VRScout

JANUARY 20, 2022

Today marks the start of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, kicking off nine days of incredible films premieres, conversations, and immersive experiences. ” The Sundance Film Festival 2022 runs now until January 28th exclusively online. The post Sundance 2022 In VR: What To Check Out appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Meta Connect 2022 is just days away and excitement is building. Along with a keynote led by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Connect 2022 will also feature three key speakers for the Developer State of the Union, 30 different developer sessions, and an unscripted conversation with John Carmack about the future of technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

— VR Nima (@NimaZeighami) January 5, 2022. I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. Now let’s dig into the best news!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2022

The real question is how this PSVR 2 device will be able to compete with the Oculus Quest 2. The post Sony reveals specifications of PSVR2 at CES 2022 appeared first on The Ghost Howls. PSVR 2 has clearly better features and is paired with a very powerful console, while the Quest 2 is just a mobile device.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

At E2 2012, Carmack got a chance to go hands-on with an early Oculus Rift prototype running Doom 3: BGF Edition, a remastered version of the iconic shooter released in 2004. One such modern interpretation is Bevan McKechnie’s COMPOUND (2022), whichis estimated to have generated $1.4 5] rating garnered from over 700 users.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Little Cities will arrive on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets in Spring 2022. The post Build Your Own VR Metropolis In ‘Little Cities’ On Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout. Little Cities can be played sitting down or standing. Little Cities was developed by UK indie studio, Purple Yonder.

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ARPost

JANUARY 24, 2022

In this article, we will look at the best VR headsets in 2022 from every point of view – from top performance to affordability. See Also: XR Gaming in 2022: What to Expect. Our Handpicked List of Some of the Best VR Headsets in 2022. We have compared various devices and came up with this list of the best VR headsets in 2022: 1.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Here, we’re going to delve into the most highly anticipated titles and headsets for 2022. Starting this spring, gamers can watch their own cities come to life in Cities: VR using Oculus Quest 2 (Meta Quest 2). Players can access it via HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index. This year, we can expect more games and gear to drop.

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VRScout

JANUARY 21, 2021

2 , Streetball League is an upcoming VR basketball experience for the Oculus Quest/Quest 2 and SteamVR that lets you take to the pavement in 1v1 matches against AI as well as human players via online multiplayer. from oculus. Plans for a full release are currently scheduled for 2022. Sinkin’ threes in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The FTC has opened an investigation on Meta about its anti-competitive practices related to applications that propose services similar to its ones on the Oculus Store (Pepperidge Farms remembers when YUR was de facto cloned by Oculus Move). PlayStation VR2 is not confirmed for 2022, yet. Other relevant news. Image by Sony).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

Great performance, optics, UI and media capture/playback features,” Watson continues, who departed Meta in 2022. During her time at Meta/Oculus, Watson worked on a number of Quest-related projects, including both the tethered Link and the company’s Wi-Fi streaming tool, Air Link.

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JULY 28, 2021

Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. ” Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR. .”

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

Wanadev estimates a late 2022 release on SteamVR headsets for Paradise Hotel. The studio hasn’t mentioned whether the game is coming to other platforms besides SteamVR, however it has done so with its previous title Ragnarock (2021), a Viking-themed rhythm game launched for both SteamVR and Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Pico 4 Enterprise is going to be open for preorders on the first week of November 2022 for €899 + VAT through the dedicated network of resellers. For me, as I come from the Oculus DK2 generation, seeing such a small lightweight VR headset was amazing. Price and release date. Pico 4 Enterprise price announced today. Design and comfort.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

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! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2021

A report from Bloomberg citing unnamed sources points to a Holiday 2022 launch of Sony’s next-gen PSVR headset. Last year the company correctly reported that Oculus would release a successor to the Quest with a faster refresh rate, new controllers, and a smaller redesign that would remove the headset’s fabric accents.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It’s heading to PC VR and Oculus Quest next year. ” Cosmonious High is said to support SteamVR headsets and Oculus Quest, and will arrive at some point in Spring 2022. The post Google’s VR Studio Reveals Bright & Bubbly Game Coming to Quest & PC VR in 2022 appeared first on Road to VR.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this article, we will explore seven XR trends that have been taking shape over the past year to be the top trends in not only 2022, but within the long-term future of AR, VR and MR. Machine Learning. See Also: “Facebook” Is now “Meta” and Other News From Connect 2021.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Little Cities will be Purple Yonder’s second VR title following the release of Oculus Go zombie shooter Zed Shot (2016). The studio says it’s slated to arrive on the Quest platform sometime in Spring 2022. There’s still plenty to learn about Little Cities in the coming months.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2021

Hasbro and VR studio Secret Location announced over the weekend that a Nerf-brand multiplayer shooter is coming to Oculus Quest sometime next year. Considering the Facebook/Oculus branding, we’re supposing the Quest platform holder will act as the game’s publisher, possibly making it a Quest exclusive.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Facebook today announced that it’s working with Rockstar Games to bring Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) exclusively to the Oculus Quest 2 headset. This follows a trend of established studios reformatting older games, such as Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 (2005), for the Oculus Quest 2 hardware.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

As Oculus becomes increasingly merged with parent company Facebook, new users will soon be required to sign into their headset with a Facebook account. Existing users will be able to use their separate Oculus accounts until the end of 2022, after which “full functionality will require a Facebook account.”

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It’s the beginning of the end for Oculus Quest and the start of the beginning for Meta Quest, as Meta (formerly Facebook) moves to erase the Oculus brand in order to bring its XR division more in line with its fresh brand identity. The name change is more than just getting rid of the Oculus brand.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Oculus brand will be phased out, with the Quest product line becoming Meta Quest. The Oculus brand, which has existed alongside the company’s other products, will be phased out in order to allow the company’s metaverse and XR efforts to be positioned under Meta as the parent brand. Image courtesy Meta.

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JUNE 30, 2021

It’s slated to release on all SteamVR headsets and Oculus Quest in 2022, but also the next-generation PlayStation VR too whenever that arrives—we still don’t know. The post ‘Samurai Slaughter House’ Promises Stylish & Bloody Physics-based Combat, Coming in 2022 appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

However, according to insider-knowledge obtained by The Information , a discussion lead by Apple VP Mike Rockwell during an internal group presentation conducted last month at Apple Park in Cupertino, CA suggests that the mysterious device in question will launch closer to 2022. Feature Image Credit: Apple.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

The end for Oculus Go is nigh. The latest Oculus SDK (v19/1.51) no longer supports the company’s first true standalone VR headset. The company says in the SDK’s developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus Go has officially been dropped.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. The post AWE 2022: SyncReality turns your room into a cross-realities playground appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

” This week Provencher affirmed that Unity Slices: Table will be released as a demo on Oculus Quest for anyone to try. “My team is still hard at work polishing up Unity Slices: Table up for release, look for it on App lab in 2022!” We look forward to mixing reality ourselves next year.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This Tuesday, the CEO and Founder of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, announced on his Facebook account the official October 11 event date for Meta Connect 2022. The firm gained a massive asset when it purchased Oculus in 2014. In the same post, the CEO also added a new image of Project: Cambria, the long-awaited follow-up to the Meta Quest.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 10, 2022

My report on AWE 2022 never ends and today I want to write an article about my visit to two important companies in our ecosystem: Tobii and Ultraleap. The post AWE 2022: hands-on Tobii and Ultraleap technologies appeared first on The Ghost Howls. For the first time in my life, I have been able to have a chat with people at Tobii.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Today during the company’s Q3 earnings call, Facebook said that it planned to change its future financial reporting to more granularly detail the aggressive investments its pouring into Facebook Reality Labs (FRL), the company’s XR and metaverse division which includes Oculus, FRL Research, and more.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Swordsman (2020) , the physics-based combat sim for PSVR and PC VR headsets, is bringing its bloody sandbox battles to Oculus Quest at some point next year. Developers Sinn Studio announced in a recent tweet that Swordsman is slated to arrive on Oculus App Lab in early 2022.

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APRIL 12, 2022

In a tweet, Kuo reiterates a few claims made earlier this year , which posited that a Quest 3 was on its way in the second half of 2022. Meta would release new Oculus Quest with a better design & immersive experience in 2H22. Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) April 8, 2022. 2P Pancake (vs. current 1P Fresnel). — ???

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AUGUST 30, 2022

Fortnite doesn’t natively support VR headsets, however an update coming to the popular battle royale shooter today reportedly holds mention of Oculus, possibly pointing to future VR support for the game. Epic added stuff related to Oculus (Quest, Quest 2 & Mobile) in today's update. — HYPEX (@HYPEX) August 30, 2022.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Meta announced it’s finally closing the door on Oculus accounts by the end of the month, which means all users with old Oculus IDs will either need to migrate to a Meta account or lose access to purchased content, achievements, friends list, and more. You may not realize it yet, but believe me. These are the good old days.”

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