Road to VR

JULY 17, 2020

The new theater feature is available on all supported platforms, including Oculus Rift, Windows VR headsets, Google Cardboard, Oculus Go/Gear VR, and AR-capable mobile devices. Programming is admittedly thin at the moment, which only includes select clips from Manchester City Football Club matches.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Like seemingly all big tech firms these days, it appears to be working on AR glasses.

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JULY 24, 2019

Amazon today announced the launch of Prime Video VR on Oculus Quest, Go, and Gear VR. In addition to bringing the entire Prime Video catalog onto the headsets, Amazon is also for the first time adding VR content to its Prime Video library. The app is available on Oculus Quest , Go , and Gear VR for free.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Casting your VR sessions to a Chromecast-enabled TV or a smartphone is one of the best ways to get others involved in the fun while taking turns with your shiny new Oculus Quest 2. Simply go to oculus.com/cast and sign in to your Facebook/Oculus account on either Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The internet’s most convenient video-sharing service finally arrives on the world’s most convenient VR headset. Owners of the Oculus Go can now breathe a collective sigh of relief as the official YouTube VR app has finally landed on the standalone 3DoF mobile VR headset roughly 6 months after its original release.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy!

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The second night of the 69th Emmy Awards saw a number of nominations for virtual reality content, including rendered experiences and 360 video spanning a diverse swath of genres. The similarly named Oculus Studios, the company’s publishing house, is still active however. ‘The People’s House’ for Rift.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2020

AirServer , the casting software for Xbox One, received an update a few weeks ago that now lets users cast the view from inside the Oculus Quest to Xbox One without the need of a Chromecast device. The paid app is able to cast audio and video from Quest at 720p or 1080p at 60fps. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It’s been about a week since Google announced it had stopped active development on VR creation suite Tilt Brush (2016) and made the app open source. ” Check out the promo video below: The post ‘MultiBrush’ is a Multiplayer Version of ‘Tilt Brush’ for Oculus Quest appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Google’s investment for a 7.7% of units more produced annually.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Google recently pushed out Chrome 66, the latest update to the company’s web browser. Unbeknownst to the VR community, Google also quietly included WebVR integration for OpenVR-compatible headsets including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets. Google WebVR Experiments.

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VRScout

MAY 16, 2019

VR’s best video app will be available on the standalone headset May 21st. Oculus has confirmed Google’s popular YouTube VR app will be available on the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset when it launches this Tuesday, May 21st. The post YouTube VR Available On Oculus Quest At Launch appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2017

The manager sits you down in some store room, wheels in a TV and makes you watch a training video that’s about as immersive as watching paint dry. This controller made for a more direct connection to the app versus the soft-tap touchpad of the Oculus GearVR. Check out a preview of honeygrow’s 360 training video below.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Oculus CTO John Carmack has said publicly that he’d love to open up Oculus Quest to Android apps to boost the headset’s usefulness, but admits he’s “not winning” the debate internally at Facebook. Android apps running on Quest is apparently something Oculus’ own CTO has been arguing for internally.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Fitting for Gorillaz, who are ‘virtual band’ consisting of four fictional characters, the group’s highly anticipated fifth studio album (and first since 2011), ‘Humanz’, saw the release of its first track (Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)) as part of an impressive 360 music video. Google Daydream: YouTube VR app.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Discovery and Google today announced the launch of a new 38-episode VR video series called Discovery TRVLR, a product of both Discovery and Google’s internal VR teams. Saschka Unseld, Emmy Award-winner and creative director at the now defunct Oculus Story Studio , is Creative Producer for the series.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

He’s also an avid VR developer working on some of the most unique projects for the Oculus Quest using the headsets’ newly-implemented hand tracking functionality. In a video posted to Twitter earlier today, Beauchamp shows off a proof of concept using Google Blocks in which players use a dismembered hand in order to navigate puzzles.

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Road to VR

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. SEE ALSO Google Takes a Step Closer to Making Volumetric VR Video Streaming a Thing. Mitchell left Facebook back in August 2019, representing the final Oculus co-founder to leave the company.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. Receiving funding was not only a blessing, but an incredible learning experience for me.

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Road to VR

JULY 14, 2017

The 69th Emmy Awards nominations are out, and while it’s true the Emmys were created to recognize excellence in the television industry, virtual reality as a medium has been lauded with six total nominations this year, three of which are thanks to content created by Oculus. Anonymous Content ( 360 video on YouTube ).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Google) AI models to generate 3D scenes start to surface This week we had the announcement of two AI models dedicated to the generation of 3D worlds. These glasses should be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm and have a similar form factor to the successful Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

It’s been a long while coming, but Google has finally launched a YouTube VR app on PC. Google expects YouTube VR to remain in Early Access through 2018 as they continue to develop it based on feedback. Image courtesy Google. Image courtesy Google. It took a while, but YouTube VR on PC was largely inevitable.

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VRScout

JUNE 7, 2017

Oculus has always been a major supporter of the virtual reality community. Now the Facebook subsidiary is focusing on making virtual reality more accessible than ever by bringing their Oculus Rift headsets to public libraries across California all for the low cost of $0.00.

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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. While I was at Google, I frequently did this to test different lighting scenarios, but it also caused me to build my objects in Blocks differently. To explain, I created this.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Rated Apple’s 2017 App of the Year and Google Play’s 2018 Editor’s Choice Award winner, the original mobile version of Calm has celebrated a measure of success over the years with its growing list of soothing guided meditation routines and nighttime stories to put a restless mind to bed. Image courtesy Calm.com Inc, Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2018

But we could see that change in the near future, thanks to research from Google which details a system for low-cost, mobile inside out VR controller tracking. Google’s approach effectively aims to infer the position of the controller by looking at the users arms and hands, instead of glowing markers. Image courtesy Google.

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VRScout

APRIL 15, 2021

Facebook today announced the launch of premium app subscriptions on the Oculus Quest platform. Tribe XR // Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. App subscriptions can be purchased directly through the Oculus Store via the Oculus app on your mobile device or straight from your Oculus Quest headset.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. Use static lightning [ video guide ].

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In the end, the time has come: Oculus has officially revealed the name and the price of the Santa Cruz headset. Its name will be Oculus Quest and will cost $399. I followed today’s OC5 conference via Facebook streaming only for this moment and Oculus has not disappointed my expectations. ” and he has satisfied us.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

According to its list of supported devices , the premium video streaming service will quietly be discontinuing its VR apps on PSVR, Oculus Go, and all Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The only remaining supported VR headsets are Oculus Rift and, strangely enough, Samsung Gear VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 26, 2021

After I have written my post on how to handle unwanted permissions in Unity , many Oculus Quest developers asked me to make another tutorial to solve another common problem: Facebook showing a warning for 32-bit builds submitted to App Lab. How to make 64-bit builds for App Lab – Video. Method 2 – The Oculus Way.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

. “We noticed that not only do people communicate better in these environments but they are able to stay for longer periods of time without feeling fatigued, they make more friends and develop a deeper sense of belonging and community compared to standard video conferencing platforms. ” Image Credit: HeadOffice.Space.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Nokia has launched the OZO Player SDK , a cross-platform foundation for creating applications with high fidelity VR video playback. For instance, Felix & Paul’s Nomads is a single app which lets viewers watch a 3-part VR video series, and also provides a proprietary interface and supporting non-video content.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360 videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

When we first heard about Jorge Gutierrez’s Google Spotlight Stories project, Son of Jaguar , I don’t think any of us were expecting the colorful journey we were about to experience. For more Son of Jaguar content check out this short behind-the-scene video above. The ‘Book of Life’ director’s VR debut makes its way to YouTube.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2020

Spice up your next video meeting with this free PC VR app. With more people than ever working from home as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, many of us find ourselves relying upon various video messaging apps and teleconferencing solutions to effectively communicate with team members and coordinate on projects remotely.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

VTime’s cross-platform social network vTime XR is now available on Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, offering standalone users a premium socialVR experience centered primarily around intimate group meet-ups. Chat with friends across multiple platforms via this intimate socialVR app.

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