VRScout

AUGUST 28, 2018

Oculus will provide headsets and training to three new pilot locations alongside a fresh helping of educational VR content. Oculus Education continues its ongoing streak of generosity with the expansion of its educational pilot programs to Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle. BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN SCIENCE.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Following a prominent lawsuit between ZeniMax and Facebook/Oculus which resulted in a $500 million award to ZeniMax , the company is now seeking an injunction to prevent Oculus from continuing to use code that was found by the jury to infringe upon ZeniMax’s copyright.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. While gaming did not kick off business use of 3D graphics software, it definitely helped to drive investment and interest in related technology. ” It is easy to get caught up in the headset market.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

Around the world, technologies in the extended reality landscape have gained increasing attention from virtually every industry. Increasingly, companies will search for designers versed in metaverse and virtual reality technologies to help them construct their own immersive worlds.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

The years following Connect 2021 were transformative for Meta as the company transitioned from a social media company to a serious technology firm. Although, in reality, these technologies co-exist. Thanks to consumer interest, many XR and Metaverse firms are gaining capital and resources generated from the gaming industry.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Touch technology company Immersion wants to bring that work to the next level. Already supported devices include Nintendo’s JoyCons for the Switch — which we previously speculated might make good controllers for VR — and Oculus’ own position-tracked VR controllers, Oculus Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

Starline promises telepresence technology to reimage video conferencing as we’ve never seen. On the more comical side of the news, Unreal is suing Chinese smartglasses maker Nreal because the brand names are too similar and will cause confusion. Former Oculus chief Hugo Barra has announced he’s left Facebook in a blog post.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The event, hosted by AIXR, aims to recognize outstanding achievements in VR technology. Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. The VR Awards recognize innovations in VR technology through twelve categories. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 20, 2017

A significant milestone for a company that has been pioneering film technology for the past one hundred years. A proposed technology hub, the center hopes to incubate and advance virtual reality as a content medium and technology with a focus on improving the quality of the medium. With $3.8B With $3.8B

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JULY 11, 2017

This year’s participants have just been announced, and they include two big names in the VR industry. One of these companies is The Void, a group well known in the VR industry for its impressive location-based VR experiences. And maybe that Robo Recall lightsaber mod could become a real thing.

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Digitalnauts

MARCH 23, 2022

SXSW 2022 CHAT WITH CHARLES SEGUIN: THE XR INDUSTRY, FIRST IMPRESSIONS AND EMERGING TECH. Charles Seguin, Co-Founder and CEO at Digitalnauts, answers a few questions on the representation of the XR industry at SXSW 2022 and gives us his top tips. In terms of technology at SXSW, to be honest I was a bit disappointed.

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AR Insider

APRIL 19, 2021

The maker of the mega-hit game and Unreal Engine game development platform has landed another cool billion in a new round of funding. Virtualitics secured $18 Million to support the defense industry expand AI-driven analytics and 3D visualization technology. VZfit launches on the Oculus app store.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Hello, my name is Regine Gilbert and I am currently an Industry Assistant Professor at NYU. I teach user experience design and assistive technology courses. As with all technology, XR is evolving. Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. Regine Gilbert (Image by Regine Gilbert).

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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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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Yesterday, Oculus announced the release date for what will be one of its first big Studios games this year, Rock Band VR. Starting Months of high profile rollouts with #Rockband from @Harmonix for @Oculus Rift: — Jason Rubin (@Jason_Rubin) February 6, 2017. But there’s plenty more where that came from. Why Are We Excited?:

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Nvidia RTX.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 13, 2019

If VRFocus’ weekly VR Job Hub is anything to go by then the industry can’t be doing too bad, especially when factoring in those featured below. Unreal Mobile Rendering Engineer. Unreal Mobile Rendering Engineer. Dublin, CA. Sanzaru Games. Environment Artist. Click Here to Apply. Dublin, CA. Sanzaru Games. London, UK.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

It has developed a proprietar y High-Performance Quantum Dot (HPQD) technology to make very small, very bright, very efficient RGB pixels. The basic idea is to separate the elements of the video into 3 “layers” using a depth map , and then reconstruct the missing pixels occluded by each layer on the next one using an AI technology like Nerf.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. For sure some surprises: we don’t know anything about the 2nd gen of XR that Oculus has in mind. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Bleszinski indeed believes in the technology. Bleszinski in the Oculus Rift Kickstarter video | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. The technology can be so powerful, but it must be used the right way. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Oculus and Epic Games share a strong and fascinating partnership that’s grown over the past few years. Handing him the prize was none other than John Carmack, another videogame industry legend and current CTO of Oculus. Last night’s Game Developer Choice Awards showed why.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2016

Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace across different technologies and for virtual reality has proven an important catalyst for innovation and creativity in the past, with both Oculus and HTC embracing the format to encourage content creation. Image courtesy Scapeliving.com.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 11, 2017

Developer Relations Strategist at Oculus, has decided to leave at the end of the month and join small gaming company, Raw Fury. 3) Eva Hoerth , Developer Evangelist at VREAL, has chosen to leave her design position to “explore other use cases for VR and emerging technologies.” Read more here. 2) Callum Underwood , Sr. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Facebook keeps working to become a leader in immersive technologies. This week we had a bunch of news, that seem quite unrelated, that show us how Facebook is working on its plan to become the dominant force in future technologies. Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 1, 2022

. “We are excited we will be working together on hardware, software and technology roadmaps to enable the ecosystem for people,” Rubo Liang, ByteDance’s CEO, remarked remotely via video. Despite being a leading VR brand in China, Pico is nowhere close to the scale of Oculus’s user reach or creator ecosystem.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

To help grow and support the growing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industries, The Khronos Group and its affiliates have been working on the OpenXR standard since 2016. Unreal Engine led the way with support for the OpenXR 0.9 Unreal Engine led the way with support for the OpenXR 0.9

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

After poring over documents and articles of cutting-edge technological innovations in gaming and applications in other industries, the three co-founders identified a gap in the market and set up Refract. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. . ” . . ” .

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

With the world reeling from COVID-19, changes to consumer experience across numerous industries, from live sports and entertainment to education, are inevitable. For example, Chinese technology company Easpeed developed “no-touch” hologram buttons for elevators, to avoid having to touch surfaces and lowering the risk of spreading COVID-19.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2016

Unity Technologies has announced a $181 million Series C investment led by DFJ Growth, a venture capital firm with the likes of Twitter and Tesla in their portfolio, in order to continue their dominance of the game engine market. See Also: Unreal Engine and Unity to get NVIDIA’s New VR Rendering Tech. billion, thanks to over 5.5

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Metaverse solutions are quickly emerging as one of the most exciting concepts in the technology landscape. The Meta team is exploring augmented reality solutions designed to work with smartphones and smart glasses, as well as virtual reality environments compatible with a range of Oculus headsets.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

XR encompasses augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies. This is an upcoming industry that may be good to get into. Like many other technologies, there is no perfect roadmap to learning XR. How AR/VR Are Transforming the Real Estate Industry 2. Understand the constraints of this technology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

“We think that immersive technologies like VR and AR represent the next computing platform,” Parisi told the crowd at Unite. “We want you to make all your VR and AR with Unity,” he said, promising renewed investment in the industry.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In addition to releasing Oculus Quest 2, Facebook spent $150 million on content for the device (to bring you VR games from brands like Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Medal of Honor).

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