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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The first ever Develop:VR conference debuts in London tomorrow, December 1st. Produced by the same company responsible for the popular Develop:Brighton conference, Develop:VR is drawing top VR creatives from across the UK to share insights learned from the rapidly evolving virtual reality landscape.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

Originally announced at the Oculus Connect developer’s conference (OC3), Oculus showed us what VR with friends could look across their platform with Rooms and Parties. For Oculus, the first wave of VR experiences were “all about the magic of presence” and the “immersive sense of actually being inside a virtual space.”

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2020

At a conference earlier this year, the Lab’s Director of Display Systems Research said the latest system is “almost ready for primetime,” and also detailed the Lab’s research into HDR (high-dynamic range) and pupil-steering displays for XR headsets. Technological Readiness.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Oculus introduced Avatars and social Rooms with friends. During Oculus’ developer conference keynote, Mark Zuckerberg introduced us to Facebook’s vision of “building great software experiences” that are social with Oculus. Oculus Avatars. Oculus Parties and Rooms.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look at how Facebook’s money is funding battles on all fronts of the industry’s increasingly competitive landscape. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Old Enemies – HTC.

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VRWorld

APRIL 4, 2017

With the conference being over a month away, NVIDIA sent out a press release announcing the conference. The conference starts on Monday, May 8th, and lasts until Thursday, May 11th. This year, NVIDIA reshuffled the conference format in a bid to ensure continuous coverage of the conference.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

For years the school has prided itself in its ability to progress with the times, especially in its Film & Media Master of Arts program which currently features the United States most diverse graduate group across gender, race and ethnicity. Register here to join in on the action this weekend.

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JULY 16, 2019

Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? This year, new standalone headsets from Oculus and Vive debuted. Creating new standalone headsets make sharing VR a social experience, which can aid in training and group activities. Do you follow all the latest tech trends?

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2018

More than just the latest in a long line of niche gadgets, Oculus Go represents the linchpin of Facebook’s lofty goal of putting one billion people into virtual reality. serves as an Analyst at Greenlight Insights in the Devices Group. SEE ALSO Oculus Go Review: Standalone VR Priced for the Masses. Guest Article by J.C.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Microsoft today revealed it hired Liz Hamren from Oculus to head up marketing for mixed reality as the company begins to build out its efforts beyond HoloLens into a broad range of devices including VR headsets. Hamren was the chief marketing officer at Oculus and joins Microsoft as corporate vice president of mixed reality marketing.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Tonight Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Hugo Barra will become the new head of Facebook’s virtual reality efforts, which includes leading its Oculus team. Co-founder Brendan Iribe recently vacated his role as CEO of Oculus to lead a PC-focused VR group. to lead Team @oculus. It seems fitting.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. First of all, no one has ever heard about Deca before. Other relevant news.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

ILMxLab, Lucasfilm’s immersive media group, today announced Star Wars: Project Porg , an augmented reality “experiment” built for Magic Leap. Just ahead of this week’s Leap Con conference, ILMxLab has announced the Star Wars: Project Porg “experimental demo” for the headset.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Earlier today Ramiro Cardenas posted images in the ‘Oculus Quest 2’ Facebook group appearing to show Quest Pro packaging labelled ‘NOT FOR RESALE – ENGINEERING SAMPLE’ Cardenas claimed the boxes were left in a hotel. Connect, Meta’s annual AR/VR conference, is scheduled for October 11th.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

So I also followed the V2EC, the Vive Ecosystem Conference that happened on ENGAGE, and that represented the Chinese counterpart of Vivecon. Yes, it was at 3 am in my city, but I couldn’t resist attending the VEC conference in which I have always participated in the last 3 years. This is very interesting.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Jim Chabin, President of the Advanced Imaging and VR Societies, explained that the latest edition of the conference has expanded to match the explosive growth of immersive technologies as a whole. Discount tickets are available for Oculus Connect 4 attendees, all entertainment guild members, students (with ID), and seniors (62+).

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

In addition to the update this week, Spaces is on display at F8, Facebook's global developer conference. Be sure to tune in at [link] for the latest news about Facebook VR, Oculus and more from Facebook!* All of the posts in the Group will be available in Spaces. Join this group to be able to share Quillustrations yourself!

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We have also seen the emergence of all-in-one VR headsets , such as the Oculus Quest 2, mobile compatible headsets such as the VIVE Flow as well as peripheral PC headsets that maximize hardware capabilities such as the VIVE Pro 2. Going Wireless. Not restricted to specific hardware, anyone will be able to connect to the metaverse.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Virtual reality (VR) caught the imagination of a generation from its foundation stages at the end of the last century up through Meta’s acquisition of Oculus; now, VR in business is becoming a serious consideration for many international firms. There is a rise in consumer-grade headsets from firms like HTC, Meta, and Pico.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Every year, the Oculus Connect, later (sadly) renamed as Facebook Connect, is the biggest event about XR from Facebook. This year the conference will be held online for the second year in a row, but for sure will be a must-watch. You can now invite your Oculus friends to play with a web link. Join it to support these cool devs!

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MARCH 10, 2017

Last week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) is officially in the books. Many of the games we saw are several weeks or months away from release, so in the mean time, we’ve got our standard pool of new weekly Oculus Rift and Gear VR releases to sift through instead. New Oculus Home Releases. Price: $9.99 (Rift).

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APRIL 13, 2018

The two-day conference’s full slate of keynote speakers also include live performances. The world’s largest VR & AR conference is back again May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. There’s quite no conference like VRLA. A special announcement from Ricoh. VR/AR expert and futurist Charlie Fink.

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APRIL 15, 2020

It was the third of seven scheduled live webinars that VIVE announced as a way to share content in lieu of the canceled Game Developers Conference. While one of the rooms shown in Sapienza’s presentation featured lecture hall-style seating, most looked more like a conference room. Last week’s talk focused on VIVE’s hand tracking SDK.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

While hardware advancements such as the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift have solidified at-home VR as a viable option, those looking for next-level immersion will still find the most success with location-based VR installations. LOCATION-BASED VR. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus.

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JULY 6, 2023

Organising the time to work with a headset ahead of a conference to optimise a meeting workflow could significantly enhance the effectiveness of introducing immersive XR into a meeting procedure – “have effective meetings where the immersion isn’t just a novelty, it’s part of the engagement,” said Mark.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

At this point, however, Nick Whiting can’t be sure that’s how the game will be received, and he informs me that I’m the first person outside of the core Epic group he’s spoken to that has finished the game. Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room.

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JULY 31, 2019

Last month Oculus confirmed that its regular fall event Oculus Connect would be returning for 2019 in September, saying on the website that: “we hope you’ll join us to begin a new chapter of virtual and augmented reality.” Oculus for Business: Scalable, Professional, Secure.

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JUNE 26, 2017

With all the VR experiences we regularly come across at conferences, there’s always a good chance immersive technology is just being used as a marketing gimmick. Debuting for the first time at Vidcon, Nickelodeon invited attendees to jump into one of six networked Oculus Rift headsets and enter the world of SlimeZone in VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Dominic Brennan gets his hands on ESI Group’s latest iteration of IC.IDO , their automotive visualisation tool that uses CAD-accurate data to generate extremely realistic VR simulations which let you take apart (or fix) your own virtual car.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Alex Kipman, technical fellow of new device categories in the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, said in an interview Bolas “owns our mixed reality shell, period. Microsoft partner Acer is hosting a press conference in New York Thursday where Bolas is expected to speak about the company’s efforts in mixed reality.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Press conferences have been light on jaw dropping announcements and games are running a little thin on originality and inspiration. For the third straight year in a row EA made an embarrassingly non-committal nod to VR, only stating yet again that it was looking into the tech with a new R&D group. Just don’t mention it.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

To help grow and support the growing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industries, The Khronos Group and its affiliates have been working on the OpenXR standard since 2016. “The working group is excited to launch the 1.0 Today, the consortium has announced the launch of the 1.0

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There are many VR events, conferences, expos and film festivals worth attending, and we've handpicked the best ones with agenda & venue, as well as social media information attached. VR/AR/MR Conferences, Expos, Festivals & Summits SXSW (South by Southwest) - VR/AR Date (for VR/AR events only): March 10.

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JULY 3, 2017

Nadia Steer-Mobley, Principle Programme Manager of the Windows Devices Group said as much on-stage at WinHEC last month. She explained that the controllers revealed Microsoft’s Build Conference last May were a reference design and not, in fact, a product in itself. “I think this is an important distinction.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2022

It’s been the first time I worked on such an ambitious conference , so let me tell you something more about it and about the lessons I’ve learned in the process … especially for what concerns the differences between organizing physical and digital/VR events ! If you manage to make people come, that’s great!

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. He goes on to share that the success of the Quest 2 will fuel interest in the new Quest 3, which should will be released in 2023.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Anthony Steed is a professor in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. See Also: Oculus Shares 5 Key Ingredients for Presence in Virtual Reality. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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