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JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. Oculus has committed to bringing OpenXR runtime support to both Rift and Quest later this year. The post OpenXR 1.0

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MAY 31, 2017

Today at Computex 2017, the annual IT expo held in Taipei, Taiwan, Microsoft revealed more from their line-up of affordable Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ headsets, including Asus’ headset and an updated design from Dell. Microsoft says that a staggering 20,000 UWP apps are already available for Mixed Reality headsets.

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He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! XR is going to conquer the consumer market.

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JULY 27, 2020

Today the company announced that developers can submit OpenXR applications to be published on the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift stores. The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look at how Facebook’s money is funding battles on all fronts of the industry’s increasingly competitive landscape. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Old Enemies – HTC.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Looking at the wider industry, E3 2017 hasn’t been the most memorable show. It was Microsoft that dropped the ball the hardest. This time last year Microsoft was telling us that the console, then codenamed Project Scorpio, would be capable of high-fidelity VR. Sadly, companies failed to really communicate that this week.

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JUNE 2, 2017

The 2017 edition of the event officially takes place from June 13th – 15th, with three days of press conferences preceding it. It’s here that titans like Sony, Microsoft and others do their best to wow us with new announcements on both the software and hardware front. It would be a huge missed opportunity for Microsoft.

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JUNE 11, 2017

At Microsoft’s pre-E3 keynote today, we’ve seen plenty of non-VR games coming to the Xbox console family, now including XBox One X (formerly Project Scorpio). Whether that includes VR support for the score of Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets from various manufacturers remains to be seen. This news is breaking.

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MAY 25, 2016

Faced with the release of PlayStation VR later this year, Microsoft is reportedly exploring a deeper partnership with Facebook that would bring full Oculus compatibility to a future version of the Xbox One. The post Report: Microsoft Considering Xbox That Can Run The Oculus Rift appeared first on UploadVR.

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JULY 15, 2017

Oculus slashed the original price tag in half to $400 on the Rift +Touch bundle last week, but the company’s ‘Summer of Rift’ sale only lasts for six weeks, leaving the question on the table as to exactly how much the VR headset + motion controller bundle would return to once the sale is up. Oculus says: $500.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Social VR networking app AltspaceVR is set to arrive on the Oculus Quest on September 12, according to an official announcement made via Twitter. AltspaceVR is already available for free on Steam for all major headsets, as well as on the Oculus Rift , Oculus Go , and Gear VR storefronts.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

After Oculus’ big Black Friday sale, which saw Rift & Touch temporarily cut from its regular price of $400 to $350, Oculus now says they’re permanently dropping the price of the bundle to just $350. In the US, this includes Amazon, Best Buy, New Egg, Microsoft Store, and Micro Center. ” Photo by Road to VR.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

CES 2017 is officially “begins” tomorrow but the behemoth conference is already revving up in Las Vegas. On this week’s episode of our VR news podcast, we discussed CES 2017 at length. What We Know: Microsoft is at the show in a multitude of capacities. Oculus (Facebook). Vive (HTC).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year. Google Daydream will sell the most premium headsets in 2017, getting 6.8M However, the report did lump together Pokémon GO, which earned 96% of all AR software revenue in 2016, and MR devices like the Microsoft HoloLens proving not yet ready for consumers. billion in 2017, rising to $9.1

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MAY 4, 2017

By the end of 2016, the company says they began shipping the first Meta 2 dev kits, and by the end of 2017 they expect to ship some 10,000 headsets. While Meta has raised a considerable $73 million in venture capital to fund their ongoing development, giants like Microsoft, Magic Leap, and perhaps even Apple loom. Photo by Road to VR.

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JUNE 11, 2017

Though the company initially proclaimed that the Xbox One X (formerly known as ‘Project Scorpio’) would feature VR support, at E3 this week Microsoft is distancing itself from that commitment. Now however it seems that Microsoft is waning in their support of VR on Xbox One X, or at least de-emphasizing it for the time being.

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MAY 26, 2016

Microsoft may be preparing a new, much more powerful version of their Xbox One games console codenamed ‘Scorpio’ to power the Oculus Rift some reports are suggesting. It’s also claimed MS are pursuing a partnership with Oculus to supply headsets to go with the new console, said to be released in 2017.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

As usual, Microsoft is firing first with its press conference this E3, but it’s doing so even earlier than anticipated. Xbox (@Xbox) February 15, 2017. This E3 is shaping up to be the biggest batle between Sony and Microsoft since 2013, the year where each had to convince gamers to buy a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One respectively.

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Microsoft revealed last year it had plans to pull the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows. “Windows Mixed Reality is deprecated and will be removed in Windows 11, version 24H2,” Microsoft said back in December 2023. Up until now, that is.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

That’s a question that expands well beyond 2017, but there’s still a bunch of big questions we’re expecting to answer next year. Six months on from its reveal, Microsoft’s Project Scorpio remains a promising mystery for the VR industry. Tagged with: 2017 , htc vive , oculus rift , project scorpio.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Here’s a quick summary of all the VR-related news from the first day (or more accurately, ‘day zero’) of E3 2017. Following EA’s early keynote on Sunday, yesterday saw presentations from Microsoft and Bethesda, with some surprising no-shows and reveals. The game is due to launch in 2017.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Following the revelations from the Microsoft and Bethesda presentations , this is a second roundup of news from E3 2017, currently taking place in Los Angeles. Intel, Oculus & ESL Look to Accelerate VR eSports: Insomniac’s The Unspoken | Image courtesy Insomniac Games.

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MAY 7, 2017

F8 2017 was held on April 18th and 19th 2017. Chief Scientist of Oculus Research Michael Abrash described his vision of a mixed reality future: a world, 20-30 years from now, where we will wear stylish AR glasses instead of sporting stylish phones. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017. Apple WWDC : June 5-9, 2017.

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At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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JULY 24, 2017

We’re just over halfway through 2017, and it’s been a rollercoaster for VR. One of the most interesting VR narratives of 2017 so far has been the pricing strategy of Facebook’s Rift. What’s the latest on Oculus’ standalone headset(s)? Are Microsoft’s Mixed Reality headsets any good?

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JANUARY 6, 2017

Here’s a visual tour of some of the first VR headsets to be shown adopting Microsoft’s new Windows Holographic platform. At CES Acer, 3Glasses, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all showing VR headsets due for 2017, this is what they’ll look like.

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MAY 23, 2020

Images published by known Microsoft leaker ‘WalkingCat’ have revealed a new VR headset sporting the HP logo, which looks very similar to the company’s previously revelead G2 Windows VR headset teased back in March. pic.twitter.com/g71tL0Oo78. — WalkingCat (@h0x0d) May 23, 2020. Image courtesy WalkingCat.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Coatsink , the studio behind VR titles A Night Sky (2017) and Augmented Empire (2017), announced they’re bringing their first mobile VR title, Esper (2015), to PlayStation VR, Oculus Go and Xiaomi Mi on June 29th. Esper will launch on Oculus Go, PSVR and HTC Vive for $8. training program instructor.

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MARCH 16, 2019

According to a report by UploadVR , citing emails sent from Facebook to Oculus developers, the rumored Rift S headsets will be revealed next week at GDC. Rift S was first brought to light in a TechCrunch report last year about the leadership shakeup at Oculus and purported shifting product plans. Image courtesy Oculus.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Yesterday I was reading the comments on Reddit regarding my post with the predictions for Oculus Connect 5 and the kind redditor /u/SilverWhite2 provided me the link to the latest available patent with the design of Santa Cruz. Front view (Image by Oculus). Rear view (Image by Oculus). Top view (Image by Oculus).

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JUNE 16, 2017

As E3 2017 draws to a close, here’s our final roundup of news. Although it missed Ubisoft’s main E3 presentation, the company announced a new multiplayer VR shooter this week, due for release in early 2018 for HTC Vive and Oculus Touch. The development kit is due by the end of 2017.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

VR headsets have already seen some pretty drastic permanent price reductions in the past few months, including the new $400 Oculus Rift + Touch price, the new $600 HTC Vive price, and the new $450 ‘all-in’ PlayStation VR bundle. SEE ALSO The Best Windows VR Headset Deal for Black Friday 2017. The Best VR Headset Deals.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Ramping up for CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Lenovo has revealed their newest entry into the world of VR, a yet unnamed headset sporting an impressive dual 1440 × 1440 OLED displays, a PlayStation VR-style halo strap system, and dual cameras that allow for room-scale positional tracking.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. What We Know .

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APRIL 18, 2017

Windows Holographic, a set of APIs integrated into Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, was first touted by the computing giant during the company’s surprise reveal of their augmented reality headset, the HoloLens. Images courtesy Windows Central.

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JUNE 15, 2017

Microsoft’s E3 2017 presentation concentrated on the new Xbox One X console, but made no mention of VR. Spencer on stage at E3 2017 where the company announced that ‘Project Scorpio’ would officially launch as the Xbox One X. He referred to the issue of cords, and that “there’s just more people” to think about.

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