VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

You can still buy an Oculus Rift S.for now. The company also made the official reveal of the Oculus Quest 2 —a lighter, faster, all-in-one VR headset available this October beginning at $299. You can still order a Rift S via the Oculus website… for now. It’s been an exciting week for VR!

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VRScout

JUNE 23, 2020

Earlier today, Facebook announced that they will no longer be accepting new game and app submissions for the Oculus Go as they begin to shift their efforts away from 3DoF VR in search of greener pastures, namely the Oculus Quest. On December 16th , the company will cease publishing new content entirely.

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ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

What about Walker Industries? Walker Industries is … let’s call it “the startup’s startup.” While that funding campaign still has a ways to go and we’re an estimated month away from a functioning XR headset demo, Walker Industries founder, Herman Remy, reached out to ARPost to talk about his company and his passion.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Emerging Trends in the VR Gaming Industry — 2023 Technology is evolving at a fast pace. 2023 is currently shaping up to be the year of promise for the VR gaming industry. Let’s take a quick trip to learn about the impending trends in the VR gaming industry. Imagine if we could pick the visions and ideas and make them come true.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Launching soon on Oculus Quest 2 headsets, Horizon Home will serve as your personal home in the company’s continually-growing metaverse. In addition to Horizon Home, Facebook highlighted several other updates heading to the Oculus Quest 2, including support for a wider range of 2D apps. Feature Image Credit: Facebook.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2020

With the live music industry in shambles, musicians are turning to immersive tech to connect with fans. The live music industry has been hit hard by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Everything from work conferences, restaurants, schools, movies, and of course, the music industry, came to a complete halt. Image Credit: Facebook.

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Road to VR

JUNE 30, 2021

Zack “Nibre” Fannon, the creator behind VR mods for Alien: Isolation and Halo Master Chief Collection (MCC), has been hired by 343 Industries, the studio in charge of the Halo franchise. He now lists himself as an Engineer working on Halo MCC at 343 Industries, a property of Xbox Game Studios.

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VRScout

MAY 22, 2020

The soft launch of the product (now run for 300+ guests) has been met with positive reactions from delighted guests and industry veterans alike. . Planck was one of the co-founders of Oculus Story Studio and worked for Pixar for 10 years as a technical director on movies like Cars, WALL-E, and Up. Image Credit: Adventure Lab.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2021

Just this weekend the Voices of VR Podcast reached an impressive milestone; in the podcast’s 1,000th episode, host Kent Bye looks back at his conversations with members of the VR industry over the last seven years to parse where the moderrn era of VR started, where it is now, and where it’s headed.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

AWE USA 2025 is set to include speakers from some of the biggest names in the XR industry, including Oculus & Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, along with Jason Rubinone of the only remaining early Oculus executiveswho is presently Meta’s Vice President of Metaverse Experiences.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2024

The news is prompting significant discussion within the XR industry, including from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. Here’s a quick primer for those of you who are newer to XR industry. ” Gear VR was the first Oculus headset made by a third-party And the company did in fact pursue that strategy. .”

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2020

With the approval of Škoda Auto, Brainz Studios will be releasing Škoda Time Machine to all Oculus Quest owners through a SideQuest download, making Škoda Auto the very first company to connect with automobile fans in this way. . Škoda Time Machine is available now for the Oculus Quest via a SideQuest download.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. ” Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR. .”

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With Vision Pro now in the hands of many, host Kent Bye recently interviewed two XR insiders that have been part of the industry for more than a decade each. The launch of Apple Vision Pro is in some ways the most significant event for the XR industry since the acquisition of Oculus by Meta back in 2014.

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Road to VR

MARCH 7, 2022

Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. ’ the industry vernacular does not consider systems using artificial markers as ‘inside-out tracking’ The post Magic Leap 2 Controller May Use On-board Inside-out Tracking, an Industry-first appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

John Carmack, legendary programmer and key player in the Oculus gensis story, announced he’s left Meta, writing in a memo to employees that he “wearied of the fight” of trying to push for change at the highest levels of the company. ” Carmack demos an early Oculus Rift prototype at E3 2012.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We’ve seen figures in the past that suggested Meta’s latest standalone headset was doing very well—possibly putting it at three times the adoption rate of Sony’s PSVR—but it was still unclear precisely how big of an impact Quest 2 had on the industry overall. “And I’ll point you out that this is already starting.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The VR studio and publisher announced a new partnership with Facebook which will bring five new VR games to the Oculus platform. Hi @Kaffekone , we can confirm that the games are not exclusive to Oculus. Vertigo Games is a prolific force in the VR industry. It's too early to share anything else at the moment, however.

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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. The VR Template offers support for Oculus Quest 1 & 2, Quest with Oculus Link, Rift S, Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality. Unreal Engine 4.27

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Meta ( formerly Facebook ) created quite a stir in the VR industry when it announced last year that it planned to require Facebook account logins for new users. ” For those who have already merged their Facebook and Oculus accounts, Meta indicates you won’t be assimilated for long. We’ll have to wait and see.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2021

The esports industry has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 1972 when a handful of students from Standford University took part in the first reported video game tournament featuring the 1962 space combat game Spacewar! Virtex wants to revolutionize the way we view live esports by replicating the IRL stadium experience in VR.

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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. That is not good for the XR industry.” ” The Apple headset is so good.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2024

Hugo Barra, Meta’s former Head of VR, offered some unique insight into the XR industry recently with an extensive blogpost that centers around Apple Vision Pro. Barra warns that, like the company’s first standalone headset Oculus Go, the novelty around casual content consumption will probably fade fairly quickly.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 6, 2023

going back to 2017 – when the industry looked very, very different. ” So in China, we may have to deploy the Pico Neo, the Middle East we may have to go this way, whereas in the North American market, it might be Oculus [Meta].

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2023

Apple Vision Pro is about to set a lot of expectations in the industry of what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ about mixed reality, something the fruit company prefers to call spatial computing.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2021

Today I want to publish a very easy and short tutorial to let you grab the opportunity of getting a free silicone cover for your Oculus Quest 2. For sure you remember that Facebook had a little issue with the materials of the facemasks of its Oculus Quest 2. Are you in for that? million facepads.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

LBVR The Location-based entertainment industry has been one of the first great adopters of SteamVR headsets. But now also this industry is moving to standalone headsets, which guarantee faster setup and cheaper costs while guaranteeing tracking in large areas and multiplayer colocation.

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VRScout

JULY 16, 2020

Beginning July 29th, those with PC VR headsets can sign-in to the Museum of Other Realities , available free on both Oculus and Steam, and immerse themselves in a next-gen fashion showcase. Charli has also been paired with John Orion Young (JOY), who creates original virtual muses. ” Image Credit: RYOT, Kaleidoscope, FIA.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2024

This week at AWE 2024, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey spoke briefly about a new XR headset he’s developing. Luckey founded Oculus in 2012, the company whose Rift headset was the spark that rebooted the modern era of VR. Likely that “stuff” refers to enterprise-focused use-cases like training, education, and design.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Using your Oculus Touch controller, you’ll have full control over a variety of light types, including Spray, Spiral, Starburst, and Point Cloud Stamp. Cosmic Sugar is available now on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets for $9.99 via the Oculus App Lab and SteamVR for $4.99. Image Credit: Light Clinic.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2021

Niantic announced today that long-time Oculus employee Dan Morris, Head of Developer Relations, is joining as the company’s new Director of Developer Relations as Niantic ramps up its Lightship AR platform, which aims to bring to third-party developers the same ‘world scale’ tech that enables Pokémon Go.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Since introducing its original Vive headset back in 2016, HTC has remained an industry leader, offering VR solutions for everyone from at-home VR gamers to the military and workforce training. Right now everyone is talking about the Oculus Quest 2 and how the new-and-improved headset has raised the bar for standalone VR.

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Upload VR

MARCH 19, 2025

Meta's CTO says he "loved and hoped to keep" the Oculus brand. "I This is very different than Oculus, a name I definitely loved and hoped to keep. Boz (@boztank) March 19, 2025 Meta, then Facebook, acquired Oculus in 2014 for almost $3 billion in total. No, I'll definitely tell the story some day.

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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! Image Credit: XR Casino.

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