Road to VR

JULY 8, 2020

It’s already available for order on and available for pre-order on Amazon , both in Kindle and hardcover format. RPO has celebrated its fair share of success; it spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was adapted into a film, produced by Steven Spielberg. Of course, not everyone appreciated it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). Oculus is updating its Rift S and Quest offering. This has been an interesting week of news and updates for Oculus’s flagship devices. And finally, Oculus has deployed a new update to remove the annoying “Static Flash” bug that was taunting Rift S users.

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AR Insider

APRIL 17, 2020

Sony Pictures and Trigger — The Mixed Reality Agency® teamed up once again to create a WebAR experience for the feature film. The world’s first WebAR experience to uses voice activation powered by Amazon Lex, just tell the map where you want to go and it will take you there. Race on the moon with ROVR RUN WebVR game. Source: Unbnd.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Oculus is also offering a $100 Oculus Store credit when you purchase a Rift from Best Buy, Amazon, and Microsoft in the US and Canada. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (11/26/16).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift ’s are often pretty extensive with games spread across genres and plenty of non-gaming experiences like short films and experimental forms of education. HTC Vive’s blog reveals that their partners have collaborated to do just that and Amazon has also put together an Oculus Rift deal.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Shaun MacGillivray is a leading filmmaker for MacGillivray Freeman , a renowned film studio with over 50 years in the movie industry. Shaun has filmed over 40 films for IMAX’s giant screens and uses VR and spatial tech for some of his films. Juanita: You’ve made over 40 films! That’s quite a breadth of work.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The devices from Oculus VR hit a sweet spot of affordability and performance. If you got an Oculus headset this Christmas — or didn’t, and are planning to buy one ( available on Amazon for $200 ) — this guide can help you learn about the most important features. Oculus devices and developments.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. The “Cablegate” is hurting Oculus Rift CV1 owners. After the “Cablegate” has become pretty popular, Oculus stated that is thinking about solutions on how to solve this problem , but nothing has been announced until today.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The program remains in its trial phase with an end goal of determining whether the idea of a VR experience, similar to that of the Netflix VR app or Oculus Venues , would resonate with airline passengers. No word though on whether users will be able to access their personal subscriptions while onboard.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This year’s Raindance Film Festival in London showcased an amazing selection of immersive stories. Here’s what got Tech Trends really excited: Raindance is a very well-established and well-respected independent film festival, but it isn’t a particularly flashy one. Yet that lack of over-the-top glamour actually suits it very well.

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MAY 12, 2017

The Oculus Rift gets a long-anticipated game this week, but it’s Gear VR that’s the real star of the show. Plus — check out our list of the best Oculus Rift games and best Gear VR games for more suggestions! New Rift and Gear VR Releases on Oculus Home. New Oculus Rift Releases on Steam. Price: $33.99 (Rift).

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

Venice VR Expanded, the VR section of the Venice Film Festival, opens to the public online on Tuesday, September 1st, and will run through the 19th of September. After the free September 9th update, the VR game will expand to allow 2 players wearing Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets to freely roam in 100 square feet of shared playspace.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And it is all thanks to Respawn who is working on bringing their own take on the game to Oculus VR headsets. Like we said above, Medal of Honor has a storied history and originally came about as a video game prelude to Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan film. What about you? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And it is all thanks to Respawn who is working on bringing their own take on the game to Oculus VR headsets. Like we said above, Medal of Honor has a storied history and originally came about as a video game prelude to Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan film. What about you? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. Venice Film Festival is featuring a rich VR section. Among the most important film festivals, La Biennale del Cinema di Venezia is the only one with an official VR competition. The company has now solved all the issues and the headset can return on the market.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. So when I finally got an Oculus Rift DK2, I jumped in and started going to every meetup that was happening in New York. ”. I think it’s something unique that we can do in VR storytelling that, in other mediums like film, we cannot do easily. ”.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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JULY 18, 2017

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One will have a major presence with a panel on Saturday including Spielberg, book author Ernest Cline, co-screenwriter Zak Penn and the film’s stars. The Tick: Amazon lists a “virtual reality escape room” as part of its promotion of the live-actions version of The Tick.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

EarthxFilm – which is part of the annual EarthX event – and its interactive arm EarthXR has teamed up with Samsung XR to bring you a collection of films dedicated to these causes. . For the initial launch these films will include: “Guardians of the Kingdom” – Underwater Earth, Vulcan Productions.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 16, 2016

Cathy Twigg, co-founder and Chief Production Officer of The Rogue Initiative, said: “We take a comprehensive approach in producing our IP for the entertainment landscape, specializing in film, television and interactive experiences with a focus on virtual reality. CatsAndVR.com.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The name has changed and it is now called “Engage Link” , because after TPLink, Oculus Link, Looxid Link, and Pico Neo 3 Link , we needed something else with the name Link. Tribeca Film Festival has awarded three VR experiences. More info (VR edition of Tribeca Film Festival) More info (All the winners of Tribeca Film Festival).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. Facebook releases the Oculus Quest 2. Even if with the Quest 1 was possible to play Oculus Go games, this support has been abandoned on the Quest 2. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

The Mummy Prodigium Strike VR – A new location-based experience by VR pioneer Starbreeze Studios, in conjunction with NBC Universal, based on the recent Universal Studios film. The Tick: Amazon is bringing a virtual reality escape room to Comic-Con for their upcoming original series. Friday, July 21 at 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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InstaVR

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In general, to get high quality VR filming, you’ll have to pay a premium because there are still relatively few agencies dedicated solely to filming in VR. On the flip side, if you have a high budget, you can also buy top of the line camera, audio, and lighting equipment to film yourself. This consideration is complicated.

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RealVision VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When travelling – pre pandemic, one of the more relaxing experiences was sitting back, watching Netflix premieres on my own portable Imax – The Oculus Quest. This brings up the question: Why aren’t the OTT apps offering stereoscopic 3D versions of films when available, that are perfect for such immersive viewing platforms?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Oculus Quest is available again in some countries. In some countries (not US), Oculus Quest and Rift S have got back in stock. If you’re interested in these devices, have a look at Amazon and Oculus websites. Oculus rolls out runtime v15 for Quest. The update also fixes many bugs with Oculus Link.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2016

I had a chance to catch up with AMD’s Roy Taylor , VP of Alliances, Content, and VR, at VRLA to hear more about AMD’s recent announcements, their open source philosophy, their support for VR storytellers, and the upcoming VR on the Lot event on October 13 & 14th that will be helping to educate the film industry about VR.

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

Launched in December as a physical goods mobile AR game, HoloGrid: Monster Battle VR is one of the first Gear VR games to incorporate the use of the platform’s new GearVR Controller and add Oculus Gear VR Avatar support with VOIP so players can talk to their opponents during games. USD (regular price $4.99).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Just Dance VR is also part of a big focus on Fitness by Pico , with Pico Fitness already being part of the runtime and tracking the calories you burn while using the headset (clearly inspired by Oculus Move) and sharing them to Apple Health (like Oculus Move). They also plan to have International Sports events, Films, and TV content.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different. Tribeca Film Festival is going to happen also in VR. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. Learn more.

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JULY 25, 2017

Hotels are taken over by large companies like Netflix and Amazon, large courtyards are converted to a series of exhibits. debuted the long-awaited first trailer for the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One film based on the 2011 Ernest Cline novel by the same name.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Despite owning every single consumer VR headset since the Oculus Rift DK1, there has been nothing out there that drew me back into VR day after day. Right now, most people watch Esports on Twitch, the popular game streaming service that Amazon bought for $1 billion. Until Spaces. Social VR & Esports – A Match Made in Heaven.

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