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It was six months ago when Google launched a VR version of Google Earth for the HTC Vive. And still to this day, Google Earth VR remains one of the best, if not the best, app experiences available in VR. An app with such a mass appeal like Google’s Tilt Brush, Earth VR lets you visit locations around the world in 3D.
Oculus has always been a major supporter of the virtual reality community. Now the Facebook subsidiary is focusing on making virtual reality more accessible than ever by bringing their Oculus Rift headsets to public libraries across California all for the low cost of $0.00.
Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Public libraries provide safe, supportive environments that are available and welcoming to everyone,” says Oculus Education Program Manager Cindy Ball.
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100 Oculus Rifts will be deployed at 90 California libraries over the next three months as part of a pilot program offering VR to anyone with a library card. VR applications for people to explore include Google Earth, Apollo 11, Titans of Space 2.0, Everest, Ocean Rift, The Body VR, Guided Meditation VR and Star Chart.
According to leaked documentation recently discovered by a handful of Oculus developers, it appears as though Facebook has already begun development on its next VR headset. Code-named ‘Del Mar’, the device was referenced briefly in an infobox posted on the official Oculus website. Looks like a new Oculus headset is in the works?
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Tonight in Hollywood, California the Lumiere Awards were held at Warner Brothers Studios. Google Earth VR. presented Google Earth VR with the Century Award for VR in service of environmental enrichment. Google Earth VR turns much of the world into a digital playground that you can fly or teleport around in immersive 3D space.
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billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. Since the launch, they’ve created augmented reality experiences for COVID-19 and California wildfire news stories.
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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For this project, codenamed Steno, they partnered with the University of California San Francisco’s Chang Lab, who performed some experiments implanting electrodes into the brain of patients to let them type sentences just by thinking about them. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2.
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We actually had the chance to try out the comedic adventure ourselves during this years massive VRLA convention in Los Angeles, California. 1 is available now on Hulu VR for the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift , Samsung Gear VR , Google Daydream , and PSVR. Don’t worry, it isn’t difficult to figure out where you might find him….
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You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this Episode 30 of the VRScout Report, we talk all things Oculus Connect 3 (OC3), getting insights and takeaways from: Max Cohen, VP of Mobile at Oculus; Raj Rao of uSens; Ela Darling of Cam4; Tahdg Kelly of VReal; and Ashley Pinnick of California Rex.
Wickert and Leigh entered “Channel Surfer” into a festival at the University of Southern California, and to their great surprise they ended up taking home first place. The Within app is free to download via the App Store , Google Play , Oculus , SteamVR , Viveport , PSVR , and WebVR.
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The VR Olympics is being delivered exclusively through the NBC Sports VR app on Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Windows, Android and iOS devices. Ski and Snowboard’s high performance director, discovered California based company, STRIVR , who worked with NFL, NBA and NHL athletes on VR training programs.
Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies.
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At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Google (search).
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So, when I was a kid, I actually was born in California, but my father was going to medical school. I had this fascination with the concept of a Holodeck and as I grew up that never sort of left me and when virtual reality became the thing with Oculus, I just saw this opportunity to actually build my own holodeck.
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Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. ” Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin.
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The Once & Future Web – Google. “And so, I got out to California and I thought, I’ll just go join the local virtual reality meetup, because I had been going to tech meetups in New York, and I just assumed that was a thing in Silicon Valley; it’s Silicon Valley, of course they have that.” Enter: SVVR.
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For example, if you’ve posted your completed app to iTunes, Google Play, Web, and the Oculus Store — you can see exactly which of these channels gets the most plays. . – What devices are being used to access your VR? Looking at the device types helps you to understand how your audiences access your app.
Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., left, plays the new video game “Eagle Flight VR” during an Ubisoft news conference before the start of the E3 Gaming Conference on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.
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For example, German company Crytek made an exquisite success with their game “The Climb” – an exhilarating rock climbing game for Oculus Rift. In Palo Alto, California there is a startup backed by legendary venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital called Limbix. However, VR systems were expensive, clunky, and wired to a desktop PC.
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Today's guest is Kevin Kunze , an award-winning interactive filmmaker based out of Berkeley, California. We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. Maybe Google will produce a 3D TV.
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