Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

Facebook slashed the price of Oculus Go for Black Friday, and kept it for the post-holiday season. Residents in the Euro Zone will find both Oculus Go variants for €160/€220, and for £140/£190 in the UK. Residents in the Euro Zone will find both Oculus Go variants for €160/€220, and for £140/£190 in the UK.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Now that turkey day has come and gone, holiday shopping season has arrived and we’re tracking the best Windows Mixed Reality Black Friday 2018 deals on the Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, and Samsung Odyssey headsets. The Best Windows Mixed Reality Black Friday 2018 Deal. Other Windows VR Black Friday 2018 Deals to Consider.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

While many are wondering whether the company is launching the long-awaited $200 Oculus Go standalone headset there, a recently revealed image suggests at very least F8 attendees will be receiving a headset for free. According to the image, attendees are taking home an Oculus Go (one per person) on May 2nd.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Meta Quest 2 (formerly the Oculus Quest 2) is absolutely crushing it this holiday season. At the time of this writing, Meta’s standalone VR headset is one of the most sought-after gifts on Amazon. Fill up that shiny new headset with a collection of incredible games and apps.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 (Image courtesy Oculus.). Amazon’s a good place to get your VR experience going. Here’s a list of the ten most popular options currently available on Amazon. Oculus Rift S PC-Powered VR Gaming Headset. Oculus Rift S PC-Powered VR Gaming Headset. Buy on Amazon for $399.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In 2019, the demand growth for augmented reality and virtual reality engineers skyrocketed 1400% from the previous year, surpassing the demand for blockchain engineers (the most in-demand skill in 2018). After emerging from stealth in 2018, Spatial has been making news for its holographic enabled meeting platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2018

My experience at the EBU Digital Media Days 2018 has been awesome. First of all , I learned a lot from the people talking before and after me : some of them were from EBU or from Amazon and Sky… so, as you can see, we are talking about people that know well what they say and from which I could only learn interesting things.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2019

Beat Games, the studio behind the popular block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) , today released a free update that brings with it six new playable tracks to the game, and a few new features and improvements too. 3 from multiple services, including Apple Music, Google Music, Amazon, Spotify, and more. The OST Vol.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

Some days ago, the Mobile World Congress 2018 has finished. 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. — Daniel O'Brien (@obriend17) February 26, 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

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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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Wireless solutions such as TPCast are already available for the Vive and Rift, and the announcement of an official Vive Wireless Adaptor from HTC at CES 2018 indicates further momentum in this area , but the backpack PC still has valid use cases. Here we take a look at a range of VR backpack computers and what they offer. Image courtesy HP.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Lenovo first released its smartphone-powered Mirage AR headset last year alongside its sole title, Star Wars: Jedi Challenges (2018) , a collection of short AR games that let you do things like fight Darth Vader & Co. SEE ALSO Oculus Explains Rift S Design & Manufacturing Partnership with Lenovo.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

This represents a 64 percent increase over the number of patents granted to the company in 2018 however, which consequently bumped the company up the rankings by an astounding 22 places. 2018 Grants. Amazon Technologies Inc. 2019 Grants. Rank Change. International Business Machines Corp. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Freelance writer Joshua Fruhlinger, who occasionally writes for Digital Trends , used third-party Amazon sales data to back up his claim that consumers don’t care about VR anymore, saying it’s “crystal clear.” The report also specifies Gear VR’s decline in sales performance on Amazon.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 18, 2019

billion in 2018 to $10.6 But its share will start to diminish, given the rise of standalone VR, most notably Oculus Quest. In fact, the greatest share gains in this five-year outlook will be with standalone headsets such as Oculus Go and Quest. The device is currently sold out on Amazon. Drilling Down on Consumer VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Facebook hires the first Oculus Ambassadors. Some news on content.

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Road to VR

JULY 30, 2018

They Suspect Nothing (2018) , the Oculus Go & Samsung Gear VR title from Coatsink Software , is getting its first big DLC since it initially launched back in May. Dubbed ‘Overclocked’ DLC, the expansion is coming free to owners of the game on August 3rd, 2018. Image courtesy Coatsink Software.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Instead, the user interacts entirely through Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant.

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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. ”. Also, according to her IMDB page , Benzing once “ translated a 500 year old play from Middle French into English.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

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. Photo by Road to VR.

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Cats and VR

JULY 27, 2018

The world of Moss will soon extend beyond the virtual reality headset with the release of the Moss Soundtrack , dropping across major digital retailers August 3, 2018. For all other music enthusiasts, the Moss Soundtrack is now available for pre-order at digital retailers such as Bandcamp , iTunes , Google Play , and Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2018

In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. Notice that this means that you CAN NOT use your SteamVR/Oculus/whatever player controller prefab. Well, just some days after that article, I’ve been proved wrong. I want it!

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. billion in 2018 and is expected to reach approximately US$814.7 See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

— Boz (@boztank) February 21, 2018. Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. Best Buy is ready for the Oculus Go launch tomorrow (x-post /r/OculusGo) from oculus. I’ve purchased my Oculus Go! Oculus Go unbloxing.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Oculus Go (Image courtesy Oculus VR.). So is the Oculus Go , a VR headset that came out in May 2018, still worth buying? I’ve been using the Oculus Go for a while myself, and I’d say it’s totally worth it for most people, but it’s not for everybody. Just put it on and, well, go.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In April 2018 HTC introduced the Vive Pro headset, Pro controllers, and Vive Tracker 2.0 cable extender left over from my ownership of an Oculus Rift CV1 with a 3-camera tracking setup. released in 2018, it’s not compatible with Vive gun perfectly, that missing function below: 1- Unusable with trackpad function on vive gunVR.

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VRWorld

MAY 1, 2018

Oculus Go is the first standalone VR headset from those at Oculus, and at the first day of Facebook’s F8 2018 conference, its surprise release date was announced. As of today, May 1st, 2018, the Oculus Go is being shipped. If you want to buy the Oculus Go for yourself, click here to grab it from Amazon.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This isn’t out of preference, per se, more a case of availability on Amazon. Those are our components for a VR PC build in 2018 with an estimated cost of $1,180. The post VR WORLD’s 2018 VRPC Guide appeared first on VR World. GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB. For this VR PC build, we’ve selected an OEM GTX 1060 6GB.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 29, 2022

Amazon's infamous annual shopping event, Prime Day, will soon be upon us. and Amazon's Global Store until 5pm AEST on July 14. You will need to be an Amazon Prime member to partake in the fun. Gaming deals Check back here during Prime Day (July 12-14). -- What is Amazon Prime Day? If this is not you, fear not!

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Beat Saber (2018), the unbelievably slick VR rhythm game that tasks you with slicing blocks in mid-air with a pair of lightsabers, released today in Early Access. We’ve linked Spotify here for the sake of easy embedding, but you can see the full 10 track list on a variety of services including iTunes, Google Music, and Amazon Music.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. The company’s direction is unclear.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Image courtesy Oculus). This VR headset is currently the number one best seller on the Amazon cell phone VR headsets list. out of 5 on Amazon, this is an affordable way to get into VR via your cellphone. Buy on Amazon. Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest (Image courtesy Oculus.). Buy on Amazon.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s been difficult for me to have an in-depth and honest conversation with Google about privacy or with Facebook/Oculus about privacy because the technological roadmap for integrating biometric data streams into VR products or advertising business models have still been in the theoretical future. Support Voices of VR.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

I wasn't impressed when the Peloton bike first arrived at my house in 2018, and it's because of how much that screen's potential feels wasted. I can't read that news without thinking back to my first encounter with our Peloton bike in 2018. SEE ALSO: 'Supernatural' for Oculus Quest is a fun cardio game for the exercise-averse.

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

Together with Spatial’s last round, $8 million in October 2018 , the company has now raised $22 million. Given its position with developers, if Amazon is getting into the mix, you know something is up, he added.

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