Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

The update also includes improvements to the Workshop tools, including more example content for animation, audio, and shaders, along with new documentation. SEE ALSO 'Half-Life: Alyx' Update Adds Impressive Liquid Simulation, Foundation for Mod Scripting. Replacing Sounds. Custom Pistols. Hotspot Texturing.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

While Oculus has decided to discontinue the Oculus Go and abandon completely the 3DOF sector, Chinese vendor Pico has decided to double down on 3DOF offering two new models , the Pico G2 4K S and the Pico G2 4K Enterprise , that are two improvements of the original Pico G2 4K. Simulation view of the VR application inside Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. The heavy use of physics simulation in the game is something you don’t see often in VR games because it’s very challenging to do right. Cas & Chary Present.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And that’s ok, it is still a new technology and it has already made big steps forward (I remember all the computer crashes I had at the Oculus DK 2 times!), Recently I had a big issue with my VR controllers in SteamVR (both with Oculus and Vive) and so I’m writing this post to try to help you in solving it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC. A vague rumor spread on Reddit this week: Oculus Del Mar could be a 4K headset, and it could have been launched at GDC. Furthermore, the documentation talked about “Early access to dev” for Del Mar, and this means that the project is still at the alpha stage.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 5, 2016

After spending over a week putting the Oculus Rift with Touch through its paces, and re-testing many aspects of the HTC Vive itself, I’ve come away a more conditioned, sore, and seasoned gamer than I was previously. For reference, here is our original Oculus Rift review , HTC Vive review , and Oculus Touch controllers review.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re the company behind Dexmo, a robotic exoskeleton glove that provides force feedback to simulate the act of touching objects in virtual reality. Gu: Dexmo is very developer friendly and well documented. With our SDK, libDexmo, any developer should be able to pick up Dexmo in a few hours after reading the documents.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Acadicus is a tool for medical simulations and for training, and works both with or without a virtual reality headset. The Microsoft-owned company is now compatible with Vive, Oculus headsets, and Gear VR, and users can also access it without a VR headset via a desktop app. We will update the story if they get back to us.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2017

While practically all driving simulators can be played with a gamepad, the experience is transformed by using dedicated input devices. SEE ALSO Top 5 VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The two leading virtual reality headsets for PC—the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift —both have fairly wide-ranging support for VR racing sims.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. The document talks about the standardization of VR hardware, software, and testing. – VR+ health.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Considering MMOs require a healthy player base to function, MetaWorld is hoping to invigorate its procedurally generated 10,000 square mile digital wilderness with a wide swath of the VR headset-owning market, including cross-play support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PSVR, and Gear VR. image courtesy MetaWorld.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. I’ve accidentally skipped to a different part of a movie while opening a can to drink, or selected random text in a document while my hands were just resting on the keyboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

And so I've been documenting his experience and his family's experience in VR, because it is the empathy platform and it's the medium that many people will see things different. They never released it on YouTube or anything, but we were able to see this training simulation room that they have, for terrorist threat situations.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Megadodo simulation has announced a hard pivot for its Decagear headset. Top news of the week. Decagear headset is going to pivot.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Becoming a licensee gave me access to the SteamVR Tracking HDK and Steam SDK, which also contained the original 2016 SteamVR training course documentation which was run for a couple of years in conjunction with Valve partner Synapse in Seattle. It had no sensors, just a simulated sensor bar in front of the handgrip. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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