Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

VR on exercise bikes like VirZOOM is going to be AMAZING… for some people, and I may not be one of those people. ” Peddie argues that VR designers shouldn’t worry about compromising their designs in order to accommodate what may end up being a minority of people who experience simulator sickness. Support Voices of VR.

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2022

Government agencies like NASA and the US Airforce used elements of the metaverse for training purposes and simulation exercises as early as 1986. Despite this long history, it was Facebook’s purchase of Oculus in 2014 that signaled the beginning of what has been an eight-year gold rush for AR and VR.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Wander is a VR classic – a port to Quest from the older Oculus Go. Some of the exercises like the boxing exercise or the rhythm game “Flow” might be intense at first, but there are also the more laid-back meditation and stretching activities. It was also announced that knee strikes are coming to the boxing exercise.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2019

The game is confirmed to be launching alongside Oculus Quest, which brings with it some interesting advantages which make for a very compelling VR ping pong experience. There’s also a ‘Simulation’ physics setting which demands more paddle precision in both position and force to get the ball where you want it to go.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 13, 2021

Check out the gameplay video here: Headlining Synthwave Essentials 2 is “Algorithm”, Muse’s title track from their acclaimed 2018 album Simulation Theory. Synth Riders is available on SteamVR headsets via Steam and Viveport , and cross-buy between Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. More on that below.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

That’s the case with VR, which becomes an exercise in gathering hints in perpetual market-sizing mode. For example, last week we estimated holiday Oculus Quest sales, and did a similar cumulative sales estimate in September. Both exercises extrapolated hardware units based on software revenue disclosures. Due Diligence.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2019

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Quest is Oculus’ first standalone VR headset that includes 6DOF tracking on the headset and controllers. This is similar to Oculus Go, except that Go only tracks rotation of the head and hands, which means it can only offer static, seated VR experiences. Oculus Rift S.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Luckey founded Anduril Industries after Facebook fired him from Oculus , the previous company he founded which became Meta's Reality Labs division. Luckey's IVAS takeover announcement photo echoes his 2015 Time cover, 'The Surprising Joy Of Virtual Reality'. I can hardly believe I managed to pull it off.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2019

Having released the ever popular Job Simulator as a launch title for the HTC Vive back in 2016, Owlchemy Labs is one of the most veteran VR game studios that exists today. Over the years the studio has built a strong foundation of VR interaction design which is seen throughout their newest title, Vacation Simulator. Hey everyone!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

More info (How Puzzling Places was ported to the Apple Vision Pro) New apps get released to the Vision Pro every week : Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have been announced for it (I teased this on my blog a few weeks ago). They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 22, 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. Student surgeons are seeing their studies interrupted as hospitals are reserved for essential care Click To Tweet.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 13, 2021

Having started production on its first title even before the original Oculus Rift DK1 development kit was sent to developers, Canada-based Cloudhead Games is one of the world’s most veteran game studios dedicated to virtual reality. The studio has staked its very existence on its ability to build compelling VR games.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Publisher: Oculus. Available On: Oculus Store (Rift). Asgard’s Wrath takes more of a gestural approach to combat rather than a highly simulated approach, meaning all of your hard-won combat strategies learned in Blade and Sorcery are basically no good here. Image courtesy Oculus, Sanzaru Games. Price: $40.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Vive took the early market by storm , launching out the box with full roomscale support and tracked motion controllers , whilst Oculus could only launch their Rift CV1 with seated support and an Xbox game controller. What led to development of version 2.0? Vive Pro) .

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Reported potential use cases for IVAS include: overlaying icons on friendly units, objectives, threats, and points of interest built-in night vision & thermal view modes live picture-in-picture feeds from drones, including the Soldier Borne Sensor (SBS) personal drone simulated weapons & enemies for training exercises scanning nearby people (..)

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ARVR

APRIL 12, 2021

AR training programs allow businesses and organizations to create training programs that may simulate hard to train for exercises in a safe and controlled environment,” writes Shirley Green, a business writer at OXEssays and Paper Fellows. This differs substantially from VS, which creates an entirely digital reality. “AR

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MARCH 9, 2017

It’s an exercise in learning thrust-based controls that hearkens back to the days of frustration-filled lunar landing games. Exercising patience in a racing game might seem counter-intuitive, but once you get into the rhythm of Vector 36, things start to fall into place. Tagged with: Red River Studio , Vector 36.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

See Cosmic Trip , which brilliantly uses physical buttons to navigate its item menu; or Job Simulator , which almost entirely eliminates the old point-and-click interaction paradigm. Cosmic Trip (Left) Job Simulator (Right). The type of link defined the methods we employed to simulate weight. Direct Link.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

Focused, acute pulses simulate sharp points; broader, more distributed ones can simulate sensations like dipping into water. The suit’s gloves will simulate gripping objects by restricting finger movement: wrap your hands around a hard plastic cup in VR, and your gloves will freeze at the point where you can’t squeeze any further.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Many studies measure benefices of VR tools for elderly people (memory, engagement, physical exercises, feeling of presence, virtuel… The Surgery Patient’s Perspective on VR Technology In this short interview Danielle Collins explain how the use of VR has been a extraordinary tool to better understand a very risky brain surgery.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

So while Knockout League can’t promise what you might call “boxing sim” realism, it definitely delivers a lot of fun along with the stark realization that I clearly don’t get enough exercise. Available On: Oculus Touch, HTC Vive ( Oculus Home & Steam ). Reviewed on: HTC Vive.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

5 million Gear VRs sold is a major milestone for Facebook and Samsung, as is $3 million in sales for Job Simulator , a best-selling room-scale game. Even the Oculus Rift’s largest “ experimental ” room-scale setup is smaller than what’s possible with the HTC Vive, which uses Valve’s tracking system.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’re little more than rough exercises in memorization, or worse, trial and error. The truth is, if your narrative is the key element of your game (I assure you nobody plays “walking simulators” or horror games for their mechanical prowess,) it seems imperative that everything act in support of that.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The game’s tracking systems seem to be built around the assumption that you’re standing up, so trying to pull out items that are stowed on your character’s hips or lower back while you’re seated is an exercise in futility, no matter what mode you’re in. Into the Radius only sort of has a plot.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Accelerate the application of virtual reality technology in medical teaching training and simulation exercises, surgical planning and navigation, and promote the improvement of medical service intelligence. – VR+ health. – VR+ business.

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VRPlayin

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

If you are unfamiliar with the concept, as a quick recap, Virtual Reality provides the user(s) with a simulated world at various degrees of immersion. Said immersion has the potential of completely isolating the the user from the real world so that most if not all interactions are with perceived to be within the simulation.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are a number of boxing titles you can choose for Oculus Quest, BoxVR goes for a musical rhythm-action style while Creed: Rise to Glory offers a fancy, Hollywood experience in the ring. This also makes Thrill of the Fight superb for those that want to exercise.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

We talk a lot about the business use cases of XR on this podcast, but any good business comes with a great fitness plan or exercise room. You talked about exercising in VR. Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. You were talking about exercise and fitness. There’s so many.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

We talk a lot about the business use cases of XR on this podcast, but any good business comes with a great fitness plan or exercise room. You talked about exercising in VR. Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. You were talking about exercise and fitness. XR is no different, and VRd?j?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. So this was before Oculus. Oh, you have to be 10,000 Oculus.” Most people know VR and AR as if kind of something in the last five years.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. So this was before Oculus. Oh, you have to be 10,000 Oculus.” Most people know VR and AR as if kind of something in the last five years.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We can use a simulation to help do what’s called exposure therapy. So, for example, someone who might have a fear of flying, we can develop a simulator that allows him to go through the experience, or fear of heights, or fear of spiders, or really anything that there is a fear reaction to. Is it less expensive?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 1, 2020

We aren’t generally building applications that are going to be sold on Steam or sold on the Oculus store. One of them was a hand tool training simulator. Some of our most recent deployments include exactly what you’re talking about, the power tools simulator, which we created with a provincial organization here.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 1, 2020

We aren’t generally building applications that are going to be sold on Steam or sold on the Oculus store. One of them was a hand tool training simulator. Some of our most recent deployments include exactly what you’re talking about, the power tools simulator, which we created with a provincial organization here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

We talk a lot about the business use cases of XR on this podcast, but any good business comes with a great fitness plan or exercise room. You talked about exercising in VR. Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. You were talking about exercise and fitness. XR is no different, and VRd?j?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators -- big aircraft simulators, etc. -- and I got really excited about seeing the effect it has on pilots and soldiers, and I always thought that it would be useful to do the same, but for normal people, nurses, etc. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator.

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