ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

This is only one of a suite of tools for emergency care personnel and clinicians offered through the organization. Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. That includes businesses, schools, clubs, charities, and governments. Entropia sdn.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Now, users who own an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or a Windows Mixed Reality headset can explore the platform in immersive virtual reality. Unlike Second Life or OpenSim, Sinespace doesn’t currently have in-world building or scripting tools.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. So, it was like a kids-version of Tilt Brush , absolutely not identical to the professional tool that is Tilt Brush. I really loved talking with him.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’m not sure what I was expecting to experience when I sat down to try Zero Days VR in Sundance’s VR Palace, but when I took the Oculus off, my mind was spinning. ” But okay, let’s back up. .” ” But okay, let’s back up. What is Zero Days VR ? This happened around 2010.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Along with seeing VR as a major educational tool, the corporation was also promoting the use of its videogame content as a teaching tool with ‘Minecraft Education Edition’ being played avidly on the stand. Another exhibitor using Beat Saber and the Oculus Rift S was Nutanix. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. So this was before Oculus. One is government. And we roll this out with more than 50 governments around the globe, national governments.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. So this was before Oculus. One is government. And we roll this out with more than 50 governments around the globe, national governments.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Some weeks ago, Meta announced that it was going to remove the name “Oculus” from almost all its products and services to substitute it with “Meta”. This week we had an important step in that direction, with the historical “Oculus” account on Twitter being rebranded to “MetaQuestVR”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar's experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR -- they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. So this was before Oculus. One is government. And we roll this out with more than 50 governments around the globe, national governments.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

Preparing tools, SDKs and IDEs. As HoloLens uses relatively new technology, there not as many tools that allow for developing for mixed reality. Based on the Program-Ace experience, a set of the minimum necessary tools is quite small and can be limited to: 3D design: Autodesk Maya , 3ds Max , Adobe PhotoShop , Substance Painter.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. This is exactly what Lowe’s is doing with its Holoroom.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All social companies are now competing on who can offer the best tools to create them: the one having the lead is currently Snapchat (that has been the first startup believing in augmentations), which has already implemented full-body filters, and location-based filters, where you can augment certain landmarks of various cities.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

From birth we grow to understand the objects around us by the rules that govern how they move, and how we move them. Last year, we released an early access beta of the Leap Motion Interaction Engine , a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics. As humans, we are spatial, physical thinkers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The platform enables enterprises to look at training and assessment in a completely different way, providing the tools to help maximize human performance, resulting in a more engaged, better equipped and safer workforce. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Guys, welcome to the show. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The platform enables enterprises to look at training and assessment in a completely different way, providing the tools to help maximize human performance, resulting in a more engaged, better equipped and safer workforce. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Guys, welcome to the show. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The platform enables enterprises to look at training and assessment in a completely different way, providing the tools to help maximize human performance, resulting in a more engaged, better equipped and safer workforce. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. Guys, welcome to the show. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The platform enables enterprises to look at training and assessment in a completely different way, providing the tools to help maximize human performance, resulting in a more engaged, better equipped and safer workforce. I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. If you want to learn more, you can visit immerse.io.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The platform enables enterprises to look at training and assessment in a completely different way, providing the tools to help maximize human performance, resulting in a more engaged, better equipped and safer workforce. I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. If you want to learn more, you can visit immerse.io.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Ferhan: It is quite interesting, because we talk with institutions not only in educational, but government institutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Ferhan: It is quite interesting, because we talk with institutions not only in educational, but government institutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers - Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel -- and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Ferhan: It is quite interesting, because we talk with institutions not only in educational, but government institutions.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

First, they acquired Oculus and said that nothing would have changed for the startup, and they promised Palmer that no Oculus Rift would have required a Facebook account. Then they slowly kicked away all the previous executives from Oculus and took control of the company. Then they absorbed Oculus into Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2020

To summarize it in some bullet points: It seems a lot Rec Room for now; It is deeply built on the Facebook framework , but you can still use your Oculus username and friends; The graphics are cartoonish and pretty simple; Everyone in Horizon can build worlds easily by using some internal creation tools in VR. It is only a beta.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

This is not the world where it woke up to virtual/augmented reality when Facebook bought Oculus for 3-billion dollars. And the Oculus at launch started what I call the third wave of VR. VR is going to take us back to that, but also give us a lot of added tools. AR is just a tool. VR is just a tool. Alan: Yeah.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. Recent Matrix investments include Oculus VR, Zendesk, Hubspot, Acacia Communications, Polyvore, Lever, Poynt and Namely. 43- Dillon Seo - Co-Founder #Oculus.

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