Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

Epic Games’ popular Unreal Engine has just received a major update with version 4.12 With the latest release release of Unreal Engine 4 (version 4.12) Epic have included a preview version of the VR Editor they first unveiled in February and more recently at GDC 2016. The post Unreal Engine 4.12 Elsewhere, UE4 4.12

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Mixed Reality Here is a course from the University of Michigan. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. This course from the University of Michigan focuses mainly on developing XR apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal — Developing AR/VR/MR/XR Apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal Skill 5? Virtual Reality MR i.e

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2019

Oculus Rift S doesn’t have a launch date yet, although it seems the most recent Oculus software update has brought along with it a few day-one essentials for prospective Rift S owners. We suspect the ‘Oculus First Steps’ tutorial will automatically follow after a user goes through the initial setup of their Rift S.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

Not everyone does or can, which is why remote, online courses are popular avenues for learning. This week virtual campus Axon Park has revealed it’ll be running a full semester course taught in virtual reality (VR). Prerequisites include 3D linear algebra, C++ and access to a VR ready PC and Oculus Rift/Rift S.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Epic Games’ Kim Libreri today took to the stage at Google’s I/O conference to announce Unreal Engine support for the newly announced Daydream Android VR platform, what’s more is that it’s available right now.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2018

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if the app passed minimum standards and a content review to determine it was a complete and polished experience. image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

AUGUST 28, 2018

Oculus will provide headsets and training to three new pilot locations alongside a fresh helping of educational VR content. Oculus Education continues its ongoing streak of generosity with the expansion of its educational pilot programs to Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle. BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN SCIENCE.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Of course, all of the various applications, programs and tools will require a base engine for creation, and that’s where Epic Games – and specifically its Unreal Engine – comes in. On the professional side, I’ve been blown away with the amount of progress we’ve been able to make with the VR Unreal Editor.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Already supported devices include Nintendo’s JoyCons for the Switch — which we previously speculated might make good controllers for VR — and Oculus’ own position-tracked VR controllers, Oculus Touch. Tagged with: haptic feedback , immersion , oculus touch.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Time Run – Race against the clock as you navigate various obstacle courses composed of rootops, abandoned offices, and more. This latest update comes in two forms: one for the Oculus Quest headsets and one for PC VR. Oculus Quest (as provided by Joy Way): New in-door locations for Arena Mode. Image Credit: Joy Way.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While similar to the Asynchronous Spacewarp tech available to Oculus PC apps, Meta says Application Spacewarp will produce even better results. Of course, Application Spacewarp itself needs some of the freed up compute time to do its work. Application Spacewarp Availability.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. When we started to show people [the Oculus Rift] in Hollywood, their question was ‘how do we get started?’…

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

What’s more, new programs, learning institutions, and courses are constantly emerging to help professionals refine their skills. In 2021, Red Bull even announced their commitment to helping develop Swiss Mixed Reality talent , so they could begin their adventure into the impending metaverse.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2021

Impulse Gear’s class-based team shooter is now available on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift. The goal, according to Impulse Gear, was to develop a game that stands out from the surplus of realistic shooters on Oculus and SteamVR headsets, resulting in one of the first true hero shooters developed from the ground up for VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Kilograph brings Michael Graves’ unrealized architectural designs to life in VR. Using an Oculus Rift/Rift S VR headset in combination with Leap Motion’s hand-tracking technology, you can teleport throughout different areas of the resort and use your own two hands to add color to interactive outlines of various buildings.

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ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

Since then he’s been independently working with creator platforms like Unity and Unreal. Of course, many aspects of the classic Iron Man suit are still complete science fiction – particularly the “nanobots” or whatever that showed up in Infinity War. Where do you expect the next great XR headset to come from?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

A couple of months ago surgical training specialist Precision OS hosted a worldwide virtual reality (VR) training course during the Global Spine Congress (GSC) helping to showcase its educational platform. developing countries. developing countries.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. Those wishing to receive a certificate at the end of the course can pay $29. Both are free to download and try.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive , an act that has caused outrage in the VR community. And are Oculus really doing anything wrong anyway? Who’s behind it?

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2017

As has been Epic Games’ style for many years, Robo Recall – built on the company’s Unreal Engine 4 – allows you to change the original game via the engine’s editor, giving you the tools you need to mod the title to your heart’s content. Check out the full tutorial over at the Unreal Engine site here.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Battles are admittedly much better suited for HTC Vive players, as Oculus Rift players will need a full 360 setup because the lack of directional controls such as snap-turn, or directional teleport.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Last year at Oculus Connect 2015, Epic revealed the Bullet Train tech demo for Oculus Touch. Now at Connect 2016, the company has revealed Robo Recall , an Oculus Touch exclusive arcade FPS and spiritual successor to that tech demo. SEE ALSO 'Bullet Train' on the Latest Oculus Touch Makes You a Bullet-Catching Badass.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

Attendees could jump into one of six networked Oculus Rift headsets and enter the world of SlimeZone, letting you play games, watch cartoons, create art, and of course slime others. SlimeZone was built using Epic’s Unreal Engine and Nvidia FleX particle system for slime simulation.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

I teach user experience design and assistive technology courses. Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link]. Regine Gilbert (Image by Regine Gilbert).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. I’m a man, so of course, I don’t cry, but “a friend of mine” had his eyes become very wet while watching it. Oculus Quest is sold out, and Coronavirus may make the situation even worse. No availability.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2017

Apparently, the new games will be interactive and, according to the IGN piece, rendered with the Unreal engine – which hopefully lays to rest any assumptions these are merely some sort of branching 360 video abomination. “The Walking Dead, it all comes back to moral choice and what would you do as the player. .

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2. Oculus Rift S now costs $300.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. 72 Hz mode : the headset can run not only at 60 Hz but also at 72 Hz.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

” He went on to talk about Facebook’s social VR demo that debuted at Oculus Connect 3 last month, revealing that both it and Oculus’ own Rooms and Parties social software had been made with Unity. Of course, a big piece of Unity’s VR puzzle is its Editor VR , which also got a date today.

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ARVR

JANUARY 22, 2021

9 Must Have Skills To Become An AR/VR Developer (With Course Recommendations) 2. Image courtesy Sony) Finally, while not exactly “consumer electronics”, Sony announced plans for a series of immersive, VR concerts this year, initially kicking off with a Madison Beer concert available later this year for Oculus, Playstation VR, and others.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Google wants you to play with Blocks, this smartphone wants you to get rid of your headset, a new marketplace connecting content creators with funding, the price of the Oculus Rift is slashed, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO PLAY WITH BLOCKS.

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