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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Apps, Hardware, and Immersive Experience Showcases. These and other immersive experience showcases and conferences have largely gone digital by creating their own custom virtual worlds. They have also allowed people to attend from anywhere in the world without the concern for travel and lodgings. Experiencing LucidWeb.

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MARCH 15, 2017

A new tool from NVIDIA for benchmarking VR hardware and experiences should make it easier for buyers to figure out how systems perform in real world scenarios. Head-mounted displays like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive put heavy demands on the PCs required to power these headsets. Tagged with: FCAT VR.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leaks in advance of Facebook Connect, particularly around the time that VIVE Flow was announced , had many anticipating new devices from Oculus. There were announcements, mainly involving hardware and new titles and game updates in the coming year, and a new headset was announced though it won’t be here until next year at the earliest.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, as-ever delivered an inspiring presentation at today’s F8 conference, this time on the topic of Augmented Reality. Oculus Research is hard at work on AR, and we’re far from the only ones”, says Abrash, but notes that many of the necessary enabling technologies do not currently exist.

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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. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action. We only saw them through a picture at first, but now a video has surfaced online showing them in action.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Facebook officially unveiled Quest 2 today along with third-party hardware accessories offered direct from Oculus.com , which includes two new headphones from Logitech and replacement facial interfaces from VR Cover. Description: Oculus Ready G333 VR is the official in-ear audio solution for Oculus Quest 2. Price : $29.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Embark on an epic pint-sized quest September 23rd on On Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport. After five grueling years of development, critically-acclaimed filmmaker Jon Favreau ( Iron Man, The Mandalorian ) is finally set to launch his long-awaited dream-like VR adventure Gnomes & Goblins later this month on Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Better AR Hardware Options Better AR hardware options, caused by innovations in mobile technology, such as LiDAR and ToF (depth sensing hardware). Hands-On Review Unlike AR, VR is entirely simulated and disconnected from the physical world. For example, it’s popular among furniture stores like EQ3.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. percent of VR headsets connected to Steam at the time of the hardware survey last month were still the DK2. .

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Before hopping into the virtual world, attendees select their name and choose a personal photo (preferably the one you used for your badge) to serve as the head of their avatar. Lining the virtual walls of the Gallery are images of every project in attendance as well as instructions on how to access them. FILM PARTY.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

If you want to play Valve’s upcoming videogame epic Half-Life: Alyx then you’re going to need more than just a PC because this new instalment is only for virtual reality (VR) headsets. Half-Life: Alyx will be Valve’s flagship VR experience but there’s more than one way to dive into this virtual world on 23rd March.

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 18, 2022

You’re invited to be a part of this cross-worlds discussion group, with 685 people participating from every social VR platform and virtual world! This corporate decision was the last straw for me, and I publicly declared a personal boycott, from that point on, of Meta hardware and software. You’re welcome to come join us!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have. We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. The day is finally upon us — the Oculus Touch launches tomorrow. It turns out it never really went away.

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JUNE 2, 2022

2013; Nabben, 2021) that seamlessly integrates the physical world with the virtual world. This allows avatars to carry out rich activities including creation, display, entertainment, social networking, and trading, hybridizing work, rest, and play between physical and virtual reality (Ynag, et. Crypto Cities”. Epic Games.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Facebook originally launched Oculus Quest 2 with a default 72Hz refresh rate and ‘experimental’ support for 90Hz, which has since become the new default. A faster refresh rate makes the virtual world inside the headset smoother, more comfortable, and more immersive. 120Hz Refresh Rate Likely Coming to Quest 2.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The latest update for Oculus Quest, v35, is rolling out to headsets starting today and brings with it mixed reality casting, global cloud saves, and Facebook Messenger calls in VR. This feature allows you to cast the VR experience to a smartphone while seeing your real body right inside of the virtual world.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. billion USD in 2021 to $84.09

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AUGUST 31, 2020

In contrast to 2019, 2020 will continue to be a little quiet in terms of hardware, with major brands like Facebook and Lenovo having launched new headsets just last year. It’s important to note, however, that Facebook finally released the Oculus for Business program on its Oculus Quest headset. Release date: 2020.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the story, players access the virtual world using the NerveGear, a VR headset that, unbeknownst to them, actually kills a user if they “die” in-game. In honor of the SAO incident, Palmer Luckey, the original founder of Oculus, has designed his own version of a VR headset that kills you if your health drops too low.

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APRIL 17, 2018

How close are we to walking around a Ready Player One world? In Ready Player One’ s opening act, Steven Spielberg sets the stage for the capabilities of 2045’s VR hardware. The omnidirectional treadmill is one of a handful of locomotion methods shown in Ready Player One’s future world, but are any of these actually possible?

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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. Pimax Artisan.

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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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MARCH 28, 2017

In the middle of August 2012 I wrote my first article about Oculus. I’d previously seen some expensive VR installations, like those used by Disney , but my view inside the Oculus Rift — and the interviews I conducted with researchers at Stanford and USC — convinced me VR had a good chance of actually going mainstream. .

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I tried it with the Leap Motion controller, the one that most of us have bought years ago to experiment with the OG Vive or the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1… but actually, UltraLeap (the previous Leap Motion) has created a second-generation camera sensor. We can see the tape as the universal mount of the UltraLeap 2 for all headsets!

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The award went to Geometry Ogilvy Japan for the Shibuya Virtual Halloween experience, which was also a nominee in the Social Impact category. VR display technology, as well as rendering software and connectivity hardware, have all advanced by leaps and bounds – even in the last year. VR Hardware of the Year.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

SteamVR, Valve’s foundation for VR experiences running on its digital store, has supported Oculus’ Touch controllers since June. Users are also reporting that you can see the Touch controllers in Audioshield [ Review: 7/10 ], a game that isn’t currently available on Oculus Home. pic.twitter.com/8Ujn0xWZsu.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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. I’ve tried the Lynx R-1 in VR mode too which employs the ‘immersive cover’ and shows you a purely virtual world instead of passthrough AR.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. It was an optimistic estimate as consumers and hardware alike have required a transition and adoption phase. Just how far away is full-dive VR? Eye-Tracking .

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Arguably, Teams has been a principal exception to this and the platform serves as a logical bridge between Microsoft’s social experiences and their mixed reality hardware. However, Kipman’s keynote said that the experience would, like Teams, be essentially hardware-agnostic allowing users to “connect from any device on any platform.”.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Fresh hardware, a bold new social platform, and Vive Pro eye-tracking are on the way. In actuality HTC was teasing the latest addition their VR hardware lineup, the HTC Vive Cosmos, a PC-based 6DoF VR headset featuring inside-out tracking and a flip-up visor.

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MAY 14, 2018

It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years since the first Oculus Rift dev kits shipped to Kickstarter backers, many of them developers looking to create for the future of VR consumer hardware. It also includes audio commentary by the developer, and works with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and flatscreen monitors.

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JULY 10, 2023

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth reportedly once argued for cancelling the Oculus "standalone VR project" and keeping Rift PC-based VR. One year later Oculus released its first standalone headset, Go. In fact it was actually John Carmack who was most in favor of mobile standalone VR in the early days of Oculus.

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MARCH 20, 2017

The competition between HTC’s Vive and Facebook’s Rift is a closely watched battle, with the two leading PC-powered headsets racing to expand upon the groundwork laid by the SteamVR and Oculus platforms in 2016. ” For $70, the game comes with a guitar to which an Oculus Touch controller attaches.

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JUNE 11, 2021

Facebook has bought several virtual reality game studios over the past couple years, and they added one more to their portfolio Friday with the acquisition of Seattle-based BigBox VR. Facebooks Oculus Quest 2 retails for $299 and the company has said that it outsold all of its previous devices combined in its first few months.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Although MR hardware costs are still relatively expensive, as hardware innovation continues, the space will become more accessible. Instead, people everywhere are beginning to demand more virtual world integration into their physical environments. 2022 is a breakout year for MR hardware and software.

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