VRScout

JUNE 2, 2019

Facebook’s standalone 6DOF headset, Oculus Quest hit retail stores on May 21 st , and in just one week after launch, the VR headset was listed as sold out at many U.S. retailers such as Walmart, Amazon and Newegg, suggesting that VR is finally catching on with consumers. Image Credit: Oculus. He’s correct in that.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2019

Facebook’s Oculus Quest seems to be hitting a mark with VR fans all over the globe. Since the 6DOF headsets release back in May, major sites such as Amazon and Newegg are seeing shipping dates backed up to 2 to 3 weeks. Jason Rubin, Facebook Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies // Image Credit: Oculus.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

Amazon today announced the launch of Prime Video VR on Oculus Quest, Go, and Gear VR. In addition to bringing the entire Prime Video catalog onto the headsets, Amazon is also for the first time adding VR content to its Prime Video library. The app is available on Oculus Quest , Go , and Gear VR for free.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If you plan on sweating in your Oculus Quest 2, you’ll either want a few spare facial interfaces hanging around, or a way to cover the stock foam for easier cleaning. As an official product partner with Oculus, VR Cover was tapped to offer a pleather-covered memory foam facial interface replacement direct from Oculus.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2020

Oculus Quest is an awesome achievement in engineering; no other standalone VR headset offers the quality, rock solid positional tracking, ease of use, and competitive price point as Quest. A crank-style ratcheting system, much like the one employed on the Oculus Rift S, is also a bit better suited for quick adjustments.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. Most notably, her production studio ( Double Eye ) won the jury award for ‘ Best Interactive Experience ‘ at SXSW 2019. But that wasn’t her first rodeo by a long shot. I started off training in theater all over the world.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. That’s a wrap on Oculus Connect 6. Oculus Link launches this November ; Oculus will be offering its own official USB-C cable as well. . Image Credit: Facebook.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

After a slow start, 2019 rounded out to be an undeniably strong year for consumer VR, setting up a springboard into a big 2020. 2019 started out slow as the industry waited with baited breath for the launch of the latest wave of headsets, but things started heating up once they finally hit the market. Oculus Quest. Valve Index.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Available on over 17 major platforms across a massive variety of smart-enabled devices, the flexible live service is now officially available in VR via the Oculus Go. “Oculus Go is a real game-changer in giving people a personal home theater experience wherever they are, with its crystal-clear optics and portable design.”

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Oculus Quest continues to sell out, backorders pushed to mid-February. VR technology has absolutely dominated the 2019 holiday season as numerous major retailers—both physical and online—continue to sell out of 64GB and 128GB Oculus Quest headsets. . Image Credit: Oculus. Feature Image Credit: Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2020

SEE ALSO Oculus is Selling Refurbished Original Rifts for $300. PS Move controllers can be added later, but all you need to hop into Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2019) or Skyrim VR (2017) is a PS4, PSVR, PS Camera, and single DualShock 4 gamepad.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Oculus Rift S, the company’s mid-generation hardware update to the Rift platform, only just launched a few months ago, but it’s already getting its first discount this upcoming Black Friday. Lenovo has published its 2019 Black Friday ad , and to our surprise it’s knocking $50 off the $400 Oculus Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It’s the last day of 2019, and it’s time for every website to give awards about the best VR game, the best VR headset and whatever category that comes to the mind of the journalists. If I remember well, price was around $150, basically the same price you could get a discounted Oculus Go on Amazon during Cyber Monday.

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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). Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. Startups Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

Today I start a short series of post that talk about the three headsets of the moment: Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest and Valve Index. The Oculus Rift S is the new PC VR headset by Oculus. It has been made in collaboration with Lenovo, and it represents a refresh of the Oculus CV1 , that is better and easier to be used.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

Since its launch in 2019 Oculus Quest has represented a major shift in Facebook’s VR strategy by moving away from the PC. Hand-tracking first came to the original Quest in late 2019, offering users and developers a controllerless option for input on the headset. Oculus Link & Air Link. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2019

3 music pack is now live on all supported platforms, which includes Steam (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, Windows VR headsets), the Oculus Store ( Rift , Quest ), and the PlayStation Store (PSVR). 3 from multiple services, including Apple Music, Google Music, Amazon, Spotify, and more. The OST Vol. Original Soundtrack Vol.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2019

With the original Rift and Rift S, Oculus headsets now make up half of the headsets used on Steam. Combined, the original Rift and Rift S made up 49.3% ( +3.73% ) of headsets on Steam in the last month—a record high for Oculus—while the Vive and Vive Pro combined now hold 39.27% ( –3.15% ). Chart courtesy Valve.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

But at $500 its appeal is relatively limited, and that's why Meta introduced the $300 Quest 3S, which in just three months became the top selling console on Amazon US for all of 2024. Quest 3S Was The Top Selling Console On Amazon In 2024 Meta Quest 3S was the top selling games console on Amazon US in 2024, despite only releasing in October.

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

Oculus has partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. Rumors surface about a new Oculus Quest Pro VR HMD. According to Tom’s Guide, during an AMA on Instagram, Oculus’s VP of AR/VR Andrew Bosworth responded to a comment about a $600 headset with advanced specs. The inserts go from 0 to -8.0

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

patents done by Fairview Research reveals that Facebook has made a significant surge in its year-over-year ranking for patents granted in 2019, something partly owed to its increased number of patents surrounding augmented reality. patents, which in 2019 tallied a total of 989. 2019 Grants. Amazon Technologies Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2019

It is a headset that looks a bit like a Oculus Rift CV1 , is powered by WMR reference design and has the outstanding resolution of 2K per eye! The price is $599 for the consumer edition (that will be available e.g. on Amazon ) and $649 for the enterprise edition (available e.g. on HP website ). Hp reverb headset (Image by Road To VR).

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Oculus has a few deals on both hardware and software for new and existing customers alike. There’s no discount on Oculus Quest, with both the 64GB and 128 GB models their regular price but you can at least get a free videogame. Oculus Quest (64GB/128GB) – Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series for free.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Meanwhile, consumer software has a 13 percent share of overall VR revenues in 2019, projected to grow to 18 percent by 2013. But its share will start to diminish, given the rise of standalone VR, most notably Oculus Quest. The device is currently sold out on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

I was reading my predictions for 2019 to prepare myself for this article, and to my surprise, I found it incredibly actual. It has not changed that much from when I wrote that article at the beginning of 2019. It will be a great time for us, as when there was the Oculus Share, and every experiment could have big visibility easily.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2022

Valve’s unique off-ear headphones were a elegant solution for powerful yet comfortable audio on the company’s Index headset which launched back in 2019. However, Logitech warns that you can’t use Oculus Link with the Chorus headphones due to the nature of the passthrough USB-C connection. Logitech Chorus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399. And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. So it was hard for us devs to make visually compelling games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. In 2019 AR startup Daqri has shutdown.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. by Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9/29/19.

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. It includes some of its data and takeaways.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. Oculus support at its best Funny link.

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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 by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.01% between 2019 and 2025. See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

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. Image by Rob Cole).

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