Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. IR motion capture for VR, image courtesy OptiTrack. image courtesy Sensics.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

A world premiere from Skydance, with Chris Hewish, EVP Games & Interactive and Pablo Leon-Luna, VR Developer. Additional expo highlights include Xtrematic’s extreme sports simulator, bHaptics’ full-body haptic suit, Bioflight’s VR medical training simulations and Phasespace’s large-scale motion capture system.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. Bigger content requires longer development cycles, and so it is already necessary to work now for the AAA VR games of the future. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. Vandonkelaar said it takes between seven and nine months to create a game.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

A world premiere from Skydance, with Chris Hewish, EVP Games & Interactive and Pablo Leon-Luna, VR Developer. Additional expo highlights include Xtrematic’s extreme sports simulator, bHaptics’ full-body haptic suit, Bioflight’s VR medical training simulations and Phasespace’s large-scale motion capture system.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?). Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss. EVERYONE WANTS IT STANDALONE.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the colleagues of mine of that time was Kim Libreri, that is now the CTO of Epic Games and he created the optical flow for the paint effect for What Dreams May Come. It’s the same crew that can do both. Experiments on immersing people inside the scenes of movies.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2021

Jumping into VRChat with my Oculus Quest 2, I used the social VR platforms search function to locate Welcome to the Other Side. Jean-Michel Jarre getting suited up for motion capture for the concert on Dec 22nd. // Image Credit: @louisadrienleblay. Arriving at the Venue. It was top listed, so I jumped straight into the venue.

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MARCH 6, 2015

It can still be found on Oculus Share, although it’s quite old now. Aside from this, my major work with Leap Motion is my game Robot Chess , a relatively simple game which allows you to use your hands to pick up and move around chess pieces as you play against a robotic AI opponent.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

For VR demos, make sure you check the runtime requirements on their game pages.). ” The game is designed as a small preview of what the future of architecture might be – one where physical design is opened up to the masses in the same way that digital design is becoming more accessible than ever. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Five years ago, Facebook acquired VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion. Oculus became (somewhat creepily named) Facebook Reality Labs , headed by Andrew Bosworth , one of the company’s first 15 engineers, who also headed the company’s transition from desktop to mobile advertising. Let us connect some dots.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The Venture Reality Fund has looked at over 5,000 startups in the space and invested in 40, including Beat Games, acquired by Facebook, and Rec Room, the first VR software Unicorn. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Learn more about what it means to be a creative in the VC world.

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