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. But for now, it is free real estate.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

Woosung explained that during this period, Skonec “gained extensive know-how in virtual environment optimization and UX design tailored specifically for VR.” However, it could be argued that this has always been the case for industry veterans and enthusiasts—from Google Glass to Samsung VR and the original Oculus models.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

If you have an Oculus Quest, there’s even a piano tutorial app available on SideQuest called VRTuos. Waves’ are live, interactive, and social concerts in a virtual environment where you’re able to connect with the artist and other fans in an immersive way. Visit Your Your Old House & Travel Virtually in VR.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

Development of immersive technology is happening at a rapid pace and increasing numbers of adults previously unfamiliar with gaming are using virtual reality headsets for fun, fitness, and social interaction. Google Earth VR. Who Is Playing Games? Whether you’re 20 or 70, gaming is becoming increasingly popular among adults.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Bigscreen , the social VR app which lets users connect in a virtual environment while retaining the ability to use (and share) their own PC desktop content, now supports Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ VR headsets. The app continues to be free, as it has been since launch.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Amsterdam-based interactive designer Jonathan Puckey and Studio Moniker’s collaboration with Google’s Data Arts Team has produced a compelling experience called Dance Tonite , which runs from a single website and offers something for everyone from mobile to desktop to VR.

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2020

They will have complete freedom of movement to explore the virtual environment, because they won’t need to connect their devices to a computer by cables. The tetherless XR streaming experience is available for both head-mounted displays and Android phones that support Google ARCore.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

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. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Supports "Arena-scale" Tracking and Multi-room Guardian.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 1, 2021

MultiBrush is a multiplayer version of Tilt Brush that Neumann created after Google open-sourced the original software. The app even became available on SideQuest about a month later and is now also available through the Oculus App Lab. See Also: How Rendever and AARP Used Virtual Reality to Grant the Wish of a Lifetime.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Following a recent Christmas break where he says he studied a robot vacuum cleaner, tested all available voice-input devices for the home (such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers), and watched every Black Mirror episode, it was voice control that excited Sony’s head of Magic Lab the most.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Wander is a VR classic – a port to Quest from the older Oculus Go. The app uses content from Wikipedia and Google Earth to create interactive and educational self-guided tours of just about anywhere. Virtually visit world heritage sites or places of personal significance. Wander (Quest). Nature Treks VR (Quest, PCVR).

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2021

VR remote collaboration solutions are those that place a user and/or their avatar into an immersive virtual environment. Users have access to a large catalog of existing assets from sources like Sketchfab and Google Polly, but users can also upload their own assets. A Note on Some Platforms We Left Off the List.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. Image by Oculus). In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. Why couldn’t they just use a simple voice assistant device, such as an Amazon Echo or Google Home?

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

Chief Scientist of Oculus Research Michael Abrash described his vision of a mixed reality future: a world, 20-30 years from now, where we will wear stylish AR glasses instead of sporting stylish phones. The Santa Cruz standalone VR unit that Oculus is working on was briefly mentioned but no new version of the prototype was shown.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

Google’s Daydream virtual reality platform is currently my favorite. Plus, the apps are a lot cheaper than those for higher-end platforms like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the PlayStation VR, and the quality of the experience, though not as good as, say, the HTC Vive, is totally fine for casual games and 360-degree videos.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung announced a brand-new Gear VR, powered by Oculus, and revealed the Gear VR Controller that lets you interact with VR games and experiences. There is also a trigger that will let you select, grab, take aim, and fire.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 10, 2017

While the technology has found its main homes in the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR) platforms, the nuts and bolts of VR’s more social aspects are still very much a free-for-all of ideas. Tagged with: GDC , Google Daydream Labs , social vr. I’m Italian.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Episode 28 of the VRScout Report, we got new 360 toys on iOS, Hololens is helping elevator technicians, VR might help you control your dreams, Apple CEO Tim Cook on augmented reality, VR/AR industry funding wrapup, and more… iOS NOW CAN TAKE 360 PHOTOS WITH GOOGLE CARDBOARD CAMERA, TOO.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Tender Claws and Google ARCore. As extended reality gaming experiences continue to take the world by storm, leading cloud and technology vendors like Google are offering game creators and developers an easy avenue into the ecosystem. Alta VR, AWS, and Oculus. To unlock this new world, Sense Arena worked with the experts at VIVE.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Advrty wants to offer a new avenue of monetization for virtual reality developers which doesn’t involve full field-of-view pop-up ads with a platform aimed at designing and incorporating nonintrusive product placement. While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Furthermore, this literature review will investigate the design factors that make virtual reality successful, topics that can be successfully implemented in virtual reality, the implications of using virtual reality, and the significance of experience-based learning with virtual environments.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Jason McGuigan, Head of Commercial for Virtual Reality , announced the news at his speech at the premier event in Madeira Island, Portugal’s Savoy Palace, which joined some of the world’s largest tech firms, including Google, Qualcomm, EndeavorXR, Varjo Technologies, and many others.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The app is now fully integrated with Oculus Rooms, Gear VR’s hub for social VR activities. You can bring friends into the Hulu VR app by bringing a party together in Oculus Rooms first, then launching the app from the launcher table. Users can switch between several surrounding virtual environments.

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Upload VR

JULY 12, 2022

The new mode lets you do away with virtual environments as your canvas, instead creating 3D Tilt Brush art in your own playing area. Google ceased development on Tilt Brush in early 2021 and open sourced the software.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back then we were waiting on the Oculus Rift DK2 to start shipping, and VR input was still largely based around the traditional controller. It would be nearly a full year before HTC would revolutionize VR control with its Vive wands, and over a year until Oculus would reveal Touch.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Movement within virtual environments is a hard problem, and while VirZOOM addresses some of the challenges of VR locomotion, people who are sensitive to simulator sickness will likely still have issues with some of the games developed by VirZOOM. Some, not everyone, just a small percentage.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Some apps offer passthrough as an optional background instead of a virtual environment, but few developers offer full mixed reality content that truly integrates with the geometry of your real environment. Meta even markets Quest 3 as "the first mainstream mixed reality headset".

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Instead of taking its cues from multi-user spaces like AltspaceVR or VR Chat however, which provide users with various shared virtual environments and must be run to the exclusion of other apps, Pluto is focused on delivering the convenience of an always-on video messaging apps like Skype or Google Hangouts.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The degree of immersion in virtual reality vs augmented reality. In VR, the user is completely absorbed in a virtual environment and minimises boundaries and markers. Google Cardboard and Gear VR are two well-known examples. Due to this, VR and AR in the following ways: 1.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

AltspaceVR allows people to host and attend live shows, meetups, and classes from anywhere around the world in virtual reality although not the most suitable tool for business and virtual reality collaboration. You can spawn up to five virtual screens from your computer whether in private mode alone or when sharing them with a team.

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XROM

MAY 1, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) headsets have gained popularity in recent years due to their immersive and engaging experience. Among the highest-selling VR headsets are the Oculus Quest 2, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive. The headset is non-returnable due to hygiene reasons, and users need to be connected to a Jio network to use it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. that made this spontaneous moment between us possible. That’s how the company’s first VR game, Rift launch title Lucky’s Tale [ Review 9/10 ] , got its start.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. that made this spontaneous moment between us possible. That’s how the company’s first VR game, Rift launch title Lucky’s Tale [ Review 9/10 ] , got its start.

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Peter Graham

JULY 31, 2019

This can come in several forms from 360-degree video to interactive virtual environments such as those being developed by RedPill VR at its Social Virtual Reality (SVR) platform or TheWaveVR. If VRJam hits the funding goal the money will be used towards building interactive virtual environments for artists and fans.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

The Redbox VR platform supports content such as the 360’ educational virtual trips using the Richo Theta camera. And part of the RiVR Link (“ classroom in a Box ”) offering a turnkey VR solution, and Google Expeditions platforms. Another exhibitor using Beat Saber and the Oculus Rift S was Nutanix. Image credit: KWP.

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Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Everyone probably has a good idea of what Virtual Reality is all about. It’s the immersion of a user into a fully virtual environment, by means of a VR headset. The Google Glass (now discontinued) was one famous example of an Augmented Reality solution. This is one of the cons of the solution.

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