell left Facebook back in August 2019, representing the final Oculus co-founder to leave the company.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In a series of videos uploaded to Thrust Vector’s YouTube channel earlier this week, Nagle can be seen piloting a light aircraft while wearing an Oculus Go headset as Sommer’s sits beside him as a safety pilot. The post Texan Pilots Use Oculus Go For In-Flight Navigational Guidance appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Rolling out over the course of the next month, v35 will impact everything from Horizon Workooms to the Oculus smartphone app. For those seeking a simple way to capture true mixed reality video without breaking the bank, Mobile Mixed Reality is a godsend. That said, the feature currently works on iOS devices only.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 29, 2021

According to a recent article by CNBC , the Oculus app was the #1 most downloaded app on Christmas Day, which means there are a lot of new Quest users out there. If you are one of those lucky new Quest owners, or if you already own an Oculus headset, do yourself a favor and check out Space Explorers: The ISS Experience “UNITE”.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2018

Oculus recently opened applications for its annual Launch Pad program, a developer mentorship that provides funding and resources to people from underrepresented backgrounds. Image courtesy Oculus. This will be Oculus’ third Launch Pad. Check out the full list of last year’s grant winners here.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you can essentially create a video that places you straight in the action—one that better communicates the immersion of a VR game than a simple first-person screen capture. image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Oculus today affirmed plans to launch the ‘Rift Core 2.0’ Oculus announced today on their official blog that the Rift Core 2.0 Oculus indicates this is for performance reasons. Image courtesy Oculus. The company also suggests updating your video drivers for optimal performance with the update.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In these days I have given a try to the Oculus Link , the amazing feature announced by Facebook at the Oculus Connect 6 that is able to transform the Oculus Quest into a tethered headset… let’s say an Oculus Rift Q. But is it good as people say? Is it really able to destroy completely the Rift S?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said. Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Oculus). The Oculus Quest is now one year old. We’ll see….

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2017

Facebook today announced new updates coming to their 360 streaming service including live 4k streaming support to VR headsets, image stabilization and a number of features that puts VR-ready 360 video more in line with the company’s standard streaming video service. Facebook donation button on a standard video.

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2017

Oculus recently published the first installment of their ‘Developer Perspectives’ video playlists, detailed on the developer blog. Over the coming weeks, Crytek says they they will publish some 40 videos exploring those experiments and the thinking behind them.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the end, the time has come: Oculus has officially revealed the name and the price of the Santa Cruz headset. Its name will be Oculus Quest and will cost $399. I followed today’s OC5 conference via Facebook streaming only for this moment and Oculus has not disappointed my expectations. ” and he has satisfied us.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2022

Developer Luboš V released a video showing off some of the hidden features that lurk within v37 of the Quest firmware. Check out the video below: The v37 update is now available on the Public Test Channel for Quest 2, however the features seen above aren’t accessible.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like. Facebook posted VR news without any teasers.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

VTime’s cross-platform social network vTime XR is now available on Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, offering standalone users a premium socialVR experience centered primarily around intimate group meet-ups. Chat with friends across multiple platforms via this intimate socialVR app.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

At Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Oculus today announced it’s both overhauling and rebranding React VR, the company’s open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences. Image courtesy Oculus. “That said, React VR has very real limitations.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Oculus Research, the VR and AR R&D division of the company, today announced a new display technology that they’re calling the “Focal Surface Display.” ” Oculus Research’s Focal Surface Display prototype | Photo courtesy Oculus. .” An accompanying blog post offers additional detail.

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VRScout

APRIL 15, 2021

Facebook today announced the launch of premium app subscriptions on the Oculus Quest platform. Tribe XR // Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. App subscriptions can be purchased directly through the Oculus Store via the Oculus app on your mobile device or straight from your Oculus Quest headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 10, 2017

Unsurprisingly, social giant and Oculus owner Facebook is leading the charge for new social VR sharing options including direct livestreaming to Facebook from a Samsung Gear VR. As the above video demonstrates, Livestream to Facebook for Gear VR will push out an up-to-the-minute first-person view of your VR experience.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2020

Built entirely in the Oculus Quill , the series kicks off with one of the most charming VR experiences you’ve probably ever seen. The first episode is called ‘The Multiverse Bakery’, and is now available on Oculus Quest via the Oculus TV app and Quill Theater on Rift. A second episode is said to arrive soon.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2020

Within , the immersive studio known for some of VR’s highest quality experiences, unveiled a new fitness app for Oculus Quest that aims to give you a fun, fast, and intuitive cardio workout in VR. Called Supernatural , the subscription-based app is said to launch on Quest April 23rd.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

Firefox Reality , Mozilla’s made-for-VR web browser, has been available on standalone devices for some time now, featuring support for Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HTC Vive Focus, and Pico standalones. Now Mozilla has brought its WebXR-capable browser to PC VR headsets with its new PC Preview version.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Announced at Disney fan expo D23 today, Oculus are teaming up with Marvel to bring a new Rift exclusive title which lets you play as one of “more than a dozen” characters from their comic book universe, with a little help from the Oculus Touch controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

I have written a little blog post about my participation there. On Reddit, I have also been able to watch the video of an indie developer showcasing its game Cradle Of Sins made with UE5, and another developer publishing a tutorial on how to get started with UE5 for PCVR. I can’t tell you the last one because it will be a surprise!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest gain PC VR market shares. The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). Oculus explains the logic behind its store curation policy. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be run under Meta Reality Labs, the company’s XR organization. At first the company was producing 360 VR video content, including some seminal 360 short films like Evolution of Verse and Clouds Over Sidra.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The company announced that Oculus will be backing out of GDC over similar concerns. Facebook’s decision to cancel F8 comes on the heels of news that Oculus would be backing out of this year’s Game Developers Conference over similar concerns. The company will instead make a series of digital announcements remotely.

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Upload VR

MARCH 7, 2024

In the Quest software v62 update that started rolling out in early February, Meta made a number of improvements to Quest Link (originally called Oculus Link), the built-in feature that lets Quest headsets act as a PC VR headset, either over a USB cable or through your home Wi-Fi network, known as Air Link.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Oculus in a blog post has announced that Quill , their VR illustration software used for Dear Angelica , is going to launch as a free beta with the launch of their Touch controllers next month. This adds yet another free application to the lineup Oculus has prepared.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2020

How to view your 3D scene in VR in Blender – Video. Here you are my usual video tutorial where I explain to you how to activate the VR view feature in Blender, with what devices it works and how it performs in action. It’s a very easy process, so the video is quite short. Oculus Rift. Prerequisites.

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