AR Insider

JUNE 25, 2024

The 15th Augmented World Expo (AWE) took place in Long Beach last week. Mixed Reality (MR) on the Oculus Quest and Apple Vision Pro, and… Continue reading → Mixed Reality and Mobile AR Dominate AWE This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2024

Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and creator behind the original Oculus Rift, teased an upcoming announcement that he’s working on a new XR headset. Luckey says in a post on X that he’ll be talking more about the device at Augmented World Expo (AWE), which takes place in Long Beach, California from June 18-20.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2024

Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and creator behind the original Oculus Rift, teased an upcoming announcement that he’s working on a new XR headset. Luckey says in a post on X that he’ll be talking more about the device at Augmented World Expo (AWE), which takes place in Long Beach, California from June 18-20.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2016

The app, which is 100% free, features 20 minutes of footage from Season 2 of the Formula E ePrix and can be found on the Steam and Viveport VR stores, with support coming to Oculus in the near future.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

Bolas previously directed USC’s Mixed Reality Lab at the Institute for Creative Technologies, where he hired a teenager from Long Beach before the young man co-founded Oculus.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Micah showed me how to get in and out of the massage chair, where to place my hands, and helped me get the Oculus Rift S on. I’ve used Passthrough+ on Oculus Quest, but this looked so cool in a spa setting than in a living room. It’s basically a mechanical marshmallow that gently turns you into a ball of clay. I was blown away!

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Although Slightly Mad Studios improved the game over the following months with several major patches, it never really reached its full potential as a sim, but eventual support for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and OSVR headsets was very welcome, and well-implemented.

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