XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 14, 2025

This week’s XR landscape is marked by significant advancements across diverse sectors, from gaming development to healthcare and content creation. This update makes OpenXR the recommended way to create immersive experiences across Unity, Unreal, and Godot.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

More info (Road To VR review) More info (Ars Technica comparison with other devices) More info (Polygon review) More info (Playing Oculus games with the Knuckles) More info (Orders backlog) More info (Valve Index fitting guide) More info (Wireless Index) More info (All games compatible with Index) More info (Gabe Newell talking about the Index).

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. Oculus’ Head of Content, Jason Rubin. Unity’s Head of VR & AR, Tony Parisi. Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. For instance, a clinic center in San Diego is experimenting with how to use it for healthcare. describes how they ported Puzzling Places to the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course). The Unity SDK for NextMind is just fantastic. Of course, if you want to use it together with a VR headset, you have to own a VR-ready PC. Registering to the events of the NeuroTag (e.g.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 20, 2020

The Oculus Touch controllers are great devices for interacting with virtual reality (VR) worlds but they’ll never be as intuitive as simply using your hands , which Oculus Quest users have been able to experiment with for several months now.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Oculus – Rift. Oculus – Touch. Nominees for Best use of VR in Healthcare. The complete list of judges can be found here.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

From healthcare and education, to attractions and concerts?—?we Last month, we had the pleasure of working with Unity and the Orlando Economic Partnership to help them unveil their Regional Digital Twin installation at the Partnership’s HQ. we aim to improve all aspects of life by enabling a lifestyle of play.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Since I think that this is an amazing application that can be useful to many in the healthcare field , I decided to interview Andrea, and let him explain to you what it is about, and how his team has developed this experience. What are the differences and the similarities in Virtual Reality before Oculus Kickstarter campaign and after?

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Facebook, Inc. (FB) FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

HTC VIVE’s Developer Partner Program already contains a rich partner list covering a range of use cases for areas such as AEC, education, and healthcare. More on OctoXR SpectreXR delivers its hand-tracking SDK solution via its Octo framework, ready for Unity developers to design custom interactable immersive content.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The peripheral supported span from Oculus and Ultraleap Hand tracking, to Go Touch VR haptics devices and all commercial XR controllers. All are already included in Unity. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. Today, the tool covers both Windows-based and Android-based XR devices.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

We're thrilled to provide the highest quality content for VR developers, while exploring innovative applications for the technology across entertainment, healthcare, journalism, travel, manufacturing, retail, live events, real estate, training, and so much more."

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

The Microsoft-owned company is now compatible with Vive, Oculus headsets, and Gear VR, and users can also access it without a VR headset via a desktop app. Dream is an app for the Oculus and Vive headsets that allows users to use Zoom and Skype, live stream on Twitch, share presentations, or watch 3D and VR videos together in virtual reality.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

At Oculus Studio they made an animated movie… but it is still on where you look and choreography on where you look… I think it’s elaborated and I think it’s better if the story is what your experience was. This will make possible for the viewer to enter inside the scenes , to be inside the movies and move inside it.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JUNE 20, 2023

VR solutions can make workplaces feel less isolating, improving unity and presence in a distributed workplace. Despite this, we’re already beginning to see healthcare, manufacturing, and engineering companies all experimenting with mixed reality opportunities. 4.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

Development: Unity , Vuforia , Microsoft Visual Studio , Windows 10 SDK , HoloLens Emulator (if you do not have a device). When using Unity, it is extremely important to set the near clipping plane to no less than 0.85m. Unity helps developers to manipulate this HoloLens feature in many ways. Animation: Biped for 3ds Max.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

systems, engineering, data center engineering, information security, network and cellular IP development, ERP business engineering, and Healthcare Solutions Development Budget leads opportunities for his customers and partners to utilize exciting and intense compute power in the immersive technology and XR landscape. Hey, we are Switzerland.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

systems, engineering, data center engineering, information security, network and cellular IP development, ERP business engineering, and Healthcare Solutions Development Budget leads opportunities for his customers and partners to utilize exciting and intense compute power in the immersive technology and XR landscape. Hey, we are Switzerland.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

systems, engineering, data center engineering, information security, network and cellular IP development, ERP business engineering, and Healthcare Solutions Development Budget leads opportunities for his customers and partners to utilize exciting and intense compute power in the immersive technology and XR landscape. Who's this wonderful.?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

Everything from education, to healthcare, to even the nature of global economy can be improved and democratized within digital space. This is not the world where it woke up to virtual/augmented reality when Facebook bought Oculus for 3-billion dollars. And the Oculus at launch started what I call the third wave of VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

So cereal, frozen foods, healthcare, baby foods, all that sort of stuff are constantly going through some sort of revision period, whether it’s… the old way’s every six months, because that’s how long it takes them, and I’ll get into that in a little bit. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

So cereal, frozen foods, healthcare, baby foods, all that sort of stuff are constantly going through some sort of revision period, whether it’s… the old way’s every six months, because that’s how long it takes them, and I’ll get into that in a little bit. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

” He explained that XR had become a thriving industry , transforming verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and gaming. Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

When Microsoft launched Windows Mixed Reality in 2017, it wanted to take advantage of the rapidly growing PC VR market, which was previously dominated by Oculus and HTC. However, many enterprise customers in the healthcare, manufacturing, and education companies did love the headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And then we also are working within healthcare with GE Healthcare. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And then we also are working within healthcare with GE Healthcare. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus.

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