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Take A Look At Facebook’s New VR Avatars For Quest

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The new avatar system will debut first on Facebook Horizon for Oculus Quest headsets. Yesterday, Mark Rabkin, VP of Oculus, sat down with CNET’s Scott Stein to chat about the companies advancements in VR avatar technology, during which a brand new VR avatar system for Oculus Quest/Quest 2 headsets was revealed.

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Pico Becomes Last One Standing in Enterprise 3DoF

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In June, Oculus announced that it would no longer carry Go. It may not seem like it, but it’s been over two years since Oculus launched the Go. The model was more affordable than just about anything out there but also had more limited memory and controls. Oculus has since made good on its promise. Pico G2 4K Enterprise.

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A Closer Look at the HP Reverb G2

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The company’s original Reverb headset is well known to industry users, but is less popular among casual users than models by companies like VIVE and Oculus. As a tethered VR headset, the main competition that the Reverb is walking into involves the previously alluded to VIVE Pro and Oculus Rift S.

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Developing Better Haptics With Interhaptics

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The other product is an “interaction builder” for creating gesture controls. These controls are showcased to many XR users in a gaming environment but have huge practical implications in enterprise training. Controllers are more precise from a tracking perspective, but they are a barrier to entry,” said Vezzoli.

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“Facebook” Is now “Meta” and Other News From Connect 2021

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Leaks in advance of Facebook Connect, particularly around the time that VIVE Flow was announced , had many anticipating new devices from Oculus. He also more than suggested at a couple of points that Facebook logins would no longer be required for Oculus headsets in the near future. Horizon Updates and an Interoperability API.

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Banishing Your Nightmares with VR

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Over the course of one month, 19 patients who reported having frequent nightmares were able to modify the visuals —for example a great white shark swimming closer and closer— they found threatening – using an Oculus headset and joysticks with gesture controls – in order to make them less scary.

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Resonai CEO Emil Alon Shares How Augmented Reality Will Transform the Modern Workforce

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Pebbles Interfaces, a company specializing in gesture control, was one of them. Facebook bought it to power its Oculus Rift headset. He also talks about Vera, a powerful AI/AR platform. The Birth of Resonai. Alon founded and sold various companies prior to Resonai.