XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Meta to Drive AI-Powered XR Devices The upcoming AI features come as Meta seemingly sets its last hurrah for the previous Oculus branding, with all future sails featuring Meta. This month, Meta will remove all Oculus accounts and related data by the end of the month. Meta will enforce these changes today, on March 29th.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. And they are entering it to dominate it.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development. It’s literally who you are in the virtual world and is thus very important.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

XR brings real-world and virtual elements together like never before, to create interactive experiences which enlighten and inspire. For instance, the Oculus Quest 2, one of the world’s top gaming headsets, sold 15 million units after 20 months on the market, even during a pandemic.

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

Virtual Reality is an immersive simulation of reality in which the surrounding world is completely replaced with a computer generated world. This is achieved using a headset that completely fills the users field of view in combination with body tracking to map the players body into the virtual world.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These investments are seen as foundations for future content and hardware, and with consumers purchasing more immersive tech hardware, it’s likely that we’ll be seeing more VR and AR content. He goes on to share that the success of the Quest 2 will fuel interest in the new Quest 3, which should will be released in 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

I asked HTC about the lack of 5G support, and an executive told me that 5G has not been added because it would have added complexity to the hardware, and especially an additional high cost (and these new headsets are already expensive enough). According to her backstory, Vee is a virtual space traveler who comes from the future VIVE Reality.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2019

. “SVR overcomes hurdles of modern virtual reality, specifically the emotional isolation of the user,” said Ingvar Goldman, CVO, Sensorium Corporation, in an official release. “We’ve completely removed this obstacle by creating compelling shared virtual worlds centered around music, gaming events, and shows.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

These changes will also impact Reality Labs and CTO Andrew Bosworth is deciding these days which hardware projects to kill during this spending review operation. Then, he donned an Oculus Quest 2, put a controller on the bike, and rode the bike while doing the VR game, with the real track mapped perfectly with the virtual track.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Image leaked from Oculus runtime). The design of Oculus Quest 2 Pro and controllers has been leaked. The negative reputation could stick with the social network, but not influence products like Oculus headsets, for instance. Facebook releases the Oculus Go unlocked runtime. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

It feels like only 5 minutes ago we caught wind of a new startup riding on the back of the new virtual reality revolution, one based in Utah that had its sights set on creating a cutting edge mixed reality theme park. The experience is apparently around 15 minutes long, with groups of three players taking part at any one time.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Soon you’ll be able to wave around a controller to instruct your virtual worlds, probably like a laser pointer. OCULUS RIFT ARRIVES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. An Oculus Rift headset has been modified and certified for use in space by French space agency CNES. ZENIMAX TRIES TO SHUT DOWN OCULUS.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

Facebook’s Oculus dramatically dropped Rift’s price and Valve is building a second generation of the innovative tracking technology deployed by HTC that could alter the VR landscape. And amid all this, dozens of new virtual worlds arrive each week for people to explore in VR headsets.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 13, 2019

High Fidelity, a virtual world platform from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale. It hit all the buzzwords — an open source code base, a Blockchain-based virtual currency, and even had avatars that could duplicate your actual hand gestures and facial expressions. What about its virtual workplace? Not just yet.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION. Movement is a big issue in virtual reality, and developers have to be careful to make sure users are not nauseated by vestibular mismatch (your brain/eyes say “I’m moving” in the virtual world which contradicts your inner ear/balance which say “I’m stationary” in the real world).

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

Is the evolution in the exploration of virtual and augmented realities, because it takes advantage of the power of the web together with the unification of these realities, facilitating the creation of immersive and interactive environments, virtual reality tools, and more. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual reality is described as a “three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”,

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Best VR Games – Oculus Rift + Quest Link. With our Best Of Virtual Reality series we wanted to try a slightly different approach to recognizing the top places in VR. We also want to recognize standout limited experiences as well as those that give you reasons to go beyond the most basic home VR hardware setups.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The Meta team is exploring augmented reality solutions designed to work with smartphones and smart glasses, as well as virtual reality environments compatible with a range of Oculus headsets. Environments created on the platform can be published to any device, anywhere, with Instant links and Cavrnus streaming services.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 21, 2019

But technology companies keep pushing it, driven in part by a belief that maybe this time the next advancement in hardware and services will convince consumers to strap a headset onto their face and stay for a while in a virtual world. Oculus Quest and Rift S now shipping. The company was formed and financed with $6.3

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The event hosts people from very important companies like NVIDIA, VR Chat, The Khronos Group, Alibaba (there is Jack Ma!), That’s a bit disappointing and considering that in some months Oculus will release the Quest , that has full 6 DOF support, HTC had necessarily to do something. pic.twitter.com/X1dWr780Se. Really fantastic.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

It’s been said it only takes one visionary to champion VR within an organization; that one passionate (and sometimes crazy) person who “gets it” early and then slowly but surely gets others in the group on board. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

In my time with the Gear VR version I sat in Hanna Valley just outside of the main gate, in the middle of a group of trees that were flanked by a friendly panda bear sitting on a rock. The Gear VR version is great, don’t get me wrong, but due to its lack of processing power I can easily tell I’m in a virtual world.

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VRPlayin

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It’s fair to say that each group or team has their own naysayer. And contrary to what you may think, they are extremely important to group dynamics as long as they don’t bring everyone down. But that does not mean that after 10-20 min in it their brain will slowly start to function as if in the virtual world, with its rules and colors.

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Peter Graham

JULY 26, 2019

VRFocus didn’t review that version at the time, so with the launch on PC via the Epic Games store supporting Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it was time to dive back in. Just like the PlayStation version, the PC edition is designed for 2D monitor gameplay with optional VR support for those that have the hardware.

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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: Oculus).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. Alan: We have an amazing guest today: DJ Smith is the co-founder and chief creative officer at The Glimpse Group. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. Alan: We have an amazing guest today: DJ Smith is the co-founder and chief creative officer at The Glimpse Group. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

All sort of innovations were happening in that studio, so my group of friends pulled me there and I got a job in the camera department. He was obsessed with Virtual Reality. Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta. Within a year, I was already shooting scenes with a running camera.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. PvP arenas are very engaging thanks to their competitive aspect but it also means they work best for groups of friends, gamers, and people who want to compete and see who’s the best. All in all, I had fun and can’t wait to see what Meta4 has in store next.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The virtual reality (VR) industry is still very much a community which wants to see everyone succeed, whether that’s an indie developer or hardware manufacturer. Using modified Oculus Rift’s and backpack PC’s, DIVR’s system is very much on par with others VRFocus has tested.

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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

APRIL 29, 2022

But they are also easier to understand: you don’t need a dedicated team to explain to attendees how to install VRChat and that no, the VRChat website is not the actual virtual world. It was cool to start the event with someone directly connected from a virtual world (Image by Anothereality).

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I’ve been using Unity for over 5 years for developing 3D simulations and virtual world applications, data visualization solutions, and more recently for game projects.”. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Mac, Oculus Rift. They form part of the unofficial Leap Motion Jp developers group. IoT Projects.

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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. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. It’s basically a monopoly. It makes totally sense.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

And now also companies are affected directly : after a worker has been found positive to the virus in the Seattle venue, now a group of Facebook employees has been left working from home. Oculus rejects Crisis VRigade again, causing backlash from the community. That’s a disaster. So, Start it is not a valid answer.

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