Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Facebook’s 2017 F8 developer conference has seven scheduled sessions dedicated to VR. The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. Crafting Compelling Narratives in VR.

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MAY 1, 2019

We learned that both the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S will be shipping to customers May 21st and that Viveport Infinity would be offering owners of either the recently-announced Valve Index or Oculus Rift S two free months of the popular game subscription service. Image Credit: Oculus. Image Credit: Oculus.

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JULY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. Kicking-off July 28th at the Los Angeles Convention Center, SIGGRAPH 2019 will feature the largest offering of immersive programming since the conference’s creation back in 1973. Image Credit: SIGGRAPH. Featured Image Credit: SIGGRAPH.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Facebook unveils new updates to its VR coworking platform as well as a new-and-improved Oculus for Business program. Facebook Connect 2021 continues to deliver, with the company today announcing several exciting business-related features for the Oculus Quest 2. Oculus for Business is currently in closed beta.

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MAY 4, 2018

Facebook’s Oculus Go is a great device made even better by easy access to your personal files. During Facebook’s recent F8 developers conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that everyone in attendance would be walking home with a brand new Oculus Go – the company’s brand new standalone VR headset. Well you can!

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A year after Facebook transformed to Meta at the event , the company is hosting its second Connect conference on October 11 this year. This headset, likely to be called the Oculus Pro, will have features like eye-tracking and face-tracking. The event might feature announcements geared toward virtual worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Last year I have attended the View Conference as a blogger , and I have been able to listen to super interesting talks (like the one of Jan Pinkava ) and to interview amazing people in the VR field (like John Gaeta and Donald Greenberg ). Being a speaker at the View Conference. The speaker badge of this View Conference.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook’s annual developer conference kicks-off September 16th exclusively online. Oculus Connect 7—now referred to as Facebook Connect —is just around the corner and rumors surrounding the annual developer conference are swirling! Here are our official predictions for Facebook Connect: NEW OCULUS HARDWARE.

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Peter Graham

JULY 16, 2019

The Wild is a collaboration platform for architecture and design teams which has just launched support for Oculus Quest. Adding support for Oculus Quest, designers don’t need to be next to their PC to view their work, either finding a quiet corner of the office as well as being able to take the device to customers.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Facebook’s developer conference, F8, gives a look at the future of technology and how Facebook “connects the world through products and innovation,” as stated on the event’s website. ” Presented by: Michael Antonov (Chief Software Architect) at Oculus, Andrew Mo (Product Manager) at Oculus.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Oculus is giving its mesmerizing VR painting tool Quill away for free VR has quite a bit to offer creative types in terms of building worlds and images that would be impossible otherwise. Oculus Story Studio is looking to redefine the concept of a digital art with their latest effort, Quill.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Following funding via COVID-related investments, the region gained the support required to kick off the VR immersive learning program, starting with just 50 Oculus Gos, before reaching its current hardware figure.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. Follow my guide on how to update your Oculus Go until you can select the “Cast” option).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Quill is Facebook’s first-party VR art tool. While users can view Quill artwork in the program itself and inside of Facebook Spaces , the company is hoping to unlock the artwork by making it viewable on Oculus Quest too. SEE ALSO Oculus Artist's 'Quill' Shorts Show the Incredible Potential of Illustrating & Animating in VR.

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VRScout

MAY 2, 2018

Zuckerberg uses his 2018 F8 conference to tease new AR functionality for its most popular apps. The mostly-annual F8 Developer Conference is a time when the company gathers creators and entrepreneurs dedicated to the Facebook platform in order to showcase its latest and greatest tools, products and secret new projects.

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MAY 4, 2017

The studio’s 50 staffers are encouraged to apply for new jobs within Oculus. The news was announced by Oculus Thursday afternoon in a blog post by Oculus VP of Content Jason Rubin. ” It’s unclear where this leaves Story Studio’s illustration tool Quill. .”

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

For years, Oculus – now part of Facebook Reality Labs – used the Oculus Connect conference to let the world know what it was up to. This year the remote conference, now called Facebook Connect, revealed a number of developments on popular topics of speculation including Quest 2 and anticipated AR glasses.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Oculus announced at Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, that they’ll be officially supporting WebVR through their new VR web browser codenamed Carmel. Oculus has listed a number of real-world examples on their WebVR page to give prospective devs an idea of what to build for the coming VR web.

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ARPost

MAY 24, 2023

It’s partially funded by Meta, but founders got in with Oculus co-founder Michael Antonov long before Facebook bought the company (and subsequently changed the name of both companies to “Meta”). The app supports a number of commonly used visualization tools, so work started on conventional software can be brought directly into VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2022

Lynch, known for the YouTube channel SadlyItsBradley , now alleges to have discussed the cloud PC VR streaming with someone who managed to gain access, and was able to remotely play a game of Asgard’s Wrath (2020) , an Oculus PC exclusive, on Quest 2.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook F8, the company’s annual developer conference, is currently in full swing on its second and final day. This hopefully also means we’re getting something Oculus promised as a feature back when Home was initially announced for the consumer Rift back in the summer of 2015: 360 video previews of games.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

The tool is available for Windows as part of the Substance 3D collection from Adobe. As the name suggests, 3D Modeler is a tool for sculpting and shaping 3D models. Before Adobe acquired and rebranded the software in 2019 , Modeler was owned by Meta (then Facebook) and known as Oculus Medium. available on PC with VR support.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. This time, West used the HTC Vive, having used the Oculus Rift with Touch controllers in previous demos. Finally, the pair debuted Tools, featuring VR-specific extensions for Unity.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have. We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. The day is finally upon us — the Oculus Touch launches tomorrow.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2020

Like many large-scale organizations, this was the first time that the VR/AR Association held their annual major conference online. Unfortunately, technical difficulties and a “decentralized” streaming format made the conference difficult to attend, let alone cover. This is definitely VR’s potential killer moment.

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MARCH 12, 2020

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) was due to take place next week in San Francisco with organisers cancelling the show last month. You’ll be able to tune in see updates and trailers from anticipated titles coming to Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift as well as special announcements from developers themselves.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

With that backdrop, the Games Developer Conference (GDC) is returning to San Francisco in March, including lots of AR & VR focus. You can see more about the conference here , and more details from the conference organizers below. There will be lots of networking and knowledge to gain.

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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. The platform was originally created by VIVE as a tool to solve internal communication needs. VIVE Sync Meeting Tools. Last week’s talk focused on VIVE’s hand tracking SDK.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

During the production period, we faced a pretty tough deadline: the client wanted to show the technology at an annual industry conference that was taking place in 2.5 Modeling Next, we created virtual copies of the tools and uniforms, so that all of them looked real in a virtual world. We did 3D modeling in Blender.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Facebook Connect is the company’s AR/VR developer conference that often plays host to product reveals, industry insights, and plenty of talks to get developers on the right path towards building for the company’s existent and upcoming XR hardware. Here’s the top-down skinny on what, when and where.

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2021

Today during the Microsoft Ignite developer conference, the company announced Mesh, a new cloud-based service which Microsoft says will streamline the creation of multi-user XR applications. Soon to be offered under Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing arm, Mesh is a foundation for building multi-user XR applications.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

During its annual Connect conference yesterday Meta announced a partnership with Adobe that will bring several of the company’s creative tools and programs to Quest 2 and Quest Pro. Zuckerberg also announced a partnership with Adobe to bring some of its apps and tools onto the Quest ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

This week at Google I/O, their annual conference focused on the press, analysts and developers, the company made two important XR announcements, the first an upgrade to mobile AR maps (Google Live Maps) and then a photorealistic volumetric telepresence system named Starline. The Oculus Go was launched under his watch.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2021

There are some platforms that this article isn’t going to discuss because they lack tools to make them truly valuable for industry. Like Hubs, this VR remote collaboration tool is best experienced on a headset but is hardware agnostic and runs on just about anything with a screen and space for the app download.

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