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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

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. University College Cork, Ireland. image courtesy VR First. State University of New York at Oswego, USA.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. The hype is rising….

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Top 26 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

WWDC by Apple Date: June 5-9, 2017 Venue: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Download the WWDC app from the App Store Oculus Connect Date: October 11-12, 2017 Venue: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Oculus Connect is an annual virtual reality developer conference hosted by Oculus from Facebook.