Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2020

Realities.io , the team behind the photogrammetry-based VR experience Realities (2016) , today released a prototype version of their latest creation, a 3D VR jigsaw puzzle game for Oculus Quest called Puzzling Places. tells Road to VR. ” SEE ALSO 'Echo VR' Open Beta Coming to Quest Before Launch. Founded in 2016, Realities.io

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Virtual reality (VR) is one of four key forms of immersion, with others including augmented, mixed, and extended reality (AR/MR/XR). Recently, new virtual reality guides have helped many navigate the expanding world of immersive tech. The sector is estimated to reach a value of roughly $57.55 billion USD by 2027, according to research.

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VRScout

JUNE 15, 2018

Immersing yourself in football’s biggest tournament has never been easier as leading media providers bring VR live streaming to the masses. Here’s how you can spend this weekend immersed in football’s most elite competition: OCULUS VENUES. Oculus Venues is available free via the Oculus Go and Gear VR.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Indie virtual reality (VR) developer Cortopia Studios’ first immersive title was a magic spellcasting videogame called Wands, first appearing on Samsung Gear VR. Today, it’s the turn of Oculus Quest. Take a look at VRFocus’ preview of the videogame on Oculus Quest or the gameplay footage.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Facebook gets sued for monopolization in US and Germany. The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), Oculus Rift S now costs $300. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. and Sana in Germany. Canada, and U.K. UCLH in the U.K.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The HoloLens 2 Development Edition will become available in 10 additional countries by the end of the year: Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. The option to “rent it” by paying $100/month is coming next year.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

With high performance VR motion controllers right in the box, the system offers a highly immersive experience that lets you physically walk around a room-sized space while immersed in virtual reality. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR. Find an Oculus Rift and Touch Demo Location. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. HTW Berlin, Germany. Universität Hamburg, Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

This week we had no big news from Facebook, but in the communities, the theme of the Facebook login for the Oculus Quest 2 remains pretty hot. Some people have already abandoned the Oculus ship, but many have still bought the Quest 2, that in fact is already backordered by several weeks in some countries (e.g. Other relevant news.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

By which I mean that immersive technologies will provide increasingly attractive alternatives for those wishing to escape the dreamlike madness that has overtaken our real world. 2018 has been a remarkable year for immersive technologies (which include the whole spectrum of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality).

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ARPost

AUGUST 30, 2019

The fourth annual European Augmented World Expo is set to take place on October 17 and 18 in Munich Germany. Director of Immersive Technology at Deutsche Telekom, Terry Schussler , will be speaking about XR adoption in the world of 5G. Featured XR technology companies include Oculus, Google, Facebook, HTC, and Qualcomm.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 22, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. and Sana in Germany. UCLH in the U.K.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Facebook already had around 10,000 people working on XR and these new hires means doubling the workforce in immersive technologies.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 16, 2016

Passes Half a Million Downloads on Gear VR Generally speaking, Oculus and Samsung won’t release official figures for software sales on Gear VR, but Resolution Games today revealed an impressive figure for Bait! Last month Oculus revealed that Gear VR had seen one million people in April 2016, so it sounds like Bait! Read more here.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 19, 2019

There isn’t long to wait for Westworld Awakening as the title will launch across 400 arcades as well as on Steam and Oculus Store for HTC VIve and Oculus Rift/Rift S tomorrow, 20th August. It will be available in English in the US, Mexico, Brazil, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, and China (arcades only).

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Earlier this year applied research institute Fraunhofer IAO and Hessischer Rundfunk from Germany in collaboration with (among others) the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Senseable City Lab presented a future vision of urban transportation. As Dr. David S.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. Unfortunately, there is a trade-off as people get either simulator sick in normal VR setups or immersion suffers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. VR people think that this may mean that Facebook may have to remove its mandatory Facebook login, also because other countries (like Germany) are raising similar concerns.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 7, 2019

In a couple of weeks, Europe’s biggest gaming event takes place in Cologne, Germany, Gamescom 2019. Gluk Media, a Lithuanian developer of immersive content has just confirmed it’ll be attending, showcasing its latest title Kamile VR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Germany-based startup Vality is developing a VR headset that aims to offer near-retina resolution in a compact form-factor. Vality prototype compare to the original Oculus Rift | Image courtesy Vality. This week, Road to VR got an exclusive hands-on with an early prototype of the Vality headset.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Based in Germany, ThyssenKrupp is a European national conglomerate that just announced a partnership with the Microsoft Hololens. As the virtual reality medium is physically more immersive than traditional video games, the potential for this real world overlap is significantly higher. TOYOTA’S IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2016

On the one hand we have platform wars , where Vive, Play Station, Oculus and Microsoft compete for the users. HACKVENTION, a hackathon combined with a convention, took place earlier this month on the Fairground in Hanover, Germany. Virtual Reality hype is a worldwide phenomenon. However, at the moment there is no coherent ecosystem.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

Featuring special guest Sophia Dominguez, co-founder of SVRF.com (the first search engine for immersive content), and creator of AllThingsVR , a weekly VR/AR newsletter. Now just called plain ol’ Sansar , the platform has launched its open beta so anyone can explore and build immersive spaces. …and just a few more.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

So, here’s the full low-down on Microsoft’s newest immersive device: It’s all about the Cloud. More immersive. But that elusive quality of “immersiveness” is not about the field-of-view or pixel count so much as the way that the digital elements actually interact with you and the environment.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

“We started our directory back in 2015, before HTC Vive and Oculus had even launched, with 99 studios as members. Rather, I find it’s about how the new immersive tools and technologies are affecting all the other industries. Germany: 83 studios. Fast forward a couple of years and we have more than 1700 members.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

If you are in Germany in August, instead, you could attend the Gamescom. Little indie studio Reality Rebels is creating a framework to let you play LBVR games in your house using Oculus Quest. Oculus Summer Sale has arrived! If you want to buy some Oculus game, this is the right time! Surfing is fun with the Oculus Quest!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info Meta updates Oculus Spatializer Meta has released an update to its Meta XR Audio SDK which introduces a new “Universal HRTF” function that will make the spatialization of the sound around the user even more realistic than before. I think this new price offering satisfied the needs of all categories of users.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Oculus and Respawn Entertainment teased it in 2017 at OC4 describing it as an AAA war game. Throughout this year, we got always more info about it: at first the name, then the setting (WWII), then compatible platforms (both Oculus Store and Steam), and finally, this week, even some info on the multiplayer modes. News worth a mention.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 28, 2019

As a matter of fact, the recent AWE EU event in Munich, Germany saw quite the turnout, and naturally, VRFocus caught up with several of them to see what they had in store for the future of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology. Also on hand was Blend Media which had just officially announced Blend Market.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. A new report from International Data Corp is now live, predicting that the immersive technology market will rise by 100%+ over each of the next four years. … well, sort of.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It comes out from the passion of someone that has just discovered how immersive realities are beautiful, or maybe from the mind of a student that has just finished the university and wants to find a dream job in AR or VR. I will briefly highlight all my recent story and how I got started with every new role I covered in the immersive field.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pixel density is what makes us see everything crisper, and if with the 773 PPI of the Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3 Link the screen door effect was already almost invisible, I think that with 1200, it will be impossible to see pixels at all, for a very immersive virtual reality. This means more powerful and more immersive integrated speakers.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

Huge Immersive Virtual Environment (HIVE) of Miami University is a 1,000 square meters virtual reality environment, and is used for the university’s research work such as spatial cognition and medical training simulations in nursing programs. They meet avatars that speak to them in Germany. Academic research application.

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InstaVR

AUGUST 4, 2019

SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. 2019 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Please see [link] for additional trademark information and notices. ###. About InstaVR Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It can be pre-ordered on the Meta website and will ship from October, 25th in all the 22 countries where Quest 2 is already shipping (sorry, still no Germany, then). EUR – Available for pre-order on 10/11, ships on 11/22): A full light blocking facial interface that easily attaches to Meta Quest Pro for a more immersive experience.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

One of key detractors for a complete immersion into virtual reality experience is the presence of cables which hinder your digital movement. Hence, the question for the VR industry is… what is freedom and how one becomes free? Then again, MSI is the only backpack available for purchase.

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