Road to VR

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Better keep a tight grip on that wallet—the next month and a half will see the launch of a flurry of anticipated games for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 (and a few which are also coming to PSVR 2 and PC VR). Six guests have been welcomed to the foreboding mansion. Here’s what should be on your radar.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It's hard to understate just how busy October was for VR gaming and following the Quest 3 release, we counted nearly 50 Quest 3 launch games. November doesn't feature any major VR hardware releases but that doesn't make this month any quieter. After some new VR games in November 2023?

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Revealed during our Winter Showcase last month, Arcade Paradise VR sees you turning a disused laundromat into a '90s arcade. The flatscreen version only supported local multiplayer and that's been dropped entirely on Quest. "We As for performance, Firnigl's not ready to officially confirm details for Quest 2 and Quest 3.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 8, 2023

We have good news if you’ve been searching for a Meta Quest 3 release date for the last few months. Meta opened pre-orders for the Meta Quest 3 on September 27 th , and shipments began rolling out on the 10 th of October this year. How Much Will the Meta Quest 3 Cost?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Solos AirGo 3 The Solos AirGo 3 is one of the most exciting new smart glasses in the immersive marketplace, costing roughly $249 Solos is bringing the AI into its specs. Meta Quest 3 The Meta Quest lineup is a reliable option for any XR device customer, with options for consumers and businesses via an enterprise program.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2023

Exactly six years later a premium location in downtown Seattle has just become Sandbox VR’s 40th location worldwide—they are present across the US, Europe and Asia—and they are the fastest growing company in the sector. All of us had some level of experience playing with Quest 2 at home but none had been to a LBVR attraction.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are our picks for the top 25 best Quest 3 games available now. Our list of best Quest 2 games and best Quest 3 games will be updated and maintained separately. For games that were previously released on Quest 2, we've often linked our original reviews of those games in our recommendations below.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

pales in front of the estimated 8–10M Quest 2 users : the standalone market is so much more bigger and appealing for content creators. The growth of Quest is also influencing the stats on Steam: of all those headsets, 46% (that is, almost HALF) of them are Quest 2 users. Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Looking for the best free Quest games and apps? Four years after the original Oculus Quest headset arrived, the Meta Quest platform offers an impressive range of experiences that caters to all interests. You can find many free experiences across the official Quest Store here. Here are our top recommendations.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 29, 2019

3, adding six free new songs to the roster: Morgan Page – Reason For Living. Revealed earlier this month , its a customisation feature which allows players to choose the colour of the sabers, notes, obstacles and lights. – which were all released last month. 3 update is available for all of those mentioned.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Additionally, the Founders Edition also ships six months before the standard Visor 4K product. Meanwhile, Meta is debuting its Quest 3 device – separate from its underperforming Pro product – which looks to bring MR to wider audiences but is focused on gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The news of the week is that also Meta is moving fast for its Meta Quest Pro 2 : Zuck is expected to fly to South Korea to speak with the CEO of LG to finalize the partnership. They activate the passthrough on Vision Pro and then they wear the Quest 3 on top of it, so they can use the Quest 3 while using the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

The expectations had been over-inflated by analysts over the year and this has created a lot of problems: when CCP games has abandoned VR, a spokesperson said that they expected the market to be 2 or 3 times bigger than what it actually turned out to be. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand. You just turn them on and they work.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s been six months since Sony launched PlayStation VR 2, handily one of the best pieces of consumer VR hardware we’ve laid eyes on. The Quest content library spans multiple generations of devices now too, which is something PSVR 2 simply can’t say since it doesn’t support PSVR games.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Payments can be splitted in 12, 18 or 24 months and can be as low as $96 per month. This is for sure a great news: the fact that Magic Leap One was available only in six cities was a bit restricting, opening it to 48 US states means that more people and company will be able to buy the headset. Object Recognition. The MagicVerse.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

As you know, the problem of Vive Focus is that it has only a 3 DOF (actually 3DOF+) controller, that can only detect its rotational pose, but it can’t infer its position in space. In short: the Vive Focus will finally have two 6 DOF controllers. Watch the video below to see the 6 DOF tracking in action. Screenshot of the above video.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Enter The Monarchy 3. I currently subscribe to six VR e-newsletters and podcasts (I will list them all at the and of this piece) and Use Cases is still a primary form of discourse. I write about these experiences and include selected titles and excerpts, with links to full articles, later in this piece. Just people.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

I put in my notice in my construction job, and a week later I met my current business partner, Lyron Bentovim, who saw the same timing and opportunity within the space. So I said, “you know what, I got probably a year’s runway to see what we can make happen, and four years later, it’s still going strong. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

I put in my notice in my construction job, and a week later I met my current business partner, Lyron Bentovim, who saw the same timing and opportunity within the space. So I said, “you know what, I got probably a year’s runway to see what we can make happen, and four years later, it’s still going strong. Alan: Amazing.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Read our specs breakdown and comparison to Quest 3 here. Is Vision Pro really seven times better than Quest 3, or even twice as good? Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. But does it deliver?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

COVID has had everybody scrambling over the past six months, and trying to identify the best path forward for the future. What are some of the biggest disruptions that we've seen over the past six months in some of these areas? Their market caps over $3-billion right now. A Quest is cheap now. if you would.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

COVID has had everybody scrambling over the past six months, and trying to identify the best path forward for the future. What are some of the biggest disruptions that we've seen over the past six months in some of these areas? Their market caps over $3-billion right now. A Quest is cheap now. if you would.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

COVID has had everybody scrambling over the past six months, and trying to identify the best path forward for the future. What are some of the biggest disruptions that we've seen over the past six months in some of these areas? Their market caps over $3-billion right now. A Quest is cheap now. if you would.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last month, ENGAGE XR presented an AR demo that shows the platform’s users collaborating in 3D space overlayed on a real-world location, falling closely alongside Apple’s spatial computing vision. Later this month, Meta will reveal more about its Quest 3 device later this month at Connect 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Points” are 3-dimensional co-ordinates for the sensor, whilst “Normals” are the relative orientation of the optical sensor’s centroid (light-facing surface). The bottom of the Tracker has six “pogo pin” contacts allowing electrical signals to pass between the Tracker and any compatible peripheral equipment. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Now we just convinced Stanford to buy us 180 Oculus Quest 2 headsets, and Pico Neo 3s , for those that didn’t want Oculus 2. People playing with Pico Neo 3 headsets (Image by Pico). Yes, there’s a lot of gamers that are using Quest to play all the wonderful games that are there. Then Strivr is born, the company.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Then, off the track we may also have been spoken about Half Life 3… but I can’t tell you anything. I don’t know anything about Half-life 3 or Half-life VR (laughs). Gabe Newell told me time and time again he’s like “I wish they would just build half-life 3. Here you are the full video of the interview.

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Mashable VR

MAY 5, 2022

Six years before Robert Downey, Jr., Even if you were too young to see them at the time, Maguire's stint as the wall-crawler has been back in the public consciousness in recent months after his not-at-all-surprising surprise appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

So I was teaching digital literacy and computer science content to four year olds, 3 to 11 year olds. The Quest has launched here, but only in shops. And yeah, and this is me now, a couple of months in, working for myself the first time in my life. I worked as a class teacher in one of the primary schools, and curriculum leader.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

So I was teaching digital literacy and computer science content to four year olds, 3 to 11 year olds. The Quest has launched here, but only in shops. And yeah, and this is me now, a couple of months in, working for myself the first time in my life. I worked as a class teacher in one of the primary schools, and curriculum leader.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

So I was teaching digital literacy and computer science content to four year olds, 3 to 11 year olds. The Quest has launched here, but only in shops. And yeah, and this is me now, a couple of months in, working for myself the first time in my life. I worked as a class teacher in one of the primary schools, and curriculum leader.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s a matter of months now, that Microsoft is shipping a new HoloLens; some other companies are shipping glasses. ” I think over the next six months, we’re going to see an absolute tsunami of technology being introduced to the marketplace. ” And one year later or two years later, they went bankrupt.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

It’s a matter of months now, that Microsoft is shipping a new HoloLens; some other companies are shipping glasses. ” I think over the next six months, we’re going to see an absolute tsunami of technology being introduced to the marketplace. ” And one year later or two years later, they went bankrupt.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And even reducing the number of visits, going to a customer from 3 to 2 in order to make a sale. If you have a measurement like decreasing sales visits from 3 to 2, that's demonstrable value immediately. It's a very quick five to six second decision, whether or not they're going to move forward. Is it going to fit in my counter?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

Looking it from the front, you can see the six tracking cameras: the 4 lateral one are b/w used for positional tracking, the central one is an RGB one, and below the RGB one there is the depth camera (something like a mini-Kinect). It is not mind-blowing like the ones of the Valve Index or the Vive Focus 3 , but it is absolutely good.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And even reducing the number of visits, going to a customer from 3 to 2 in order to make a sale. If you have a measurement like decreasing sales visits from 3 to 2, that's demonstrable value immediately. It's a very quick five to six second decision, whether or not they're going to move forward. Is it going to fit in my counter?

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Mashable VR

MAY 2, 2022

From questioning whether everything we thought we knew about psychology is wrong to the quest to understand what the hell dark matter is, Unexplainable teaches us to get comfortable with the idea that human knowledge has many limits. Each month focuses on a different area of expertise, which most recently included activism and music.

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