VRScout

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The funding round was led by Europe’s most active proptech VC, Pi Labs, with participation from Silicon Valley-based commerce experts Sugar Capital and deep tech specialists 7Percent Ventures – one of the first backers of Oculus VR – alongside several notable angel investors. Feature Image Credit: Dent Reality.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Microsoft announces a VR headset for $299 via PCGamer [link] Microsoft announced a new line of virtual reality headsets today which are much more affordable than others on the market. The headsets will come from Microsoft’s partners including HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer, and will start at just $299.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2016

E3 gaming announcements are in full swing this week, with Bethesda revealing that Fallout 4 for HTC Vive is coming next year and Microsoft taking the wraps off their Project Scorpio , a 4K-capable Xbox One with VR support. The post Over 30 Full Games Launching For Oculus Touch This Year appeared first on VRScout.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Venice VR virtual world, designed by VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a virtual version of Venice. Users on Quest can visit these worlds, too. Jensen Huang interview: The physical world and the metaverse can be connected. It’s available to anyone with a VRChat account.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We’re eager to go hands-on with Valve’s new prototype Vive controllers, but these new experiments from Microsoft’s Research division might be even more exciting. For now, the best we have its the vibration feedback provided by the Oculus Touch and HTC Vive wands.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Set in a dystopian 2044, Ready Player One follows Wade Watts as he leads an army of VR users in a battle to save the OASIS, a virtual world that allows them to escape their dreary reality. Some of these virtual locations are absolutely jaw-dropping and include features that more often than not bend the laws of physics.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft debuted the lengthily-named “Windows Mixed Reality motion controllers” back in May, but until now we haven’t had a chance to actually try them out. During a recent meeting with Microsoft in San Francisco, I got to try the VR controllers for the first time paired with the Acer Windows VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Does Palmer want Oculus back? I tweeted the news saying that “Palmer Luckey is not doing that bad without Oculus…” and Palmer Luckey himself answered to me commenting “Without Oculus for now, anyway”. More info (Anduril getting $1.48B of investments) More info (Palmer Luckey commenting about Oculus). Image by Valve).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 28, 2017

In the middle of August 2012 I wrote my first article about Oculus. I’d previously seen some expensive VR installations, like those used by Disney , but my view inside the Oculus Rift — and the interviews I conducted with researchers at Stanford and USC — convinced me VR had a good chance of actually going mainstream.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Your avatar is a representation of you in the virtual world, so they’re a very important part of the Metaverse experience. These assets travel with you, and that creates a more unified experience when traveling between different virtual worlds. Think of it this way. Your avatar can become your wallet.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

One of the devices that generates the greatest interest among the tech community at the moment is Microsoft HoloLens. In simple terms, it can be described as the merging of real and virtual worlds where objects from both realities can exist side-by-side and interact with each other in real time. HoloLens and the business world.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The introduction of virtual reality technology in many areas: oil and gas industry, engineering, energy, metallurgy, telecommunications, advertising, and many others. Engagement.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Microsoft announced it’s planning to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the studio will play a key role in the development of its future metaverse platforms. Xbox doesn’t feature any form of official VR compatibility, not even with its range of Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe. Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 24, 2017

What’s the latest on Oculus’ standalone headset(s)? Facebook and Oculus are insistent that 2017 is all about content; we won’t see any new hardware released in the remaining five months of the year. We’re fully expecting an update on standalone VR at Oculus Connect 4 in October, then.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 17, 2017

The HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and upcoming headsets from Microsoft have controllers offering full six degrees of freedom (6DOF). This means you can move your hands in any direction and that movement will be reflected in the virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Instead, people everywhere are beginning to demand more virtual world integration into their physical environments. While augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) is paving the way for the immersive future. With MR, vendors allow people to interact with digital assets in the virtual world through sensors, computer vision, and more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In the US, stores like Microsoft, Gamestop, and Micro Center host Vive setups offering public demos, while you can find the system in Europe in locations like Currys PC World, GAME, and Scan Computers. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR. Find an Oculus Rift and Touch Demo Location. Find a Daydream Demo Location.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

XR brings real-world and virtual elements together like never before, to create interactive experiences which enlighten and inspire. For instance, the Oculus Quest 2, one of the world’s top gaming headsets, sold 15 million units after 20 months on the market, even during a pandemic.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

high field of view, high resolution, lighter weight devices) so they reach out to manufacturers of special headsets but most of the customers do basic training using the commercial headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus and Microsoft Mixed Reality platform headsets are the most used). Does the military personnel also use some XR accessories (e.g.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft. ” He expects Meta to continue pushing the narrative for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

We all dream of the Metaverse , a fantastic online virtual world where we can all hang out with other people and do whatever we want. And even worse, these virtual worlds are like silos: they don’t talk to each other, they are separate the one from the others, they are not connected in any way. What is your job?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2020

I think we have to be very cautious now in content creation and value creation and not just jump into that all-virtual world, because there is a craving for physical interactions and kind of going back into kind of, like, less technological solutions or solutions that don’t seem technological.”.

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

This week, we look at takeaways from Microsoft Ignite, Space X, Pokemon Go and VR training from Bank of America. The company is going all in on Mixed Reality, to paraphrase its chief executive Satya Nadella, who used Microsoft’s AltspaceVR platform for his keynote. Rumors surface about a new Oculus Quest Pro VR HMD.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. The guy, which goes under the nickname of HYPEX, is known to be a reliable leaker for Fortnite, so it is quite sure that there are now references to Oculus in the Fortnite code. There are hints about Fortnite coming to Quest.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. Much like the Microsoft Hololens the user is looking at the real world and the device overlays virtual objects and avatars into your view so they appear to be part of the real world.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. Much like the Microsoft Hololens the user is looking at the real world and the device overlays virtual objects and avatars into your view so they appear to be part of the real world.

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

Virtual Reality is an immersive simulation of reality in which the surrounding world is completely replaced with a computer generated world. This is achieved using a headset that completely fills the users field of view in combination with body tracking to map the players body into the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2022

The company is dedicated to making its XR environments as safe as possible, with everything from built-in security features in the Oculus , to new standards for Metaverse ethics. As we move forward into an age define by virtual interactions and communities, we’re likely to see significant investment from Meta into the safety of users.

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