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This week, we look at new VR mounts and locomotion inputs, the ongoing Apple/Epic saga, and hands-on with Huawei’s VR glasses. Since it features no computational unit and no battery, it can be smaller and lighter than “shoebox” headsets like the Oculus Quest. The Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference begins June 7th.
Since there is the possibility that Apple announces its headset soon, all the companies are rushing to announce what they have in the pipeline before the big day. Most likely that will be the name of its operating system The headset should be launched at WWDC according to all the most relevant Apple analysts. It’s been a strange week.
Oculus Link official cable now available worldwide (but Quest is still soldout). Good news for all the Quest fans: the official Oculus Link cable is now available worldwide in 22 countries. Anyway, with future software updates of the Oculus runtime, the official cable will be able to exploit all the maximum speed possible.
Epic tried to establish that Apple is an “essential utility,” meaning infrastructure that can be uncompetitively withheld, like a bridge, but it just wasn’t landing. Soon, you will be able to superimpose your real self into a virtual world through Oculus casting. The Oculus Go was launched under his watch.
Furthermore, some of the workshops will be held remotely in livestreaming at predefined times. Apple ARKit 3.5 It is no mystery that Apple is currently the best mobile augmented reality company, and the latest update to ARKit confirms this. I really can’t wait to see the Apple AR glasses…. adds support for LiDAR features.
While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.
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. Apple Maps are going AR. Facebook hires the first Oculus Ambassadors.
Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.
Even at the low side of 100,000 units, that’s in the neighborhood of how many Oculus Rift DK2s were shipped globally , which at the time of launch in 2015 cost nearly one-sixth of the price of ML One. SEE ALSO Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1.
This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! He’s most probably talking about the Oculus Quest 2 Pro. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Pa… Pa… Pa…treon!
Google announced at the W3C WebVR workshop in October that they would be shipping a WebVR-enabled Chromium browser in Q1 of 2017. He also says that Google’s WebVR browser is going to be based upon the open source Chromium browser, and that Oculus’ WebVR browser named “Carmel” is also based upon Chromium.
First, Nate Mitchell announced during his Oculus Connect 3 keynote that Oculus will be supporting the WebVR ecosystem with the React VR framework and a VR-enabled browser called Carmel. There’s been a couple of key developments in the evolution of WebVR during the month of October. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.
In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” So, I googled around and found a workshop from a Unity event that taught how to do a Unity game. From it, ARKit has born, I guess.
WebVR is gaining significant momentum; last month the biggest players in the browse space came together to discuss the future of VR on the web at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality. There, Google said that the company soon plans to ship a public version of Chrome on Android with support for WebVR 1.1.
Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.
Companies like Meta, Apple, and Microsoft all have their sights locked in on this reality no pun intended. We offer Mixed Reality Workshops to provide the training and tools needed to get started with a Mixed Reality project. Next, we have Facebook or Meta who is leader in Virtual Reality and their Oculus Headset.
Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Do you guys offer strategic workshops? Rori: So we, like I guess all consulting companies, we do our workshops. And so, we run workshops where we show everybody, you know, here’s VR. Do you have white papers or case studies? Here’s AR.
Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. Do you guys offer strategic workshops? Rori: So we, like I guess all consulting companies, we do our workshops. And so, we run workshops where we show everybody, you know, here’s VR. Do you have white papers or case studies? Here’s AR.
He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. One thing I always tell people — because I give a lot of workshops and I try to get people involved in AR — it seems really intimidating and hard.
He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. One thing I always tell people — because I give a lot of workshops and I try to get people involved in AR — it seems really intimidating and hard.
The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I do a lot with Apple technology. We did a lot to Tilt Brush demos and hands-on workshops and stuff.
He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. One thing I always tell people -- because I give a lot of workshops and I try to get people involved in AR -- it seems really intimidating and hard. It seems like magic.
The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I do a lot with Apple technology. We did a lot to Tilt Brush demos and hands-on workshops and stuff.
The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. I do a lot with Apple technology. We did a lot to Tilt Brush demos and hands-on workshops and stuff.
Google , Oculus and Samsung Internet also published their WebVR and open-source developer resources. . A WebVR Community Group to decide on WebVR standards was formed by Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech players, with Apple recently joining the community in July this year. . ” Browsers.
Which proved incredibly useful, giving me 24-hour access to fully equipped service workshops, plus a secure outdoor space for paint spraying or working with adhesives and plastics. I quickly learned that at least 3 hours needed putting aside to get anything meaningful done , otherwise you need to finish up just as you get going.
And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. You have Apple, with ARKit. Alan: Well, I think we’re we’re already in that position where we’ve got Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart. So you have all these different 3D file formats. Or in Canada, USDZed. These are like the major tech companies.
And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. You have Apple, with ARKit. Alan: Well, I think we’re we’re already in that position where we’ve got Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart. So you have all these different 3D file formats. Or in Canada, USDZed. These are like the major tech companies.
And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. You have Apple, with ARKit. Alan: Well, I think we're we're already in that position where we've got Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart. Facebook accepts glTFs, Hololens is FBX models, VR is usually OBJs. So you have all these different 3D file formats.
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