Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2017

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has tapped Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s current Global VP, for the position of CEO at Oculus VR. Barra will be tasked with not only leading Oculus, Facebook’s subsidiary, but all of Facebook’s VR projects. On top of that, SEE ALSO Oculus Touch Review: Reach into Rift.

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ARPost

JULY 5, 2019

New virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Daydream have barely scratched the surface of the technology’s potential. Soon, they’d find out that virtual worlds are exciting for people of all ages. Six residents will enter the virtual world at the same time.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR. Find an Oculus Rift and Touch Demo Location. Oculus maintains a list of stores across the US and Europe where you can try the Rift, Touch, and Gear VR for free. Oculus has a healthy smattering of demo locations across the US in many Best Buy and Microsoft stores. Google Daydream.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

SAMSUNG AT VIDCON: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Inarguably, Meta in 2023 is the leader in VR with combination of Quest 2 and Quest 3 likely to make it one of the hottest selling game consoles in the world. Could something rivaling the introduction of Mac, iPod and iPhone really follow this?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

But Samsung isn’t stopping there… THE NEXT GENERATION OF GEAR VR MAY COME WITH CONTROLLER. Although not yet officially confirmed by the Korean company, a recent FCC filing indicates that the next version of the Samsung Gear VR will boast its own controller. OCULUS RIFT ARRIVES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It’s an immersive virtual world that includes all types of content, data, scores, stats, along with other ways for fans to experience the game.”. It’s currently available for Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus , and Google Play. It’s different,” he said.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

Mario Kart comes to VR, E3’s VR news, Intel’s new VR eSports league AND wireless VR solution, Samsung buys their way into social, the investment & funding wrapup, and more…. You’ll be able to sit in a real-world go-kart rig and race around in the virtual world. SAMSUNG BUYS A SOCIAL VR CARD.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The introduction of virtual reality technology in many areas: oil and gas industry, engineering, energy, metallurgy, telecommunications, advertising, and many others. Engagement.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

Press release: vTime Now the Most Widely Available VR Social Network with Launch on Google Daydream. Liverpool, UK – vTime , the VR Sociable Network, today becomes the most widely-available VR social network in the world as it launches for Google Daydream. www.vTime.net.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2017

Live stream your cartoon virtual avatar on Facebook, Slate launches new live show in Facebook Spaces, join your friend to play with art together, Facebook’s standalone headset is coming, the investment & funding wrapup, and more…. NOW YOU CAN LIVE STREAM YOUR CARTOON AVATAR ON FACEBOOK. FACEBOOK’S STANDALONE HEADSET: IT’S COMING.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself). Google Cardboard.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand. You just turn them on and they work.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

Small, fluid moves make it easy to navigate, jump, crawl, run, shoot or otherwise survive, for example, in a post-apocalyptic virtual world.” Most notable is the long list of compatible platforms from all Windows PCs, Android devices, Steam, the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, and more.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Later this year, HelloVR will be releasing an early version of a huge, open-world social VR experience called Metaworld. Google Omnitone Surround Sound Support.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It is simple: imagine that you have little money and can’t afford to buy a full VR rig, but you can only afford to buy a Samsung Gear VR or an Oculus Go , for instance. Look at this video of me while drawing elements using Google Blocks running on my PC. As you can see, for me it has been as using Blocks on the PC!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 15, 2017

You’re raring to jump into virtual worlds but, let’s face it, you’re probably about $1,000 lighter than you were yesterday and gaming is not a cheap hobby. HTC Vive and Oculus Rift – The Lab. Oculus Rift – Robo Recall. “Isn’t Dead and Buried an Oculus Touch game?”

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Immersive Authority

JANUARY 12, 2016

WebVR has advanced to a point that it allows you to browse the web the classic way (pc or mobile screen with mouse/keyboard/touch input for navigation) or virtually (with a head mounted display (e.g. Mozilla and Google are the major players in enabling WebVR through the Firefox and Chrome browsers.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. If you have a Samsung Gear VR, you can now connect with your Facebook friends through Oculus Home. In the official words of the Oculus blog, this is “just the beginning of social VR.”. OCULUS CEO STEPS DOWN, WILL LEAD PC DIVISION.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds.

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Infinityleap

MAY 11, 2016

Earlier last week, Oculus announced a handful of new changes to Gear VR , its mobile headset for Samsung phones, along with one big new Facebook feature created with virtual reality (VR) in mind: the arrival of 360-degree photo capability in Facebook’s News Feed. The Oculus Experience. Photo credit: Samsung).

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 11, 2017

The big deal of the season is the Oculus Rift bundle , with the Oculus Touch controllers, for $400. If you were looking to buy an Oculus Rift, and have a compatible computer, this is a great time to pick it up. Plus, like the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive requires that it be plugged into a computer.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We already know that Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm are working on a competitor of the Vision Pro, which should be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Gen2+ and cost around $2000. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

According to UploadVR , Oculus intends to release their higher-end standalone VR headset named Santa Cruz at the first quarter of 2019. Oculus is ambitious on taking the market share by designing a VR headset with cameras added for inside-out tracking of 6DOF head movement and two Oculus Touch-style controllers. Travel VR Apps.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

London-based game design firm Glitchers worked with scientists from British and Swiss universities, as well as dementia and Alzheimer’s charities, to create Sea Hero Quest VR – a virtual reality computer game as part of the world’s biggest dementia research experiment.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The devices from Oculus VR hit a sweet spot of affordability and performance. If you got an Oculus headset this Christmas — or didn’t, and are planning to buy one ( available on Amazon for $200 ) — this guide can help you learn about the most important features. Oculus devices and developments. Oculus Rooms.

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Infinityleap

MAY 31, 2016

While there were various attempts to realize such device over the past decades, Google definitely has the prerogative of raising the awareness of the general public for this technology. Its Google Glass finally unlocked the market of smart eyewear in 2013. These goggles will abduct you from reality and plunge you into a virtual world.

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RealVision VR

JULY 14, 2016

Queuing to wear a headset at a trade show, or even the energy needed to slip a phone into a give-away Google Cardboard viewer might soon lose it’s novelty. Oculus’ rift and even the Samsung GearVR (a darling of VR marketing depts) will soon have room scale tracking capability. The HTC Vive headset is in the lead.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2017

Well over two years since the first Gear VR headset was launched (but just a few months after Google’s Daydream VR headset launched) Samsung is launching a motion controller for Gear VR which adds a new layer of interactivity and brings the headset’s input scheme in line with Daydream.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The devices from Oculus VR hit a sweet spot of affordability and performance. If consumers who have an Oculus headset or are considering buying one, this guide can help them learn about the most important features. Oculus Devices and Developments. Oculus VR is a classic tech tale. Must-Have Apps for Using Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Almost exactly five years ago, the hot thing I could think of to control virtual worlds was the early Emotiv EEG headsets. And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. And Oculus did hold on to that exclusivity for quite a while. Out of seemingly nowhere, Facebook decides to enter the field, and buys Oculus for 2.4

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. What about yours? Let me know how things are going for you!

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

We received word from WorldViz that they are putting the finishing touches on a Virtual Reality expansion for their PPT (Precision Position Tracking) system. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device. “The beauty of our PPT system and the new plug-ins is that they take the orientation data from the game engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Mike Abrash, formerly of Valve, now at Oculus, their chief scientist, he made this interesting observation about Moore’s Law. GB: Google Glass. I look at Google Glass and it was really interesting. Or it’s a Google problem. Because you’re sitting over there, I know you can’t see parts of my virtual world.

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