Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2017

Oculus have announced they will be offering up to 60% price reductions on over 30 titles across the Oculus Store for the Rift and Gear VR from June 16th until July 5th. Detailed on the official Oculus blog , the ‘Summer of Rift’ comprises more than just a sale – there will be special events, game launches and announcements too.

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APRIL 26, 2021

Released by The Guardian in partnership with Oculus and Respawn, Colette is one of several short documentaries available as part of the “Gallery” in Medal of Honor: Above And Beyond. Needless to say, Colette features an absolutely gut-wrenching story, one that offers a closer look at the horrific realities of war.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2018

The World Cup is due to kick off today, and Oculus announced that US residents will be able to watch select matches of the quadrennial football championship for free in Oculus Venues , the company’s social VR event viewing app for Oculus Go and Gear VR. Check out the schedule below: 2018 World Cup Oculus Venues Schedule.

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APRIL 5, 2020

15 VR short films scheduled to debut at Tribeca Immersive will be available later this month on standalone Oculus headsets. 1st Step (International Premiere)—Germany: Project Creators: Joerg Courtial, Maria Courtial. 1st Step (International Premiere)—Germany: Project Creators: Joerg Courtial, Maria Courtial.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Compatible with SteamVR and Oculus headsets, Cybershoes allows you to physically walk and run in VR from a comfortable seated position. The company is also hosting an NFT Tournament open to all Cybershoes owners on the Oculus Quest on November 6th. More on that later!

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Sword Art Online -EX-CHRONICLE- Online Edition kicks-off Tuesday, February 22nd at 1:00pm JST and ends Friday, March 11th at 4:59pm JST and will be available in Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Slashgear

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The fact that the Oculus Quest 2 requires a Facebook account to use has been a point of contention for a lot of VR fans out there, and now it seems that governments are beginning to take notice.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2020

Gamescom, the world’s largest gaming event, won’t be taking place in Cologne, Germany as planned this August. Germany’s nationwide ban on major events is slated to last “at least until August 31st,” the German government says in an April 15th decree (German).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2020

There’s still no getting around Oculus services or the need for a valid Facebook account to use Quest 2 though, which is why Robert Long , a senior software engineer at Mozilla working on WebXR, is offering up $5,000 to anyone who can successfully jailbreak Facebook’s latest standalone headset.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2018

Photogrammetry and volumetric VR preserve every detail of this historic mining operation in Ruhr, Germany. DLC centers around the Prosper Haniel, the last active coal mine in all of Germany. DLC is available now for free on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality via SteamVR. Now the Realities.io Realities Glückauf!

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2021

Cologne, Germany-based studio TxK Gaming finished their Dungeon Full Dive Kickstarter campaign today with a total of €234,343 (~$285,000), which was pledged by over 3,800 backers. ” The team says it’s planning to release Dungeon Full Dive in the first quarter of 2022 on SteamVR headsets and the Oculus Store for Rift.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2020

Realities.io , the team behind the photogrammetry-based VR experience Realities (2016) , today released a prototype version of their latest creation, a 3D VR jigsaw puzzle game for Oculus Quest called Puzzling Places. Someone made a joke that fixing this by hand would like making a 3D jigsaw puzzle, and so the idea was born!”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook halts the sale of Quest in Germany. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2019

MRTV , the YouTube channel led by Germany-based VR enthusiast Sebastian Ang, launched a Kickstarter recently to create what he calls the MRTV Experience, which will invite the paying public to step in to try out a variety of the most recent VR headsets on offer.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2021

Germany-based developer Crytek ( The Climb, Robinson: The Journey ) today released Part 2 of its Freestyle Expansion Pack for The Climb 2 , introducing a handful of new levels complete with a variety of ridiculous obstacles designed to test your skills as a virtual rock climber. Feature Image Credit: Crytek.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

The series is an Oculus exclusive, offering VR support across Rift, Quest and Quest 2 via the Oculus Store. If you want to catch the first episodes of Space Explorers in VR, you’ll find them over on the Oculus Store for $3 a piece, each of which take around 30 minutes to watch.

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Road to VR

JULY 16, 2018

If you’re already an Amazon Prime Member, or looking to become one starting today, Amazon’s annual Prime Day is here to help you spend that hard earned cash on at very least an Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch is the system’s dedicated motion controller. Check out all free Rift games on the Oculus Store here.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The tethered smartphone acts primarily as a laser pointer selector, something Oculus Go and Google Daydream users will be very familiar with in terms of UI interaction. Before its release in the US, Nreal has rolled out via telecoms in South Korea, Japan, Germany and Spain.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Most of the European Vive demo locations are concentrated in England, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, but you’ll still be able to spot a few places in France, and even one in the Czech Republic. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR. Find an Oculus Rift and Touch Demo Location.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Available for free on the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go, MelodyVR is home to on-demand musical performances from over 750 artists, including major acts such as Post Malone, Bebe Rexha, The Chainsmokers, and The London Symphony Orchestra. The live concert will be streaming via the free MelodyVR app tomorrow 12pm pst.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

A research and engineering group called the Virtual Dimension Center (VDC) in Fellbach, Germany conducted a study recently that reveals just how accurate some of the top VR headset’s are when it comes to tracking their respective motion controllers. Ever wonder how VR tracking systems really stack up? How It Was Measured.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Facebook gets sued for monopolization in US and Germany. The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), Oculus Rift S now costs $300. Top news of the week.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This week, Oculus goes under the microscope along with other Facebook properties. There’s some grumbling about the closed Oculus VR ecosystem as well , entirely undeserved at the moment since FB is doing more to develop the VR medium, in a safe responsible way, than anyone. See the full roundup below. Image source: Facebook.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2021

Developers Schell Games are slated to reveal more missions in August 2021, which may be just in time for Gamescom 2021 in Cologne, Germany. I Expect You to Die 2 is headed to all major VR headsets at some point this summer, which includes Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, SteamVR headsets and PSVR.

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MAY 5, 2018

Below you can see the Development Edition, which is slated to launch at the end of May in Germany. SEE ALSO Oculus Go, Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus Standalone Headsets Compared. Image courtesy VRODO.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

If you’re a Sky customer and enrolled in the free Sky VIP loyalty program , you can access Hold the World for free via the Sky VR app in UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. If not, you can purchase the experience on the Oculus Store.

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JULY 12, 2021

Right now, the company has offices exclusively in Germany. The company also has some big-name partners including Oculus , Microsoft , and Telekom. Not that that’s a bad place to have offices. VRdirect is in good company with the likes of Spree and Holoride.

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VR Bites

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Media Markt in Germany announced the price and release date for the Oculus Touch controllers! We are waiting for Oculus to comment. The price will be 199 euro’s and the release date appear to be November 21 2016. Furthermore, the specs of the controllers are shown. They are 114.3 mm wide and 96.5

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Does Palmer want Oculus back? I tweeted the news saying that “Palmer Luckey is not doing that bad without Oculus…” and Palmer Luckey himself answered to me commenting “Without Oculus for now, anyway”. More info (Anduril getting $1.48B of investments) More info (Palmer Luckey commenting about Oculus). Image by Valve).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Users can visit the groundbreaking ‘virtual museum’ across all Meta Quest headsets , including the Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro using Oculus Link. Führerbunker and Other Titles.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2017

By March 1st 2017, every title in the Oculus Store will be assigned through the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) rating process. The Oculus Store adds to the list of participating storefronts, which includes Google Play, the Nintendo eShop and the Windows Store. Oculus Home is the company’s VR content storefront.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The confirmation comes not long after a July report by The Information which claimed that Facebook signed a deal with Ubisoft to develop Oculus exclusive VR projects based on Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell ; it seems that these two plot points might very well be connected.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Users can visit the groundbreaking ‘virtual museum’ across all Meta Quest headsets , including the Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro using Oculus Link. Führerbunker and Other Titles.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Oculus dropped prices on several VR titles on their store for Thanksgiving with those prices likely to persist through the weekend until Cyber Monday. The post Oculus Store Thanksgiving Sale Now On, Up to 50% Off Rift Games appeared first on Road to VR. Here’s what’s on offer. SEE ALSO 'DiRT Rally' VR Review.

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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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AUGUST 18, 2016

Oculus revealed Touch, their VR motion controllers, all the way back in June of 2015, but didn’t commit to shipping the controllers until the second half of 2016. Since the announcement, the controller has seen several design permutations, but Oculus says the controller is nearly complete, and better than ever.

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