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What’s New in Virtual Reality (VR) Headsets in Fall 2019?

InstaVR

After a relatively quiet summer — outside of the Oculus Quest release ! First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Finland. image courtesy VR First. Doña Ana Community College, USA.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.14): Facebook gets sued for alleged monopolization, Medal Of Honor is a mediocre game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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 XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). Upload VR has published a very easy-to-follow tutorial on how to add custom environments to your Oculus Quest. Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

Oculus Quest is coming out. The Oculus Quest is a great device that is coming — very polished by Oculus, it will be quite cheap, only $400. There is also the Oculus Go, that is already on the market; it’s just a viewer of 360 content. With the Oculus Quest, we’ll see what kind of services they provide.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

Oculus Quest is coming out. The Oculus Quest is a great device that is coming -- very polished by Oculus, it will be quite cheap, only $400. There is also the Oculus Go, that is already on the market; it's just a viewer of 360 content. With the Oculus Quest, we'll see what kind of services they provide.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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