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APRIL 25, 2021

Brought to us by the same team behind Custom Notes —a popular VR mod that allows players to compose original Beat Saber tracks—this custom map loader allows Gorilla Tag players on both PCVR and Oculus Quest headsets access to over a dozen custom multiplayer environments ranging from New York City to the International Space Station.

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APRIL 5, 2020

15 VR short films scheduled to debut at Tribeca Immersive will be available later this month on standalone Oculus headsets. Last month New York’s annual Tribeca Film Festival announced it would be postponing its film and interactive storytelling programs indefinitely after New York Gov.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Facebook’s Oculus VR team is announcing a new bundle for its Oculus Rift VR system. With it, customers can get a Rift headset, the Oculus Touch controllers, an ASUS VivoX PC , and four free games for the total price of $1300. and Canada.

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MAY 1, 2018

The $200 Oculus Go is the most accessible VR headset today. But now the Oculus Go is finally here and it’s a big deal, especially for the millions of iPhone users out there who up until today have had limited options to get into VR. Starting today, the Oculus Go standalone VR headset is available for purchase for $199.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Two images showing a seemingly consumer-ready box containing Oculus Go, the company’s upcoming standalone VR headset, found its way to Reddit and Twitter recently, possibly indicating that launch is right around the corner. The first wave of Oculus Go dev kits cropped up at the end of November last year.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. The majority of our team consists of USC students. .’

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JUNE 11, 2022

When Meta (formerly Facebook) launched its Facebook Spaces beta for the Oculus Rift back in 2017, the VR app gave us a glimpse of the future of socializing through VR technology. Honnold was amazed by the experience, saying, “This is quite an experience for me, this is kinda blowing my mind.”

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Their platform for virtual concerts featuring avatars has garnered big interest in a post-COVID world and they’re betting big on immersive personalized experiences at the cross-section of gaming and entertainment. See Also: New Guidelines for Developers: XR Software Should Be Accessible for Users With Disabilities.

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MAY 25, 2017

award for Immersive Reality Game of the Year and the fastest-selling game for Oculus Touch, SUPERHOT VR is available today for VIVE. SUPERHOT VR for VIVE comes complete with the recent FOREVER update, expanding the experience even further with new modes, challenges, and endgame content. Winner of the D.I.C.E.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Other relevant news.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Google opened up its treasure trove of 360 Street View captures to developers late last year, although there was a proviso for developing apps and games with the data: it had to be free.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

Let’s dive in… Genvid Raises $113M to Build Out Massive Interactive Live Games , Taps Ex-Netflix Content Exec Cindy Holland as Adviser. The new new game studio pulled in an astonishing $113M Series C to produce what the company calls “massive interactive live events,” or MILEs. They have to.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Daniël Ernst. Elliot Cole. Mike Brett.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

The next wave of athletic training takes place in a computer simulation, as companies such as STRIVR Labs , EON Sports and Beyond Sports help players prepare for games through VR technology. Davis Webb, the quarterback of Stanford rival California, trusts his Oculus headset as much as his helmet when it comes to game preparation.

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APRIL 26, 2020

Find out how the strange VR styling game came to be. Bizarre Barber , an Oculus Launchpad title, is a curious and playful haircutting adventure for all ages. The game begins with you standing between two subway trains while holding a giant pair of golden scissors that you operate using both hands.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Created by indie studio Tender Claws , known for its breakout hit VR experience Virtual Virtual Reality (2017) , and the New York-based live theater company Pie Hole , The Under Presents is a different type of game—and that’s putting it lightly.

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MAY 3, 2021

The XR section of the venerated New York film festival introduced its offering on Tuesday: a mix of VR in the Museum of Other Realities, some limited in-person events at the Tribeca Hub downtown, and location-based mobile AR experiences around New York. Zoom rolls out new features, including Immersive View.

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MARCH 16, 2020

Users were quick to gripe that the devices were uncomfortable, the graphics were disappointing, and the games were boring. While specific numbers are hard to come by, Oculus’ powerful untethered headset, the Oculus Quest , sold out over the holidays and is facing a wait time if ordered through the website today. The Present.

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APRIL 7, 2018

Yelena Rachitsky is an executive producer of experiences at Oculus, and she’s been inspired by how interactive narratives have allowed her to feel like a participant who is more engaged, more present, and more alive. Or are you centered in your head of thinking about the strategy of your next action in achieving a goal in a game (yang)?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

From Tender Claws , the studio behind Virtual Virtual Reality (2017) , and the New York-based live theater company Pie Hole comes The Under Presents, something its creators call “part game, part theater, part extravaganza.” SEE ALSO 25 Oculus Quest Games Coming in 2019 & 2020.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Last week a lawsuit filed against Oculus and its management started its trial in Dallas, Texas. The suit is being filed by ZeniMax, an umbrella company that owns several high profile gaming studios such as Bethesda Softworks and id Software. Any way you cut it, that is a lot of money to motivate the Oculus team to stay with Facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

1, the sci-fi shooter from Metro developers 4A Games , is launching on Oculus Rift October 10th. Pre-orders are currently live on the Oculus Store , selling for a 10% discount off of the game’s $30 price tag. SEE ALSO Hands-on: Ubisoft's New VR Shooter 'Space Junkies' is All About Guns and Jetpacks.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Now available at Los Angeles, New York and Toronto VR centers. Nickelodeon launched its SlimeZone multi-player VR experience at IMAX VR centers in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto Friday, with further plans to bring the social experience to locations in Shanghai, Bangkok and Manchester (UK) soon.

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MARCH 15, 2017

In many ways at the time, the Gear 360 camera was a game changer for consumers , with all the necessary stitching performed by a Samsung device using the Gear 360 Manager app or Samsung’s Gear 360 Action Director software for PC that was included with the camera. There is also a trigger that will let you select, grab, take aim, and fire.

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JULY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. Beach Body Bros – While showcasing Oculus Medium as a production-ready sculpting tool, Beach Body Bros takes you on a ridiculous musical journey through a world of pure muscle, intense strength, and stupid greatness.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Wilson’s Heart , the latest exclusive on the Oculus Rift and Touch, has launched to much fanfare, including a funny take on the game (and VR in general) by Conan O’Brien. Recently he visited YouTube’s mixed reality lab in New York City to try a number of different VR experiences on the Vive.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The dev team has been hard at work cooking up some new content for the fans. Today, and fresh off its win as Best AR/VR Game at the 2024 New York Game Awards, we’re excited to share the fruits of their labors with the launch of the game’s second Cosmic Event: Into the Multiverse!

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Rematch Studios , the Karachi, Pakistan-based developers, unveiled Area of Darkness today, saying that it should be launching on Steam soon for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. ” The game’s Steam page however lists a tentative arrival date of February 2019. Image courtesy Rematch Studios.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Madefire, a digital comic book app company, recently announced the launch of a new preview app that brings select issues to Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR. The company exhibited the app at this year’s New York Comic-Con and Oculus Connect 3.

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JUNE 14, 2020

To open the event, Miro Shot —in collaboration with Overview Ark , and alongside New York DJ Neil Armstrong —will present a live music and virtual performance that captures the spirit of innovation and storytelling at the Cannes XR and Tribeca Film Festival. Cannes XR Virtual will be ? , The entire virtual program ?will

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show , Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he’s continuing to work on projects within the VR industry. ” SEE ALSO Oculus Founder Backs 'Revive'—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding. .

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MARCH 29, 2024

In a recent report from the New York Times, Meta revealed new AI features for its smart glasses product – that Meta developed using Ray Ban frames – following the firm’s promise of broader virtual assistant tools for the product range at last year’s Connect event.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games). A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. The guy, which goes under the nickname of HYPEX, is known to be a reliable leaker for Fortnite, so it is quite sure that there are now references to Oculus in the Fortnite code.

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JULY 15, 2018

Developed by Owlchemy Games, the original minds behind the hit VR title Job SImulator, the far-out immersive adventure places users in the shoes of Rick Sanchez’s reluctant side-kick, Morty Smith, as they participate in a series of seemingly-menial tasks, from basic laundry care, to complex ship repair.

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MARCH 21, 2017

The adventure began outside the firehouse in the streets of New York where Mooglie, voiced by Patton Oswalt, volunteers to be my guide. Not so much a game as it is an interactive story with gaming mechanics, Ghostbusters VR act one left me hanging, but wanting more.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

View also comes with a motion controller that’s closer in function to Nintendo’s Wii remote than it is an Oculus Touch or HTC Vive controller. Several new experiences were announced for the device. They include a Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them game, based on J.K. Star Chart is also heading to the headset.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Billion in its latest round of financing, is available on PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox Series X/S, iOS, and Oculus Quest. The new social VR world launching in 2021, id backed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who used to own the New York Nets NBA team. 5 ways to build the mobile gaming metaverse.

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