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How To Watch The Gorillaz 360° Music Video On Any VR Headset

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In fact the only thing more impressive than the actual video is how easily accessible it is. The mind-bending interdimensional experience is viewable on virtually (hah) any head-mounted display. The post How To Watch The Gorillaz 360° Music Video On Any VR Headset appeared first on VRScout. Bada bing, bada boom.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

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Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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How to Get Started as a Beginner VR DeveloperAnalysis paralysis,

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How to Get Started as a Beginner VR Developer Analysis paralysis , I’ve found myself trapped in it before. The experience is not as immersive as the PC-powered HMDs (Head Mounted Displays) like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, but mobile VR is much easier and more accessible to develop for. Read more here.

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Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook

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Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, the man behind the Rift concept and its first prototypes, is leaving the company three years after selling to Facebook. According to Oculus, this will be Palmer’s last week with Friday marking his official last day as an employee of Facebook. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

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However, true immersion did not arrive until 1968, when Utah University professor Ivan Sutherland, his student Bob Sproull, and others created the world’s first head-mounted display (HMD). The Sword of Damocles, the name given to the device, was huge, requiring suspension from the ceiling.

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Altspace & Cyberia Join Forces For Free Film Festival Hosted In VR

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After registering over at Cyberia Film Festival in VR (100% free), users will be instructed on how to access this weekend’s screening of 38 short films collected from across the globe using a VR headset such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or Samsung Gear VR.

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Oculus DK2 Lens – Characteristics

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The Oculus DK2 is a remarkable VR headset, producing a remarkably wide field of view with very inexpensive single element optics. VRtifacts was curious about the characteristics of the Oculus DK2 lens: what size, what material, and what focal length? Let’s start by disassembling an Oculus (B) lens. [

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