VRScout

JUNE 16, 2018

When Oculus Go hit shelves in May with a starting price of $199, it not only brought in a new era of affordable VR, but also launched a fresh way for people to spend time together – all through an app called Oculus Rooms. The potential of Oculus Go doesn’t stop there either. For Jones, VR isn’t new to him.

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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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MARCH 9, 2018

GDC, hosted later this month in San Francisco, has long been an important event for Oculus. GDC 2018 is a little more than one week away; Oculus is planning a big presence at the show this year, and, in a post to the company’s blog , says they’ll be bringing “never-before-seen demos” to the event.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

These days, most folks have experienced virtual reality in some shape or form: it could be a Google cardboard, VR kiosk at a local mall, or an at-home VR headset from HTC or Oculus. For example, your team can experience an epic alien crash site escape in Reason, a VR escape room in San Francisco. Conclusion.

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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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JUNE 17, 2020

It’s been a long time coming for the self-professed “small and scrappy” San Francisco-based VR studio, which was founded in 2016 to create its first VR passion project, The Rig. It supports your standard swath of SteamVR headsets, including HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows VR, and Valve Index.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. cities, starting with San Francisco. But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware).

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MARCH 17, 2019

GDC starts this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and we. Game devs and gamers alike will get hands-on with Oculus.

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VRScout

JANUARY 25, 2022

These competitions will take you to exotic destinations around the world, including Sydney, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Enoshima, and Cape Town. Those who purchase the “Sailing Pass” will also have access to Pro and WASZP races. Image Credit: MarineVerse.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

A San Francisco-based startup, YUR (pronounced “why you are,”) was founded in early 2019 by Cix Liv and Dilan Shah. Having launched its pilot program on PC VR earlier this year, YUR is now officially making its software available on Oculus Quest. You won’t find YUR on the Oculus Store though, at least not yet.

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JULY 29, 2017

Oculus has been on the receiving end of vocal criticism about its practices of funding the development of VR content with the requirement that it be exclusive to the Oculus platform. However, Oculus say’s they’re interested in opening the door to their platform to any third-party VR headsets that want to come in.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

While users can view Quill artwork in the program itself and inside of Facebook Spaces , the company is hoping to unlock the artwork by making it viewable on Oculus Quest too. SEE ALSO Oculus Artist's 'Quill' Shorts Show the Incredible Potential of Illustrating & Animating in VR. Image courtesy Oculus.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The Rizort VR app works on headsets such as the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear to allow potential guests to virtually explore hotels, resorts and experiences from anywhere in the world Click To Tweet. To date, the San-Francisco based company has raised $2.9M To date, the San-Francisco based company has raised $2.9M

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Effective today, both the YUR Oculus Quest app on Sidequest ( [link] ) and the YUR mobile companion app are released into beta. About YUR Founded in 2019 in San Francisco, YUR is developing a fitness and health platform to make fitness a game using VR. Navigating players into a healthy lifestyle, while having fun.

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2020

If I were a betting man, I’d put money on each location offering access to popular VR experiences available on existing headsets like the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift S rather than developing their own original content. The ill-fated Atari Jaguar headset in all its glory / Image Credit: Geek.com. Feature Image Credit: Atari Inc.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. This was Oculus’ Santa Cruz prototype, a ‘feature prototype’ demonstrating, for the first time, the company’s inside-out tracking technology.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 25, 2022

The “Meta Store” opens on May 9 in Burlingame, California, a city on the San Francisco peninsula near Meta’s reality Labs division. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is opening its first physical retail store next month in an effort to familiarize consumers with virtual reality and the “metaverse.” Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

San Francisco-based startup Framework just announced a thin, lightweight productivity laptop unlike any other on the market right now. Sure, it looks similar to the aluminum options almost every other laptop maker offers, but this laptop can be upgraded, customized, and repaired in ways that others just can’t. Read more.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 17, 2020

12/17/20 – SAN FRANCISCO – ARtillery Intelligence today released a new report that projects VR revenue to grow from $4.98 VR’s biggest accelerant is Facebook’s ongoing investments, including Oculus Quest 2. New Study Projects VR Revenue to Reach $12.2 Billion by 2024. billion in 2019 to $12.19 billion in 2024, a 19.6

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 7, 2017

There will be a gathering with press in San Francisco at the Upload SF office, with the highlight being a cross-platform VR engagement with the cast. Users without an HTC Vive and Oculus Rift won’t be left out entirely, though, as the streamed event will be available to watch on YouTube as well.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The Rizort VR app works on headsets such as the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear to allow potential guests to virtually explore hotels, resorts and experiences from anywhere in the world. To date, the San-Francisco based company has raised $2.9M

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MAY 16, 2016

Today Oculus kicked off a new initiative today called VR for Good by launching two pilot VR film programs to inspire the next generation of VR creators – starting with high school students, rising VR filmmakers, and nonprofit organizations. Information provided by the Oculus Blog Check out Cats And VR's 360° Videos here: [link].

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Wands® was recently awarded ”Best VR Game” at the International Mobile Gaming Awards Global in San Francisco. Game critics have been spell-bound Wands and now it will be coming to the Oculus Rift. Get Wands on Oculus Rift today at [link] Gear VR, Google Daydream and Pico).

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Featuring real-world case studies and insights from HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Intel , Nvidia and more, the XR Industry Insight Report takes a comprehensive dive into the XR landscape of today and seeks to distil what the future holds for this young but blossoming industry.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The company, which is split between San Francisco and Hangzhou, China, says in a tweet that production of the Nreal Light developer kit has been halted. Delays are said to affect the most recent batch of backers. Nreal isn’t the only company in the AR/VR sector to have felt the effects.

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JULY 22, 2021

Impulse Gear, an independent game developer and publisher located in San Francisco, continues to prioritize game features based on community feedback and requests for Larcenauts , a team-based multiplayer first-person hero shooter that was released last month.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. These are impressive numbers but it has still never been clear how much Oculus and Facebook are spending on each individual project.

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MAY 25, 2016

At the Display Week conference in San Francisco, CA this week – Samsung showcased a number of next generations of displays, but it was the VR area that (obviously) caught our eye most. It looks like a 4K Samsung Gear VR might be a lot closer than we thought.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

It was well over a year ago that the promise of Xbox streaming to the Oculus Rift was first promised by Phil Spencer during a June 2015 press event in San Francisco. The app will release on December 12 on the Oculus Home store. Tagged with: Headset , microsoft , oculus , rift. It will be free of charge.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Despite their corporate fraternity, the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR don’t cross over with each other very often when it comes to content. Today, however, we can reveal that at least two Oculus Rift games have been ported to the Gear VR in one form or another. In this case it was Oculus’ head of mobile product Max Cohen.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. cities, starting with San Francisco. But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Announced at today’s Windows Mixed Reality event in San Francisco, AltspaceVR will be joining Microsoft as part of the family. AltspaceVR is expected to continue to work on PC and Mac in 2D mode, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Daydream by Google, and Samsung Gear VR. Microsoft’s lineup of VR headsets.

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MARCH 12, 2020

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) was due to take place next week in San Francisco with organisers cancelling the show last month. You’ll be able to tune in see updates and trailers from anticipated titles coming to Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift as well as special announcements from developers themselves.

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MARCH 12, 2017

The CNNVR app has been available on Google’s Daydream VR platform since its November launch last year, and is now publishing content to the Samsung VR app on Gear VR and Oculus Video app on Rift too. In addition, CNN’s iOS and Android apps now support 360 video, along with the desktop site CNN.com/VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2019

Depending on the workout, Chacon would use either an Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, or an HTC Vive to pump up his cardio. Some workouts required the tetherless 6DOF VR from headsets like the Quest, such as working out in 3D boxing ring ; more simplistic exercises, such as burpees , worked best with the Oculus Go.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

HTC Says “Oculus Is Not Our Competition” & Oculus Is Skeptical Room-scale Tracking is Absolutely Necessary for VR" Raymond Pao is the Vice President for new technologies at HTC. During the discussion, Pao said “Oculus is not our competition,” Pao said. In fact, room-scale isn’t really defined. Read more on Road to VR.

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