Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Facebook announced that, at the end of this year, it will officially retire Oculus Go, its 3DOF standalone headset. In early 2021, the company will also be making way for more apps on Quest with a new content distribution platform that will be separate from the Oculus Store. Oculus Go & Gear VR, Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2020

It seems legendary programmer and Oculus Consulting CTO John Carmack has tried to bring Minecraft to every Oculus headset in existence. That includes Oculus Quest, and although we still don’t have a proper port, it certainly wasn’t for the lack of trying.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2019

From steep discounts on Oculus PC hardware, to slashed prices on PSVR bundles, here’s your guide to today’s best VR deals: Image Credit: HTC. Amazon is currently selling the Oculus Rift S headset for $350 –that’s $50 off its normal retail price. Image Credit: Oculus, Facebook. Oculus Originals – $94.99 (20% off).

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

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Oculus has announced Rift S, the headset’s fabled hardware refresh that brings with it a modest spec bump and a few other changes to the original Rift that the company hopes will appeal to new entrants in PC VR gaming. Touch controllers, Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Rift S – Specs. Oculus Rift S, Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nreal, the Chinese startup behind the Nreal Light AR glasses which made a splash back at CES 2019, has now expanded to the United States, making the smartphone-tethered device available through select Verizon stores starting today. Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G. Samsung Galaxy S21 5G. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G. OnePlus 8 5G UW.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Since the launch of the original Oculus Quest back in 2019, players have been begging for an official VR port, not including 2016’s Minecraft: Gear VR Edition for the now-discontinued Samsung Gear VR headset. QuestCraft is available now on the Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2.

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Road to VR

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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This includes all the Windows MR headsets from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, including HP's Reverb G2 , released in 2020. The first Windows MR headsets arrived in late 2017 from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, aiming to compete with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that had launched a year earlier.

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2019

When Oculus revealed its newest PC headset, Rift S, at GDC last month, it was a surprise to see the ‘Lenovo’ logo on the side. Oculus explained that Facebook tapped the company to help in both the design and manufacture of the headset. Jason Rubin has been a key spokesman for Oculus since he joined the company in 2014.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 3, 2019

VR Predictions for 2019. Now we turn our attention to 2019. The main bottleneck now is authoring value-added content, and that’s what we think 2019 will be all about. Let’s take a look at our three top predictions for the role of Virtual Reality in 2019: 1. This year, we’ll see Oculus launch the Quest.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

Oculus Santa Cruz is a VR prototype that brings many high-end features of the Oculus Rift and Touch, most notably positional (6DoF) tracking on both headset and controllers, into a self-contained, standalone design. What is Oculus Santa Cruz? Image courtesy Oculus. What Are the Oculus Santa Cruz Specs?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Oculus Quest, the newly announced standalone 6DOF VR headset (ex-Project Santa Cruz), completely stole the show at this year’s Oculus Connect with the promise of offering some very Rift-like experiences in a mobile form-factor. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Hands-on and Tech Details. Photo by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. And now the battle is on standalone headsets: Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2020

Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S. According to CrunchBase , the company’s total funding comes to $115.5

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Now the company has put future support for all Oculus mobile devices in doubt. The tool is already live for Vive Focus and Daydream devices through the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition and requisite Radeon ReLive for VR companion app.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Though it’s Facebook’s newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company’s most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Released earlier this year, Oculus Quest has entered the fray and made a big splash. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2020

Existing Spatial investors also include the likes of Samsung NEXT, Baidu Ventures, and LG Ventures to name a few. We had a chance to go hands-on at MWC 2019 last year, and again at CES 2020 earlier this month.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This comes alongside an alleged partnership with Samsung that would see the development of a wholly new consumer AR device that is rumored to tether to a Samsung smartphone. In any case, Samsung’s reported partnership with Microsoft sounds like very familiar territory for the South Korean tech powerhouse.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. There was (and still is) quite a good hype for these headsets, exactly as there was hype for what was Oculus Santa Cruz, the codename of the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, circa 2014 | Photo courtesy Oculus. This roughly affirms what we’ve heard from other key figures in the VR space.

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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Magic Leap One owners, start your virtual engines, as automotive virtual reality developer RelayCars has published an app to Magic Leap World that lets users customize and test drive a 2019 Kia Stinger.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

I was looking back at my 8+ years in the field, and I could identify already a few cycles of consumer XR: The devkit cycle: it’s the era of the good old days of Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2. This era ended with the launch of the first consumer-oriented PC VR headsets: the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift CV1. The big dogs are all coming.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Samsung today announced its latest and greatest flagship phone lineup, the Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, and S10 5G. The latest version of the headset (SM-R324NZAAXAR), which supports an impressive 14 different Samsung smartphone models, now also supports the four new members of the Galaxy family. Image courtesy Samsung.

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InstaVR

MAY 6, 2019

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg revealed at F8 Conference the new Oculus Quest will begin shipping this month (May 2019). By comparison, the Oculus Go only allows for 3 Degrees of Freedom (3 DoF). With the Oculus Quest, four cameras that reside within the headset enable positional tracking. What are Degrees of Freedom?

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

After a relatively quiet summer — outside of the Oculus Quest release ! First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. Speaking of Oculus, a lot of headset news coming from their offices (more on that below). — we have a slew of news to start the Fall.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. Me wearing the Oculus Quest. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 13, 2019

While there are a bunch of channels to watch, Bigscreen Beta is looking towards the eSports market to attract new users, announcing The International 2019 , the DOTA 2 eSports tournament will be officially streamed via the platform next week. 20th – 24th August – Main Event.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 12, 2019

That’s followed by Oculus (presumably all variants) at 25 percent and HTC (same) at 22 percent. That includes Google (11 percent) Samsung (5 percent) and others (6 percent). Mobile VR’s retraction also comes at a time when Oculus aggressive pricing brings the far superior Oculus Go within the same price range.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 15, 2018

The Rizort VR app works on headsets such as the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear to allow potential guests to virtually explore hotels, resorts and experiences from anywhere in the world. Current destinations also include Bali, Thailand, the Maldives and destinations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Fiji and Japan will be added in 2019.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

Complete List of VR Headsets 2019 Updated: 05/2019 Virtual Reality (VR) invites you to explore alternative worlds as if you’re actually there. visit website Samsung Gear VR. visit website Oculus Go. visit website Oculus Rift. visit website Oculus Rift S. visit website Oculus Quest. Field of view.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Oculus Rift. Samsung Gear VR. Oculus Touch. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles. Samsung Odyssey Controller. Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

The two most successful VR headsets – from a sales point of view – were Sony’s PlayStation VR and Oculus Go – these two, together, sold around 1.2 2019 is expected to be an important year for virtual reality due to the introduction of the Oculus Quest Click To Tweet.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 30, 2019

AltspaceVR was one of the earliest social apps available for headsets like Samsung Gear VR, a virtual space where people could not only hangout but also create events and more. Fortunes should only improve next month when Oculus Quest support is added. Oculus Quest support will be added on 12th September 2019.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

By the end of 2019, it had been expected to reach $15.1 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. billion, the next year it increased to $3.6

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

This would have happened on May 2019, in the same period when Apple’s senior manager of prototype development Avi Bar-Zeev left the company. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. Mark Zuckerberg told that Oculus Quest closed the first generation of VR and so Oculus is now working on its second generation. Other relevant news.

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