VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Each year over 70 experts in immersive technology come together to meticulously inspect everything from innovative new hardware to groundbreaking VR experiences to other colossal advancements that will push VR into brand new directions. Healthcare of the Year Award – FundamentalVR.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

VR Healthcare. For the second year in a row, VR Healthcare of the Year Award went to FundamentalVR. VR Hardware. The VR Hardware of the Year Award was awarded to Valve for Index, the company’s first virtual reality headset developed and manufactured in-house. See Also: Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest in 2020.

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ARPost

JUNE 19, 2020

It layers real-world scents to a digital space, giving users a truly immersive experience. OVR Technology harnesses the power of our olfactory system to make VR immersive. Whether its applications are in healthcare, education, or training, scent experiences enable users to achieve better outcomes. Scentware ION.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

VR Hardware of the Year. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

VR Healthcare of the Year. The first VR Award, VR Healthcare of the Year went to Osso VR for “Cinematic VR Surgical Training Platform.” Accepting the VR Award was Virtualware , a company spanning education, entertainment, and healthcare. for Current, Rising , a Tempest-inspired immersive opera. VR Hardware of the Year.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2021

The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) has announced the finalists for the fifth International VR Awards , an international ceremony honoring incredible milestones made within the VR industry in categories such as hardware, gaming, film, social VR, marketing, and more. VR HEALTHCARE OF THE YEAR. VR HARDWARE OF THE YEAR.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

From healthcare and education, to attractions and concerts?—?we VR hardware, like the Meta Quest, gets rightfully compared to next-gen game consoles in both price and consumer experience, but that also presents it’s inherent problem as a practical solution outside of consumer entertainment. Even so, the question remains?—?Can

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. VR Hardware of the Year. The Oculus Rift S headset.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

VR Healthcare. For the second year in a row, VR Healthcare of the Year Award went to FundamentalVR. See Also: How Immersive Technology Is Advancing Healthcare. VR Hardware. Competition in the category came from last year’s category winners at Oculus , as well as Varjo and others. VR Social Impact.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Likewise, hardware, software and third-party content creators for extended reality (XR) are seeing much stronger enterprise growth compared to consumer sector growth over the last 12 months: almost half (49.2%) reported that growth on the consumer side was weaker than expected, as opposed to just 25.7% working on AR/MR.

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ARVR

APRIL 22, 2022

And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched in late 2020. The 25 best Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2 games?—?Spring XRHealth secures $10 million in funding to expand its VR healthcare treatment in the Metaverse. Alpha Metaverse Technologies to acquire Shape Immersive. But demand remains strong.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

As people flock online during quarantine we now find ourselves experimenting with new platforms, pushing immersive technologies to the limits, and collaborating in new ways; from eye-tracking technology and facial tracking to biometrics and brain-control interfaces. Perhaps more widely known in mind-control systems is Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The VR Awards 2019 is the biggest event in the UK calendar celebrating the immersive industry. The categories covered everything from videogames and hardware to companies and individuals who have either shown the most promise or helped push the XR industry forward, with some very familiar names appearing.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the rise of XR hardware continues, the tech space gives consumer and enterprise end-users an avenue to explore spatial computing. Unlike a VR headset, smart glasses focus on presenting an AR environment which overlays immersive visualizations upon a user’s location. The firm is also exploring new healthcare-related usage.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The hardware that Rendever uses to offer VR experiences has also gone through some changes. It was initially offered through Samsung Gear, and then Oculus Go. With the recent discontinuation of Go, Rendever is switching to Pico , finding 3-DoF hardware to be the best for their needs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The leading XR hardware and software vendor debuted Meta Quest for Business in November following a previous iteration and beta testing stages. The enterprise XR space is full of big-name competitors, all claiming that their immersive solutions will be the ones to take the future of work forward and into the present day.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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ARPost

AUGUST 16, 2019

When it comes to the type of immersive projects, 59% of respondents indicated games. This is not surprising, given the appetite of the consumers for interactive and immersive games. After three years of dominance in the top for platforms preferred by developers, HTC VIVE hands the crown to Oculus in 2019. Technology-related.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. As for VR hardware, Naylor says, “I’m looking for something that allows the aforementioned content to reach its full potential whilst making itself as accessible as possible to consumers.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Just as the leading immersive technology firm started rolling out its most recent MR headset and Ray Ban Smartglasses, it appears that behind the scenes, Meta’s diverse lineup of XR engineers is working towards the next step of its headset lineup. Is Meta working on another XR headset following the Meta Quest 3?

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 22, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. The post Training Healthcare Workers With XR appeared first on Tech Trends. UCLH in the U.K. and Sana in Germany.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement… including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. The device class continues to inflect as companies like Apple lean in as a means to future-proof a hardware business that’s overly reliant on a maturing iPhone.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our product LooxidVR has three key features: Hardware usability : What’s unique about LooxidVR is that it helps researchers integrate VR into their research in the simplest way. By simply wearing our headset, subjects can be fully immersed in the experiment setting, making the output of the research much more accurate and reliable.

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2020

I went to Oculus Connect One and that’s where a lot of the XR community solidified and I love it.” I think people are scared of it as too artsy and creative, but it’s also great for business, science, healthcare. It’s a little bit like a trojan horse—once we get them here we’ll immerse them in all the great programming!”

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. A new report from International Data Corp is now live, predicting that the immersive technology market will rise by 100%+ over each of the next four years. … well, sort of.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION. Teleportation has become a common way to move users around a virtual environment, but Oculus was just granted a patent for a novel method of movement that could be more intuitive. NEW LAUNCHES, MOVEMENTS, AND MONEY.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

or just meet and talk about immersive realities. He started working in the field many years before me , and he has seen all the transition from old-school VR to the modern devices kickstarted by Palmer Luckey, and so has a great knowledge on immersive realities and many other related technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Numerous executives and officials have rallied the global tech community to sustain the momentum of a renaissance of immersive technologies. ” He explained that XR had become a thriving industry , transforming verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and gaming.

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2019

AT&T and Magic Leap are pitching a similar marketing message involving Magic Leap One and 5G, and have begun exclusively selling the headset in select AT&T stores… but the whole thing falls flat upon the realization that the headset doesn’t actually have any 5G hardware. But there’s so much more creativity ahead.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO IMMERSIVE TECH. XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for a variety of immersive technologies including VR (Virtual Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). In a Virtual Reality experience users are fully immersed in a simulated digital environment, shutting out the physical world.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Other Fosun investments include personal insurance, mobile healthcare, and early childhood education investments centered around tech. We’ve seen a myriad of attempts, but so far none that match the precision, latency, and robustness of the ‘outside-in’ approach employed by devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Users will still be able to see most of the real world in front of them — unlike virtual reality, which completely immerses the user in a computer-generated fantasyland, augmented reality layers computer-generated text and images on top of reality. Apple is also adding hardware to its iPhones that hint at a headset-based future.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Oculus improves development time for UE4 developers. Image by Pico).

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

While the ability of VR to provide valuable, realistic experiences without introducing real-world risks has found many fans across various industries (from healthcare to real estate), the most popular types of virtual reality content remain video games, movies and television. Oculus Rift + Touch. from Oculus. Google Cardboard.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. Canada, and U.K. UCLH in the U.K. and Sana in Germany.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2019

At Oculus Connect 6, we had the opportunity to try out many of the new things announced at the event, as well as check out the latest work by developers and creators working in the VR space. Vader Immortal – Episode II is now available for $10 on the Oculus Quest and Rift platforms. Oculus Link. Oculus Hand Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

I’ve had the opportunity to interview him together with two other journalists and during the interview we have been able to span different topics, from cinema to the MagicVerse, not to mention mixed reality storytelling and immersive cinema. Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta.

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