Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2020

Last month Oculus released the Oculus for Business program for enterprise customers. Based in Switzerland, Onno is a freelance senior solution architect working on a virtual reality platform for a multinational enterprise. What is Oculus for Business ? Image courtesy Oculus. First, a quick primer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Chris Koomen is a Virtual Reality specialist and consultant at KLM , a Dutch airline company. 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.

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Road to VR

JULY 14, 2017

The 69th Emmy Awards nominations are out, and while it’s true the Emmys were created to recognize excellence in the television industry, virtual reality as a medium has been lauded with six total nominations this year, three of which are thanks to content created by Oculus. and Oculus ( download here for Oculus Rift ).

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2017

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR , Oculus Rift , and Touch Controllers. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (1/7/17). The post Weekend Downloads: New on Gear VR, Rift and Touch appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Now, according to Rec Room’s downloads on Quest 2, the developers estimate that Facebook has potentially sold upwards of three million Quest 2 units in 2020 Q4 alone. The post ‘Rec Room’ Studio Estimates Facebook Sold 2-3M Oculus Quest 2 Headsets in Q4 appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2020

Blender VR works through the OpenXR standard , for which a runtime has been implemented only for Windows Mixed Reality headsets and Oculus headsets. The little problem is that at the time of writing, on the official downloads page, you just see version 2.82a… so where the heck can you find version 2.83? Oculus Rift.

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VRScout

JULY 10, 2018

For those of you who share a love for this bizarre line-up of long-forgotten games, you’ll be delighted to learn of a new emulator that brings all the eye-bleeding magic of the Virtual Boy to Oculus Rift headsets. VBJin is available for free over at Github and is compatible with the Oculus Rift headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Before the calendar ever turned over from 2015 to 2016 people were already dubbing this as the “year of virtual reality.” It may seem hard to believe now, but just a few months ago the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR HMDs were available active developers only. ” This monicker was given for good reason.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2018

The NextVR app is available on Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Go, Google Daydream, PlayStation VR, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets. Check out how to download NextVR here. The post NextVR Introduces NBA 2017-2018 MVP Highlight Reel in Virtual Reality appeared first on Road to VR. Image courtesy NextVR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360 videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2022

Windows 11, Oculus, and SteamVR. If you have Windows 11, you may have issues with virtual reality, especially if you are using Oculus Link or Oculus Air Link. These problems become even worse when you use Oculus in conjunction with SteamVR. Use Oculus and SteamVR beta releases. Beta, beta, beta.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2020

Oculus Venues only landed on Quest back in June, uniting Quest and Go users under the same social VR event viewing platform. The app is being released to only a few users at this time though, so you may not find that big blue ‘Download’ button on Venue’s new Oculus Store page. Image courtesy Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Last week, I published my post about the latest update of Oculus Quest that provides new interesting features like Passthrough+ and 3 DOF mode. How to update your Oculus Quest (video tutorial). Here I am again with another shiny video tutorial, this time teaching you how to update your Oculus Quest. Automatic update.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity – Video Tutorial.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2019

A new era in VR technology arrives with the Oculus Quest standalone headset. The Oculus Quest shouldn’t exist—at least not at this price. Most importantly, the Oculus Quest ditches the past complexities and considerable expenses of modern VR, ushering in the dawn of true consumer-level virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. If you’re going to do a lot of development, you had better use Oculus Link through a USB 3.0 Also, install the Oculus app and the Oculus Hub on your computer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

It’s undoubtedly at the absolute pinnacle of performance for modern virtual reality headsets. However, a good majority of that content is unfinished, early access, and lacking the level of polish that its competitors at Oculus and Sony are providing for their respective platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Today I decided to take my Oculus Go out of its box again after a lot of time of inactivity. You may wonder why I’m not using it that much and the answer is that currently I’m mostly experimenting with my Vive Focus , so I’ve left its little brother Oculus Go resting in its original box for a lot of time.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Tokyo Game Show is the first big gaming event that is being held in virtual reality : this is quite a milestone for immersive technologies, and we hope it will be the first of a long series. a Virtual Reality Creative Studio based in Tokyo, Japan. Secondly, cross-play is possible on xambr , including Oculus Quest 1&2.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2020

presented a unique opportunity to bring local multiplayer to VR, but we had no idea what a hit it would become and how many people would experience Acron as their introduction to virtual reality,” added Palm. via the Oculus Quest , Oculus Rift , PlayStation VR , SteamVR , and Viveport.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. Thanks to Application SpaceWarp, which can be shortened in AppSW, your Oculus Quest 2 experience can run at half the frame rate without impacting how the user sees it.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (10/22/16). Lost 360 , from Oculus Story Studio, is now available on the Oculus Store. Get ready to snap in your phone scouts!

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VRScout

JUNE 23, 2020

The software has been available in beta version since 2017, but it will officially be available for download on the Steam store beginning June 29th. In a 2017 interview with VRFocus, Bendarski said “WalkinVR aims at giving users with physical disabilities the freedom of unlimited movement in virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Today, I’m going to share with you the APK that lets you have passthrough vision with blue edges on your Oculus Quest 2. I’m already known in the VR communities as being the guy who published on App Lab an experience that was just made of a cube (you can download it here ). How to download the app.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

Mozilla has finally brought its made-for-VR web browser, Firefox Reality, to Oculus Quest. In September of last year, the company initially released Firefox Reality on Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus (and other Vive Wave headsets) for free. Download Firefox Reality for Quest here.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The plain old legacy Virtual Reality Supported flag may be your biggest friend. He made me notice that if you use the legacy VR plugin management (the “Virtual Reality Supported” flag), the XR Interaction Toolkit works well also with SteamVR. Download the Unitypackage and then import it into your project.

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Road to VR

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. Mixed-reality Smartphone Capture (Live Overlay). Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2021

The Museum of Other Realities (MOR), the immersive multiplayer art museum for virtual reality, is temporarily open to the public for free in celebration of select British XR artists, who are presenting their works via a special showcase called The Immersive Arcade.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2022

That is, an application built for the Oculus runtime can also run for the Valve Index on SteamVR. I’m talking about the XR Interaction Toolkit Example app, which you can download from GitHub ( link ). Download the source code, and then open the project that is in its “VR” directory. And that’s it!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

I am super happy about it, it’s like a dream coming true… On Wednesday 7th at 11:15–11:30 am CEST I will (remotely) speak together with Massimiliano Ariani at the famous Laval Virtual event , in the fitness track, where we will speak about HitMotion: Reloaded (btw download our game now !) and this is a solid number. billion and $6.4

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2020

In the meantime, if you’re looking for a playable Sonic VR experience to tide you over, NimSony’s Sonic VR prototype experience is still available for download. Its creator however says there aren’t any plans to share it online before its debut at SAGE 2020, which takes place September 5th.

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VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2020

Crow: The Legend, Bonfire ) has partnered with 3DAR ( Gloomy Eyes, Nespresso VR ) and Oculus on a brand new VR animated short entitled Paper Birds which is scheduled to premiere later this year at the 2020 International Venice Film Festival. Users can then download the first of two installments via the Oculus Store.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A virtual reality experience costs money. An augmented reality app costs money. A virtual tour costs money. Footage download. Virtual tour upload on the client’s website or where required. And now consider that virtual and augmented reality tend to have even higher costs than a simple virtual tour.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The fitness application goes from costing $30 upfront to be free to download and costing $10/month after a trial. The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. From the above data and the pictures, it is clear it is a headset very similar to the Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Thanks to this official support, artists are able to enter into their creations in Virtual Reality by just pressing a single button. This integration is still very rough, and so: It works only with Oculus and WMR headsets (because it requires an OpenXR-compatible runtime); It just lets you see your model , not also modify it.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Oculus announced at Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, that they’ll be officially supporting WebVR through their new VR web browser codenamed Carmel. no long downloads or installs necessary). no long downloads or installs necessary).

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