VRScout

JULY 6, 2017

For the last month I’ve been working with Google to test Blocks, a new VR creation tool that enables anyone to 3D model low polygon objects without training. A box, for example, is made out of six polygons. Below are examples of how far these models can be taken with rendering software. To explain, I created this.

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JULY 3, 2020

Nate Mitchell, Oculus co-founder and former Head of VR Product at Facebook, has opened a new game studio called Mountaintop Studios. The developers working in VR today are trailblazing some incredible gaming experiences— Half-Life: Alyx , for example—and I’m super excited to see what they build next.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

After a long and somewhat awkward period of Google keeping all of their VR apps from Facebook’s VR platforms on desktop (with Rift) and mobile (with Gear VR), Tilt Brush is the first VR olive branch extended across the platform gap between these two major tech competitors. But, a new glimmer of hope has emerged.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As reported by Road to VR , Google recently confirmed that the latest iteration of the framework, WebVR 1.1, Speaking at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality last month, Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google stated that a beta version should launch in December 2016 followed by a stable launch in January 2017. .

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MAY 17, 2017

Google I/O’s 2017 keynote kicked off with some exciting statistics, showing off just how impactful and widespread the company’s applications are. There are 800 million Google Drive users and 500 million active Google Photos users. Pichai followed this up with the announcement of Google Lens.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form.

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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. ” SEE ALSO Google is Adding a VR Shell to Chrome to Let You Browse the Entire Web in VR. no long downloads or installs necessary).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Google’s popular virtual reality art program Tilt Brush is launching for the Oculus Rift headset with Oculus Touch controllers. The experience can be purchased today in Oculus Home for $29.99. Now, however, Google has officially brought Tilt Brush somewhere other than Vive for the very first time. Stay tuned!”

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look at how Facebook’s money is funding battles on all fronts of the industry’s increasingly competitive landscape. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Old Enemies – HTC. Launch – $800.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. Follow my guide on how to update your Oculus Go until you can select the “Cast” option).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Eye-tracking is very important for marketing scenarios, to evaluate what you are looking at when you’re watching a commercial of a product, for example. Remember that Oculus is going to release Infinite Office and an AR SDK , so Valve had better replying to this move. Google drops support for Daydream. More info.

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ARPost

MARCH 16, 2021

Consider that the Oculus Quest 2 has made wireless VR accessible, and that the average modern smartphone is perfectly capable of handling complex AR tasks. See Also: Google Survey: How Shoppers Actually Feel About AR-Enabled E-Commerce. LG’s technology showcase is a great example. There’s so much more scope for deployment.

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VRScout

MAY 8, 2021

Similar to existing VR headsets like the Oculus Quest, the Pro 3e allows you to adjust the lenses to fit your personal IPD measurements. In terms of gaming, the Pro 3e can sync to almost any type of gaming controller, including Xbox, Google Stadia , and PlayStation. Image Credit: NuEyes. Image Credit: NuEyes. Image Credit: NuEyes.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2021

Last week Oculus announced that it would begin testing a Facebook advertising system inside select VR games. Blaston was the only title specifically named in the announcement, and Oculus used the game to show examples of how ads might appear inside of VR games.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

A few examples include: Squadpods: Private, secure office space for teams to customize, meet and collaborate with work tools they know and love. HeadOffice.Space is leveraging almost every web-based collaboration tool imaginable, Youtube, Twitch, Google Slides, Sheets, Excel, Word, Airtable, Miro, Mural, PowerBI, Powerpoint among others.

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AR Insider

APRIL 7, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. For example, the anatomical features of the human body, the work of various mechanisms, etc. See Also: 4 Inventive Examples of Virtual Reality in Education. Google Earth VR.

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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 ). Since I use Quest+Link, I have added Oculus Touch Controller Profile. How to build an OpenXR application.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” The Plurality.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

the top 4 practical examples of technologies achievable through the cloud in 2020. BigQuery from Google Cloud has many powerful features that allow users to view their data in real-time, providing continual up-to-date information to help guide business decisions. The device uses Google’s Cloud Healthcare API.

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AR Insider

MARCH 19, 2021

We’ve estimated that its annual XR R&D spend — not including its $2 billion Oculus acquisition — approaches $10 billion. That includes both AR and VR, the latter being more tangible today, given Oculus’ in-market status. But when making comparisons, the more apt example is Android.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It consists of you using just an Oculus account (even a new developer one) without an associated Facebook account and using an old version of the Oculus companion app on your phone that sees your Quest 2 as an old plain Quest. Google lets now everyone contribute to StreetView. Do you need some examples? Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Yesterday I detailed you what is the Oculus Rift S , while today I want to write you a recap about what is the Oculus Quest , the most awaited virtual reality headset of 2019. What Is the Oculus Quest? Oculus Quest is the first standalone 6 DOF virtual reality headset by Oculus. And with the Oculus Rift?

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2020

It not quite up to par with other standalone devices, such as the Oculus Quest , the Classroom 2 still manages to deliver engaging educational experiences perfect for the classroom. The Lenovo VR Classroom 2 is a 3DOF VR headset featuring a 110° field of view, Qualcomm 835 SOC processor, and up to 256GB storage.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2019

Back in April 2015, Oculus was a long way away from its current position as one of VR’s most influential organizations. The company had only recently been acquired by Facebook and was still in the process of prepping the Oculus Rift for its 2016 launch. Image Credit: Google. Then there’s the Chromebook Cardboard.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

These days, most folks have experienced virtual reality in some shape or form: it could be a Google cardboard, VR kiosk at a local mall, or an at-home VR headset from HTC or Oculus. For example, your team can experience an epic alien crash site escape in Reason, a VR escape room in San Francisco. Sponsored content. Conclusion.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2019

Dick inspired VR experience, The Great C (2018) , to Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The 37-minute sci-fi adventure experience is now available for $6 across all platforms, including versions available on Steam (Vive, Rift) and the Oculus Store (Rift, Go, Gear VR), and Google Play ( Daydream ).

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

For example, it allows them to feel like they’re physically interacting with products in a brick-and-mortar store while being online. For example, it’s popular among furniture stores like EQ3. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Google isn’t as acquisitive for AR cloud endeavors (“ Internet of Places “), which build from existing Google Images and Street View data. For example, its similarly-named Visual Positioning Service utilizes its database of Street View imagery to localize a given device. In fairness, that’s not always the case.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2020

For example, if the target display has a resolution of 3840×2160, then our network starts with a 960×540 input image rendered by game engines, and upsamples it to the target display resolution as a post-process in real-time.” SEE ALSO Google Takes a Step Closer to Making Volumetric VR Video Streaming a Thing.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2017

The ‘Anna’s dream brush’ channel contains several other examples of interesting artwork in VR, mainly using Tilt Brush , but also some experimentation with animation using ANIMVR , an upcoming VR app currently in a closed beta. Photo courtesy Anna VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

While hardware advancements such as the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift have solidified at-home VR as a viable option, those looking for next-level immersion will still find the most success with location-based VR installations. LOCATION-BASED VR. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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