XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Virtual reality (VR) caught the imagination of a generation from its foundation stages at the end of the last century up through Meta’s acquisition of Oculus; now, VR in business is becoming a serious consideration for many international firms. There is a rise in consumer-grade headsets from firms like HTC, Meta, and Pico.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2023

Oculus Connect. Started by Oculus in 2014, Connect was where the earliest of early adopters could meet and learn how to make their games and apps happen for the first consumer VR headsets. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect. Why is that? Starting in 2020, Connect was exclusively livestreamed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2016

New orders of the Oculus Rift are still backed up to an estimated shipping date of August. Canada, UK, Germany, and France this month, and is slated to arrive globally in the coming weeks. See Also: HTC Will Install Your Vive For $250, Now in Select U.S. The Vive BE System includes: Vive BE Headset. Vive BE Controllers x2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery. It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

They already captured about 8,000 people so far during a five-city tour of Canada with Samsung. just announced today that it raised a $1.35M seed round from a range of investors including Y Combinator and Greg Castle from Anorak Ventures , who was a seed investor in Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 1, 2020

Access to the Internet can be spotty in Northern Canada. We aren’t generally building applications that are going to be sold on Steam or sold on the Oculus store. One of them was a hand tool training simulator. Let’s say they built a tractor and they want us to create a simulator for that tractor.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 1, 2020

Access to the Internet can be spotty in Northern Canada. We aren’t generally building applications that are going to be sold on Steam or sold on the Oculus store. One of them was a hand tool training simulator. Let’s say they built a tractor and they want us to create a simulator for that tractor.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

This is just a sample of what Dale’s been working on for his undergraduate degree in digital media at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering in Toronto, Canada. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Build Chinese.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 1, 2020

Access to the Internet can be spotty in Northern Canada. We aren't generally building applications that are going to be sold on Steam or sold on the Oculus store. One of them was a hand tool training simulator. Let's say they built a tractor and they want us to create a simulator for that tractor. Daniel: For sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design — a first iteration of a car, what have you — I mean, that’s millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design — a first iteration of a car, what have you — I mean, that’s millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator.

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2018

So while titles such as Starcraft 2 and Overwatch may be positioned seemingly permanently at the top of the current esports food chain, the popularity of last years VR Challenger League, a VR-dedicated esports competition hosted by Oculus & ESL, has shown that fans may be ready for immersive esports sooner than we thought. .

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2025

I thought that Luxottica was only doing the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, but from this document, Ive just discovered that they also worked on Oculus for VR. I thought it was Palmer Luckey making Oculus, but I was wrong all the time. I thought it was Palmer Luckey making Oculus, but I was wrong all the time. Is this a coincidence?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design -- a first iteration of a car, what have you -- I mean, that's millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

Or in Canada, USDZed. And you’d be able to– and you’re able to accelerate it, because it’s sort of a real time environment, you’re able to do these virtual simulations. Or in Canada, USDZed. And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. We’re coming up on five years from that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

Or in Canada, USDZed. And you’d be able to– and you’re able to accelerate it, because it’s sort of a real time environment, you’re able to do these virtual simulations. Or in Canada, USDZed. And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. We’re coming up on five years from that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

Or in Canada, USDZed. And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Oculus is also offering a $100 Oculus Store credit when you purchase a Rift from Best Buy, Amazon, and Microsoft in the US and Canada. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (11/26/16).

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VRScout

MARCH 22, 2018

As your mind races, real woman appear in the simulation and recall their own personal experiences with unplanned pregnancies and their decision to have an abortion. The full length documentary is currently in the works, it’s being developed for Oculus Rift, Vive, and Samsung Gear VR so viewers can watch from their own devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And the day we can interact with virtual humans in believable virtual environments, then you can start having simulations, social simulations where you can build experiences on demands and soft skills. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. I live in Canada.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And the day we can interact with virtual humans in believable virtual environments, then you can start having simulations, social simulations where you can build experiences on demands and soft skills. But what you're saying is you've created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. I live in Canada.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And the day we can interact with virtual humans in believable virtual environments, then you can start having simulations, social simulations where you can build experiences on demands and soft skills. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. I live in Canada.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And the day we can interact with virtual humans in believable virtual environments, then you can start having simulations, social simulations where you can build experiences on demands and soft skills. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. I live in Canada.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. You can simulate the sounds. You can simulate the feeling of being there. You can simulate all of the actions that they’re going to take. ” And then I said to one kid, “Oh, I’m from Canada. Justin: There is the key thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. You can simulate the sounds. You can simulate the feeling of being there. You can simulate all of the actions that they’re going to take. ” And then I said to one kid, “Oh, I’m from Canada. Justin: There is the key thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. You can simulate the sounds. You can simulate the feeling of being there. You can simulate all of the actions that they’re going to take. ” And then I said to one kid, “Oh, I’m from Canada. Justin: There is the key thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. You can simulate the sounds. You can simulate the feeling of being there. You can simulate all of the actions that they're going to take. And then I said to one kid, "Oh, I'm from Canada. Alan: I've got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. You can simulate the sounds. You can simulate the feeling of being there. You can simulate all of the actions that they're going to take. And then I said to one kid, "Oh, I'm from Canada. Alan: I've got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

to play simulation games) or if you don’t need to play games where controllers tracking is fundamental, like competitive shooters. Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. All in all, this big update is useful to finally give full power to the Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 jailbreak was probably fake. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Or at least, sort of : the experience is still in beta (so this is officially an open beta stage) and it will be accessible without an invite only in the US and in Canada. The engine is able to build and simulate cities automatically by just having some parameters provided by the developers. Ah, and you must be 18+ years old.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We don’t have Thanksgiving in Italy, but I know it’s a very important celebration in the US, Canada, and a few other countries, so I hope all of you who celebrated it had a great time with your family. Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all my American friends! This is very interesting in my opinion.

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