TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

At Facebook’s Connect conference, the company showcased a new framework for bringing 2D apps into the Oculus Store so that users will have to duck out of VR less to check notifications on their phone. While a number of Facebook apps are available today, the company also shared that Slack will soon be coming to the Oculus store.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere.

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EnterpriseWear

JUNE 26, 2018

From building the actual plane to the in-flight experience, wearable XR (AR, VR, MR) devices have a role to play in multiple professions within the commercial aviation industry. For instance, a mechanic wearing a VR headset could walk inside an engine and examine its parts as well as simulate different repair scenarios.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Image leaked from Oculus runtime). The design of Oculus Quest 2 Pro and controllers has been leaked. the simulator fans that want a headset with super-high resolution), no competitor could survive against a headset that is comfortable, affordable, has a great library of content, and has full body tracking and full RGB passthrough.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

What was once called “most boring”, “the worst” but also “cult” and “legendary” bus simulator Desert Bus, now got its VR version. The game is also playable outside of VR, so if you don’t own an Oculus Rift or a HTC Vive you can still play. Anyone after an authentic experience about driving a bus in a desert, consider yourself lucky.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

What is the only wearable that people is keeping on their face all day? There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

HTC’s Marios Bikos: “The HTC VIVE Tracker allows you to not only track objects in VR (getting tracker pose in real-time) but also use the POGO pins to simulate input buttons (Grip/Trigger/Trackpad/Menu) as if you were using a Vive controller.”. The image below shows a layout of the pogo pins, with Pin.3 3 as the Grip button, Pin.4

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

That said, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that in the next few years we’re going to see more people becoming “Virtual Reality Refugees.” We’re going to see more people becoming 'Virtual Reality Refugees' Click To Tweet. 2018 has been a remarkable year for immersive technologies Click To Tweet.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for a variety of immersive technologies including VR (Virtual Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). VR (VIRTUAL REALITY). Some examples include the Oculus Quest and Vive Focus platforms. WHAT IS XR (VR/MR/AR)? What is XR?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days. HTC Vive and Penn State.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

billion to build a wearable computing device, is trying to raise even more cash as it readies a long-awaited debut product. It would be bigger than a pair of glasses, but smaller than virtual reality headsets such as Facebook Inc.’s s Oculus Rift. Magic Leap Inc. , a Florida-based startup that’s raised more than $1.3

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Helig died in 1997 at age 70.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. That is the basis for the new Apple and is important for a range of new products, from robots that will do things around your house, to cars that will drive you around, to augmented and virtual reality products that will bring new kinds of games and experiences to all of us. Disclaimer.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

Soon we won’t be able to imagine living life without devices that not just correct our vision but add new virtual and augmented reality capabilities to them. Will be useful in turning the sky dark, for instance, or replacing objects or people in front of you with virtual replacements and avatars.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

So within Accenture Interactive, we focus on user journeys, on strategy, on experiences, on marketing, and we’ve more recently — in the last two years — been looking at this new space of extended reality. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

So within Accenture Interactive, we focus on user journeys, on strategy, on experiences, on marketing, and we’ve more recently — in the last two years — been looking at this new space of extended reality. Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The interface in Quill by Oculus builds on the physical skeumorphs of traditional PC design to create a familiar set of cues. Wearable Interfaces. This “wearable device” can be locked to your hand, wrist, or arm, and revealed automatically or through a gesture. We won’t even have to think about it.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. I work in XR, organizing events and writing about AR and VR for my livelihood and yet, unlike some of my male peers, I purchased my very first piece of VR hardware just this year with the release of Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

bHaptics is a Korean company producing haptic systems for virtual reality. The full suite consists of a suit for the torso, plus wearable elements for: arms, hands, feet, and even the face. The real question is: what about headsets that don’t rely on PC like the Oculus Quest or the Vive Focus Plus ? Supported games.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. — on the enterprise wearables world. There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. — on the enterprise wearables world. There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. I've been really looking forward to this conversation, because you are writing everyday – or, not everyday, but what, a couple times a week? -- on the enterprise wearables world. Let's start with that.

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