VRScout

JUNE 12, 2021

Announced today during the Upload VR Showcase as part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming event, the NERF Ultimate Championship is scheduled to arrive in 2022 on the Oculus Quest. Of course, it’s not a NERF battle without their famous dart guns. You’ll also have a suite of tools that you can use to customize your avatar and blaster.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. But there’s a handful of tools and methods that can set you up for success from the start. SEE ALSO Oculus CTO: Quest is 'In the Neighborhood of Xbox 360 / PS3 Processing Power'.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The frantic food game Clash of Chefs VR just received a major update that lets you ditch your Oculus Touch controllers and cook delicious cartoon food with your own two hands. Over the course of 80 fast-paced levels, you’ll cook food from all around the globe, including American, Italian, Japanese, and Mexican.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

I know that your team has created a tool called Holo-BLSD. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. Currently, the gold standard for BLSD learning is instructor-led courses. A self-instruction tool can solve many of these problems if it is indeed effective in achieving the same learning outcomes of a traditional course.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2021

You all know that Facebook has recently released Passthrough APIs to let developers create AR experiences on Quest 2, and of course, I am experimenting with them. So let me show you how you can develop an AR app for Oculus Quest 2 using Oculus Passthrough APIs in Unity. Oculus Passthrough APIs video tutorial.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. The platform’s data dashboard tracks hundreds of data points to provide a high level of analysis to course directors or trainees.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2018

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if the app passed minimum standards and a content review to determine it was a complete and polished experience. image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2022

Of course, HP isn’t the only provider of this sort of large-scale VR deployment and management solution. Meta has already wound down its Oculus for Business offering, however it currently offers its own business tools for use with consumer Quest 2 , including mobile device management. ExtendXR availability starts today.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In these unprecedented times, VR has proven to be an effective tool for musicians looking to connect with audiences on a more intimate level. Everything from work conferences, restaurants, schools, movies, and of course, the music industry, came to a complete halt. After all, there are no social distancing rules in a virtual world.

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VRScout

MAY 22, 2020

Planck was one of the co-founders of Oculus Story Studio and worked for Pixar for 10 years as a technical director on movies like Cars, WALL-E, and Up. Of course they are backed by an incredible pool of talented people and collectively, Adventure Lab has an impressive team resume. The two then left Facebook to begin their own company.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today I’ve played around with Oculus Quest , trying to hack it a bit via command-line tools (ADB), hoping to activate some cool features. I’ve made some interesting discoveries, and of course, I want to share them with you, the VR community! Oculus Go was codenamed “Pacific”, instead.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2021

Arkio is a collaborative VR tool built for quickly sketching architectural ideas and for reviewing designs with a group. version of the tool is available starting this week across Quest, Rift, SteamVR, iOS, Android, and Windows. Of course, you might run into performance issues with heavier models on Quest. Image courtesy Arkio.

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Road to VR

JULY 20, 2020

Oculus has introduced new party features which allow groups of players to launch into the same app together and to move from one app to another. Expanding on that work, this week the company introduced improvements to the Oculus Party system. Image courtesy Oculus. We’ve reached out to Oculus for confirmation.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Because of his work, he finds himself working every day on XR headsets in professional settings, and he was one of the first people to share a photo of the Oculus Quest 2 For Business on my Linkedin feed. Here you are my chat with him about Oculus For Business! What are the advantages that Oculus For Business has given you?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Originally announced last year at Facebook Connect 2020, Oculus this week confirmed that The Climb 2 , the direct follow-up to 2016’s The Climb , will be arriving next month on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets. Of course, it wouldn’t be The Climb without a wide assortment of physical accessories.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Now, Survios CTO and co-founder Alex Silkin is set to share his experience by teaching a full semester course on expert-level Unreal Engine VR development. What’s more, the course will be taught in VR, so you can connect remotely and learn from Silkin—virtual face to virtual face. Course Specifics. Tuition : $2,495.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Although Facebook Spaces was shut down in October, making way for the company’s next social VR platform, Horizon , Facebook is rolling out some big social changes that promise to make meeting, talking, and playing together on the Oculus platform a lot easier. Privacy Changes to Oculus. Image captured by Road to VR.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you were one of the poor souls desperately trying to purchase an Oculus Quest this holiday season, you know better than anyone how difficult it’s been to locate a headset whose price hasn’t been inflated hundreds-of-dollars by third-party sellers. Image Credit: Oculus, Facebook. “We’ve Feature Image Credit: Facebook Oculus.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

Facebook offers a closer look at the legendary action/horror game redesigned for Oculus Quest headsets. Last week it was announced that Capcom had partnered with Oculus Studios and Armature Studios to bring Resident Evil 4 to the Quest 2 headset. In terms of item management, your menu now serves as an interactive tool.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. ” Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR. .”

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2021

Facebook’s latest update introduces several long-awaited features designed to improve how we work and play on the Oculus Quest. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Compared to standard mixed reality capture, the process described by Oculus is painfully simple. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Live Overlay.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Amazon today announced a new developer tool at its annual AWS re:Invent that aims to make creating web-based applications for VR/AR and traditional monitors even easier. ” The tool is entirely web-based which, just like the VR/AR applications it can generate, means there’s no extra software to install.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Earlier this morning Adobe announced the purchase of Oculus’ 3D VR sculpting app, Oculus Medium. Of course, the app has proved immensely popular among amateur creators as well, resulting in a sizable catalog of user creations. . Nothing is changing for you today,” states Oculus in the tail-end of the post.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I made various tests and so I can not only review it, but also compare it with its competitor solution, the Oculus Link. Of course, Wi-Fi offers even more challenges than the tethered streaming of Oculus Link, so you may wonder if it works well or not. In comparison, Oculus Link has much lower latency and more fluidity.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Oculus CTO John Carmack has said publicly that he’d love to open up Oculus Quest to Android apps to boost the headset’s usefulness, but admits he’s “not winning” the debate internally at Facebook. Android apps running on Quest is apparently something Oculus’ own CTO has been arguing for internally.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Increasingly, large companies around the world are discovering the value of immersive tools when it comes to bringing powerful training opportunities to professionals. With XR tools, companies can empower staff members to work with complex machines and equipment, as well as providing them with the skills they need to perform day-to-day tasks.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2020

These updates will also address concerns regarding cybersecurity & student safety, give instructors the tools for remote class management, and offer a plethora of instructional resources. Teachers will have the tools to augment the learning experience in either a physical or virtual classroom.

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VRScout

APRIL 8, 2021

To offer some much-needed assistance in this area, Goodwill has partnered with Accenture to create Project Overcome, an innovative program designed specifically for ex-prisoners that uses VR as a tool to prepare them for the process of searching, applying, interviewing, and hopefully landing a job after prison.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2019

The popular VR art tool will arrive on Quest with cross-buy support. Facebook confirmed earlier today that Google’s immensely popular room-scale VR painting experience, Tilt Brush, is coming to the Oculus Quest headset this Spring. Oculus Quest is expected to launch at the end of the month. Image Credit: Google Inc.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Earlier this year the Mozilla Corporation announced plans for a powerful new version of their popular Firefox browser tailored specifically for web-based mixed reality content on standalone VR & AR headsets including the Lenovo Mirage, Oculus Go, Vive Focus, as well as other standalone devices capable of running on the Vive Wave Platform.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

” Given my recent experience with Unity developing, I could give myself only a clear answer: “NO” With nowadays Unity tools, it is much easier to make cross-platform content, and with OpenXR this will be even better. How to make a VR application compatible with Oculus, Wave and Steam VR runtimes. Add Oculus Support.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Available free to all players, Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs’ new Slimy Slopes area introduces an additional 13 levels, making that 91 courses in total. via the Oculus Quest , Oculus Rift , PlayStation VR , SteamVR , and Viveport. on Oculus Quest , Oculus Rift , and SteamVR with support for cross-platform play.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

To make things a little easier, Oculus recently published a list of GPUs that meet minimum specs, and a more comprehensive list of recommended GPUs so you can have what the company calls “the full Oculus Rift experience.” Oculus also recommends the following desktop and laptop GPUs: NVIDIA *. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to the official release, the narrative-driven experience was built from the ground-up for VR and will feature a healthy combination of intense combat and, of course, plenty of environmental puzzles (this is a Half-Life game after all). Manipulate tools to hack alien interfaces. Image Credit: Valve Corporation.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. When we started to show people [the Oculus Rift] in Hollywood, their question was ‘how do we get started?’…

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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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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