VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. The best VR headset on the market just got even better.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The celebrated industry veteran will remain a “consulting CTO” at the company. Facebook has its company flag flying at half-mast this week after it was announced that video game legend John Carmack would be stepping down from his position as Oculus CTO and migrating to a “Consulting CTO role” beginning this week. .

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VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

Though I would love to let my birthday piggyback on that accomplishment, credit actually goes to Facebook-owned Oculus, which launched its Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets on that day. Having participated in a VR tournament using this cutting-edge headset, I can honestly say that Oculus’ hard work is apparent.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

link] Like many other industries, the world of live events, music concerts and festivals is adapting to a new “normal”. Way back in 2017, the British visual band, Gorillaz used YouTube’s 360-degree video feature to pioneer a new type of music videos with a new video version of their song “Saturnz Barz,” subtitled “ Spirit House.”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Whaleface Industries has you covered. With VRChat’s launch on the Oculus Quest, a brand new wave of users now find themselves exploring the platforms’ many digital environments and interacting with the off-beat community. asks creator Walgesitch in the promotional video. Tired of your current, boney form?

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VRScout

MAY 22, 2020

The soft launch of the product (now run for 300+ guests) has been met with positive reactions from delighted guests and industry veterans alike. . Planck was one of the co-founders of Oculus Story Studio and worked for Pixar for 10 years as a technical director on movies like Cars, WALL-E, and Up. Image Credit: Adventure Lab.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The industry legend gives his thoughts on VR, AR, location-based entertainment, and more. Last week industry legend and current Oculus VR CTO John Carmack sat down with stand-up comedian and podcast icon Joe Rogan for Episode #1342 of the immensely popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2021

The esports industry has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 1972 when a handful of students from Standford University took part in the first reported video game tournament featuring the 1962 space combat game Spacewar! Image Credit: Virtex Entertainment.

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VRScout

MARCH 2, 2020

Three new gameplay videos give us our first look at several jaw-dropping mechanics. With just three weeks to go until the release of Half-Life: Alyx , Valve today released a handful of raw gameplay videos showing off the various enemies, environments, and weapons PC VR players can expect to encounter. In another video.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2020

In Facebook’s Q1 2020 earnings call today, the company overviewed its latest financial situation and noted that Oculus products were a major contributor to $297 million in non-advertising revenue. Wehner specifically noted that the increase was “driven primarily by the sales of Oculus products.”

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A hotel worker says he found a Quest Pro sample unit and shared an unboxing video on Facebook. Earlier today Ramiro Cardenas posted images in the ‘Oculus Quest 2’ Facebook group appearing to show Quest Pro packaging labelled ‘NOT FOR RESALE – ENGINEERING SAMPLE’ Cardenas claimed the boxes were left in a hotel.

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VRScout

JUNE 7, 2017

Oculus has always been a major supporter of the virtual reality community. The company is responsible for some of the industry’s most influential initiatives such as their VR For Good program, as well as teaming up with other manufacturers to establish VR industry standards and supporting VR art incubators.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Industry conversation on the Metaverse and XR has also fuelled discussions across the Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2023. Following mainstream media coverage of the Metaverse, stating that it was ‘dead’ and no longer viable, companies and experts across the industry have begun pushing back against the mainstream narrative.

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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2018

The post Microsoft Store to Lead Industry in Revenue Share to non-Game VR App Devs appeared first on Road to VR. Only non-gaming consumer apps published on PC, Windows Mixed Reality, Windows Phone or Surface Hub will see the percentage raise, which excludes purchases on Xbox consoles. Check out more details on the Microsoft blog post.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. Receiving funding was not only a blessing, but an incredible learning experience for me.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Next week, on September 26th-27th, Oculus will perform its annual showcase event: Oculus Connect , that has now arrived at its 5th edition. The latest event, the OC4 has been full of news and interesting information , both on Oculus products and VR in general and I think that this year won’t be different.

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Road to VR

JULY 14, 2017

The 69th Emmy Awards nominations are out, and while it’s true the Emmys were created to recognize excellence in the television industry, virtual reality as a medium has been lauded with six total nominations this year, three of which are thanks to content created by Oculus. Anonymous Content ( 360 video on YouTube ).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

One of the bigger reveals in the new gameplay video is the new slow motion button, which lets you go into bullet time do you can easily get off more focused shots, or in the case of Node’s Daniel Kim (aka ‘D’), a pretty sweet kickflip reload maneuver. You can wishlist it here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Oculus announced a lot of exciting directions for the future of VR at its Oculus Connect 3 keynote today, but one piece of news that’s flying under the radar and really shouldn’t be is the company’s work with WebVR. Today, Oculus revealed a new framework for building WebVR interfaces.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2020

15 VR short films scheduled to debut at Tribeca Immersive will be available later this month on standalone Oculus headsets. Linus is on a journey to find painless ways to die inside a video game simulation that emulates sensory experiences. Key Collaborator: Oculus VR for Good. Key Collaborator: Froso Tsipopoulou.

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VRScout

MAY 16, 2016

Two Oculus pilot programs hope to inspire the next generation of VR creators. Now Oculus is rolling out a program of their own to show filmmakers the power of VR and push the boundaries of cinematic VR to tell stories with an impact. Students reviewing their 360 video footage. The first videos will be unveiled at Sundance 2017.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Believe it or not, Super Bowl LVI 2022 is shaping up to be a significant day for the VR industry. The show was directed by famous music video director M ark Romanek and employs a unique combination of practical effects and XR elements to deliver a captivating virtual experience unlike anything we’ve seen in Venues.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2022

As part of the fake announcement, Antony Vitillo, cofounder of NTW and owner of Skarredghost , released a tongue-in-cheek video highlighting the many “advancements” the team has made in leg-based VR technology. For the few minutes of the video, I was fairly convinced this might be a real project.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2021

Today I want to publish a very easy and short tutorial to let you grab the opportunity of getting a free silicone cover for your Oculus Quest 2. Of course, there is also a video version of this tutorial, if you are not a fan of reading… Why can you get a free silicone cover for your Quest? Are you in for that? million facepads.

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Slashgear

JULY 24, 2019

While its application in other industries have yet to be realized, it continues to grow, albeit slowly, in its native entertainment market. In fact, Amazon has finally made its long-expected foray into VR and it’s coming to Oculus’ mobile … Continue reading.

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The AR Show

MARCH 14, 2023

The Lynx R1 offers a unique VR device with good video-passthrough of the real world to create mixed reality experiences. Stan was inspired by the early Oculus device, the DK2, but wanted a better connection to the real world. Stan was inspired by the early Oculus device, the DK2, but wanted a better connection to the real world.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Last night was the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, an annual ceremony honoring major achievements within the modern television industry. This year’s winners include Ted Lasso, Saturd ay Night Live, and Space Explorers: An ISS Experience. In this one-of-a-kind-VR production, the astronauts themselves served as both the cast and crew.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 12, 2016

If you were not able to make Oculus Connect 3 this year here is a Youtube playlist with 32 videos from the event included: I was able to attend quite a few and some highlights for me include the sessions below. Learn how Oculus is creating new tools, specifically for Touch, to help more people express themselves.

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VRScout

APRIL 18, 2022

Originally released on Oculus Rift headsets back in 2017, Echo Arena has remained one of the most popular VR sports experiences currently available thanks to its straightforward but satisfying multiplayer gameplay and free-to-play price tag. They can also enjoy fan reactions, stadium effects, and numerous other audio and video elements.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2017

An Oculus Rift without wires is the best thing ever. Among the slew of updates that came out of Oculus Connect 4, everything from new updates to Rift software and Facebook Spaces upgrades, there were two devices we hoped to get our heads in—the Oculus Go and Oculus Santa Cruz headset.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Starting toward the end of 2017, the number of listed job openings at Oculus has nearly tripled, with the current number of openings floating around an all time high. In early 2017, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly toured the Oculus Research facility and shared an inside look.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Azure Active Directory provides secure identity and login Billing is out of the box Audio/video transmission including special audio for realistic interactive experiences Trending AR VR Articles: 1. One of the great benefits of Mesh is the ability to create applications that work across iOS, Android, HoloLens, HP Reverb G2 and Oculus Quest 2.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2020

Viewing the action from a fleet of Oculus Quest headsets, each of us in attendance was represented in-headset as thin white lines. The post Communal VR Music Video Took Us On A Volumetric Journey Through Reggae, Classical, Grime, And Calypso appeared first on VRScout. According to Coffey, this was a strategic decision. “It

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2019

Oculus’ new ‘Defy Reality’ ad spot for Quest effectively uses mixed reality video capture to show players in VR, instead of just showing first person footage that’s hard to understand if you haven’t actually been in a headset before. Oculus is far from the first to use mixed reality capture for VR.

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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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ARPost

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A new XR studio system is aiming to revolutionize the entertainment industry. This studio system contains the latest interactive production tools, such as Oculus, Manus, Vive , Faceware, Varjo , and Xsens motion capture. Virtually all industries have been thrust into an accelerated pace of change in the past couple of years.

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ARPost

JULY 12, 2021

The company does offer production services, but the whole idea is that the content is easy enough for non-VR specialists in industry to create their own content in-house. This is an important selling point for the VRdirect platform, but it is also a philosophy that Illenberger believes is required to increase XR adoption in industry.

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