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Led by Former Oculus Exec, Facebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Paves the Way to VR Streaming

Road to VR

This week Facebook announced the launch of cloud-streamed games from Facebook Gaming. These are games which are rendered in the cloud and then streamed to your computer. Cloud-based gaming has been seen by the industry at large as a way to make games more widely accessible by making them playable on less powerful hardware.

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XR Talks: What Will 5G Do For AR?

AR Insider

5G, for example, is often generalized as a technology that will unlock spatial experiences due to faster speeds and low latency. “The big web-scale players like Google or Amazon [don’t] have data centers every 300 kilometers. Specifically, Shannon points to cloud gaming. ” XR’s Best Friend.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! You have a mistaken model of the strategic motivations.

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How Will 5G Accelerate Geo-local AR?

ARVR

That brings the low-latency that AR needs, while unlocking the next generation of bandwidth-intensive spatial experiences. Because Google and Amazon don’t have data centers every 300 kilometers, infrastructure operated by telcos will have a key role in the geo-spatial AR future, otherwise known as the metavearth.

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New Riftcat VRidge 2.3 features: play Steam VR games using your phone as a controller!

The Ghost Howls

It is a popular solution that lets you use your mobile or standalone VR headset as a tethered headset connected to your PC , so that you can use it to play games on Steam. Anyway, your VR friends are playing some amazing content on Steam and you would really want to play those same games as well with the VR headset that you own.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

Along with categories that you would expect, such as gaming and entertainment, I was excited to see a category for VR education and training. Google – Daydream View. Nominees for VR Game of the Year. Owlchemy Labs & Adult Swim Games – Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Epic Games – Robo Recall.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.31): Roblox released on Quest, Apple bringing back investments in VR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Roblox) Roblox Beta has been launched for Quest Some weeks ago I reported here the announcement by Meta about an upcoming launch of the popular gaming platform Roblox on Meta Quest. This week the application has been launched in Beta and is accessible via App Lab.

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