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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Facebook’s extension of Spaces to HTC Vive somewhat clashes Oculus’ with historical practice of creating exclusive content to drive headset sales. Arctic Open.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Earlier this year Oculus began offering additional Sensors for sale along with and their new Earphones. The pricing seems fairly reasonable, though is largely more expensive than similar replacement accessories offered for the HTC Vive. SEE ALSO Oculus Earphones Review and Comparison with Ultra High-end Earbuds.

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JULY 4, 2017

Oculus recently revealed in a blog post that in the past months they’ve been working on bringing native mixed reality capture support to Oculus Rift, and it’s available today for developers to start creating mixed reality videos. image courtesy Oculus. 3D printable mixed reality mount, image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Killing Floor: Incursion was once thought to be an Oculus exclusive, thanks to last year’s initial announcement that carried no mention of future support for other VR platforms. Now on Steam , the game is set to support both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift (with Touch).

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VRScout

MARCH 18, 2019

This years highly-anticipated Game Developers Conference kicked-off with a bang today as Oculus confirmed the release of Beat Games’ insanely popular beat-slashing rhythm game on the upcoming Oculus Quest. Beat Saber running on the Oculus Quest / Image Credit: Beat Games. “I

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the end, the time has come: Oculus has officially revealed the name and the price of the Santa Cruz headset. Its name will be Oculus Quest and will cost $399. I followed today’s OC5 conference via Facebook streaming only for this moment and Oculus has not disappointed my expectations. ” and he has satisfied us.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

Firefox Reality , Mozilla’s made-for-VR web browser, has been available on standalone devices for some time now, featuring support for Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HTC Vive Focus, and Pico standalones. Now Mozilla has brought its WebXR-capable browser to PC VR headsets with its new PC Preview version.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As detailed in a recent entry on the official Vive blog , both games are second entries from Vive Studios development partners 2 Bears Studio and Fantahorn Studio, creators of Arcade Saga (2016) and Front Defense (2017) respectively.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Since it was first available , the HTC Vive room-scale VR system has been priced at $800. For comparison, the Oculus Rift and its Touch controllers will hit that same price when they start shipping in December. Individual HTC Vive retailers might also have additional discounts, deals or bundles beyond this one too.

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JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. There are a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I host a new post by my friend and VR professional Rob Cole , who has already published many interesting posts on my blog, including a review of Pimax Sword controllers , a series of hack on how to modify the Valve Index , and his experiements in creating new innovative controllers for SteamVR. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole).

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2021

DecaMove is said to support SteamVR-compatible headsets, including Valve Index, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest (via Link), HP Reverb G2, HTC Vive/Pro, HTC Cosmos, Samsung Odyssey, and DecaGear 1. “Hip based navigation is natural, it brings immersiveness to the next level and also helps to reduce motion sickness. .”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This past September VR developer Stress Level Zero ( Boneworks, Hover Junkers, Duck Season ) announced it was working on a brand new VR game for the Oculus Quest. mechanics and core systems to Oculus Quest in an all-new project that we will have more to show from as the year goes on.”. We’re working on bringing ?Boneworks?’

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Mozilla launched Firefox Reality back in 2018 on a host of early standalones, including Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus. Firefox Reality is set to be removed from app stores within the coming weeks, Mozilla says in a blog post , with the newly announced Igalia Wolvic taking its place starting as soon as next week.

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VRScout

MAY 15, 2019

We’re less than a week away from the long-awaited release of the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset and with over 50 launch titles already confirmed, it appears as though we’ll have plenty of content to look forward to this coming Tuesday. Until then, I guess you’ll just have to make do with the fifty over Quest titles available at launch.

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Pavlov VR , the Early Access VR shooter from indie developer davevillz , has a new badge under the ‘VR Support’ category on its Steam page which now indicates official support for Oculus Rift. ” Davevillz admits however “there’s still a few issues that need to get improved and fixed overtime.”

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, recently published an article with his thoughts on what it will take for VR to reach the mainstream. Perhaps not coincidentally, the piece published on Luckey’s personal blog this week comes just after reported priority shuffling at his former company, Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Considering that Facebook is very smart also in leaking misleading info (as it has happened with the “Monterey” headset ), this can also be a move from Menlo Park to create hype for the upcoming Oculus Connect 6 and the AR glasses that will be teased there. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2025

If you see the classification, you notice that there are some issues, like the mention of the Oculus website, that is no more. More info (HTC VIVERSE WorldsRoad To VR) More info (HTC VIVERSE WorldsUpload VR) AMD is launching its new graphics cards AMD is now launching the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards it had announced at CES.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

Open Blocks In an Open Blocks Docs blog post, it reveals that Open Blocks will soon be available on Steam, as the original version is too. It was originally released for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. So we developed Blocks, a VR app for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that lets you easily create beautiful, 3D objects in no time.”

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MARCH 26, 2020

All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like.

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JULY 18, 2024

Key Info for Google Blocks Creators According to a recent Google Open Source blog post, Google Blocks will no longer be actively developed, and no pull requests will be accepted. It was originally released for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. license, which it has been released under.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2017

Cloudhead Games have confirmed the second episode of their fantasy game The Gallery will launch on HTC Vive and Oculus Touch in September. Heart of the Emberstone promises to be considerably larger than the first entry, Call of the Starseed.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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JUNE 16, 2021

I’m very happy to announce that HitMotion: Reloaded, the XR fitness game that we of New Technology Walkers are developing, has finally been launched for Oculus Quest! For now, to discover all about HitMotion: Reloaded and its launch, I invite you to read the official launch blog post on HitMotion’s website: [link].

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, Supermedium is a new, fully VR browser from the creators of VR web framework ‘A-Frame’ and part of the original Mozilla team behind the WebVR initiative. The Web breathes freshness and diversity into the VR content ecosystem,” writes the team in their blog entry. “A

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. The Tracker is good, but since HTC has never had competition in the field, i t has always been the same since the launch year. Some news on content. Funny link.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Digital Trends recently published a report entitled ‘VR is in a tailspin, and the sales numbers prove it’ It seems HTC has taken umbrage with the article’s thesis in its newest blog post however, which pushes back against some of the article’s claims, saying it’s “not the whole story.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2021

My main responsibility there is Public Relations , so I often write blog posts and respond to media requests for interviews. Secondly, cross-play is possible on xambr , including Oculus Quest 1&2. As a result, the ratio of Oculus Quest users to the total participants has been surprisingly high so far!

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APRIL 10, 2022

I have written a little blog post about my participation there. Meta is keeping its update pace of the Oculus Quest software very high. BTW, if you like me, were curious about those pink circles appearing in Oculus Home… those will be the points where you can teleport in this new version of the environment. Top news of the week.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

To do this, an infrared 3D capture camera hangs on the front of your headset (either the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other devices) and dangles in front of the lower half of your face, reading your expressions. Tagged with: binaryvr , Facial tracking , htc vive , oculus rift.

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MARCH 19, 2017

NASA and Oculus have launched their collaborative project ‘Mission: ISS’ for the Oculus Rift for free and it’s offers a detailed, visually sumptuous virtual reality trip to space that most of us would otherwise never experience.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The company says in a blog post that anyone with the know-how will soon be able to develop new VR experiences for its location-based attractions using its upcoming SDK. Sandbox says however that developers can create using more modest setups such as an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

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