Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We’re keeping an eye on the best Oculus Rift Black Friday 2018 deals. Oculus Rift Deal Baseline. Without an special discount, the Oculus Rift + Touch bundle costs $400/€450/£400. The total price of the games comes to $110. The Best Oculus Rift Black Friday 2018 Deal. Oculus Rift Black Friday Game Deals.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Though it has held fairly steady since its launch in October, the stock of Oculus Quest 2 is starting to dwindle heading into the Black Friday holiday shopping season. Oculus Quest 2 & Rift S Stock Check. Where to Buy Quest 2 and Look for Stock. It seems likely that Quest 2 stock is going to become scarce this holiday season.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Viveport pushed over 25 titles for the Venice VR Festival, and Oculus engineered a first of its kind key that enabled several projects to jump the Q&A process, something that has never been done before. ON THE CUTTING EDGE: CINEMA, GAMING, THE PERFORMING ARTS & MORE. said Reilhac.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Whether its a whacky melee fighting game, traveling to whiskey distilleries, visiting cityscapes of Taiwan, or sitting back to enjoy spectating some eSports action — there’s something for everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is coherent with the 3 years for BCI (Brain-computer-interfaces) used in gaming that the CEO of OpenBCI told me in a recent interview. Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. Epic Games presents MetaHuman Creator. and 5–10 years for a more serious adoption.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

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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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. We don’t know what Oculus will present, but we have some hints.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

In this third and last article about my trip to Taiwan (here you are the links to my first and second one , if you missed them), I want to tell you about some other amazing XR stuff that I did there. iStaging is one of the companies that I loved the most in Taiwan. I have asked them how it is being a wo m an in XR in Taiwan.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2016

One of the biggest dates in the consumer electronics and computing calendar, Computex is under way in Taipei, Taiwan this week and we’re already seeing some interesting news filter from the show. The game appears to be a WII gallery shooter which pits you, armed with various automatic weapons, against wave after wave of enemies.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 26, 2022

A booklet put together by Valve to mark Steam Deck’s availability in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong indicates VR headsets using Steam will “soon” have Steam Deck’s user interface. Valve is bringing the Steam Deck’s user interface to VR headsets.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Leading into today’s news, shares of HTC were halted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange pending this Wednesday night announcement. In May, Google acquired Owlchemy Labs for an undisclosed amount, the pioneering VR game studio that developed Job Simulator. Google has announced a $1.1 So what does this all mean for VR?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Virtual reality is still in need of great experiences to bring to the masses, and MSI wants to help make them with its latest game jam. It’s offering hopeful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive developers over $80,000 in prizes as it searches for great new PC-based VR experiences. Got an idea?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

When an arcade purchases a VR application through Steam or Oculus, they technically aren’t allowed to rent out their game library for profit. Due to the lack of an infrastructure, many existing VR Arcades have been operating without proper game licensing, many never realizing it themselves. The opportunity for VR arcades arises.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). This is so sad.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Virtual reality is still in need of great experiences to bring to the masses, and MSI wants to help make them with its latest game jam. It’s offering hopeful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive developers over $80,000 in prizes as it searches for great new PC-based VR experiences.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

The sale runs until this Sunday, 19th April, available in the following countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, and South Korea. It’ll even support Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 20, 2019

Still from the French premiere of film “Pneumo Hacker” by Taiwan’s Poké Poké Creative & Redbit Pictures and the Innolux Education Foundation. Released on Oculus Quest in the US in May, Vader Immortal will be having its premiere during the event. Image courtesy NewImages Festival.).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. IQiyi recently released an app suite that makes its movies and games compatible with head-mounted VR devices.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

HTC kept the crowds guessing over the holiday season with a tease that it was adding a ‘game changing’ feature to Vive that we would see at CES in the first week of January. Ultimately Oculus stole headlines at CES — for both better and worse — with the launch of pre-orders for the Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2019

As you may know if you follow me on social media, last week I spent my whole time in Taiwan , at first in Kaohsiung and then in Taipei. But the Cosmos uses a new tracking technology that doesn’t allow the use of Trackers, and this means “game over” for all people that want to create crazy stuff in VR.

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XROM

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Post Acquiring Oculus from Palmer Luckey the company scaled rapidly, adding billions to their kitty. Gaming is “one of the early ways” in which one is introduced to the metaverse, Kulasooriya added. On top of that, there are 1.3 billion mobile gamers in Asia, making up the world’s largest player base, according to the report.

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VRWorld

MAY 31, 2016

At the Computex Taipei trade show in Taiwan, AMD officially introduced the first products based on Polaris GPU architecture. According to HTC and Oculus, relatively small number of installed user base is the reason why content producers are unsure of launching titles heavily optimized for VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2020

At a special event in Taipei, Taiwan, HTC cofounder and former CEO Peter Chou today revealed the first products from the new startup XRSPACE. Like Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go, the headset only includes a single remote, which appears to have a touchpad and button array for basic input. Image courtesy XRSPACE.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

I and my partner Gianni bought every new headset on the market : the Oculus Rift DK2, the Vive, the Rift CV1, the Gear VR, etc… We also went to almost every event we were invited to, even the smallest one (I remember once we went to a public plaza with like 7 people listening to our talk about VR…). The reasons?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Speaking to Polygon , Microsoft HoloLens chief Alex Kipman revealed that these headsets will be further detailed at two WinHEC events , one of which runs from December 8th – 9th in Shenzhen, China, the other held from December 14th – 15th in Taipei, Taiwan. We’ve reached out to Microsoft to confirm that this is the case.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2019

As for now a lot of the focus on AR/VR has been on gaming and distribution of content and entertainment and I really think that people it’s like “oh that’s cool but I’m not gonna spend $200 or $3,000 to buy a headset just to play a game or go to an arcade”. In Asia, they are very much more open to AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

There was a company called LAI Games, which has been around for decades. They build arcade games. And now this year there was another company called VRsenal, that had an arcade game cabinet with– that was a VR based that was unattended, and it was running Beat Saber, which is obviously one of the most popular games out there.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

There was a company called LAI Games, which has been around for decades. They build arcade games. And now this year there was another company called VRsenal, that had an arcade game cabinet with– that was a VR based that was unattended, and it was running Beat Saber, which is obviously one of the most popular games out there.

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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. .” jam/leapmotion3djam.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

I mean, yes, it’s dead… I like to put on my dead Oculus Quest 2 to play dead beautiful games like InDeath: Unchained and have dead fun. The belonging of 360 videos to the VR realm causes more harsh debates than the dispute of Taiwan with Mainland China. Oculus Tracking is the best (Image by u/OXIOXIOXI ).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

When I went to the Vive Ecosystem Conference to launch our game “HitMotion: Reloaded” , I got in contact via Twitter with a guy called Noah Zerkin , that works in Shenzhen. 90% of the worldwide electronics are produced in the big area that goes from Shenzhen to Taiwan and Hong Kong. But who could take this big bargain?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Tilt Five is an amazing startup building AR glasses to play tabletop games.

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