ARVR

APRIL 1, 2021

MeetinVR, a Danish world-leading platform for collaborative meetings in virtual reality, today announced the launch on the Oculus Store. We are very excited to be launching on the Oculus Store. This will enable many more people to access MeetinVR’s powerful collaboration tools with minimal effort.”?—?Cristian-Emanuel

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2016

Valve has today released a new VR content creation tool suite called Destinations, a free program that lets you create, share and view community-created photogrammetry scenes, game worlds, and other 3D models. Download ‘Destinations Workshop Tools’ on Steam. Several example Destinations created with photogrammetry.

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VRScout

APRIL 15, 2021

Facebook today announced the launch of premium app subscriptions on the Oculus Quest platform. Tribe XR // Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. App subscriptions can be purchased directly through the Oculus Store via the Oculus app on your mobile device or straight from your Oculus Quest headset.

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VRScout

JUNE 29, 2020

Available next month in early access, vrkshop is an upcoming VR woodworking simulator that allows you to saw, hammer, and craft realistic woodwork using a generous selection of virtual tools, including a saw and hammer, calculator and chalkboard, speed and framing squares, and a variety of other useful instruments. Image Credit: scopatgames.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2020

According to developer scopatgames, vrkshop challenges you to build projects with hand tools, which means no snap-to-guides or limits on how to cut or fasten the lumber together. The current build is nearly set for release, scopatgames says, which includes: Hand tools: saw and hammer. Marking tools: pencils, chalk, eraser.

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VRScout

JANUARY 10, 2022

With so many great fitness apps available on VR headsets, it’s hard to forget that immersive technology can also be an effective tool for mental health. The subscription-based app offers daily studio classes guided by expert instructors. Image Credit: Hoame.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2020

The actual makeup of connected VR headsets has changed a bit however over the last month, with many major PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, and Valve Index losing a fraction of a percentage. SEE ALSO Valve Releases 'Half-Life: Alyx' Steam Workshop Tools for Making & Downloading Mods.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2020

The update also brought some bug fixes, new subtitle languages, and improved the game’s modding tools. The update also added new features, examples, and documentation to the Alyx Workshop modding tools : Enabled the Postprocessing Editor ( Documentation ). Added example maps for: Blind Zombie (a.k.a.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2019

In a video spotlight with VR League (linked below), Buckley announced that the full consumer release of Onward will feature custom maps, and map building tools so users can recreate whatever maps they’ve always wanted to play in the team-based shooter. Onward currently offers support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Valve Index.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2017

The Spiraloid Workshop Company (headed by Bay Raitt, former Valve employee, and known as the creator of the facial animation system for the character Gollum in Lord of the Rings ) has created the VR comic Nanite Fulcrum , which the company calls a ‘3D Holographic Novel’ that is part comic, part mini game, and designed for Oculus Rift and Touch.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2021

There are some platforms that this article isn’t going to discuss because they lack tools to make them truly valuable for industry. Like Hubs, this VR remote collaboration tool is best experienced on a headset but is hardware agnostic and runs on just about anything with a screen and space for the app download.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Perhaps no project to date shows the potential of Quill— Oculus’ VR illustration and animation tool — quite like The Remedy. Peixe has been a mentor for the professional online animation workshop Animsquad since 2017. Install/update the Oculus TV app. Launch Oculus TV. How to Watch The Remedy.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The funding round was led by Hiro Capital, a new game streaming-focused VC fund led by Inspired Entertainment co-founder Luke Alvarez, Games Workshop co-founder Ian Livingstone CBE, and Cherry Freeman, co-founder of LoveCrafts. SEE ALSO Oculus Releases Beta Support for Link, Turning Quest into a PC VR Headset.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 16, 2020

Facebook has begun its Game Developers Showcase today with lots of Oculus Quest news. Things have improved over the last year or so thanks to cheaper, easier to use devices like Oculus Quest and it seems quite a few studios have done very well. Best Practices For Launching Games on Oculus.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

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. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 12, 2020

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. Best Practices For Launching Games on Oculus. These videos are: VR Business Best Practices.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

Soon, you will be able to superimpose your real self into a virtual world through Oculus casting. AR meets Quicktime as the enterprise see-what-I-see tech merges with mobile AR creative tools. Former Oculus chief Hugo Barra has announced he’s left Facebook in a blog post. The Oculus Go was launched under his watch.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus. Community programming and workshops are essential to this project.”

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2017

Assets to create these new environments will be added to SteamVR Workshop with tools there enabling content creators to build and submit new environments. 2) Find ‘SteamVR’ in your Library under ‘Tools’ 3) Right click and go to Properties. How to opt into SteamVR Beta: 1) Open Steam on your desktop.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

He said that Apple is going to “ make VR into something everybody wants before it’s something that everybody can afford ”, like the original Oculus The trademark XROS has been registered by a shell company owned by Apple. Meta has silently ended support for Oculus Home on PC. That’s so sad.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The very first Vision VR/AR Summit was home to keynote addresses from established leaders in the emerging industries, leaders such as Gabe Newell of SteamVR, Palmer Luckey of Oculus, and Dr. Richard Marks of PlayStation VR. The “VR Game Dev” track will tackle platform-specific development, case studies, and tool/service demos.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2016

First, Nate Mitchell announced during his Oculus Connect 3 keynote that Oculus will be supporting the WebVR ecosystem with the React VR framework and a VR-enabled browser called Carmel. There’s been a couple of key developments in the evolution of WebVR during the month of October. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2018

” Supported controllers include the XBox One gamepad, Vive Tracker, Oculus Touch, and motion controllers for HTC Vive and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets, although we expect there are plenty more SteamVR-compatible peripherals out there that will make their way into Valve’s keybinding system.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

As part of our global tour for the Leap Motion 3D Jam , we’re at Berlin’s Game Science Centre to take developers through our SDK and building with the latest VR tools. Registrations for the workshops and meetup are still open. Due to recent changes to the Oculus plugin in Unity, we currently recommend using Unity 5.0

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Metaverses are in line with the tech trend Oculus Quest reported sales growth, which indicates higher accessibility of VR equipment for the general audience. One virtual room for all meetings, demos, workshops and lectures — they only need to put on their headsets to come in. Limited input-output tools Humans are imperfect.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 10, 2016

Oculus releases have been a little one sided between either Rift or Gear in the past few weeks, but there are a lot of experiences for both today. The post New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases for the Week of 06/05/16 appeared first on UploadVR.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 14, 2020

Freely available to use online or by downloading the app through Steam (supports Valve Index, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality), you can start by exploring the thousands of VR spaces already available – like all the recent award winners – before delving into the creative side. So onto the interviews.

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APRIL 26, 2023

Currently, the company is investing in a variety of tools to unlock the metaverse. The Meta team is exploring augmented reality solutions designed to work with smartphones and smart glasses, as well as virtual reality environments compatible with a range of Oculus headsets.

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CraneMorley

MARCH 8, 2022

We offer Mixed Reality Workshops to provide the training and tools needed to get started with a Mixed Reality project. Next, we have Facebook or Meta who is leader in Virtual Reality and their Oculus Headset. In addition to the Oculus, they are investing big money into the Metaverse and see big potential in the future.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Recently, Campo Santo artist Jane Ng brought the lookout tower from Firewatch to life in the Steam workshop for Destinations and you can find other user created places like a medieval castle, photogrammetric heritage sites in the UK, and more. Destinations can be downloaded on Steam for free and works with HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 5, 2020

Digital Catapult and Arts Council England launched CreativeXR back in 2018 to provide funds, tools and other assistance for those working on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) projects. The programme has proven to be a success , returning for the third year with new contributors. .

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. PSVR game Ghost Giant has come to Oculus Quest on February, 20th.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 28, 2016

Valve’s ‘Destinations’ VR App Gets Multiplayer and Avatars in Free Update It was nearly two months ago now that Valve released its VR world building app, Destinations Workshop Tools , for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. This week, it’s got a significant new update. Valve has added multiplayer into the experience for the first time.

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VirtualiTeach

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Partly this was due to geographical limitations (Oculus never released the Rift or Go in the Middle East for some reason) and partly it was due to the relationship I built with the awesome Vive team based here in Dubai and their continued support of my work. Firefox Reality – use this WebVR browser to access tools like CoSpaces and SketchFab.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

With the upcoming launch of Playstation VR, Oculus Touch controllers, cheaper VR-compatible PCs, and Google Daydream, VR promises to bring immersive entertainment, communication, and education tools to more people than ever before. There are also classes on developer programs at Oculus or HTC. Read more here.

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