InstaVR

MAY 6, 2019

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg revealed at F8 Conference the new Oculus Quest will begin shipping this month (May 2019). By comparison, the Oculus Go only allows for 3 Degrees of Freedom (3 DoF). With the Oculus Quest, four cameras that reside within the headset enable positional tracking. What are Degrees of Freedom?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

The basic specifications of the glasses include a 12MP ultra-wide portrait camera, 1080px video resolution, live streaming mode for up to 30 minutes, 32GB of storage for videos and photos, 133-gram weight, custom-built speakers, five mics with immersive audio recording, Bluetooth 5.2 Meta will enforce these changes today, on March 29th.

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XROM

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Originally launched on Google's DaydreamVR in 2017, YouTube VR has since expanded to other platforms such as the Oculus Store for Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go. This development marks a significant step in making immersive content more accessible and convenient for users. Article Courtesy : VRAR World China

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ARPost

JULY 5, 2019

New virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Daydream have barely scratched the surface of the technology’s potential. Soon, they’d find out that virtual worlds are exciting for people of all ages. During their tests, seniors would light up after a positive immersive experience.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

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? How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? Fortunately, there are a handful of companies hoping to make this a reality. Infinadeck.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 12, 2017

The Oculus Rift gets a long-anticipated game this week, but it’s Gear VR that’s the real star of the show. There are several interesting projects for Samsung’s headset that have appeared from out of nowhere, many of which use the new motion controller. New Rift and Gear VR Releases on Oculus Home. Price: $2.99.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The devices from Oculus VR hit a sweet spot of affordability and performance. If you got an Oculus headset this Christmas — or didn’t, and are planning to buy one ( available on Amazon for $200 ) — this guide can help you learn about the most important features. Oculus devices and developments. Oculus Rooms.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We already know that Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm are working on a competitor of the Vision Pro, which should be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Gen2+ and cost around $2000. They use immersive video and claim to take you from bein a beginner to a confident speaker in just 4 months.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

SAMSUNG AT VIDCON: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

On one side, many of these games have a huge multiplayer component and acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft gains a lot of expertise in how to manage virtual worlds that host many thousands (if not millions) of players at the same time. Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR , Oculus Rift , and Touch Controllers. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (12/17/16). It is the first virtual tour around the Chernobyl and Pripyat area. Xbox One Streaming (FREE – Oculus Rift ).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

With high performance VR motion controllers right in the box, the system offers a highly immersive experience that lets you physically walk around a room-sized space while immersed in virtual reality. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR. Find an Oculus Rift and Touch Demo Location. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location.

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VRScout

JULY 30, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (7/30/16). ENTERTAINMENT: Absolut deadmau5 (FREE – Gear VR / Oculus Rift ). Immersive Combat (FREE – Gear VR ).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

HULU WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN VIRTUAL REALITY. Oculus recently integrated your Facebook profile with your Oculus profile so that you can meet up with your real world friends and hang out in Oculus Rooms, which look like beautiful floating islands in the virtual sky.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The NBA on TNT VR app is intended to change the viewing experience from, “passive to immersive’” said David Aufhauser, Managing Director, Strategy and Product for Intel Sports, during an interview with VRScout. The NBA seems to be making a concerted effort to embrace immersive viewing. It’s different,” he said.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. The latest report on virtual reality by SuperData doesn’t offer us great news on the VR landscape. The Quest is selling well, and Oculus itself didn’t expect billions of sales. Samsung will manufacture the chips for Facebook AR glasses. More info.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

First Windows mixed reality dev headset ships, dive into the virtual world via Xbox, high-end VR gets more affordable, Rogue One used VR to direct scenes, the investment & funding wrapup, and much more… FIRST WINDOWS MIXED REALITY HEADSET SHIPS LATER THIS MONTH. THE UPCOMING SAMSUNG GEAR VR CONTROLLER IS COOL.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Live 360 video will become available to the API later this month, and Facebook will roll out the immersive live stream functionality to all Pages and users. PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. If you have a Samsung Gear VR, you can now connect with your Facebook friends through Oculus Home.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself). Photo by Samsung.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The devices from Oculus VR hit a sweet spot of affordability and performance. If consumers who have an Oculus headset or are considering buying one, this guide can help them learn about the most important features. Oculus Devices and Developments. Oculus VR is a classic tech tale. Must-Have Apps for Using Oculus.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

Offering its users the easiest way to chat, share, broadcast and record in virtual reality, vTime is now live on five VR platforms: Samsung Gear VR , Oculus Rift , Google Cardboard , iPhone and Google Daydream. The immersive and easy-to-use network also added pioneering new feature vCast. www.vTime.net.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 21, 2018

Catan VR is on the Oculus Store today for $14.99 and on Samsung Gear VR for $9.99. Catan VR will be available on Oculus GO soon. What better way to express that than by venturing into the exciting new world of virtual reality? Catan is about exploring new frontiers,” said Catan creator Klaus Teuber.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Almost exactly five years ago, the hot thing I could think of to control virtual worlds was the early Emotiv EEG headsets. And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. And Oculus did hold on to that exclusivity for quite a while. Out of seemingly nowhere, Facebook decides to enter the field, and buys Oculus for 2.4

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

The Gear VR version is great, don’t get me wrong, but due to its lack of processing power I can easily tell I’m in a virtual world. All of these nit-picky but immersion-breaking issues can be fixed with more horsepower under the hood, and that’s exactly what the Vive version displays.

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Immersive Authority

JANUARY 12, 2016

WebVR has advanced to a point that it allows you to browse the web the classic way (pc or mobile screen with mouse/keyboard/touch input for navigation) or virtually (with a head mounted display (e.g. Image Credit: Infospaces – Data Visualization in Virtual Worlds by Opensource Obscure under CC License 2.0 .

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Later this year, HelloVR will be releasing an early version of a huge, open-world social VR experience called Metaworld. Speaking of the Metaverse… say hi to Metaworld.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it. Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way. Quest runtime v41 brings Social Home. Learn more.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Oculus has announced the all-new standalone named Oculus Quest at 5th annual Connect developer conference. It is the world’s first all-in-one gaming system built for virtual reality, which distinguishes itself from other standalone. Here are the adventure VR games you should play to get immediate immersion.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. But it is for sure a feature that will enable not only more immersive social VR interactions (which I guess are the main goal for Meta), but also new kinds of VR experiences. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. We don’t really have any software to show on it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Massive multiplayer online (MMO) games with persistent worlds and real economies like Second Life haven’t reached critical mass in VR yet, although many in the community are counting the moments until they can live out their days immersed in all-encompassing virtual worlds.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Virtual reality is on the cusp of explosive growth. It seems like everyday we see new startups posing innovative solutions to problems in the immersive technology industry. At VeeR we have rounded up the best minds you should be following in the virtual, augmented, and mixed reality space today. Sabarish Gnanamoorthy.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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