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APRIL 7, 2017

A patent application filed today by Oculus indicates the Facebook-owned virtual reality team is researching new kinds of hand controllers. The company’s current solution for bringing your hands with you into a VR experience is Oculus Touch. Tagged with: Haptics , oculus Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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ARVR

JUNE 27, 2022

We’re getting better on hardware and high quality content, but how do we actually distribute the fabulous 360 degrees pieces? Hardware ?—?you Meta is however still struggling with adaptation to business / education use since it abandoned Oculus for Business solution and now you need to have one Facebook account per each headset.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. Because even if Oculus sold 100 million VR headsets, but no third-party developer could make $1 million in revenue, then it wouldn’t be a platform; it would be a successful product for Oculus, but it wouldn’t be a viable platform to create an ecosystem of successful developers.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Meta (Oculus). The brand offers one of the most affordable and straightforward hardware solutions for users interested in virtual reality on the market. With the Oculus ecosystem, schools and professional training companies alike are beginning to scale their virtual curriculums for a wide range of use cases.

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MARCH 20, 2017

A recent job posting to the Oculus career page indicates that Facebook’s 2014 virtual reality acquisition is currently searching for postdoctoral research scientists with experience in psychophysics. ” The successful candidate will work at a special Oculus research office in Redmond, Washington.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

VR had a great Christmas, and in particular, Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. A report by Bloomberg reports that Apple has just hired Andrea Schubert, Communications Director at Meta’s consumer hardware division for XR, including Portal, AR, and VR devices. What to do with an Oculus Rift S in 2022 Funny link. Funny link.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2022

At the connect event last year, Facebook officially rebranded as Meta, diverting the company’s vision from the social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to the Oculus brand of virtual reality (VR) hardware. Refocusing Hardware Ambitions. Instead, Meta is preserving the hardware for developers only.

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APRIL 24, 2017

8i made its intention to bring VR and communications together a lot clearer this year by announcing a dedicated research lab in Washington state. Facebook set up a trailer just outside of the convention center to show off its VR hardware. There wasn’t an Oculus Rift in sight.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If the price of the headset is below $1500, I think we are looking at a piece of hardware that may kill many competitors in the enterprise XR space , also considering the fact that HP is a reliable company for business collaboration. If you use VR in your company, keep an eye on the Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition. It seems fair to me.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

So naturally, Valve doesn’t just let anybody wander in and around its headquarters in Seattle, Washington to see what’s going on. Yang is a user experience designer who: “has worked on virtual reality software and hardware, features for Steam, and game teams. Best of luck to those who do participate.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. They also feature hardware acceleration for ray tracing , so that to compete with the famous RTX functionality of NVIDIA cards. Boost Clock (GHz) 2.25

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. And among these platforms onto which the game could be ported in the future, he has also mentioned the Oculus Quest. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. News worth a mention.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

It is an end-to-end platform, from content capture to reporting/assessment, and the content is viewed with regular VR headsets like Oculus and Samsung Gear VR. The hardware will get better in next 12 to 16 months.”. STRIVR is currently working with HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR across all of its business.

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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. When will doctors prescribe virtual reality instead of pills?

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Virtual Reality (VR), by contrast, can be published across a wide range of devices (headsets like Oculus Go/Quest and Gear VR, phones, Google Cardboard, WebVR, and much more), is completely immersive, and doesn’t necessarily require a real-time data connection (ie can be run offline). VR is basically totally immersive, if done properly.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the Vive tracker this seems to be related to power management whilst on other hardware like Index controllers it’s mainly related to finger tracking and grip sensors. GREEN: Firmware (“embedded” programs in hardware). cable extender left over from my ownership of an Oculus Rift CV1 with a 3-camera tracking setup.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

And as the cost of the hardware continues to drop , headsets could eventually be as integral to gaming consoles in the home as motion sensors were a few years ago. Oculus, one of the biggest names in VR, refers to this in its Health and Safety manual. Army to customize development for its HoloLens headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." Making sure the hardware is simple, unobtrusive, and acts naturally and feels natural.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

They’re compelled by, for example, seeing somebody within a pod have, effectively, a game-style — very fun, very memorable — experience within an Oculus Rift headset, the entire experience being reflected on the screen. That’s got a lot of pull. Saves on costs, means that people can digest top-up training all the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

They’re compelled by, for example, seeing somebody within a pod have, effectively, a game-style — very fun, very memorable — experience within an Oculus Rift headset, the entire experience being reflected on the screen. That’s got a lot of pull. Saves on costs, means that people can digest top-up training all the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Delivering on the promise of VR with game-changing technology and best-in-class content, VIVE has created the strongest ecosystem for VR hardware and software, bringing VR to consumers, developers and enterprises alike. How do you think this new piece of hardware is going to unlock the enterprise use cases of the technology?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Delivering on the promise of VR with game-changing technology and best-in-class content, VIVE has created the strongest ecosystem for VR hardware and software, bringing VR to consumers, developers and enterprises alike. How do you think this new piece of hardware is going to unlock the enterprise use cases of the technology?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

You've got experience in kind of building the hardware platform. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. You've built experiences. What's next? What do you guys see as the ultimate potential of this? Where does this go from here? It may take years. Alan: I couldn't agree more.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

You've got experience in kind of building the hardware platform. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. You've built experiences. What's next? What do you guys see as the ultimate potential of this? Where does this go from here? It may take years. Alan: I couldn't agree more.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

You've got experience in kind of building the hardware platform. At Oculus, they said 10 years. Jamie: They can find us in Seattle, Washington. You've built experiences. What's next? What do you guys see as the ultimate potential of this? Where does this go from here? It may take years. Alan: I couldn't agree more.

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