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APRIL 24, 2017

Facebook’s Oculus VR team is announcing a new bundle for its Oculus Rift VR system. With it, customers can get a Rift headset, the Oculus Touch controllers, an ASUS VivoX PC , and four free games for the total price of $1300. The bundle is only available for a limited time and expires on June 13.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Available on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the update lets you explore Street View imagery from 85 countries right within Earth VR, making it easier than ever to experience the world as it really is. You can now fly down closer to street level, check your controller to see if Street View is available, and enter an immersive 360° photo.

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MAY 25, 2017

award for Immersive Reality Game of the Year and the fastest-selling game for Oculus Touch, SUPERHOT VR is available today for VIVE. SUPERHOT VR for VIVE comes complete with the recent FOREVER update, expanding the experience even further with new modes, challenges, and endgame content. Winner of the D.I.C.E. regenerating health bars.

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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. CONTROL VR WITH YOUR THOUGHTS. … well, sort of. You still have to set it up).

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MARCH 15, 2017

The camera has been a favorite for journalists in the field from news organizations we’ve talked to like Vice, The New York Times, and RYOT. There is also a trigger that will let you select, grab, take aim, and fire.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

The headset comes with a controller and launches in November for $79. The new device was revealed at the Made By Google conference in San Francisco today. View also comes with a motion controller that’s closer in function to Nintendo’s Wii remote than it is an Oculus Touch or HTC Vive controller.

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APRIL 7, 2018

Yelena Rachitsky is an executive producer of experiences at Oculus, and she’s been inspired by how interactive narratives have allowed her to feel like a participant who is more engaged, more present, and more alive. The future of VR storytelling will be immersive and interactive. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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JULY 2, 2019

Experiences making their world-debut include A Kite’s Tale by Walt Disney Animation Studios (VR Theatre), Undersea by Magic Leap (Immersive Pavilion), II Divino: Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling in VR by Epic Games, and Mary and the Monster: Chapter One by Parallux and New York University’s Future Reality Lab. . “If City of Sparkles.

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MARCH 29, 2024

In a recent report from the New York Times, Meta revealed new AI features for its smart glasses product – that Meta developed using Ray Ban frames – following the firm’s promise of broader virtual assistant tools for the product range at last year’s Connect event.

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MARCH 21, 2017

Slapping on a PlayStation VR headset, with Move Motion controllers in hand, all I really hoped for was some Proton Pack action. The adventure began outside the firehouse in the streets of New York where Mooglie, voiced by Patton Oswalt, volunteers to be my guide.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Unplugged is like Guitar Hero, although instead of picking up a dedicated peripheral and jamming away, it relies on Quest’s native hand-tracking to let you shred on an air guitar without controllers. Unplugged Details: Available On: Oculus Quest (coming soon to PC VR). Release Date: October 21st, 2021.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Rounds take place periodically, although avatars are named randomly currently, so it may be difficult to find and make friends in between matches, which is represented as a 3D render of Times Square in New York City.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Rematch Studios , the Karachi, Pakistan-based developers, unveiled Area of Darkness today, saying that it should be launching on Steam soon for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. Image courtesy Rematch Studios. ” Image courtesy Rematch Studios.

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APRIL 11, 2019

Today during a press conference in New York, Acer announced an upgraded version of its OJO Windows VR headset which includes a higher resolution, open-ear audio, and an IPD adjustment. Acer today introduced ‘ ConceptD ‘ a new high-end product series from the company which is aimed at professional creators.

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JULY 15, 2018

Competing nominees include “Talk To The Reasons” inspired by Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, “Ecoin” based on USA’s Mr. Robot, Silicon Valley’s “Interactive World: Not Hotdog, VR & Twitter-Powered Pizza Drones,” and Westworld’s “Chaos Takes Control Interactive Experience” from HBO.

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APRIL 11, 2017

million, Logon Olson joins Google, and Anna Sweet leaves Oculus. GeoCV, a New York-based 3D capture startup, secured $1.8 million in seed investment from Runa Capital, Emery Capital, and several New York angel investors. Continuing the Oculus wave of departs, Anna Sweet joins Palmer Luckey in leaving Facebook.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Once users put on the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset depending on the location, they are instantly transported into a realistic work environment that features haptic feedback on the controllers for maximum immersion.

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MAY 11, 2017

Both HP and Acer headsets feature LCD displays which are expected to be less expensive than the OLED displays used in Facebook’s Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive. Microsoft is also announcing Motion Controllers with full six degrees of freedom that will be offered as a bundle with the Acer headset later this year for around $400.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

HTC is the maker of the Vive VR headset , a monumental achievement in optics, controls and 3D positional tracking for VR. This is a VR installation put on by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Void in New York City. Dear Angelica was created using the new Oculus art program, Quill and the results are simply astonishing.

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It was a quite creative way to provide teleportation, but maybe a UX designer could have helped the artist in finding a better way of offering it , like the one used in Oculus First Hands. There are actually some interactions possible, so most probably the experience is not made as a video, even if most of the time, it is exactly like that.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Currently available for free with every new purchase of a Vive and now released on Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR, Job Simulator is a great example of what can be done with user-tracked VR. Thalmic Labs, the creator of the Myo gesture-control armband, is also listed under Consumer Tech. Currently, Schwartz and co.

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APRIL 4, 2017

That tells us practically nothing, though a report from VR Heads this week claimed that Daydream would not install on a S8 demo unit shown at Samsung’s reveal event in New York last week. Tagged with: gear vr , google , google daydream , samsung Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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MAY 25, 2016

Using the HTC Vive hand controllers, you can walk over to a shelf and pick up a VHS tape. Only in this virtual Netflix shop, the titles include more current content like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards. Surrounding you plastered on the walls are movie and Netlfix titles, just like in the old days.

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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. Some news on the metaverse. Try Party Pie.

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APRIL 27, 2017

At an event in New York City this morning Acer showed its latest tech offerings. Visually, the screen texture felt similar to the Oculus Rift. There were also some God-rays around white letters floating in black, similar to the Oculus Rift. And it provides quite a contrast to the simpler interfaces of Oculus or Vive.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Officially, only HTC Vive support is listed for the game right now, but we’ve reached out to developer Starbreeze Studios to ask after Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR support. That’s next Thursday, for those reaching for their diaries, and the film opens next Friday.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

As the release notes state, Oculus profiles will “evolve” into a new Meta Horizon profile, while ‘Friends’ will become ‘Followers’. News worth a mention. Logitech announces new audio accessory for Quest. Who wants can still connect his Meta account with a Facebook account for additional functionalities, though.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data. As the first company to offer such information, it means that Sony is not only happy with the figure, but likely confident that they’re well ahead of the competing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. If you have a Samsung Gear VR, you can now connect with your Facebook friends through Oculus Home. In the official words of the Oculus blog, this is “just the beginning of social VR.”. OCULUS CEO STEPS DOWN, WILL LEAD PC DIVISION.

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JUNE 26, 2016

If you’re one of the lucky winners, you get a cash prize, masterclasses with VR filmmaking pros, and travel to the Creators Awards ceremony in New York– because what is a competition without an awards ceremony? LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION.

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JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. Control software with your mind. A New (Virtual) Reality at The New York Times. Move in zero gravity using Oculus Touch controllers.

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JULY 7, 2019

One of the major complains are in the controllers, whose thumbsticks do not “click” when the stick is not in upright position (and some assistance guy from Valve even defined it as a feature, lol). Crackers could take complete control of the world the user is in, causing him psychological harm or injecting subliminal info into his mind.

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MARCH 11, 2017

The trip was standard fare as we hit New York, Quebec, and Montreal but eventually we went to Toronto to visit the Canadian National (CN) Tower. Even roller coasters and the element of lack of control were perceived as greater threats than just an exhilarating 45 seconds. I had to move with the two Vive controllers in tandem.

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MARCH 3, 2017

My adventure started as I entered a large green-lit cube where a lone Oculus Rift hung from the center on a rusty construction hook tied to some shanty rope. I donned the headset, took control of an Oculus Remote and was transported forward in time to a futuristic Borabora island resort that had long since been abandoned.

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MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. This initiative helped boost New York excursions by 190%. In the future, who knows how AR can affect the tourism industry?

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

The Khronos Group is an open consortium of hardware and software companies, including Epic Games, Google, Immersive Technology Alliance , Oculus, Intel, NVIDIA, Open Gaming Alliance , and Valve. Microsoft has also announced that it has started to work on supporting WebVR for Edge , the new browser for Windows 10. ” WebVR.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

The 360-degree experience was filmed by Practical Magic in cooperation with 20th Century Fox and New Regency. The theatrical activation will feature kiosks with Oculus Rift headsets powered by Alienware Aurora PCs using AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics cards. Here’s how they made it happen. That was hugely important to us. 2 and Jan.

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