Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look at how Facebook’s money is funding battles on all fronts of the industry’s increasingly competitive landscape. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Old Enemies – HTC. Launch – $800.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

” With the entrance of Apple Vision Pro, one such entity to follow suit is Stryker’s Mako , a robotic surgery group initially founded as a standalone company by Rony Abovitz, the founder and first CEO of AR unicorn Magic Leap. billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode. .”

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VRScout

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Alongside the launch of the Oculus Quest 2 this past Tuesday came a handful of new games, such as The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners as well as Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing , as well as significant updates to existing titles like Arizona Sunshine , Red Matter , and Trover Saves the Universe. . Image Credit: VRScout.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Instagram product head Vishal Shah and Facebook Gaming’s Vivek Sharma and Jason Rubin will be leading the new group, which will report to Andrew Bosworth, head of Facebook Reality Labs. Meanwhile, Microsoft is focused on its “enterprise metaverse ,” said CEO Satya Nadella in the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. “At

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2020

Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR industry standard, today announced that it has begun officially certifying products that correctly implement the OpenXR standard. Additionally, the group has added new extensions to the standard to support hand-tracking and eye-tracking.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Google, Sony, Oculus, Samsung, Acer and HTC have combined their efforts in order to create a healthy and equal industry for virtual reality hardware and software to develop and expand. Working groups will be organized around important topics for the industry, enabling us to produce relevant research and guidance.

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2022

The following year it launched on Steam and the year after that, it was purchased by Microsoft in a bid to expand their mixed reality portfolio which has always been a kind of awkward collection. Initially, the purchase by Microsoft didn’t mark many major changes. There’s always something going on in AltspaceVR.

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JUNE 13, 2017

It was Microsoft that dropped the ball the hardest. This time last year Microsoft was telling us that the console, then codenamed Project Scorpio, would be capable of high-fidelity VR. Couldn’t we have had at least something in the way of new Oculus and Vive Studios games? Just don’t mention it.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2019

The studio has developed three Oculus exclusive titles, with its fourth and largest yet, Stormland , still due to launch in 2019. Sony will bring the studio under its SIE Worldwide Studios group, which has churned out some of the company’s most lauded exclusive games (VR and otherwise). Image courtesy Insomniac Games.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Microsoft had a big surprise for VR fans today, revealing a new range of VR headsets alongside its latest Windows 10 update. Not only are these devices cheaper than the Oculus Rift and Vive, but Microsoft says they’re better too. Microsoft, meanwhile, didn’t confirm if these new headsets would also run on it.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Despite being among the early supporters of the OpenXR consortium—the industry group building the open standard for XR devices—Sony so far seems to have avoided making a specific commitment to implement OpenXR on PSVR or its next-gen headset. OpenXR is an open standard developed under the Khronos Group. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

It’s no doubt been a massive undertaking creating a platform agnostic standard for VR and AR, as The Khronos Group consortium has included in its ranks the important hardware and software creators in the industry, including AMD, ARM, Epic Games, Facebook, Google, HTC, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Unity, and Valve.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Image courtesy Khronos Group. Facebook, Microsoft, Valve, Unreal Engine, and others have been making progress toward supporting OpenXR in their platforms and now Unity says it’s moving to do the same. Earlier this year the standard took a huge step forward by announcing the start of certifications for compliant implementations.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The industry is striving for ever greater openness and interconnectivity, hence why The Khronos Group and its affiliates began working on OpenXR. Soon Oculus will begin to adopt OpenXR with support reportedly coming in the latest Oculus Public Test Channel release. The current OpenXR 1.0

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Meta (Oculus). With the Oculus ecosystem, schools and professional training companies alike are beginning to scale their virtual curriculums for a wide range of use cases. Perhaps the biggest company in the mixed reality landscape right now, Microsoft is paving the way to a future of incredible hybrid learning.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Microsoft admits display problems on HoloLens 2.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Pixvana, a Seattle-based startup creating a cloud-based processing and delivery platform for VR video, today announced a $14 million Series A funding round led by Vulcan Capital with participation from Raine Ventures, Microsoft Ventures, Cisco Investments and Hearst Ventures, and existing investor Madrona Venture Group.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Back in July, many of VR’s biggest players announced the VirtualLink Consortium , a group unified around creating a connection standard for future VR headsets. HTC was seemingly the odd one out back at the initial announcement, but this week the company joined the group in support of the standard.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 23, 2016

Oculus Executive Calls For 3D Equivalent Of JPEG To Build The Metaverse A new standard for 3D scenes is gaining momentum with support from graphics industry leaders, potentially laying the groundwork for science fiction’s “metaverse” to be realized. Standards include Vulkan, OpenGL, WebGL and others.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

While hardware advancements such as the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift have solidified at-home VR as a viable option, those looking for next-level immersion will still find the most success with location-based VR installations. LOCATION-BASED VR. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2017

We’re all waiting for the day when you can put on a singular, tether-free headset and experience all the ‘R’s that VR/AR/MR have to offer—and NormalVR , a “small but focused” group of passionate immersive media creators just gave us a peek into what’s possible when you mash it all together.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2017

Windows Holographic, a set of APIs integrated into Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, was first touted by the computing giant during the company’s surprise reveal of their augmented reality headset, the HoloLens.

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APRIL 26, 2017

A pioneer who helped kickstart VR’s renaissance is driving the strategy for Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, spanning both HoloLens and a collection of VR headsets rolling out later this year. ” This is Acer’s kit, the first Windows VR headset to roll out to developers from Microsoft’s partners.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2017

Here’s a visual tour of some of the first VR headsets to be shown adopting Microsoft’s new Windows Holographic platform. Microsoft’s Windows Holographic is the company’s immersive initiative built on foundations begun with their first foray into the augmented reality world with their HoloLens visor.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. It’s basically a monopoly. But there is also bad news to talk about. It makes totally sense.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Nokia , the Finnish telecom giant, has been focusing on telecommunication infrastructure development after selling its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2014. LaValle, who was also an early founder and head scientist of Oculus VR. Indian System Integrators Supercharged With Finnish Technology.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Project Stardust should work with any SteamVR compatible headset and can be played on the Quest using the Oculus Link cable or Virtual Desktop connected to a VR capable PC. Star Trek: Bridge Crew is available on the Oculus Quest and Rift , Playstation 4 , and on Steam for $24.99. Download Project Stardust for free here. Starblazer.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 11, 2024

id Software has been in direct contact with modding group Team Beef on the subject of potentially releasing their VR ports on the Quest Store. This is probably still too small-potatoes for a Microsoft subsidiary today, but an official blessing of just the free distribution doesn't seem out of the question. Fingers crossed!

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Unfortunately the standard didn’t gain traction and appears to now be abandoned by the group that created it. VirtualLink was announced back in 2018 with the backing of NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, Valve, Oculus, and HTC—representing a bulk of the most significant hardware players in the VR industry.

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JULY 3, 2017

We still have a lot to learn about Microsoft’s six degrees of freedom (6DOF) controllers for its Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets, including going hands-on with them for ourselves. The devices we saw when Microsoft first introduced the controllers won’t be what we get as product, however.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2019

You can also watch Crow: The Legend in a traditional 2D format on YouTube in case you don’t own an Oculus Rift, Oculus Go or Gear VR. The film takes you on an interactive VR adventure that tells the Native American story of how the crow came to be black.

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Anand Tech

JULY 28, 2020

Looking to fulfill the group’s mandate to develop open standards for new technologies, the group set about creating an open API for use with AR and VR devices, which culminated in the OpenXR standard. Meanwhile Microsoft is slated to be using OpenXR for some of its own projects as well, most notably a new VR version of Minecraft.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In the US, stores like Microsoft, Gamestop, and Micro Center host Vive setups offering public demos, while you can find the system in Europe in locations like Currys PC World, GAME, and Scan Computers. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR. Find an Oculus Rift and Touch Demo Location. You can find VR meetups all over the world.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

There wasn’t a specific announce surrounding support for VR games (see update), although as Khronos Group’s OpenXR standard marches ever onward in its mission to make market fragmentation a thing of the past, it’s possible those “open platforms” will also include VR.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Realworld is based on the Microsoft version of Google Earth. Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart is an immersive art experience with over 50 collaborating visual and musical artists and artist groups from all over the world. Baby Hands is in Oculus Labs for the Quest. Realworld, a mirror image of this world in VR, is coming to the Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.

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