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One of the First Oculus Rift Games is Currently One of Vision Pro’s Best

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Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. Practically untouched from its original head-tracked input scheme, the game marks a soft reset in XR game development as developers assess how to approach Vision Pro’s lack of controllers.

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Moon VR Player returns with passthrough AR mode

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After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality. He was part of the team behind the GearVR app store and developed some of Oculus’ first native apps, e.g., Oculus Video and Oculus Social.

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How visionOS 2 Better Integrates Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Keyboard & Gamepad With Apple Vision Pro

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AirPlay Mirroring to Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 2 dramatically expands the headset's capabilities, and new features better integrate your iPad, Mac, keyboard and controllers too. enjoy a simple head-tracked game like Proton Pulse inside a literal cardboard box – just as you can today on a $3500 Apple Vision Pro.

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Hands-On: Immersed Demos Barely Functional Visor After Finally Unveiling Its Real Design

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Since 2020 Immersed has offered a free app now available on Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, Vive Focus, and Pico that shows your PC monitor in VR and lets you spawn entirely virtual extra monitors, for up to 5 monitors in total if you pay. Like Apple Vision Pro, it has a tethered battery and is primarily intended to be used seated.

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Why Nintendo Hasn’t Made a Real VR Headset Yet

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There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy. ” Granted, the technology has changed a great deal since 2014, the same year Oculus Rift DK2 came out.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

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Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses.

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Magic Leap One first impressions review: it’s not a leap, but a step

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I mean, on the Oculus Touch you have a middle finger trigger, that is used to grab stuff by closing your hand and the index finger that is used to trigger actions: when you use a VR gun, everything is more or less like in the real world. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. Should you buy it?