VRScout

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time, however, this was one of the most advanced pieces of consumer electronic hardware you could buy for under $600. . Real Commodore 64 – Virtually is actually based off an earlier version that Gomberg built for the Oculus Go back in 2020, which itslef was based on a Commodore 64 project by Jonas Minnberg called Machineroom.

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JULY 25, 2017

Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. We only saw them through a picture at first, but now a video has surfaced online showing them in action. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, you just picked up your Oculus Quest 2 headset and you’re ready to dive into a massive catalog of AAA games and apps like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , Beat Saber, or Blaston! Next, download the official Oculus companion app via the iOS App Store or Google Play. Unfortunately, this is non negotiable.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. The best VR headset on the market just got even better.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2023

John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, is known for giving his unfiltered thoughts on almost every aspect of the XR industry. Chan shows through-the-lens images, and discusses “the good, the bad, and the weird with this unique approach to high-end bespoke VR,” the video’s description reads.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. That’s a wrap on Oculus Connect 6. Oculus Link launches this November ; Oculus will be offering its own official USB-C cable as well. .

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Oculus has spent a lot of time in the headlines over the past few months. What started out with a Kickstarter video and a few dedicated entrepreneurs is now trying to grow into its new status as a billion dollar company. As 2017 gets underway, the question is what does the future hold for Oculus?

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2020

In Facebook’s Q1 2020 earnings call today, the company overviewed its latest financial situation and noted that Oculus products were a major contributor to $297 million in non-advertising revenue. Wehner specifically noted that the increase was “driven primarily by the sales of Oculus products.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2019

At Sandbox Immersive Festival , I have been able to try some interesting hardware solutions. I have already detailed in another post my impressions on the Pico Neo and the HP Reverb … in this one, I will talk about other hardware manufacturers. Me while trying the VR video chair. Veer Chair. It was a quite good experience.

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VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

Though I would love to let my birthday piggyback on that accomplishment, credit actually goes to Facebook-owned Oculus, which launched its Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets on that day. Having participated in a VR tournament using this cutting-edge headset, I can honestly say that Oculus’ hard work is apparent.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said. Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

NextVR , the live event VR broadcasting company, today announced a partnership with Oculus to bring live VR events to Oculus Venues , the company’s upcoming social viewing app that will allow mass viewing of events such as sports, concerts and comedy. NextVR has built a passionate fan base around leading VR content experiences.

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Ryan Schultz

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Horizon Workrooms get savaged in a highly critical review video by The Verge, a sign of the growing antipathy toward’s Meta virtual reality hardware and software strategy. Alex Heath, The Verge (transcribed audio excerpt from the video below). This is worth negative ten billion dollars. ThrillSeeker.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? No new VR hardware announcement. It would be a crazy move.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

With VRChat’s launch on the Oculus Quest, a brand new wave of users now find themselves exploring the platforms’ many digital environments and interacting with the off-beat community. This includes Whaleface Industries: Underling Division , a brand new Oculus Quest avatar world with a very specific theme.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2020

Who doesn’t love the Oculus Quest? Like any fledgling hardware, however, the device is not without its faults, the most vocal being a heavy front-end that can cause additional stress to a user’s neck during extended play sessions. The handy comfort mod has reached its $9,000 Kickstarter goal within 24 hours.

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The AR Show

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Bobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world. Bobak studied at George Washington and Georgetown universities before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University.

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2020

Check out this next-gen office powered by Oculus’ Passthrough technology. Earlier this week Facebook’s head of AR & VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed off an experimental mixed reality workspace powered via prototype Oculus hardware. Image Credit: Andrew Bosworth.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

Positional tracking is the dream for immersive video content, but it is a complex hardware and software challenge. While the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive surprisingly still lack support, the company has further plans to support new hardware this year, “including affordable and powerful all-in-one mobile headsets.”.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Last week industry legend and current Oculus VR CTO John Carmack sat down with stand-up comedian and podcast icon Joe Rogan for Episode #1342 of the immensely popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast. 58:33 ] – Carmack compares similarities between Neurolink’s brain-interface RF technology and Oculus’ camera and display system. [

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2018

The $200 Oculus Go is the most accessible VR headset today. But now the Oculus Go is finally here and it’s a big deal, especially for the millions of iPhone users out there who up until today have had limited options to get into VR. Starting today, the Oculus Go standalone VR headset is available for purchase for $199.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, is back again for its sixth year tomorrow. Taking place on September 25th & 26th in San Jose, CA, Oculus Connect 6 should serve up some exciting announcements. You’ll be able to watch it live via the Oculus page , which requires a name and email signup.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Although Facebook is discontinuing its PC-only Rift product line , the company says that PC VR content will live on thanks to Oculus Link, which allows Quest and Quest 2 to tether to a VR ready PC and play high-end content. To that end the company is planning a range of upgrades to improve the Oculus Link experience for both headsets.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. Receiving funding was not only a blessing, but an incredible learning experience for me.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2018

These apps hope to make the Oculus Go your next entertainment device. The $200 standalone VR headset from Oculus has finally arrived. the Oculus Go is part of Oculus’ larger goal to getting one billion consumers into VR. With Oculus Go, iPhone users around the world can now finally jump into VR with something comparable.

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VRScout

JULY 14, 2021

Think of it like a conventional video game platformer, only instead of controlling your avatar using a standard gamepad, you’re physically running throughout a 10,000 square foot arena. You don’t have to use joysticks to move around,” said Chris Olimpo, Co-founder & CEO of Arcadia, in the official launch video.

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ARVR

APRIL 1, 2021

MeetinVR, a Danish world-leading platform for collaborative meetings in virtual reality, today announced the launch on the Oculus Store. We are very excited to be launching on the Oculus Store. If you’re used to working with video calls and prefer sticking to what’s familiar, MeetinVR will soon have a solution for that as well.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

and make it work with Oculus Quest , Vive Focus+ and all other Vive Wave standalone devices… plus all PC SteamVR-compatible headsets! How to make a cross-platform VR application in Unity – Video. I made a video about how to develop an Oculus+Wave+SteamVR compatible Cube application in Unity , and you can find it here below!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. You can watch me unboxing it in this Youtube video. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus).

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VRScout

JANUARY 14, 2022

In my Oculus Quest game Saber City your iPhone can capture mixed reality game footage AND deploy enemies. In a video shared on Reddit, we see two players using the Quest 2 to fight a large mech using a combination of blasters and swords. Personally, I can’t wait to see more mixed reality experiences make their way to XR hardware.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2019

Oculus today released ASW 2.0, Oculus today announced the release of ASW 2.0 Oculus says that ASW 2.0 Oculus says that while ASW 1.0 Oculus says that while ASW 1.0 With the new version, however, Oculus says that “even at [less than 45 FPS], ASW 2.0 on PC for the Rift. extrapolation.”

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The AR Show

MARCH 14, 2023

The Lynx R1 offers a unique VR device with good video-passthrough of the real world to create mixed reality experiences. Stan was inspired by the early Oculus device, the DK2, but wanted a better connection to the real world. Stan was inspired by the early Oculus device, the DK2, but wanted a better connection to the real world.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video service, outlining that Jump will officially go offline on June 28th, 2019. The ability to upload video will be suspended on June 26th; the 27th is the cutoff date to back up whatever files you may have uploaded via the service.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Earlier this year the Mozilla Corporation announced plans for a powerful new version of their popular Firefox browser tailored specifically for web-based mixed reality content on standalone VR & AR headsets including the Lenovo Mirage, Oculus Go, Vive Focus, as well as other standalone devices capable of running on the Vive Wave Platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

In a Youtube video, he revealed some juicy details, like: The cost of the glasses is $499 + prescription lenses; They are connected to the iPhone, that does all the heavy lifting; They were planned for a “one more thing” announcement for Q4 2020- Q1 2021 , and for release one year later. Image by Oculus). (Image by Techgenyz).

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2022

April Fools Day is once again upon us, which means a whole bunch of fake products from VR hardware manufacturers and developers. Using a pair of Oculus Rift controllers, users would be able to do everything from jump and run to a Chuck Norris round-house kick and Sharon Stone’s “leg cross.”

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