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VR is the Face of Future Entertainment at a Major San Jose Cinemark Theater

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Cinemark, a major US movie theater chain, this week welcomes the SPACES VR attraction to its Century 20 Oakridge theater in San Jose, CA. SPACES hardware consists of an Oculus Rift, HP Omen VR backpack, Hardlight haptic vest, StrikerVR guns, and hand & foot trackers, all tracked with OptiTrack. Photo by Road to VR.

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Hands-On: Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Feels Great, But It’s Not Perfect

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During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. We’ve come a long way since Oculus’ consumer product. ” Image Credit: Facebook.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

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More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. Rachel Franklin, Head of Social VR, came on stage to announced Facebook’s first social VR app, Facebook Spaces , available now in beta on Oculus Rift.