Road to VR

MAY 30, 2018

Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. Most Gear VR-compatible smartphones work with Venues, excluding Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy Note 5. May 30 // Vance Joy // 7:30 pm PT.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look at how Facebook’s money is funding battles on all fronts of the industry’s increasingly competitive landscape. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Old Enemies – HTC. Launch – $800.

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VRScout

MAY 21, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR. This week we also decided to include a couple for the Oculus Rift as well. This free multiplayer game for Gear VR transports you into a stunning casino to play poker with people from around the world. Casino VR Poker (FREE).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? This is the homepage of Oculus website (Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Sizable discounts come to Oculus Rift, VR-ready computers, Gear VR, and much more. Oculus Rift + Touch Bundle. As an official retail partner of Oculus in the US, Best Buy is advertising the Oculus Rift + Touch bundle for $350 , a $50 savings from the permanent MSRP of $400. Gear VR + Samsung Gear 360.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2022

Meta Horizon Home has been launched as an update to the Quest 2 headset, joining Meta Horizon Worlds – another VR app for socializing focused on playing games and attending concerts and sports events. It works on the following platforms and devices: Oculus Quest; Oculus Rift S; Valve Index’. Windows Mixed Reality; Vive.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2017

CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online , and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016) , for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store. As with the Daydream version, the game can be played using the headset’s controller.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The Gear VR Killer App contest hosted by Samsung at the Upload Collective earlier this month brought in a hundred-plus technophiles eager for a chance to check out the finalists — and to find out which (if any) deserved “killer app” status. “[It] Follow the developers on Facebook. I will add more stages.

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VRScout

AUGUST 27, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (8/20/16). GAMES: Galaxy Golf ($4.99 – Gear VR / Rift ). Shiny is an audiovisual game experience designed exclusively for virtual reality.

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VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (8/20/16). GAMES: Wands ($5.99 – Gear VR ). Discover your inner awareness of the now in this stylized game inspired by the concept of Zen.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Looking for the best free Quest games and apps? Four years after the original Oculus Quest headset arrived, the Meta Quest platform offers an impressive range of experiences that caters to all interests. As such, we recommend searching through SideQuest or the App Lab Game List if you're keen to find more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2020

With the recent release of Half-Life: Alyx , VR has been thrust into the spotlight of the mainstream gaming audience. But Index is the Ferrari of the VR world, and there’s many other headset options that cost less than half as much but play all the same games. That’s like investing in a new game console!

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2017

BBC Earth, the world’s leading natural history producer, has announced a new partnership with Oculus to launch three exciting virtual reality (VR) experiences this January, inviting users to step into the lives of very distinct animals. All three virtual reality experiences will be released separately on Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (10/22/16). Lost 360 , from Oculus Story Studio, is now available on the Oculus Store. Unlock diamonds by shattering all the bricks in the game.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Many of us have watched game shows from an early age and possibly even fantasized about being on one of the many shows. While CoLab from Pixel Federation doesn’t quite mirror those experiences exactly, it does drop you into a game show of its own design with quite a bit of fun in store.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This week’s storefront includes a balanced selection of both Rift and Gear VR titles, from puzzlers to platformers, adventure games to card games, there’s a little something for everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

It’s on its way for both the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR headsets, take a look at it in action in this launch trailer. 3rd person gaming, not a style originally expected to be ‘a thing’ when virtual reality’s resurgence began just a few years ago, is fast becoming a popular way to present immersive titles.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Oculus is launching some new VR content, letting you explore the ocean’s depths in World of Diving or the vast solar system in Star Chart. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (7/2/16).

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 4, 2016

Set in late 19th-century Europe, Wands® presents a world where a group of people, mainly from the old aristocracy and the new wealthy, in secrecy has become competitors in a quest to unravel ancient wisdom and to reconcile it with modern science. Wands will be available to play beginning August 18 on Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2016

Well it looks to be ready to drop soon as a recent blog post from Minecraft developer Mojang, who was acquired by Microsoft back in 2014 for a reported $2.5Bn, has stated that they expect Oculus Rift support to be “turned on” in the “coming weeks”, marking the first time the game has officially appeared on the platform.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Currently VRee offers a competitive multiplayer disk-throwing game as a sort of proof-of-concept demo, with support for multiple high-end VR experiences created by 3rd part developers on the way. Spectators can even view in-game live streams via PC, tablet, smartphone or HMD.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The following subcategories are considered part of the metaverse: Virtual reality; Augmented reality; NFT; Crypto; Blockchain; Gaming platforms (this is far-fetched, but it is true that the whole 3D modeling part is based on the gaming industry, as well as much of the interaction programming). Not only the headsets. Tablets as well.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. From heart-pounding games to engrossing films to VR comics, there’s a little something for everyone. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (9/10/16). It’s time to go ALL IN.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. We don’t know what Oculus will present, but we have some hints.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2017

We know that Samsung has confirmed more than 5 million Gear VR units are now in the wild for example, and of course the headlines of Sony surprising themselves with PlayStation VR’s early sales figures – approaching 1 Million going in to 2017. Games 360 report for 2017 right here. Nielsen’s ‘ U.S

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Top news of the week. Image by Engadget). Let’s see….

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

In a detailed component teardown, analysis of the components that comprise Oculus’ first consumer VR headset suggest a predictably complex design with the costs of individual parts totalling $200. See Also: Oculus Rift Review: Prologue to a New Realit y. Image Courtesy IMS Markit.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (10/15/16). GAMES: Kangaroo Dash Demo (FREE – Gear VR ). GAMES: Kangaroo Dash Demo (FREE – Gear VR ). Get ready to snap in your phone scouts!

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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. This isn’t just simply bringing a comic book page into VR, however.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. 10 minutes of Youtube video have been enough to make all game developers hype. Other relevant news. Black magic.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Those of us who are old enough to have seen the rise of virtual reality in the ‘90s and then the fall and then another rise in mid 2000 and then another fall, know that the present hype about virtual reality may not be sustainable. Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.);

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2018

To compliment the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce Distorted Reality , a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOS. We go from inception to market delivery.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Soon Oculus will begin to adopt OpenXR with support reportedly coming in the latest Oculus Public Test Channel release. Appearing on the Oculus Forums , the preview release is available for testing now , just don’t expect to be running an HTC Vive or Valve Index on Oculus Home anytime soon. The current OpenXR 1.0

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

Recently we reported on Samsung’s prototype OLED panels sporting a PPI (pixels per inch) figure of 858, nearly 3.5 times that of the current generation HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. That ‘soon’ may mean mid 2018, at least according to Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, speaking in an interview recently.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Anyway, he confirmed that the first smart glasses that will be released this year won’t have true AR and said that now Oculus wants to expand beyond the gaming ecosystem. Finally, next month’s update of the Oculus Quest 2 will bring with it the possibility of using multiple accounts on the same device. News worth a mention.

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