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Oculus & ESL Return For VR League: Season Two

VRScout

So while titles such as Starcraft 2 and Overwatch may be positioned seemingly permanently at the top of the current esports food chain, the popularity of last years VR Challenger League, a VR-dedicated esports competition hosted by Oculus & ESL, has shown that fans may be ready for immersive esports sooner than we thought. .

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Dirac to Debut Its Latest 3D Audio Solution at MWC 2019 Next Week

Road to VR

Dirac Research , the Sweden-based company specializing in digital sound optimization solutions, today announced they’re showing off the latest version of its Dirac 3D Audio at Mobile World Congress (MWC) next week. SEE ALSO Oculus Brings More Lifelike Sound Propagation to Audio SDK 1.34.

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Metaverse needs to solve problems, not be the problem

ARVR

Shared, synchronised immersive reality experience. 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. You really get to millions even if watching VR on a desktop computer is not very immersive.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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Escaping Into Virtuality

Tech Trends VR

By which I mean that immersive technologies will provide increasingly attractive alternatives for those wishing to escape the dreamlike madness that has overtaken our real world. 2018 has been a remarkable year for immersive technologies (which include the whole spectrum of Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality).

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‘Puzzling Places’ Review – Putting Conventional Jigsaw Puzzles to Shame

Road to VR

Puzzling Places Details: Available On: Oculus Quest , (PSVR coming in 2021) . Reviewed On: Oculus Quest 2. A bit more on difficulty in Immersion though. It’s charming and immersive, although the ambient sounds personally became a little too repetitive and distracting for me during longer sessions. Price: $15.

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Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

They even became “Christmas present of the year” here in Sweden in 2016! 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 You, my good person, are the owner of a VR HMD.