XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

In the construction industry, professionals can work together on digital twins of schematics, blueprints, and products in a shared VR world. Meta is also the company behind Oculus, one of the more accessible and affordable VR headsets on the market.

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VRScout

MARCH 31, 2018

That being said, let’s take a look at five of the more prominent VR releases for March: Apex Construct (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality). Apex Construct is available now for all major headsets via SteamVR. Ark Park ( HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PSVR, Windows Mixed Reality).

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JANUARY 16, 2017

The annual Sundance Film Festival has traditionally served as Oculus’ stomping grounds for showing off VR movie content. The star of the show will likely be the suitably-titled Mindshow , a cartoon-ish character animation and storytelling tool from LA-based company Visionary that made the rounds at CES 2017 earlier in the month too.

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VRScout

AUGUST 27, 2020

Gameplay is centered around actual tasks you’d expect to see at a residential construction site. I could see this game serving as a useful training tool, allowing those new to renovation the chance to log some hands-on time before setting foot in a potentially dangerous workzone. But more importantly, you’ll have a lot of fun.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Since its inception in the industry a couple of years ago, immersive tech quickly found an appropriate home in real estate and architecture, and proved itself to be one of the most valuable tools to communicate a property design. See Also: The Wild VR/AR Tool for Designers Unleashes the Power of Collaboration and Creativity.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. The Oculus Rift S headset. About the VR Awards.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Flagship products such as the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, and HTC VIVE Focus 3 and Flow devices have recently hit shelves, sparking interest in the emerging technology. In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. VR Collaboration.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2017

Today Google is launching Blocks for free for both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in effort to let VR headset owners easily create low-poly 3D objects in the time it takes you to come up with an idea. Google ‘Blocks’ on Oculus Store. Google ‘Blocks’ on Steam.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Founded by Gabe Paez, The Wild seeks to do what Google Docs does for collaborative word processing, but instead of fulfilling the role of an organizational tool, this app is meant to serve more creative purposes. . The Wild’s environments can also be exported for others to view without purchasing a seat. Image Credit: The Wild.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. … well, sort of. You still have to set it up). INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP. Alejandro G.

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MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. ” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei. San Francisco. San Francisco.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that the company announced last year. Today HTC is revealing the second batch of companies that will receive investments and mentorship from the program. Using Byond’s tools, VR applications can be easily created and published across all platforms.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Since the game is delivered through VR and desktop, you’re able to customize your experience by using the games tools to create the look of your character. As Game Master, you can spawn enemies, change the scenery, adjust the music, and set the time of day, allowing them to construct more interesting adventures for players.

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2017

Anyone who has used the HTC Vive on a regular basis will be familiar with Steam VR’s base interface, the ‘construct’ from where you can browse, buy and launch games immersively. 2) Find ‘SteamVR’ in your Library under ‘Tools’ 3) Right click and go to Properties.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Geospatially Sound 3D mapping’s evolutionary path was recently accelerated with a developer tool from Here Technologies.

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VRScout

MAY 6, 2019

The VR documentary Children Do Not Play War— directed by Fabiano Mixo in collaboration with Oculus VR for Good—looks at war in Uganda through the eyes of a young girl who is facing new challenges every day. VR is such a powerful tool.”. Mr. Buddha ( Project Creator : HTC Corporation, Lee Chung). Accused No.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). Specifications.

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JULY 21, 2017

To put it more simply, this tool allows anyone to create 3D objects from within a VR environment. It offers all the tools, shapes, textures and space you need to create something unique — using more conventional manipulation and visual editing techniques. Just don a 3D VR headset and get cracking. What’s So Special About It?

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Originally announced at last year’s F8 as an open source hardware platform and rendering pipeline for 3D 360 video for VR that anyone could construct or iterate on, Facebook is taking their new Surround360 reference designs in a different direction. Check out the gif below to see exactly what that means.

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2017

Procedural mesh destruction and construction underpins Decoder VR’s first title, Forestry , which just launched on Steam. In addition to this novel crafting system, the game has different chopping tools, hidden items and special powers to discover.

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VRScout

JUNE 4, 2020

On a more practical level, the hearing impaired could take advantage of the feelbelt’s haptics as a way to experience sounds while watching a movie, or on loud construction sites to deliver haptic patterns like morse code for communication. It took the Berlin-based company three months to develop their haptic belt.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Oculus Touch officially launches tomorrow and when it does it will make the Oculus Rift a more viable and powerful virtual reality platform than ever before. The Rift’s biggest competitor, the HTC Vive, was able to enjoy the better part of a year as the only PC-powered VR system to boast hand-tracked controllers.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2016

‘Step Into Rift’ had been Oculus’ mantra since the launch of the headset back at the end of March this year, but with the launch of Oculus’ dedicated motion controllers, Touch, players can finally ‘Reach Into Rift’ too. SEE ALSO Oculus Rift Review: Prologue to a New Reality. Oculus Touch is (finally) here.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Amazon Sumerian provides tools and resources that allows anyone to create and run augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and 3D applications with ease. Some of these features are: Editor: A web-based editor for constructing 3D scenes, importing assets, scripting interactions and special effects, with cross-platform publishing.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. The event featured 26 different companies ranging from game developers, enterprise applications, ease-of-use convenience tools, and a litany of other projects. Snobal – This company builds VR Tools for businesses.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Many of these “volunteers” were patients in mental hospitals and treatments included electroshock therapies, hallucinogenic narcotics, and a Freddy Krueger tool-chest of other brain altering machinations. Enter Construct Studio and their freshman VR title: The Price of Freedom — available now on Steam for the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g. If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC. 7invensun for eye tracking addons). The last paragraph of this point talks about VR videos.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I’ve also already reviewed it more than year ago, definining it as an ambitious project under construction. The tool lowers the barriers of creating high-quality interactive content: creators don’t need to deal with complicated tools like Unity, they can simply create interactive content drag and drop.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Available On: Steam ( HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , PC), PSVR (TBA). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift, Tested on HTC Vive. Enemies drop meat, and crafting items like collagen which are used in construction. Crafting guns and tools, Image captured by Road to VR. Seeking Dawn Details: Official Site.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

BISim’s technology portfolio encompasses desktop training, simulation host, image generation, terrain editing and management, AI, and software development tools. VBS4 is an easy-to-use, whole-earth virtual and constructive simulation. Today, we’ve grown to around 300 staff, about two-thirds of whom are software developers. .

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Horizon World is more or less what we all expect from it: a clone of RecRoom with intuitive and simple creation tools, that at the moment let you just add basic geometric shape and some logic. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. All of this impressed me, but there are two problems.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Video conferencing is an invaluable tool, but until now there has been no substitute for being physically present with your team, particularly when assessing complex objects, environments, schematics, and the like. SEE ALSO Intel Makes Multimillion Dollar Investment in VR Enterprise Developer WorldViz.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Grav|Lab , despite its Early Access status, might well be the surprise star of the Oculus Touch launch lineup. Available On: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive ( Oculus Home & Steam ). Available On: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive ( Oculus Home & Steam ). Reviewed on: Oculus Rift with Oculus Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Now if you use the Oculus Developer Hub on your PC, you can record a video on Quest with the settings you want, including stereoscopic view and 4K resolution. We are still waiting for in-device tools, though. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. After many promises, we are seeing the first step in this sense.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2022

They offered several small amounts of cash, some dubious cryptocurrency, and parcels of virtual land in two different metaverses, but nothing that would fund the pre-production work and production tooling / assembly setup. Image by Rob Cole). So what was this new idea then? Just bolt it in, and connect that cable!

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2019

In all the time I’ve spent mucking around in Oculus Home and Rec Room— both physics-based sandbox environments that promise to let me do as I please in VR—I always felt like there was a significant time gap involved with creating anything of mechanical or creative depth. Available On: Steam , Oculus ( Rift ). Developer: Metanaut.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus.

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