VRScout

MAY 26, 2021

The unique VR movement accessory is now available on Amazon alongside support for new games and apps. In the early days of modern VR, navigating throughout a virtual environment meant operating a standard joystick located on your motion controller. There’s only one rule: no joysticks! Feature Image Credit: Cybershoes.

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VRScout

JANUARY 21, 2020

Here’s how to add custom environments to your Oculus Home. Call me simple, but one of my favorite aspects of both the SteamVR and Oculus platforms is the ability to upload custom home environments. Some of these environments even include audio SFX, music, and various animations. Image Credit: TycoTech @ Discord.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2020

Today I was reading Upload VR, and I’ve found a very interesting article by David Heaney stating that now it is possible to use your real environment as your Oculus Quest Home environment. I immediately got excited, because this meant that the Oculus Quest has now some augmented reality functionalities!

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here, we’ll recommend some games and apps that might be the perfect introduction – or long-time favorite – for players coming to the medium a little later on. We’ll be focusing on games and apps that move a little slower – after all, “ VR sickness ” can be a problem for newcomers at any age. Wander (Quest).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A new mod brings the classic Nintendo 64 action-adventure game to PC VR headsets for the first time. One of the most iconic video games of all time is now available in VR thanks to a new mod by BrianMp16. This isn’t some 20-minute tech demo; it’s a fully playable Ocarina of Time VR game. from virtualreality.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Spice up your live stream with this customizable virtual environment. introduced a brand new green screen room to its social VR platform Bigscreen VR , allowing users to customize their virtual environment for a variety of use cases, from VR podcasts and live streams to video conferencing and more. Bigscreen Inc.

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ARVR

MAY 12, 2021

Oculus has now brought us a free solution to play all PCVR games wirelessly with the v28 update of the Quest 2. One was Oculus Link, where you had to buy a long USB3 cable and connect it to the Quest and PC. How to set up Oculus Link, Air Link or Virtual Desktop can be found in the tutorials from Nathie below.

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VRScout

JUNE 23, 2020

Disabled users can play SteamVR games using a new tool that offers four types of assistance. He studied how each player interacted with their virtual environment in order to identify where their respective conditions came into play the most. You can see more of Bendarski’s work on the WalkinVR YouTube page.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2021

What they need is an exciting and motivating virtual environment, which replicates the outside world where they go cycling and jogging. The user only needs to get ready with their fitness gear, put on the Oculus Quest headset and handheld accessories, and launch the application. How the VR Fitness App Works.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

This game has had a very long and interesting story (maybe one day I’ll write a long post about it), and it has lived various transitions, with the last one being from a passthrough AR game to a standard VR game. It was an AR game that could be played on a VR headset , in 2019. The setting.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When it comes to consumer VR headsets, gaming is clearly on of the most common use-cases. In this video and article, I share things you can do in VR other than gaming that I enjoy. If you have an Oculus Quest, there’s even a piano tutorial app available on SideQuest called VRTuos. Image courtesy Virtual Desktop.

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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. VR headsets create interactive environments that anyone can have access to. Application of Virtual Reality in Team Building.

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VRScout

JUNE 16, 2018

When Oculus Go hit shelves in May with a starting price of $199, it not only brought in a new era of affordable VR, but also launched a fresh way for people to spend time together – all through an app called Oculus Rooms. The potential of Oculus Go doesn’t stop there either. For Jones, VR isn’t new to him.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Announced nearly a year and a half ago, Oculus and Microsoft are finally making good on their promise to stream Xbox One games into a virtual theater on the Rift. Xbox One users have been able to stream their games to a locally networked Windows 10 PC since the middle of last year.

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2017

Oculus recently published the first installment of their ‘Developer Perspectives’ video playlists, detailed on the developer blog. Crytek’s VR movement research is presented by Julius Carter, Game Designer at the studio behind award-winning VR games .

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Every year I like to play the guessing game for the Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect making my list of predictions… which are not always correct, but they are good because they entice all the community people to play this game with me and to tell how they would love to see XR evolving. Lol), it could help adoption even more.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2020

Wave , the social VR platform and virtual music venue, today announced a $30 million Series B funding round, putting its total funding to $40 million to date. The funding round was led by Maveron with participation from Griffin Gaming Partners.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2019

Oculus is today launching their ‘Expressive Avatars’ update on Rift and mobile VR; it’s a significant step up in realism thanks to a few additions including cleverly simulated eye models, lipsync, and even microexpressions. Oculus previously used eye wear to avoid off-putting stares, Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Rolling out over the course of the next month, v35 will impact everything from Horizon Workooms to the Oculus smartphone app. Similar to the Live Overlay feature introduced as part of update v29, Mobile Mixed Reality allows you to superimpose your real-world self over your game footage using your smartphone’s camera.

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Upload VR

MAY 23, 2023

Four years ago this week, Oculus Quest started shipping and changed VR forever. Before Quest , the only way to get a consumer VR setup with positional tracking and tracked controllers was through a gaming PC or PlayStation 4. And its basic laser pointer remote only let you select menu items, not directly interact with virtual objects.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2016

During Oculus Connect 3, Oculus finally revealed a release date and pricing on the long awaited Touch motion controllers. The hand-held devices help bring your real hands into virtual environments by allowing you to make gestures and finger movements, providing you with an even greater sense of immersion.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 is here and that means heaps of new users jumping into VR for the first time. Oculus plans to eventually enable 90Hz by default, but for now you have to toggle it on yourself. Here’s how: In your headset, bring up the Quest menu by pressing the Oculus button on your right controller.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

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. For instance, in the door demo, I should see the virtual world only through the door hole, but the wall in my room should occlude it.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Announced back in October, Oculus is launching the Rift Core 2.0 The update not only rebuilds the default ‘Home’ environment with huge customization potential, it also introduces ‘Dash’, a new take on the former Universal Menu, which also allows you to use desktop PC applications from within any VR app. Oculus Home.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The platform has a number of theater environments that are great for chatting, viewing videos and playing games; since there’s no user-generated environments, it can’t really be used for much else though. Bigscreen supports Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, all Windows VR headsets, Oculus Quest and Oculus Go.

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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

VR’s best quality is that it immerses you directly into a virtual environment, allowing your own body to become the controller that makes gameplay happen. This is the basic motivational thrust of VR fitness, which is all about turning fun VR games into an effective fitness regimen.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

For any left-handed players looking forward to enjoying Half-Life: Alyx on their shiny new Reverb G2 , you’ll need this update to fix a controller binding issue which made the game unplayable when changing the ‘Weapon Hand’ setting to Left. For Oculus headsets, SteamVR 1.15 Beyond these changes, SteamVR 1.15

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2020

Kindona Limited, a small group engineers and designers lead by Izuchukwu Okongwu, is currently in development of a VR-enabled bike controller that will allow you to navigate virtual worlds from the seat of your real-world bicycle.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2020

What comes to mind when you think of virtual reality ? Perhaps it wanders to highly visible applications in gaming, film, art, and retail. The immersive nature of virtual reality makes the often dull world of finance more compelling for people. Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience. That includes banking.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I have had terribly busy days with the launch of our game HitMotion: Reloaded that will happen tomorrow on Viveport M. I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2020

Created by health and education VR startup Virtuleap , Enhance VR uses specially created games to test your brains cognitive skills, including your memory, reasoning, problem-solving, motor control, spatial orientation, and other areas that will help you strengthen your brain. Image Credit: Virtuleap.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2020

The One Wave series promises to bring more of the platform’s wild visualizations and custom environments, giving VR users access to a concert-going experience that simply isn’t possible outside of VR—especially now that large in-person events aren’t an option. ” “We are now living in a digital avatar culture. .”

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leaks in advance of Facebook Connect, particularly around the time that VIVE Flow was announced , had many anticipating new devices from Oculus. There were announcements, mainly involving hardware and new titles and game updates in the coming year, and a new headset was announced though it won’t be here until next year at the earliest.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Insomniac Games is no stranger to VR game development. Since 2016 the studio has created three Oculus exclusive VR titles— Feral Rites , Edge of Nowhere , and The Unspoken —but its next (and possibly last Oculus exclusive), Stormland , is unequivocally its most ambitious VR production yet. Built to Move.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Looking for the best free Quest games and apps? Four years after the original Oculus Quest headset arrived, the Meta Quest platform offers an impressive range of experiences that caters to all interests. As such, we recommend searching through SideQuest or the App Lab Game List if you're keen to find more.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2021

Upgrade and customize your very own old-school gaming paradise. LAI Games is an Australian-based company with location-based entertainment venues all around the world. Chance are if you’ve stepped into an arcade to play an old-school ticket redemption game, chances are LAI Games was involved. Image Credit: LAI Games.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s notoriously difficult to transmit exactly what’s happening in a VR game without actually strapping on a headset yourself. In effect, this lets you walk around the VR user’s virtual environment and freely take in the scene at any practical perspective while the VR user goes about playing the game.

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