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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. Rachel Franklin, Head of Social VR, came on stage to announced Facebook’s first social VR app, Facebook Spaces , available now in beta on Oculus Rift.

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2020: The Year of AR and VR for Education and Training

EON Reality

I saw my first presentation at the League for Innovation Conference in Long Beach, California in 2002. I look at where we were 12 years ago compared to now being able to build an application and then share it on any number of devices (such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and head-mounted immersive displays) quickly.

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How Brain-Computer Interfaces Can Deliver On VR’s Promises

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices. We all want to live our Jedi dreams, but the Oculus Touch controllers are not quite “the Force.”

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2020 – The Year of AR and VR for Education and Training

EON Reality

I saw my first presentation at the League for Innovation Conference in Long Beach, California in 2002. VR – Virtual reality will become more accessible as new head mounted displays emerge to provide an immersive experience on a new scale and with less expense.

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How Nokia Broke Into Virtual Reality With Its Ozo Camera

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

We talked with Guido Voltolina, head of presence capture Ozo at Nokia Technologies, at the company’s research facility in Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, California. Ozo’s output is one single cable going into either your storage or a head-mounted display. We started seeing the first Oculus and HTC headsets this year.

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Best VR Headsets in 2018

VeeR VR

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It seems Oculus plan to launch a higher-end mobile virtual reality headset for the masses.

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Oculus Rift Creator Palmer Luckey is Developing a New XR Headset

Road to VR

Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and creator behind the original Oculus Rift, teased an upcoming announcement that he’s working on a new XR headset. Luckey says in a post on X that he’ll be talking more about the device at Augmented World Expo (AWE), which takes place in Long Beach, California from June 18-20.

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