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Oculus Brings Rift to 90 Libraries in California for Public Access VR

Road to VR

Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Public libraries provide safe, supportive environments that are available and welcoming to everyone,” says Oculus Education Program Manager Cindy Ball.

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Metaverse needs to solve problems, not be the problem

ARVR

We’re getting better on hardware and high quality content, but how do we actually distribute the fabulous 360 degrees pieces? COVID also helped professional implementation of VR which is closer to the real experience than Zoom, Google Meet or Teams. Hardware ?—?you It will not sell if it creates them. Photo: Meridian Treehouse.

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Samsung Partners with Google & Qualcomm to Release Android-powered XR Device

Road to VR

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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STRIVR Labs Raises $5 Million And Adds Enterprise VR Training

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It is an end-to-end platform, from content capture to reporting/assessment, and the content is viewed with regular VR headsets like Oculus and Samsung Gear VR. The hardware will get better in next 12 to 16 months.”. STRIVR is currently working with HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR across all of its business.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Samsung VR is now somewhat similar to the App Store or Google Play store in that it’s where you can find the latest content for virtual reality products. LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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When to Use Virtual Reality (VR) Instead of Augmented Reality (AR)?

InstaVR

Virtual Reality (VR), by contrast, can be published across a wide range of devices (headsets like Oculus Go/Quest and Gear VR, phones, Google Cardboard, WebVR, and much more), is completely immersive, and doesn’t necessarily require a real-time data connection (ie can be run offline). So why is immersion important?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.05): HP and Canon reveal new XR enterprise headsets, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

If the price of the headset is below $1500, I think we are looking at a piece of hardware that may kill many competitors in the enterprise XR space , also considering the fact that HP is a reliable company for business collaboration. If you use VR in your company, keep an eye on the Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition. It seems fair to me.

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