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Study Shows VR Technology Can Have A Positive Psychological Impact During Lockdown

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Italian researchers worked with 400 participants over a three month period as part of this in depth study. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Oculus Quest 2 pre-orders were five times that of the original Quest, which I’m sure brought him a totally different type of happiness. And that’s a pretty good feeling.

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A Group Of Students Are Rebuilding The Original Metroid Prime In VR

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The 2002 Gamecube classic gets the VR treatment as part of an ongoing study into VR game mechanics. The post A Group Of Students Are Rebuilding The Original Metroid Prime In VR appeared first on VRScout. If you’re a fan of first-person-shooters, than odds are you’re familiar with Metroid Prime. Image Credit: Yonic Studios.

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Cross-Reality Social Network ‘VTime XR’ Now Available On Quest & Quest 2

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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. For more information on vTime’s growing cross-reality platform visit here.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

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I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Or Unreal if that’s your language.

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Virtual Reality should acknowledge its “kids issue”

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” VR shouldn’t be used by children… Health and safety warning of the Oculus Rift DevKits (Image from Oculus Forums). When I started using virtual reality in 2014, the age limit for using the Oculus Rift DK 2 was 7 years, but then it was incremented to 13 years old. … but they use it anyway.

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‘Goalie VR’ is a Cheap & Cheerful VR Party Game That Brings a Hailstorm of Hockey Pucks

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Select from Amateur, Semi-Pro or Pro difficulty levels, set lefty or righty controls, customize plays by setting up shooters around the offensive zone, play timed and goal-driven matches, earn achievements, even study replays and heat-maps to discover your strong and weak points. Until October 12th, the game will be 15% off.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

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In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. A random tutorial found on Youtube.