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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

Now that the dust has settled on F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference, it’s time to look back and ask ourselves: what do those announcements actually mean for the end consumers? Leading up to F8, I wrote a piece highlighting five key predictions about what we’d discover at the conference. Augmented Reality. Impact on Consumers.

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This Blog Post Was Written by AI

Ryan Schultz

In the metaverse, people will be able to engage in a wide range of activities, from attending virtual concerts and sporting events, to participating in virtual conferences and meetings, to shopping and socializing with others. It could become a new platform for entertainment, communication, and commerce.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.28): PSVR 2 revealed, Meta working on AI and 5G, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I In Decentraland we had the first (to my knowledge) protest in the metaverse, with some people protesting during an event organized by Samsung. Learn more.

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Samsung Reveals New Gear VR With Controller

VRScout

Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung announced a brand-new Gear VR, powered by Oculus, and revealed the Gear VR Controller that lets you interact with VR games and experiences. The Samsung Gear VR with Controller will support both micro USB and USB Type-C port with a converter in-box.

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Top Enterprise Use Cases for Oculus Quest VR Headset

InstaVR

The Oculus Quest, in particular, is good for when you’re creating a “virtual environment” for the training to be conducted in. Besides costing less than a Samsung phone, the Oculus Quest is more stable, has longer battery life, and overheats less than the Gear VR phones).

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An amazing day at HTC Vive, trying SteamVR multiroom, Vive Wireless Adapter and Vive Focus gesture tracking

The Ghost Howls

I also started speculating with my mind how this can be useful not only to track Vive headsets, but also every headset onto which have been installed SteamVR Tracking v2 sensors (the ones of Triad Semiconductor), or Vive Trackers … so even a Samsung Gear VR with a Vive Tracker on could be tracked across a whole house.

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The 2016 Virtual Reality Headset Shopping Guide

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All of them have the same problem — they are limited in terms of how you interact with a virtual experience and by the quality of the phone’s hardware. The Gear VR was the first high quality mobile virtual reality viewer, with Daydream following the lead of Samsung and Oculus.