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Introducing The Nominees For The 2019 VR Awards

VRScout

VR hardware is front and center at this year’s festivities following the release of Oculus Quest and HP Reverb. VR Hardware of the Year: Oculus – Quest. Oculus – Rift S. Innerspace VR & ARTE France – A Fisherman’s Tale. Zero Latency – Sol Raiders. VRgineers – XTAL 5K HMD. HTC – Vive Pro Eye.

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Pico launches Pico Neo 3 Link: the first true Quest 2 competitor (in Beta)

The Ghost Howls

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The HoloLens 2 Development Edition will become available in 10 additional countries by the end of the year: Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. The option to “rent it” by paying $100/month is coming next year.

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How to Save Money on Business Travel with Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

For instance, a team meeting in France could set up a conference in front of the Eiffel tower. . The arrival of 5G and lower latency ways for sending data and information will make VR experiences feel all the more impressive for today’s forward-thinking team members. Some interactions will still demand an extra human touch.

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Smart Glasses in the Future of Work 

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

For example, the two firms teamed up to present an immersive broadcast of the Tour de France in 2022. This technology will reduce the latency typically involved with cloud-based services – a huge step forward for AR, as smart glasses will process information and return content much faster.

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After 6 Years in Person & 3 Remote, Why is Meta Connect Still Not Held in VR?

Road to VR

Oculus Connect. Started by Oculus in 2014, Connect was where the earliest of early adopters could meet and learn how to make their games and apps happen for the first consumer VR headsets. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect. Why is that? Starting in 2020, Connect was exclusively livestreamed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.