Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. The move was announced by Valve’s Chet Faliszek at Unite Europe in Amsterdam yesterday.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. In the same discussion (and other discussions throughout the day) Facebook’s ownership of Oculus also came up as a privacy concern.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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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. Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. eyeora VR , a virtual events company working with mobile devices as well as Oculus and Pico headsets. Make Real Ltd.

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2017

You can now slide down Europe’s tallest building in VR. You can strap on an Oculus Rift VR headsets and hurtle at 100mph down imaginary open-air tubes corkscrewing around the skyscraper. Both experiences were built in Unity and contain a mix of high-resolution 360° HDRI images and a full-scale CGI model of the shard.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

With currently 26 labs operating in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania, VR First is bringing the number to 40 labs by the end of year. While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). image courtesy VR First.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

While Oculus cares a lot about the design of its units and polishes all the details of the external aspect, Pico is more practical, because it comes from the enterprise world, so it offers a design that is nice, but that bends to the needs of what can be functional. Considering that its cost was €55, it is a very happy surprise! Right View.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2018

On one hand, they are able to distribute their content cross platforms (including Oculus Go , Oculus Rift, Gear VR , Steam VR, HTC Vive, MIVR, Android, iOS etc) just with one single click on VeeR; on the other hand, we have developed the free web-based interactive experience creation tool VeeR Experience back in August 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

We went to Europe and found some amazing locations for the movie. At Oculus Studio they made an animated movie… but it is still on where you look and choreography on where you look… I think it’s elaborated and I think it’s better if the story is what your experience was. and 2D mixed together.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But it’s also success here in Europe. Just to give you an idea, in 60% of the Ray-Ban stores in Europe, in EMEA, Ray-Ban Meta is the best-seller in those stores. Notice that he’s not talking about the US, which is more advanced than Europe on the technology side. I mean, we, it’s an overall success story that we see.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. He said that China is excellent for hardware manufacturing (even Oculus Go is manufactured in China!), while the US and Europe still develop better software.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 22, 2017

In Europe, governments have been regulating online gambling to increase tax revenues. It was built with Unity 5, using Chromium to emulate web-based games inside. The application was designed for Oculus Rift only and can be played on computers with an Nvidia 970 graphics card or above. Engaging a new audience.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. We've been working with Ford in Europe for a handful of years now. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas. I'm a cyclist.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. We've been working with Ford in Europe for a handful of years now. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas. I'm a cyclist.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. But in the upcoming batches, we would like to actually use the opportunity of our network in both US, Europe, and Asia with the help of our labs.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. But in the upcoming batches, we would like to actually use the opportunity of our network in both US, Europe, and Asia with the help of our labs.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. And now the battle is on standalone headsets: Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

AWE also has events in Europe and Asia. These event brings together a mix of CEOs, CTOs, designers, developers, creative agencies, futurists, analysts, investors, and top press in a fantastic opportunity to learn, inspire, partner, and experience first hand the most exciting industry of our times.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. We've been working with Ford in Europe for a handful of years now. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas. I'm a cyclist.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers - Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel -- and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Of course Unity, Unreal, and these engines is already important to make you enabled, which we strongly recommend if you already have a commitment for VR/AR.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 18, 2015

You can download the Windows demo free for the Oculus Rift: frooxius.itch.io/world-of-comenius. Comenius was born a Czech, but from our little country he traveled over the world (well, mostly Europe) and spread his ideas about education, becoming known as “teacher of the nations.” world-of-comenius.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 25, 2025

21 games are currently supported by the Oculus Publishing Ignition initative. Pruett also added that it is not true that Meta is disinvesting in games: 200 games supported by Meta are currently in active production.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. Recent Matrix investments include Oculus VR, Zendesk, Hubspot, Acacia Communications, Polyvore, Lever, Poynt and Namely. 43- Dillon Seo - Co-Founder #Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. Sometimes that happens outside and and people-- someone you've never met and never knew will torpedo the deal because they think, "Oh, my son had an Oculus Go and had a terrible experience. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. Sometimes that happens outside and and people-- someone you've never met and never knew will torpedo the deal because they think, "Oh, my son had an Oculus Go and had a terrible experience. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 3, 2025

I’ve always been fascinated by the fact you started AWE even before the Oculus Rift. Of course, we all know Unity, but there’s a whole set of new tools that have been developed to help game developers make their games better. There are some really cool examples like there’s this guy from Eastern Europe.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And we later did a project called Zombie Guns Raptor with Oculus and Oculus Go, Gear VR. Sometimes that happens outside and and people-- someone you've never met and never knew will torpedo the deal because they think, "Oh, my son had an Oculus Go and had a terrible experience. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Pico launches Neo 3 Link in Europe. More info (Pico Neo 3 Link now available in Europe) More info (Pico Neo 3 Link launched at Laval Virtual). A developer had the great idea to tie an Oculus Touch controller to a cardboard box so that the box can be ported into VR and be used as a magical box with which the user can interact.

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