VRScout

MAY 16, 2019

Oculus has confirmed Google’s popular YouTube VR app will be available on the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset when it launches this Tuesday, May 21st. The baked-in Oculus Bowser does an impressive job at streaming video from YouTube and even provides a surprising amount of format options, including 360-degree, 3D, and VR180.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Hmmmm… The story, score, and foundation of Miranda is driven by the groundbreaking work of award-winning composer Kamala Sankaram , who has created musical theatrical works produced by the Washington National Opera , the Los Angeles Opera , and the Houston Grand Opera , and also has numerous vocal and instrumental chamber works on her resume.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2018

The advanced VR simulation expands to new medical institutions as Oculus & CHLA continue their push towards experiential education. For the past year, medical students and staff at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have been utilizing VR technology to simulate various high-stakes pediatric emergencies.

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VRScout

MAY 29, 2018

Add positional tracking to your Oculus Go in just 1.5 The Oculus Go is an excellent VR headset. Antilatency is out to change that with a new position tracking solution that brings mobile, 6DoF VR to the Oculus Go in just 1.5 This is where the Oculus Go comes in. hours with Antilatency technology.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Fans get a closer look at the future home of the Los Angeles Rams. This Sunday the Los Angeles Rams take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

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VRScout

MAY 9, 2017

That’s exactly why Children’s Hospital Los Angeles teamed up with Oculus and other VR companies to bring low-cost emergency care training via virtual reality technology. In fact, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles alone ends up spending roughly $430,000 per year using this more traditional method.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is on the way to the Oculus Quest 2. San Andreas is Rockstar’s well-loved 2004 entry into the hit GTA franchise, which invites players to wreak havoc in an urban open world fashioned after cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Slack is coming to the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2021

TRIPP, the Los Angeles-based startup behind the eponymous VR meditation app, has secured a Series A investment amounting to $11 million. ” The app is available on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift as a subscription service ($5 monthly, $15 annually), but also a one-time $30 purchase on those platforms as well as PSVR.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

IN PROTEST: Grassroots Stories from the Front Lines is a 360° VR film docu-series chronicling heroic Black voices in America confronting inequality and injustice.

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VRScout

JUNE 14, 2021

This weekend we received a new behind-the-scenes trailer for Vertigo Games’ ( Traffic Jams, Arizona Sunshine, A Fisherman’s Tale ) latest title, After the Fall , a cooperative multiplayer VR zombie shooter set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. “Every session you do is basically different.”

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2018

A month after the launch of Oculus’ $200 standalone VR headset, Oculus Go, the long teased Oculus Venues app is finally available for download. Available on both Oculus Go and Gear VR, Oculus Venues attempts to bring the stadium fan experience to VR. May 30 // Vance Joy // 7:30 pm PT. June 11 // School Night!

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Dan and Samson, hosts of the Let’s Talk Oculus VR Podcast. Other topics include a recap of the New Reality VR Convention, the Arcaxer launch party in Los Angeles, and a location-based VR wingsuit experience.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2018

Los Angeles-based White Elk Studios , a team founded by former members of the God of War team, and Oculus Studios today announced a new co-op game called Covert. Image courtesy White Elk Studios, Oculus. Image courtesy White Elk Studios, Oculus. Image courtesy White Elk Studios, Oculus.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

AI and VR development firm AiSolve has acquired Clay Park VR , an LA-based strategy and advisory consultancy headed by Oculus-alum Shauna Heller. Heller will coordinate the company’s operations through CA offices in Los Angeles, Glendale, and Palo Alto, supporting partnership development and deployment of the WePlayVR system.

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VRScout

APRIL 26, 2017

Dubbed Alien: Covenant in Utero , the two-minute VR video experience is now available on Oculus Rift for “Alien Day,” a nod to planet LV-426 from the Alien films. Additionally, the motion capture work for the piece was done at the Technicolor Experience Center (TEC) right here in Los Angeles.

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Next Reality AR

DECEMBER 5, 2018

One the leading game developers for the PlayStation 4 and Oculus Rift platforms, Insomniac Games, is finally releasing its first major augmented reality title: Seedling for the Magic Leap One. conference in Los Angeles, but the big surprise this month is that Seedling will be Magic Leap's first paid app.

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AR Insider

APRIL 19, 2021

Snapchat brings AR monuments across Los Angeles. The monuments are a partnership between Snap and LACMA to showcase artists and lens creators, celebrating diverse histories across Los Angeles from a variety of different cultures. VZfit launches on the Oculus app store.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Founded by Marcus Segal and Mike Pagano Doom, previously of Zynga, the San Francisco and Los Angeles-based studio already has 10 people aboard its team. The studio is currently developing its first title, a VR bowling game called ForeVR Bowl , which is slated to land on the Oculus Store sometime in 2021.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 27, 2017

Attendees at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles will notice that a familiar structure has faded from the show’s sweeping skyline of corporate booths. The familiar black monolith bearing the Oculus logo will not be making an appearance at E3 2017. Via Reddit. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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APRIL 12, 2021

AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based company creating on-demand VR video, has raised $9.5 “Our efforts are further assisted by interest in the VR market, with Apple preparing to release a VR headset and the Oculus Quest 2 representing a growing percentage of Facebook’s revenue.

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APRIL 17, 2020

SEE ALSO Oculus Connect 7 to be Held as a Digital Event Later This Year, Facebook Says. It’s also essentially where Europe-based gamers and media get the first opportunity go hands-on with games traditionally unveiled at E3, which is held in Los Angeles in June.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2020

.” A message posted to the official E3 website today announced the cancellation of the long-running games industry event which has been held annually in Los Angeles. Big players like Oculus, Sony, and HTC have used the event to showcase their latest VR hardware and content.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2019

Here’s how Vertigo describes it: Set in the post-apocalyptic, ice-covered ruins of an alternate 1980s Los Angeles, After the Fall pits up to four players against a vast, hostile world in a raging fight for control of the city and the survival of humanity. You can also keep tabs on the game via its Steam and Oculus Store pages.

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MAY 30, 2018

Oculus Venues , the social app that allows ‘thousands of users’ to watch live events en masse in VR, is now available on Oculus Go and Gear VR starting today. Oculus’ Code of Conduct is also in full force, with community moderators on-hand in Venues. May 30 // Vance Joy // 7:30 pm PT. June Showtimes.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Oculus just won their first Emmy last night. The animated VR short film from Oculus Story Studio, Henry , won an Emmy for Outstanding Original Interactive Program. The short film premiered over a year ago in Los Angeles and is the second film coming out of Oculus Story Studio, Oculus’s interactive film studio.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2017

The pursuit turns into a roller coaster ride of bumps, turns, gun fire, and finally ends with a forceful crash onto a Los Angeles street below. I identify another Spinner with a replicant pilot that must be hunted down. And where the VR experience ends, the next begins.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 20, 2017

He covers the LA VR scene for CatsAndVR.com and is a Oculus Launchpad Alumni along side the founder of CatsAndVR.com. catsandvr.com/blog/ About Sherif Higazy: Sherif Higazy is a director, designer and VR developer. He is the Executive producer and founder of Thermonuclear.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

That said, works created in Quill are certainly making their way to the company’s standalone headset, although the app itself hasn’t been confirmed as a Quest-compatible title yet— The Last Oasis was most likely created using an Oculus Rift and Touch controllers.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

Now available at Los Angeles, New York and Toronto VR centers. Nickelodeon launched its SlimeZone multi-player VR experience at IMAX VR centers in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto Friday, with further plans to bring the social experience to locations in Shanghai, Bangkok and Manchester (UK) soon.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Dreamscape Immersive has launched a location-based VR attraction right here in Los Angeles. Fans can finally check out the long-awaited immersive VR experience themselves, a first for Dreamscape Immersive, located at the Westfield Century City shopping center in Los Angeles, California.

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VRScout

MARCH 31, 2019

Using an Oculus Rift headset and Touch controllers, Kevin is able to weightlessly navigate the hyper-realistic interior of the ISS, conduct jaw-dropping spacewalks, and operate robotic arms to complete crucial missions.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The second of three Blade Runner 2049 VR games is now available free for the Oculus Rift. Funny enough that’s exactly what the consensus seems to be regarding the second Blade Runner VR game, Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab , available today for the Oculus Rift and Gear VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Users can visit the groundbreaking ‘virtual museum’ across all Meta Quest headsets , including the Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro using Oculus Link. Developers designed the VR experiences using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 , arguably the world’s top immersive platform for designing and deploying immersive content.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2017

Mason told me that opening up this huge co-working space in Los Angeles represents an energetic shift from the VR technology born out of Silicon Valley to focusing on content & storytelling in VR. UploadVR opened up their new 20,000 square foot Upload LA co-working space in April. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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JUNE 7, 2018

And unlike its sporty counterpart , which was released for free to all Oculus Rift users, the shooter is going to be priced at $10 when it releases. For VR fans going to E3 this year, which takes place June 12-14 in Los Angeles, Oculus will be hosting public demos of Echo Combat at the Alienware booth (South Hall #647).

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VRScout

MARCH 8, 2017

1’s existing London, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Leipzig, Portland, Seoul, and San Francisco locations, Showcase Vol. Showcase events will also include live presentations from top VR creators. . INDEFINITE by Darren Emerson. Expanding on Showcase Vol.1’s 2 will return with the addition of Paris, Kyiv, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

According to the Los Angeles Times , the experience was created as a collaboration between multiple animators and artists who developed the VR experience during a series of workshops at the Burbank studio’s VR lab. Journeys VR is slated to arrive for free on Steam for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on October 1st.

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