ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

These and other immersive experience showcases and conferences have largely gone digital by creating their own custom virtual worlds. They have also allowed people to attend from anywhere in the world without the concern for travel and lodgings. For example, LFF Expanded required an Oculus headset.

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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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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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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey, circa 2012 | Photo courtesy Oculus. Palmer Luckey: I also think so.

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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

JUNE 24, 2021

million from HTC to expand Engage , the company’s platform which allows educators and enterprise customers to create bespoke VR experiences for both small and large format events across a variety of devices, including SteamVR headsets, Oculus Quest, Vive Focus Plus, and Pico headsets. In May 2020, VR Education secured $3.3

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2016

Physically moving your body around to move through the virtual world is a great way to enhance immersion, but it can be potentially dangerous if users lose a sense of their real world surroundings. As it turns out, Oculus has had a boundary system in the works for some time.

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AR Insider

MAY 31, 2021

Since it features no computational unit and no battery, it can be smaller and lighter than “shoebox” headsets like the Oculus Quest. The Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference begins June 7th. This is its second year virtual following a surprisingly strong online conference last spring, which had 14,000 attendees.

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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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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. “I

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Oculus has confirmed work on a VR boundary system which they’re calling Guardian. The system will launch this week with the Oculus PC SDK 1.8 It’s an obvious, if well executed system, and likely very similar to what Oculus plans to employ. Dead & Buried’ gets you moving.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 26, 2022

Meta is launching its next VR headset this October at the company’s Connect conference. He said that the new VR headset, a sequel to the popular Oculus 2, will focus on “social presence,” with features like eye-tracking and face-tracking.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. The conference included hundreds of sessions, but we’re mainly here for those that particularly touched on mixed reality – which is enough.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either. Image by Meta). News worth a mention.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 3, 2017

If you’ve ever attended a meetup, film festival or conference with a heavy focus on VR, you’ve probably encountered the lines; they can be awful. Attendees spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to attend these events often to find themselves standing in line to visit some of the newest and most in-demand virtual worlds.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. The conference included hundreds of sessions, but we’re mainly here for those that particularly touched on mixed reality – which is enough.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 10, 2023

While Roblox is already compatible with various VR headsets , including Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, gamers currently need to connect their PC to a VR headset to play. The virtual world gaming platform isn’t available as a Quest game. Meta will release a new consumer-grade VR headset next year.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

Sony’s E3 press conference saw a rush of reveals coming to the company’s PlayStation 4 headset PSVR, including a full release of Skyrim VR coming in November and a list of VR exclusives soon to follow. Reviewing on Oculus Rift with Touch, we rated Superhot VR a solid 9.1/10. Every pull of the trigger counts.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

We really wanted this to be something that would make it easy to access your virtual world,” spoke Drew Bamford, VP of Vive Creative Labs, during the press conference. The strange-looking headset features four separate cameras and a pair of motion controllers baring a slight resemblance to the Oculus Touch system.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This DJ’s virtual world will take your breath away. During the first day of VR On The Lot , a virtual reality industry conference at Paramount Pictures Studios, Sony Music unveiled a new VR experience from superstar Norwegian DJ Kygo. Music is the underlying force that drives the visuals.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. Walmart seems to have leaked the price of the upcoming Oculus Quest S.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Facebook, parent company of Oculus, is beginning to flex its virtual reality arm. Back when Facebook bought Oculus in 2014 for $2 billion, people were… confused. That’s the answer Facebook wants to find out before its competitors, and the reason they dropped $2 billion on Oculus.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Prior to launch the first consumer Rift headset, Oculus had a long history of showing prototypes and development kits. Following the launch of the Rift, Oculus kept their R&D efforts on future PC headsets mostly secretive. Oculus Santa Cruz. image courtesy Oculus.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 29, 2021

Strange eyes look from high points and serve as a unifying aesthetic to the strange world. Who made this strange, virtual, world? However, the conference organizers decided to pivot to a digital format and that was the beginning of SXSW Online 2021. This world also contains the Texas State Capitol building and the river.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Vive Demo on Stage. Metal for VR. Photo courtesy TIME.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

As usual, Microsoft is firing first with its press conference this E3, but it’s doing so even earlier than anticipated. It’s surprisingly early announcement of a press conference date indicates that this is going to be a significant showing for the company. The picture of project Scorpio is a pretty good indicator, too.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. The problem of moderation inside virtual worlds. Other relevant news. Image by Google).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. The guy, which goes under the nickname of HYPEX, is known to be a reliable leaker for Fortnite, so it is quite sure that there are now references to Oculus in the Fortnite code. There are hints about Fortnite coming to Quest.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

But now we are in the time of VR, where anything is possible and whatever you want to create or do can all probably be done in a virtual world. One team at a Netflix’s Hack Day, created just that, with their concept of a Netflix video rental store in virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. If you are into blockchain and virtual worlds, the game jam by Decentraland may interest you.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It’s an immersive virtual world that includes all types of content, data, scores, stats, along with other ways for fans to experience the game.”. The NBA on TNT VR app will also be a part of the playoff games, through the 2018 Western Conference Finals. It’s different,” he said. Tuesday, April 10 – Boston @ Washington.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He spoke at today’s Facebook Connect , the company’s virtual reality and augmented reality conference. The three main VR platforms will start with Horizon Home, which are going to be personal rooms, the starting areas for Oculus users. You can watch a video about Horizon Worlds here.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 3, 2020

While the cancellation of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) hasn’t been the best news for the industry, virtual reality (VR) fans have still got plenty to look forward to this month, with Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx only a few short weeks away. Of course, Continuous locomotion has a downside.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Oculus and OTOY may have achieved a breakthrough in social VR functionality. VR headset owners should soon be able to share a variety of environments and Web-based content with one another in virtual reality. In March, Oculus added a friend list and trivia game so you could find people you know online and connect in a fun setting.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The situation looks uncertain, and probably we will hear about Magic Leap’s plans at the next LEAP Conference. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Image by Oculus). Other relevant news. Who knows…. News worth a mention.

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