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Facebook Expects Coronavirus Will Have “additional impact” on Oculus Quest Availability

Road to VR

After being backordered by weeks in many regions, Oculus Quest is now “unavailable” from Oculus in 17 out of 23 regions where the unit is sold, including the United States, Canada, and much of Europe. Netherlands. Facebook says the Coronavirus outbreak is to blame. United States. South Korea.

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The Netherlands’ Bonami Game Museum has Begun Creating a PlayStation 5 Experience Zone

Peter Graham

Our museum will receive the PS5 as one of the first in the Netherlands. Located in Zwolle, Bonami SpelComputer Museum has a range of retro gaming and modern consoles to offer visitors, possibly the largest videogame console collection in the Netherlands. “Gamers are looking forward to the arrival of the PlayStation 5.

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HelmetVR Combines an Oculus Rift with a Real Race Helmet

Road to VR

Said to be the world’s first VR sim racing helmet, the HelmetVR is perhaps the ultimate in VR sim racing excess, combining a real Arai racing helmet with an Oculus Rift headset. The custom headset comes from FormulaVR, a Netherlands-based, high-end sim rig manufacturer. If you’re going that far, why not?

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Cas & Chary Present: Hands-on with the Lynx R-1 Mixed Reality Headset

Road to VR

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. One half of the office had desks where the software was tested, the other half of the room was full of hardware. I imagined this must have been like when Oculus just started out.

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Pico launches Pico Neo 3 Link: the first true Quest 2 competitor (in Beta)

The Ghost Howls

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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Pictionary-Inspired Multiplayer Game , Potato Party: Hash It Out

XROM

Supports Oculus Quest 1 and 2, Rift S, HTC Vive, and Valve Index. Through this approach, we design experiences that appeal and are accessible to a wide range of people across multiple hardware platforms and gaming skills. Fanaticus XR brings a unique design approach to their development through asymmetric design.

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Cas & Chary Present: Checking Out the YAW VR Motion Simulator

Road to VR

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. Hardware Setup. Setting up the hardware was straightforward. The hardware setup took me about an hour to complete. Cas & Chary Present. feet (195 cm).