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PSA: You Don’t Need Xbox Game Pass to Play ‘Fortnite’ for Free on Quest

Road to VR

Xbox Cloud Gaming finally came to Quest earlier this week, letting Game Pass Ultimate members play the service’s full catalogue of flatscreen games on Quest for the first time. Keep in mind: we’re talking about traditional flatscreen Xbox games played on a virtual screen. So, what’s the big deal?

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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

And both the journalists of Road To VR and Upload VR agree on the fact tha t it doesn’t represent an improvement for VR gaming yet. The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun.

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Is XR ‘Taking Off’ for the Commercial Aviation Industry?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Trainees could use Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap headsets, as well as tablets and smartphones for the platform. Nations such as Barbados, South Korea, Catalonia (Spain), Dubai, and Norway are creating virtual spaces to attract new fliers to top tourist destinations. In-Flight Entertainment.

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Funding Roundup: Intel acquires Voke VR, The Future Group Raises.

AllThingsVR

Series A, Drifter Entertainment (VR Game Studio) Raises $400K Seed Intel has acquired a startup called VOKE , which specialises in immersive sports video experiences, and counted both Intel and the Sacramento Kings among its investors. with experience using game-oriented technologies in The Matrix films. Read more on TechCrunch.

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Will The Metaverse Need Policing?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Backed by technology giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, this environment has the potential to change many aspects of people’s everyday lives. For instance, Norway has its “ Nettpatruljie ” Internet patrols, which focuses on protecting various social media, streaming, and gaming platforms.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

The Quest software is tailored at consumers, and for instance, when you open it, the first things that you see is a list of games. As you can see, there is no way to have fun buying games on the store, but your can only launch the applications approved by your company (Image by Oculus).

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Bungee Jumping with Untethered VR, featuring Happy Finish’s Daniel Cheetham

XR for Business Podcast

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. Actually, way back when I was listening to a Voices Of VR podcast by Kent Bye, one of the episodes I was listening to was from the CEO of CCP Games.