VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, you just picked up your Oculus Quest 2 headset and you’re ready to dive into a massive catalog of AAA games and apps like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , Beat Saber, or Blaston! Next, download the official Oculus companion app via the iOS App Store or Google Play. Unfortunately, this is non negotiable.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Last year a user going by the name Pixelacos on YouTube posted a video of Dolphin running natively on an Oculus Quest headset. Some games work better than others according to Pixelacos, though to get any Nintendo game running natively on Oculus hardware is a feat in its own right. Feature Image Credit: Pixelacos Gameplays.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. The best VR headset on the market just got even better.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Let me give you just a few very well-known examples: Meta bought Oculus VR for 2 billion dollars when there was still only a prototype headset. Let’s start by saying that we can choose to invest in the metaverse in two ways: in the technology that supports it (hardware, software, and infrastructure) or in digital assets (NFT, crypto).

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VRScout

JANUARY 15, 2021

Oculus Quest and Quest 2 owners are finally getting several features they’ve been asking for since launch: support for multiple accounts and app sharing. Support for multiple accounts will extend first to the Oculus Quest 2 followed by original Oculus Quest headsets at a later time. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus.

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2021

Today I’m going to be explaining how to play Roblox in VR on your Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headset. In order to run Roblox on the Oculus Quest/Quest 2, you will need a VR-ready PC. Image Credit: Oculus. OCULUS LINK (Wired). If you’re looking for convenience, Oculus Link is the way to go.

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VRScout

JULY 15, 2021

The popular PC VR RPG experience A Township Tale has finally arrived on Oculus Quest headsets, and the game is already creating some serious buzz among players. Personal Server – Oculus Quest players can start their own cloud-hosted server with an eight concurrent player limit. For more information, click here !

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

John Carmack, legendary programmer and key player in the Oculus Rift genesis story, announced recently that he’s won a decisive battle within Facebook to finally release root access to Oculus Go, the 3DOF standalone VR headset launched in 2018. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2023

Meta has nearly scrubbed all of its products of the Oculus name, however the company today announced its third-party publishing wing is getting a sort of rebrand that will see the Oculus name live on. Meta announced at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) that it’s naming its third-party publishing arm Oculus Publishing.

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VRScout

MAY 12, 2021

Co-founder Dave Baszucki says the Oculus Quest makes “perfect sense” for the popular online multiplayer game. Could Roblox be heading to VR via the Oculus Quest? ” Unfortunately, you will need a VR-ready PC in order to access the game in VR on Oculus Quest, but it’s a surprisingly simple process.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. The following VR games and apps are available now on the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 100% free of charge via the Oculus Quest Store, App Lab, and SideQuest: COUCH. Couch is available free on Oculus (Meta) Quest via the App Lab. NEVER BOARD.

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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! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Oculus brand will be phased out, with the Quest product line becoming Meta Quest. The Oculus brand, which has existed alongside the company’s other products, will be phased out in order to allow the company’s metaverse and XR efforts to be positioned under Meta as the parent brand. Image courtesy Meta.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Quest Pro is here and brings with it some welcomed hardware improvements but a dubious value proposition that’s highly dependent on someone else making the right apps. Curiously, neither of these use-cases really demand the hardware that Quest Pro brings to the table. The former is pretty straightforward. Did the first bar close?

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2024

Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and creator behind the original Oculus Rift, teased an upcoming announcement that he’s working on a new XR headset. The post Oculus Rift Creator Palmer Luckey is Developing a New XR Headset appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it’s fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development going forward. OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making hardware and software more interoperable.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Top news of the week. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and key player in the VR startup’s genesis story, says Sony’s upcoming PSVR 2 headset may be see a bumpy road to adoption based on its high price and potential for scattershot geographic distribution. Looking to learn all about PSVR 2 before it launches this month?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The v32 firmware release for Oculus Quest last month ostensibly confirms that the company is moving forward with the device, as it contains hidden reference to an “Oculus Quest Pro” headset along with text mentioning both eye and face-tracking. THE LENSES SHOULD BE CLOSE TO YOUR EYES, BUT NOT CAUSE DISCOMFORT.””

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VRScout

MARCH 8, 2021

.” During a recent podcast interview with The Information , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shed some additional light on the future of Oculus, teasing everything from future hardware improvements to updates regarding the companies long talked-about AR headset.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2023

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.”

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VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2021

ByteDance’s purchase of Pico marks the companies first foray into VR, potentially putting it in direct competition with Facebook’s Oculus platform. Image Credit: Pico Interactive. According to the IDC, Pico VR was the third-largest headset manufacturer in the first quarter of 2021. Image Credit: TikTok.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2024

XR was the future of computing, he wagered, and in buying a little known startup called Oculus, Meta would beat Apple to the punch. And he put his money where his mouth was by dropping more than $2 billion in 2014 to buy Oculus, a small startup that precipitated a grassroots resurgence of virtual reality technology.

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2021

It appears as though Facebook is just getting started with its Oculus Quest 2 headset. During an online discussion between Facebook Vice President Andrew Bosworth and Oculus Consulting Technical Officer John Carmack, the two execs offered several updates regarding the Oculus Quest platform. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2021

Russian state corporation Roscosmos reveals a prototype of its new VR headset, announces additional hardware for 2021. This past February, Roscosmos, a state corporation of the Russian Federation specializing in space flight, announced that it was in production of consumer-focused VR hardware. Image Credit: Roscosmos.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2023

John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, is known for giving his unfiltered thoughts on almost every aspect of the XR industry. “Far and away the smallest and lightest PC VR headset.”

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Apps, Hardware, and Immersive Experience Showcases. Unfortunately, some of these events have required specific platforms or hardware that have excluded some individuals. For example, LFF Expanded required an Oculus headset. Again, this is increasingly true given user skepticism of Facebook and Oculus.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

There’s even a handful of graphics presets for adjusting visual quality depending on your hardware. . The mod natively supports Oculus and SteamVR headsets,” states the mods creator, LukeRoss00 on the official Github page. Image Credit: GTA Boom.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2024

Palmer Luckey, Oculus founder and creator behind the original Oculus Rift, teased an upcoming announcement that he’s working on a new XR headset. Luckey says in a post on X that he’ll be talking more about the device at Augmented World Expo (AWE), which takes place in Long Beach, California from June 18-20.

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VRScout

AUGUST 19, 2020

Available now in open alpha, this one-of-a-kind patching experience offers you the chance to go hands-on with a variety of complex modular synthesizers, saving you thousands in hardware purchases. I have personally wanted a performance-oriented modular for VR ever since working with some early VR hardware in 2016.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2024

While Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a range of “specialized” third-party headsets running its OS, and consequently having access to its store of XR apps, former Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack says we shouldn’t expect cheaper VR headsets than Quest as a result. Unquestionably.

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VRScout

JULY 14, 2021

This, combined with wireless VR hardware such as the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2, allows competitors to physically navigate large-scale digital playgrounds synched to a massive real-world arena. The Arcadia platform is powered by the companies own proprietary inside-out tracking technology, Samos Arena.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2020

A newly public FCC Test Report uncovered by Road to VR shows that HTC, the company behind Viveport and the Cosmos Elite VR headset, has recently submitted a new filing for what looks to be a new VR headset that would expand HTC’s lineup of immersive tech hardware. But it doesn’t mean the company has moved away from its hardware endeavors.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When you think about “haptics,” particularly in the sense of extended reality , you probably think about hardware and wearables that let you interact with and feel your environment. Haptics require hardware but they also require software. However, I had to ask, is hardware in the roadmap? However, that’s only half the story.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

Facebook’s Q4 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $885 million. As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver. That total includes hardware and software. That makes hardware revenue $421.2 That yields $336.96

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The company is working on a “higher-end” Oculus headset that features a variety of game-changing technology. During today’s Facebook Connect conference, the company, now called ‘Meta,’ revealed a new addition to its lineup of Oculus hardware.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

In terms of compatibility, the platform is cross-compatible with nearly every major VR & AR device, including the HTC Vive, Oculus Quest 2, Microsoft HoloLens 2, as well as AR-enabled iOS and Android devices; it’s never been easier to take your friends’ money!

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