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How The Team Behind VRDays Europe Brought A Multi-Day XR Conference To Life

VRScout

As we edge closer to the now online conference, VRDays Europe 2020 New Horizons Edition , we reflect back to 2019 and the sentiments of both de Wit and Doornink as they pondered what they built together and what’s to come. I went to Oculus Connect One and that’s where a lot of the XR community solidified and I love it.”

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Dedicated AR and VR Accessories Manufacturers

ARPost

The company also makes haptic gloves for adding an extra layer of immersion to VR experiences. These include charging stations and interchangeable battery packs for long or frequent use, and adaptors for hardware from companies like VIVE , Oculus , and Antilatency. SenseGlove also makes haptic gloves for VR experiences.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.22): Zuck’s selfie gets viral, Meta accounts are arriving, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Meta launches Horizon Worlds in Europe and promises graphical improvements. It all started because Horizon Worlds has finally landed in Europe, launching in France and Spain. As the release notes state, Oculus profiles will “evolve” into a new Meta Horizon profile, while ‘Friends’ will become ‘Followers’. Learn more. Learn more.

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The XR Week (2020.11.16): HP Reverb G2 still haunted by WMR tracking, Quest 2 update brings 90Hz, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. Oculus has just started rolling out the update to the Quest runtime v23 , that introduces a lot of new features and improvements to this device: All the applications in the headset can now run at 90 Hz (including the passthrough vision); Oculus Link upgrades to 90Hz as well and finally exits from beta.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It consists of you using just an Oculus account (even a new developer one) without an associated Facebook account and using an old version of the Oculus companion app on your phone that sees your Quest 2 as an old plain Quest. haptics) can affect our perception of gender. But for now, it is free real estate.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.28): PSVR 2 revealed, Meta working on AI and 5G, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I just hope for peace to come to Europe again soon : I have friends on both sides of the conflict, and no one of them wants this war, but all of them have to stand the consequences. Unluckily my referral gives you a chance of winning only if you are in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle-East, Africa). That’s it, easy peasy. Some XR fun.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

The Ghost Howls

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher. Still no news on Oculus For Business program and Multiplayer SDK for Quest.