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MAY 18, 2019

Luckily there’s a path forward—the Rift S design is relatively modular, allowing both the headstrap and the face gasket to be removed, meaning that Oculus could (and should) offer accessories to improve the experience. SEE ALSO Oculus Rift S Review – A Good Choice for VR Newcomers, a Difficult Choice for VR Vets. Rift S Audio.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

TPCast for Vive is priced at US$300, and is sold on TPCast’s website and online retail sites including Amazon and NewEgg. Originally slated for its US release on 9/25/2017 through the Microsoft Store , pre-orders were quickly refunded for no discernible reason. It appears Amazon’s link isn’t active yet.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

At CES 2017 today, VentureBeat reports that Samsung Electronics America chief Tim Baxter has officially stated during the company’s press event that they’ve officially sold 5 million Samsung Gear VR headsets, which are powered by the Oculus Home platform. Does the 5 million number surprise you?

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

This week’s films include 3D versions of Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon (2017) and Ghost in the Shell (2017), and 2D versions of Star Trek (2009) and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Bigscreen supports Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and all Windows VR headsets.

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JULY 19, 2017

The Tick: Amazon is bringing a virtual reality escape room to Comic-Con for their upcoming original series. The Oculus Rift experience will utilize D-Box chairs in an immersive 24-seat theatre. The post Your VR and AR Event Guide to Comic-Con 2017 appeared first on VRScout. Contact or tweet us if we missed anything!

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JULY 18, 2017

The VR project from Sanzaru Games and Disney’s Marvel is coming to the Oculus Rift exclusively next year and represents one of the biggest name projects ever to come to virtual reality. The Tick: Amazon lists a “virtual reality escape room” as part of its promotion of the live-actions version of The Tick. Warner Bros.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

value) in addition to the current Fallout 4 VR bundle, which launches on December 12, 2017. Only available in Microsoft retail and online stores in the US and Canada, the sale goes on until 11:59 PM PST on November 27, 2017. Shop on Amazon. Oculus Rift Discount. Sold on Samsung and Amazon.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

HTC loves to announce new stuff at CES : during this exhibition it has already announced the Vive Tracker in 2017 and the Vive Pro in 2018, for instance. We all thought about a new Vive Focus with embedded 6 DOF controllers , ready to fight the Oculus Quest. Vive Cosmos and its controllers, that seem a lot the ones of Oculus.

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JULY 31, 2017

This means the Galaxy S8 line of phones are the first ever to support both the Oculus-powered Gear VR ecosystem and Google’s budding Daydream platform. Google VR (@googlevr) July 31, 2017. The Daydream-ready update is rolling out now to @SamsungMobile Galaxy S8 and S8+. Explore new worlds with #Daydream. Fingers crossed?)

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JULY 27, 2018

.” Very few major manufacturers have released sales data on their VR headsets, with Sony being the exception when they said that PSVR had already sold over 2 million units back in December 2017. Amazon does provide a good watermark for how any given product is faring, but it’s not everything, HTC says.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The EarthXR section on Samsung XR debuted this week with 12 free 360 short films which can be viewed in web browsers, on iOS or Android , or immersively through the Samsung XR app on Oculus ( Rift , Quest , Gear VR ), Windows Mixed Reality , and Daydream. The Amazon is burning. Under the Canopy. Guardians of the Forest.

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MAY 23, 2017

Following a recent Christmas break where he says he studied a robot vacuum cleaner, tested all available voice-input devices for the home (such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers), and watched every Black Mirror episode, it was voice control that excited Sony’s head of Magic Lab the most.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Amazon announced VR support for Lumberyard , their free of cost CryEngine-based game engine, at last year’s GDC, but this year the company is pushing the feature specs of the engine, maintaining that Lumberyard is the first game engine to directly integrate temporal anti-aliasing, specular anti-aliasing and order-independent transparency.

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JUNE 4, 2017

Now thanks to the success of an early pilot program currently being tested at a handful of these locations, over 140,000 Walmart associates across all 200 training centers will feature virtual reality training simulators by the end of 2017. Both Lowes and Amazon are already taking their own unique approaches towards embracing VR as well.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Pre-orders are open globally as of today at Vive.com and other Vive retailers like Amazon. As for the original Vive, the full package (including controllers and base stations) is dropping from $600 to $500, placing the headset within $100 of main rival Oculus Rift which is priced at $400. Stradling Segments. Image courtesy HTC.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

SEE ALSO Best Buy's Black Friday Sale to Offer Sizable Discounts on VR Devices, Oculus Rift Priced at $350. We’d keep an eye on Amazon in the coming days too. Additional DualShock 4 wireless controllers, including the recently released translucent colors , are knocked down in price too, now $40.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Fallout 4 is available to pre-order via Amazon right now (in the US) and direct via Steam , and its price reflects the years of development that went into the original game, in this case a cool $60. Fallout 4 VR is available on the HTC Vive headset via Amazon (US only currently) or direct via SteamVR for $59.99

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JULY 14, 2017

It was almost a year ago now that Oculus Story Studio’s animated short, Henry, won VR its first Emmy , not that it did the little critter any good. The other experiences are in the Outstanding Original Interactive Program category, and they’re all made by or in collaboration with Oculus itself.

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JULY 25, 2017

San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2017 is one of the largest and most anticipated entertainment industry events on the planet. Hotels are taken over by large companies like Netflix and Amazon, large courtyards are converted to a series of exhibits. In reality, Comic-Con now extends to the entirety of the city of San Diego.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. In 2017, Apple released software called ARKit, which includes tools for software makers to determine how far away an object or wall is, if the phone is moving, or identify limbs in a human body, among other functions.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

CES 2017 will have around 2 million square feet of exhibit space. John Curran, managing director for communications, media, and tech at Accenture, has come up with his annual predictions of the prevailing themes at CES 2017. Facebook has Oculus. VB: Trend number two you said was intelligent assistants.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

cable extender left over from my ownership of an Oculus Rift CV1 with a 3-camera tracking setup. cable extender of the same style from Amazon for £10, it was easy to use the USB extension cables to place two Vive Tracker dongles right into my playspace, by passing under the door alongside the headset tether. Racket Fury, 2017, £15.49.

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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. ”. Her first VR creation, Cardboard City , earned an award at the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest in 2016.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

The 5 Most Important Announcements from CES 2017 on VR & AR 1) Intel’s ‘Merged Reality’ Demo Brings Actual Hands Into VR on Oculus Rift Intel demoed 2 things at CES: 1) they demoed Intel’s technology to bring your hands into VR, no controller required, with Intel’s Merged Reality RealSense. 2) They demoed Project Alloy.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Combine that with an Oculus Rift from Best Buy , and you have yourself an entire PC VR system for just under $850, not to mention a computer capable of handling nearly any traditional PC game. You can of course always build your own, but you’d be hard pressed to reach that low of a price point without your own prior components.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Way back in 2017, the British visual band, Gorillaz used YouTube’s 360-degree video feature to pioneer a new type of music videos with a new video version of their song “Saturnz Barz,” subtitled “ Spirit House.” Billie Eilish performed in VR using the Oculus Venues app on Oculus Quest. So did Imagine Dragon.

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MARCH 24, 2020

After passing through the boom and bust cycle of 2016 and 2017, the last two years were more about measured optimism in the face of the sobering realities of industry shakeout and retraction. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. AR at Work.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Creative applications like Oculus Medium, Tilt Brush and Ghost Paint are exposing artistry to computer users that’s much more visceral than ever before. Right now your Amazon shopping experience involves looking at a lot of low-resolution JPEGs of products.

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JULY 12, 2017

VRX 2017, one of world’s premier conferences on the subject of business and technology needed for Virtual Reality, announced the first speakers for a two day event. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve. Dan Ferguson, Co-Founder / EVP Digital Interactive Strategy, Groove Jones.

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DECEMBER 8, 2021

Amazon : [link] 4 ? Oculus Rift + Touch Virtual Truth Process … source. THE Links ARE DOWN Listed here 5 ? HTC VIVE – Virtual Truth System ?Amazon

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

PS VR is currently sold out at many retailers, with Amazon UK not expecting to be caught up with orders until December. Last week Oculus introduced a minimum spec for the Oculus Rift that further reduces the cost of VR ready PCs, with rigs as low as $499 now supporting the headset. If true that’s encouraging data.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Samsung Confirms 5 Million Gear VR Mobile Headsets Sold To Date At CES 2017 today, VentureBeat reports that Samsung Electronics America chief Tim Baxter has officially stated during the company’s press event that they’ve officially sold 5 million Samsung Gear VR headsets, which are powered by the Oculus Home platform.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Knockout League (2017) is a single-player, arcade-style boxing game that promises to get your heart pumping as you duck, block, and punch your way to victory. Available On: Oculus Touch, HTC Vive ( Oculus Home & Steam ). Release Date: January 24th, 2017. Harking back to NES classic Punch-Out!!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

While PS Move controllers provide an…acceptable VR experience, their inadequacy when compared to solutions made for VR, like the Oculus Touch controllers, has been a noticeable flaw in PSVR for some time. Headset-only: Amazon. Game bundles: Skyrim VR w/ Move Controllers and Headset – Amazon. Best PSVR bundles.

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MARCH 4, 2018

I expected a lot of AR/VR news from there, like the announcement of the price of the Vive Pro or the release of the Oculus Go by Xiaomi and Facebook… but actually I’ve been disappointed by everyone. What has surprised me is that a new Gear VR headset not been released: the Galaxy S9 will work with 2017 edition.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2018

COMPATIBILITY: The 2017 edition of Samsung’s Gear VR is only compatible with Samsung smartphones, specifically these devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, Note 5, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, and Galaxy S6 Edge. Afterwards, you’ll open the Oculus app on your phone to pair the handheld controller with your headset.

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