VRScout

MAY 12, 2020

When he’s not serving as the head of AR & VR at Shopify, Daniel Beauchamp, better known by his online handle “ Push Matrix “, is pushing the boundaries of Oculus Quest hand tracking technology and sharing his wild experiments with the online community. Image Credit: Danial Beauchamp (Push Matrix).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Originally released on SteamVR headsets this past March, VR arcade racer Z-Race is now available to demo on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, offering standalone players an adrenaline-fueled third-person racing experience that will leave their palms sweaty. ZRace #Oculus #Quest2 pic.twitter.com/1RB88qhmYK — XOCUS

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Meta this week released a new demo app called First Hand to showcase the kind of experiences that developers can build with the company’s controllerless hand-tracking tools. Although the demo is largely designed to showcase hand-tracking capabilities to developers, First Hand is available for anyone to download for free from App Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2020

Today I woke up to read this letter from Oculus, sent to me because I’m a developer: Hello, Today, we announced our plans to sunset Oculus Go as we focus on driving forward the future of VR with 6DOF platforms like Oculus Quest. Goodbye Oculus Go. Image by Oculus).

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VRScout

APRIL 12, 2020

We’re not even half way through 2020 and so far this year is shaping up to be a big one for standalone location-based VR thanks to the Oculus Quest. Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset is contributing heavily to the rise of arena-scale location-based VR, due primarily to its affordability, convenience, and wireless 6dof capabilities.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2021

We went hands-on with the game’s new demo, which again puts you in hot seat for another round of Bond-flavored puzzling. If you want to play the demo yourself, you can grab it starting today on Steam as a part of the Steam Next Fest. Check out my full hands-on with the demo below. Check out the game’s trailer here.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. ” This week Provencher affirmed that Unity Slices: Table will be released as a demo on Oculus Quest for anyone to try.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Last week Oculus launched the App Lab , a brand new service for the Oculus Quest/Quest 2 that allows developers to share their works-in-progress with users without the need for official Oculus Store approval. SMASH DRUMS DEMO. The post Top 5 App Lab Games Available Now On Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. The following VR games and apps are available now on the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 100% free of charge via the Oculus Quest Store, App Lab, and SideQuest: COUCH. Couch is available free on Oculus (Meta) Quest via the App Lab. NEVER BOARD.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

Testing on PC While all the demos I created are for the standalone Quest 3 , I did most of my development on PC using the Link. The streaming of data for development purposes must be unlocked in the Meta Quest Link app on your computer (previously known as the Oculus app), or it won’t work.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Try the free demo available free via SideQuest. The Oculus Quest platform is in desperate need of some quality survival crafting games. At the moment FlodLab is offering a free one-hour demo of OceanCraft , including the ability to save your games and voice chat with other players. Image Credit: FrodLabs.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2021

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. Oculus Passthrough APIs textual tutorial. Do this in the project settings to enable Oculus VR. Create and configure the project. Wait for Unity to do its boring stuff.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to the leaked documents, the VR port of RE4 is scheduled to launch May 2021 on Oculus VR. While it’s unclear which headsets the document is referring to specifically, based on the age of the now-classic third-person shooter, I doubt the game would have any difficulty running on the Oculus Quest platform. September 2021.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2020

A newly released update for the Oculus Browser on Quest includes full-finger hand-tracking support for WebXR projects. build of Oculus Browser, which now comes with a hand-tracking API and timewarp layer support, both of which are considered ‘experimental’ at this time. The feature was quietly released in the recent 10.2

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2021

Last month Oculus launched App Lab for Quest which allows developers to distribute their games on the headset without going through Oculus’ curation process. For additional context, the number of Oculus PC applications sits around 1,800, with Go applications also at 1,800, and SteamVR applications around 4,900. Harvest VR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

After Venice VR Expanded has come to an end, I have finally had the time to experiment with Oculus Quest AR Passthrough. The proof is the fact that if you look for passthrough content on SideQuest, you just find a bunch of demos (like Cactus Cowboy and Crazy Kung Fu ), and nothing more. Mild interest of the community.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2023

And for this reason, I want to celebrate the great results that they had by talking about the last demo I had with the device at AWE US last year , a hands-on I haven’t described yet in this blog. Finally, I was able to take pictures of it… The company had prepared another lens, with a stick attached to it, to let us have a demo.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers.

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VRScout

APRIL 24, 2020

I think most of us can agree Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset would not be wear it is today without the support of SideQuest. The post Oculus Quest Platform SideQuest Receives Complete Overhaul, Announces Developer Awards appeared first on VRScout. ” Full instructions can be found here. Image Credit: SideQuest Ltd.

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2021

Facebook this week added over a dozen new VR games and apps to its experimental App Lab channel, offering Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 players an easier way of accessing a generous selection of popular indie titles like Gorilla Tag, OceanCraft, and Warplanes: WW1 Fighters just to name a few.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Oculus today introduced a program called App Lab, a new effort which will allow developers to distribute their VR apps on Quest without being subject to a quality review ‘curation’ process. With Quest, Oculus introduced a ‘curated’ approach to the headset’s app store. Descent Alps – Demo by Sutur.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2022

on PC VR, including an updated demo for anyone to try. “I am immensely proud of what Compound has become and I invite you to try the demo so see what it’s like!” Nearly four years after its early access debut, indie VR gem COMPOUND has launched version 1.0 The game is expected to come to Quest as well later this year.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2020

With the recent news that Unreal Engine was permanently waiving engine royalties for the first $1 million in app revenue, we were reminded of a similar program for VR apps based on Unreal Engine 4 that Oculus established back in 2016. SEE ALSO Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2021

Windlands (2016), one of the founding pioneers of modern VR gaming, has made the quiet leap to Oculus Quest this past week where it lives on to finally serve up its dizzying heights and grappling hook-based movement scheme to the standalone headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2021

I got a package from VR Cover with some cool accessories for Oculus Quest 2 to review. Fitness Facial Interface and Foam Set for Oculus Quest 2 Review. Disposable Hygiene Covers for Oculus Quest 2 review. When I’m doing demos, actually I hate them, because they can ruin my experience. Disposable hygiene cover.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

This past July, developer Simon Brown released the first version of Lambda1VR , an ongoing fan-conversion of the original Half-Life game for the Oculus Quest. The post Half-Life: Opposing Force Now Available On Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout. A full list of the release notes can be found here.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2020

for Physics Playground adds a whole suit of new features to the popular VR sandbox experience, including full-body physics, a brand new playground environment, improved NPC physics, new weaponry and tools, and a slew of other additions and optimizations; it’s basically Boneworks Lite for the Oculus Quest. – Exo. Image Credit: Exo.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2023

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.”

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ARPost

MAY 24, 2023

It’s partially funded by Meta, but founders got in with Oculus co-founder Michael Antonov long before Facebook bought the company (and subsequently changed the name of both companies to “Meta”). Insights From the In-App Demo I met with McCloskey and fellow co-founder Sam Hessenauer within a free trial of the platform’s academic version.

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VRScout

AUGUST 25, 2020

Better known by his online handle “Pushmatrix”, Beauchamp has spent the past year developing some truly bizarre hand-tracking experiences for the Oculus Quest, from a physics-driven haircutting simulator and miniature Beat Saber experience to VR Jenga and virtual Chia Pet. Image Credit: Daniel Beauchamp.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When hand-tracking first became available, I quickly prototyped experimental support for the feature and released it in a demo on SideQuest as it seemed like hand-tracking could make for a very intuitive way of playing the game. The demo I made did not handle these limitations well.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2021

This isn’t some 20-minute tech demo; it’s a fully playable Ocarina of Time VR game. Earlier this week Oculus Studios launched Resident Evil 4 VR on Oculus Quest 2 headsets, offering players a fast-paced horror-action experience expertly ported to VR. Image Credit: Nintendo.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Earlier this year, VR developer XOCUS launched a free demo of its lightning-fast VR racing game Z-Race on Oculus (Meta) Quest headsets. From now until December 20th, Oculus Quest players can compete against one another for a chance to win a variety of cash prizes. Feature Image Credit: XOCUS.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Othergate, a studio founded by former Oculus Studios game designers, announced their first VR game during Meta’s Quest Gaming Showcase today, revealing a co-op dungeon crawler for Quest 2 called Dungeons of Eternity. There’s no definite release date for now, although Othergate says it’s coming at some point this year.

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