VRScout

JUNE 13, 2019

Especially for the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest owners, rejoice!! Just over a year later, Beat Games’ hit rhythm slasher is bigger than ever, having spawned multiple DLC releases, official tournament competitions, even a dedicated arcade machine. I can take it to any event or party with setup being only minutes.”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Venues hosts interesting events, with the last of them being the Foo Fighter Concert which attracted thousands of people, and so it naturally has good users numbers. Even Samsung event with which the company has launched its new phone in The Sandbox has been a true disappointment. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Oculus Connect 6 is starting today, and ahead of the festivities Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a video showing off some pretty nuanced hand interaction, something he says will be apart of his talk today. Update (1:15 PM ET) : Mark Zuckerberg announced on stage at Oculus Connect 6 that Quest will soon have hand-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. The project seems not ready yet, though, since at the launch event of Vive Flow there has been no mention of it. Other relevant news. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info At SIGGRAPH there was much attention toward VR and AI SIGGRAPH has always been a very relevant event for all of us in the 3D space, and this year VR and AI were among the most relevant technologies showcased there. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 12, 2016

If you were not able to make Oculus Connect 3 this year here is a Youtube playlist with 32 videos from the event included: I was able to attend quite a few and some highlights for me include the sessions below. Learn how Oculus is creating new tools, specifically for Touch, to help more people express themselves.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2023

We picked as his role the one of a tech expert because it was a field that we know very well ourselves, but as its main expertise we didn’t pick the too obvious AI field, but virtual reality, because it was a growing field of interest in 2014 after Facebook acquired Oculus. ” “Can you improve the pixels of the Oculus Rift?”

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey throws swag to the crowd at Oculus Connect 2 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2023

I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine We’ve known about the upcoming sequel to the hit spy-flavored puzzle game I Expect You To Die , but it seems every new trailer that pops up is just another opportunity to salivate at the Bond-style escape room’s ingenious puzzles and patently dastardly villains.

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VRScout

AUGUST 6, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (8/6/16). The Olympics on Oculus 360 Photos (FREE – Gear VR / Rift). There’s a little something for everyone to check out this week!

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AR Insider

MAY 25, 2021

At the center of this master plan is the thing that kicked off the current AR & VR era: Oculus. As Google Glass learned the hard way, there are deep-rooted cultural barriers that stand in the way of social acceptance. Though Facebook’s VR moves stand out, they’re just one piece of the puzzle. Enter Project Aria.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2020

Looking at the hardware survey, it is also easy to spot that the headset gaining more market quotas in PC usage has been the Oculus Quest, which now represents more than 7% of the PCVR landscape. Image by Oculus). Oculus For Business may need some improvements. HTC Vive has announced a new event for Tue June, 16th at 1.00

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Before starting with the news, let me remind you that until this week the candidatures for the job positions at VRrOOm for game developers and game/UX designers are still open, so if you want to work with me on virtual events and festivals, be sure to enroll! Learn more (New policy on 18+) Learn more (Horizon is theoretically all 18+).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (10/15/16). Slot Tub Party offers three unique slot machines, each with a variety of ways to win. We’re kicking off the weekend with a ton of new content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. More info (Oculus Quest with keyboard and mouse) More info (120Hz refresh rate on Quest 2) More info (Facebook and BCIs) More info (Rumor on Facebook smartwatch). More info (Official website) More info (The event on AltspaceVR).

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2020

After starting as a small, local meetup half a decade ago, the duo behind the event, Benjamin de Wit and Daniel Doornink , are proud of all they’ve accomplished. . I went to Oculus Connect One and that’s where a lot of the XR community solidified and I love it.” It costs a lot of money to put up this event. ” Why VR?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But she’s not been the only one taking a similar decision: Vogue Business reports that Cult fashion boutique Machine-A and the Institute of Digital Fashion are launching an augmented store environment to promote the London Fashion Week collections of designers like Martine Rose and Richard Quinn. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

He said that Apple is going to “ make VR into something everybody wants before it’s something that everybody can afford ”, like the original Oculus The trademark XROS has been registered by a shell company owned by Apple. Meta has silently ended support for Oculus Home on PC. That’s so sad. They could be able to save many lives.

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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. The spokesperson described the technology as a combination of inverse kinematics (IK) and machine learning (ML). That’s our current strategy.”.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (6/11/16). The VirtualSpeech app will help you practice for public speaking events and interviews, by providing photo-realistic environments and animated audiences.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Whether you’re falling, flying, accelerating, ZephVR uses machine learning to instantly trigger real wind synchronized to the events happening in VR. But how exactly does it instantly work with no setup involved? But how exactly does it instantly work with no setup involved? Must be black magic, right? Well not quite.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Expect next week a summary of how the launch of The Unity Cube has been; This Thursday I’ll be the co-host of our monthly “Awe Nite Florence” event series, which this April will talk about Location-Based VR!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. I learned how to do the coding. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

In his video, it seems that the Pico Neo 3 is exactly what we would expect, that is a good clone of the Oculus Quest 2. There is also a companion app (another thing copied from Oculus), through which you can buy the games (of course connected with Alipay and WeChat pay). He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro.

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ARPost

AUGUST 30, 2019

Featured XR technology companies include Oculus, Google, Facebook, HTC, and Qualcomm. Talks will also discuss the future of XR technology including new use cases, new adopters, and how XR will work with other technologies like 5G internet and machine learning. The changes that create the future happen at events like AWE.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2018

” Today at a press event in Silicon Valley, Qualcomm unveiled their Snapdragon XR1 platform, which the company says is their first which is specifically aimed at low cost AR and VR devices. Qualcomm’s Hugo Swart introduces the XR1 chip at a press event in Silicon Valley. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Now the full stack of the platform has been made opensource, and it will be easy for tech-savvy people to install it on whatever machine they want. More info Mozilla Hubs changes its plans Mozilla has announced an update to the pricing plans of the open WebXR social platform Mozilla Hubs.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If we pair it to the fact that this device is connected to a PS5, which is a quite powerful machine, we see that the whole system is truly the next-generation VR that PlayStation users (and not only them) were waiting for. The first news comes directly from an AI event that Meta has organized for this week. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

95% of the content is about the vision of the future “metaverse” in which we all are always in XR , we work, we connect with other people physically distant away, we attend events, we play multiplayer games, etc… all in XR. Luckily there is 5% of information there that I’ve actually found interesting. I mean, we all already knew this, Mark.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. Is Oculus Quest killing PCVR?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

Honestly, I don’t expect huge XR news coming from this event, but I hope to be wrong. VR had a great Christmas, and in particular, Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The study uses optical metasurfaces with machine learning to produce high-quality color imagery, with a wide field of view. Learn more. Funny link.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For one, it includes the thing that kicked off the current AR & VR era: Oculus. As Google Glass learned the hard way, there are deep-rooted cultural barriers to sensor-infused glasses gaining social acceptance. Moving on to Facebook, it has several orbiting initiatives that comprise its spatial computing master plan.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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 Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30. Oculus Quest introduces a new update to its runtime every month, and this month we have other amazing features introduced on the standalone headset. The update pace of the Oculus Quest is impressive. News worth a mention. Image by Telecomwaring). Some XR fun.

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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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