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APRIL 21, 2017

Oculus has provided an unreleased build of the Quill VR paint app to an artist to experiment with animation features. Oculus Story Studio, the company’s VR film division, built Quill initially as an internal tool for creating the VR film Dear Angelica. We’ve reached out to Oculus for comment.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Using your Oculus Touch controller, you’ll have full control over a variety of light types, including Spray, Spiral, Starburst, and Point Cloud Stamp. Your other Touch controller can be used to create sound. Cosmic Sugar is available now on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets for $9.99

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MAY 6, 2020

” Originally scheduled for release this June, UNIVRS now states that the title has been delayed and will instead launch later this year on Oculus Quest followed by PC VR and PlayStation VR in early 2021. The post Little Witch Academia VR: Broom Racing Soars Onto Oculus Quest Late 2020 appeared first on VRScout.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform. That’s a wrap on Oculus Connect 6. Oculus Link launches this November ; Oculus will be offering its own official USB-C cable as well. .

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MAY 31, 2018

Oculus previously announced earlier this year that Oculus Go , the company’s 3DOF standalone headset, would officially launch in 23 consumer markets, although China would be receiving its own version with Xiaomi branding. Image courtesy Xiaomi, Oculus.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Earlier this morning Adobe announced the purchase of Oculus’ 3D VR sculpting app, Oculus Medium. Adobe is one of the world’s leading creation software companies, and they’re committed to providing best-in-class 3D and immersive tools for artists, including Adobe Dimension and the Substance tools suite,” states Oculus in a blog post.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! 6 DOF Controllers for Vive Focus. In short: the Vive Focus will finally have two 6 DOF controllers. Really fantastic.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Warner Bros and DC Entertainment are stepping up promotion for the upcoming superhero film with a few Justice League VR experiences of their own. According to Warner Bros, you’ll be able to use the HTC Vive’s controllers for an “enhanced version of the Super Hero simulations.” The Vive experience will debut at New York Comic-Con.

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JULY 13, 2020

The Control Panel. Rizzotto used old-fashioned coding skills to build out a panel that would be easy to use in-headset; it’s obvious he took inspiration from Doc Brown’s Delorean from the film Back to the Future. You need the data (or memories) to be searchable through the Control Panel. The Memory Finder. How does that happen?

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Despite the lack of an actual release date, Oculus’ upcoming 6DoF standalone headset, the Oculus Quest, has found new trouble in garnering large amounts of attention from both industry veterans and consumers alike. The post ‘The Under Presents’: Interactive Live Theater For The Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

One social VR platform in particular, Bigscreen , saw a massive spike in usage as people around the globe flocked to the platforms virtual theaters to watch films like Star Trek: Into Darkness , World War Z , or Interstellar together in VR. . This is just the start for Bigscreen. But that’s all Bigscreen is telling us right now.

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APRIL 24, 2020

Bigscreen , the social VR viewing platform, introduced paid movies late last year so you could buy a ticket to join people in watching a number of 2D and 3D films at set times, working more or less like a physical movie theater. Bigscreen supports Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, all Windows VR headsets, Oculus Quest and Oculus Go.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Facebook today announced that Adobe—the company behind industry-leading creative tools like Photoshop, Premiere, and Substance—has acquired Oculus Medium , the company’s VR sculpting tool. Models could also be ‘painted’ with spray paint-like control. A Medium ‘2.0’ What Will Happen to Medium Next?

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MARCH 10, 2018

Quill , Oculus’ VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to show the incredible potential of drawing and animating in VR. Which helped to build this quickly.

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APRIL 30, 2017

So far, the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival has been a chaotic whirlwind of innovative filmmaking, groundbreaking immersive entertainment and masterful storytelling. Based on a documentary film of the same name, the VR rendition does a fantastic job of translating these symptoms by placing the user in a near exact situation. No spoilers.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Quill is a brilliant VR drawing and animation app originally born within the now shuttered Oculus Story Studio. In the early days of Oculus the company started internal groups like Oculus Story Studio which was tasked with exploring cinema through the lens of VR.

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JULY 16, 2020

Unfortunately, the only way to keep evil animatronics at bay is to make direct eye contact, forcing you to keep a look out while simultaneously interacting with various switches and controls. This ended up being my favorite game mode of the bunch, perhaps due to its similarities to my favorite sci-fi film, Aliens. The Verdict.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

With the Unimersiv app and Oculus Rift headset, students can meet people from any country in the world and learn languages in VR. The Unimersiv app is free to download on the Oculus Store, making it easily accessible to a wide range of students. They also control his growth from a teenager to an adult. Special Education.

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MARCH 31, 2019

Using an Oculus Rift headset and Touch controllers, Kevin is able to weightlessly navigate the hyper-realistic interior of the ISS, conduct jaw-dropping spacewalks, and operate robotic arms to complete crucial missions. When I go in there, I just forget about what I have,” states Kevin in the film. You can check it out here.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Cloudhead Games today announced that VR rhythm game Pistol Whip will be making its long-awaited debut on PSVR headsets this summer , offering console VR players the chance to battle their way through a variety of bullet-soaked gauntlets inspired by legendary action films like John Wick, Equilibrium, and The Matrix.

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APRIL 7, 2018

Yelena Rachitsky is an executive producer of experiences at Oculus, and she’s been inspired by how interactive narratives have allowed her to feel like a participant who is more engaged, more present, and more alive. The future of VR storytelling will be immersive and interactive.

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APRIL 25, 2020

Since its launch on PC VR headsets back in 2016, socialVR entertainment platform Bigscreen has seen thousands of people from all around the globe jumping into VR to enjoy 3D films like Star Trek: Into Darkness and Interstellar alongside both friends and total strangers. A few of the more creative users are even going on romantic dates.

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APRIL 17, 2020

Sony Pictures and Trigger — The Mixed Reality Agency® teamed up once again to create a WebAR experience for the feature film. Grab your Oculus Quest and control your mini lunar rover to collect as many oxygen tanks on the moon as possible before the time runs out in ROVR Run. Race on the moon with ROVR RUN WebVR game.

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MAY 18, 2016

Now Facebook is showing us their first 3D 360° video produced and filmed using the Surround 360 camera. The roughly 3-minute long short film, Here and Now , was uploaded on Facebook’s page and shot in New York’s famous Grand Central Station over three 90-minute sessions. Pre-production. Post-production.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Taking place directly after the events of Vader Immortal – Episode II , Episode III has you taking controls of your newly-acquired droid army and preparing for your final assault on Vader’s castle in the hopes of stopping the aeon engine from tearing the galaxy in half. each via the Oculus Rift/Rift S and Oculus Quest.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Available on Oculus Store for Rift , PlayStation Store , Steam , and Viveport. Available on Oculus Store for Quest , and Oculus Store for Rift. Available on Oculus Store for Quest , and Oculus Store for Gear VR. Available on Oculus Store for Rift , Steam , and Viveport. Rating: Everyone. Price: $11.99.

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JUNE 19, 2018

To compliment the theatrical film release of Distorted on June 22nd, Minds Eye Entertainment and SkyVR have partnered to produce Distorted Reality , a scripted, live-action cinematic VR distributed through OneTouchVR on Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and iOS.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. GRX Immersive Labs for “ POV: Points of View ,” an immersive Sci-Fi thriller that cautions viewers that “control begins where privacy ends.”. VR Film of the Year. Make Real Ltd. POV: Points of view.

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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. Bit Space loves the trackers.”

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be run under Meta Reality Labs, the company’s XR organization. At first the company was producing 360 VR video content, including some seminal 360 short films like Evolution of Verse and Clouds Over Sidra.

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MAY 17, 2021

Oculus today announced that the v29 update will begin rolling out to users “soon” (likely starting this week), and will bring mixed-reality smartphone capture, a file browser, phone notifications in VR, and more. Image courtesy Oculus. App Advertisements Coming to the Oculus Smartphone App.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

If 2018 is remembered for anything, it’ll be for the multiple high-quality animated VR films released throughout the year. Featuring an absolutely stellar voice cast including everyone from John Legend and Oprah Winfrey, to Constance Wu and Diego Luna, Crow: The Legend is arguably one of the most well-structured VR short films ever released.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Serenity, the firefly-class spaceship from cult TV show Firefly (2002) and film Serenity (2005), is now full explorable in VR. Starting out in 2014, Tabar originally designed Serenity for the Oculus Rift DK2. According to Tabar, “any HMD with SteamVR support should work.”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

VR Film of the Year. VR Film of the Year went to Walt Disney Animation for their captivating submission Myth: A Frozen Tale. The experience beat out the Cirque du Soleil experience by Felix and Paul Studios, Tribeca VR Films Gravity VR and Lutaw , and Enrique Agudo’s The Pantheon of Queer Mythology. Myth: A Frozen Tale.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2019

I invite you to read those two posts , because mixing the review of the Focus and the one of the controllers, you obtain more or less the impressions on how is the Focus Plus. For what concerns the controllers… the tracking is more or less the same that I described in the devkit. Lateral view of the controllers.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Oculus quietly released Quill Theater on Quest last month as a way to bring immersive art and animations made in VR to more of its VR userbase. The free app offers up a curated selection of content, including the incredible short film ‘The Remedy’, which shows the incredible potential of VR as a content authoring tool.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nikk: FXG is a VR film tech company based out of Hangzhou, China. It’s a great city and we make VR film technology. I’ve been making VR films for half a decade and I filmed so many concerts. I remember first trying to go film a concert and people wouldn’t even let me film.

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