Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Lead by National Taiwan University PhD student Po-Chen Wu during his internship at Oculus Research, the work presents a low-cost tracking and input solution with many potential applications in virtual and augmented reality. SEE ALSO Oculus Research Reveals "Groundbreaking" Focal Surface Display.

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VRScout

MARCH 16, 2020

Image Credit: Doghead Simulations). Doghead Simulations CEO, Mat Chacon, used his own VR platform and social VR to create a virtual gym where he dropped 15 pounds, while Robert Long lost a whopping 138 pounds playing Beat Saber. Platforms: SteamVR , Oculus Rift/Rift S , Viveport. But hey, you don’t need a gym to stay fit!

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ARPost

JANUARY 18, 2022

The modern-day metaverse could be described as the fight to achieve a real-life online virtual world that incorporates virtual reality, augmented reality, and holographic forms of communication such as 3D avatars. See Also: Exploring New Frontiers With Metaverse. The question is, just how far away are we from it?

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2022

The metaverse, defined here as the collective possibilities of virtual reality and augmented reality , is a relatively new part of the public consciousness. Government agencies like NASA and the US Airforce used elements of the metaverse for training purposes and simulation exercises as early as 1986.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Top news of the week. Facebook announces Wi-Fi streaming and Resident Evil 4 for Quest.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. The Santa Cruz prototype is a modified Oculus Rift which has on-board compute, display, and tracking.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Lynx R-1 features the same Qualcomm XR2 chipset as Oculus Quest 2 and HTC Vive Focus 3, and like those two it’s also based on a heavily modified version of Android. 1,600 × 1,600 LCD @90Hz per eye, with ultra low-latency Color Passthrough for Augmented Reality. million in June. Lynx R-1 Specs. 6DOF rom-scale.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Jak Wilmot, a content producer specializing in VR, has been pondering this exact question himself; so much so that the brave virtual reality enthusiast is livestreaming the effects of prolonged exposure to VR during an experiment in which he spends a full week (168 hours) immersed inside a headset. — Jak (@JakWilmot) February 21, 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. And this is possible because they both have big cash cows: Oculus has Facebook’s advertisement, and Valve has the Steam game store.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Anyway, he confirmed that the first smart glasses that will be released this year won’t have true AR and said that now Oculus wants to expand beyond the gaming ecosystem. Finally, next month’s update of the Oculus Quest 2 will bring with it the possibility of using multiple accounts on the same device. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

APRIL 7, 2021

VR can aid professional development and learning by simulating real situations without the risks involved. Through VR technology, we can produce fantastic simulations that explain, explore, and define the hazards without actually exposing people to any risk. See Also: How Augmented Reality Is Transforming the Construction Industry.

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ARVR

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, it was popularized in the late 20th and early 21st centuries through science fiction literature and media, and more recently, through the development of virtual and augmented reality technologies.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 19, 2020

Virtual Reality health simulation with Arch Virtual. The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the use of virtual reality and augmented reality, experts say, especially in retail, education and health. Some of these schools are turning to virtual and augmented reality to help address the needs of these students.

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AR Insider

JUNE 14, 2021

Red 6 Raises $30M in Series A funding to further its delivery of Augmented Reality military training. While Oculus makes all the noise, Playstation VR, the leading home VR system, showed off an impressive line-up of new games. Tickets here. Stay tuned for our annual Tribeca awesome list. What could go wrong?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are technologies that overlay or replace physical environments with virtual content. While AR enhances surroundings by incorporating digital components into live view, VR is an experience that replaces the actual world with a computer-generated simulation. percent up to 2028.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2018

The app launched in Early Access on the Oculus Store in December. San Francisco-based VR development startup Tribe VR is concentrating on immersive learning applications for virtual and augmented reality to enable users to learn real-world skills. Image courtesy Tribe VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

Finally, Facebook has released passthrough APIs for Quest 2, so you can create AR/MR apps for the Oculus standalone headset. NVIDIA is keeping working on Omniverse, its solution that is a bit a collaboration tool, a bit a simulator, a bit an engine. Space Pirate Arena to come soon to Oculus Quest. AR/VR developers, rejoice!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 26, 2016

A lot of VR fans may be focused on the big guns, like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Playstation VR, but the real pioneer in marketing virtual and augmented reality to the masses is mobile VR, such as the Samsung Gear VR headset. That’s where existing smartphones are attached to headsets to simulate a VR environment.

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ARPost

JULY 14, 2020

I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Pico since they never got the credit they deserved for launching an all-in-one headset a year before Oculus. The relationship gave FundamentalVR unparalleled realism, even simulating different tissue weights. See Also: Can Augmented Reality Shorten the Learning Curve?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Image leaked from Oculus runtime). The design of Oculus Quest 2 Pro and controllers has been leaked. the simulator fans that want a headset with super-high resolution), no competitor could survive against a headset that is comfortable, affordable, has a great library of content, and has full body tracking and full RGB passthrough.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality startup with a multiple-billion dollar valuation , could soon be taking on more investments, bringing its total valuation close to $6 billion, Bloomberg reports. “It would be bigger than a pair of glasses, but smaller than virtual reality headsets such as Facebook Inc.’s

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This week we had tons of news about new upcoming augmented reality glasses and smartglasses: Oppo has revealed the second iteration of its augmented reality glasses. Oculus Link gets updated to 90Hz. After one year from the release of the Link , Oculus finally puts it out of beta with a big update.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”. Los Angeles, CA (April 12, 2018) – Experience next generation immersive technologies and explore “A New Reality” at VRLA, the leading virtual and augmented reality expo, May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

Proximie raises $38m for augmented reality surgery. UK-based Proximie, which uses augmented reality to allow surgeons to advise on operations remotely around the globe, has raised $38M series B funding round. And the headset is only 500 grams. Campfire is cross platform, too. Smartphones. Unlimited simultaneous users.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Architects have traditionally been communicating these visual narratives through drawings, 3D models and 2D digital simulations, and although these methods have proven to work, they do not allow a person to truly feel as if they are inside the property. See Also: How Augmented Reality Is Transforming the Construction Industry.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program was first announced back in 2018 , and in 2021 the contract was awarded to Microsoft , with a stated value of up to $21.88 Luckey's IVAS takeover announcement photo echoes his 2015 Time cover, 'The Surprising Joy Of Virtual Reality'. I can hardly believe I managed to pull it off.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Other relevant news.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Large companies and sporting events are already investing in virtual and augmented reality to enhance sporting events. With immersive reality, people can enjoy sports and events in virtual meetings that go far beyond ordinary video conferencing. Since Meta now owns Oculus, it’s likely to grow beyond just a gaming platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 And not only it is committed, but it has also already prototypes that are worth testing. Other news.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Once computers understand space, we can use these informed computers to edit our real world by placing digital objects and information in it and view this all through a transparent digital screen like smart glasses or even our smartphone: this is Augmented Reality or AR. Augmented Reality ads are not new. Source: Ikea.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Megadodo Simulation Games). Thanks to Sebastian Ang of MRTV (one of my favorite VR YouTubers), everyone can now watch the CEO and CTO of MegaDodo Simulation Games (the company behind the project) talk about this new device, their company, and even showing a prototype. Other relevant news. OpenXR slowly increases its adoption.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

On the occasion of the upcoming GTC, I had the opportunity of speaking with two very important people that work every day at innovating XR at NVIDIA: David Weinstein , Director of Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Gregory Jones , Director of Global Business Development/Product Management. Video courtesy NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2025

I actually have a second reason to celebrate: Feedspot has put me in 3rd place in its classification of the best 60 Virtual Reality websites , ranked by authority. If you see the classification, you notice that there are some issues, like the mention of the Oculus website, that is no more. MIXED) that are not mentioned.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Now if you use the Oculus Developer Hub on your PC, you can record a video on Quest with the settings you want, including stereoscopic view and 4K resolution. Register to it and try to create in one month the best augmented reality experience for glasses. After many promises, we are seeing the first step in this sense.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Oculus Connect is starting and a new Facebook AR/VR logo appears. Other relevant news. But let’s see in a few days….

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

More info (How Puzzling Places was ported to the Apple Vision Pro) New apps get released to the Vision Pro every week : Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have been announced for it (I teased this on my blog a few weeks ago). They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro.

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