Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

The deal automatically knocks off $150 off the regular retail price, and includes free shipping (3-7 business days) within the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Granted, the best deal in high-quality VR nowadays is typically Oculus Quest 2, which can connect to PC via either USB-C cable or WiFi.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2018

Showings of Stargate Origin are free, although only users in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand will be able to join in – no doubt an issue with licensing. No ticket or sign-up is required, simply download Bigscreen from the Oculus Store , Steam , or the Microsoft Store.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Ready At Dawn was already collaborating with Oculus since various years, so this is not surprising. Content is the king, and Facebook knows it needs great content of its own to fight Microsoft, Sony, and the other big brands for the domination of the VR sector. You can now buy HoloLens 2 directly from Microsoft. Image by Nreal).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. The first comes from the major consultancy brand Accenture, which has just announced that it is going to deploy 60,000 Oculus Quest 2 headsets for the training of new employees.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Now the question is if and when Pico 4 will finally launch in the United States. Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. The tracker is expected to launch early in the year in the United States starting at $129. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. It is very interesting that because of this recall, Facebook shared some data about how many facemasks were affected : it says 4M in the United States, around 170K in Canada. In Japan, the number is around 80K. Image by IGN).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. It’s still early days for FlyInside.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Mindshow, updated Samsung Gear VR, Samsung 360 camera release date, GoPro, HTC, mobile tracking innovation from Chinese developer Deepoon, Microsoft Hololens, investment wrapup, and more! MICROSOFT OPENS UP SALES OF HOLOLENS. SEIZE THE SPOTLIGHT WITH MINDSHOW. …and more.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

The United States will pull well ahead of the other two regions by 2020. The social conversation listening report shows a decrease in online mentions from Q1 2016 to Q2 2016 for Microsoft Hololens, Playstation VR and Oculus Rift — but a 115% increase in people talking about the Vive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Menlo Park-based firm released its MR device in October, and Meta priced the Quest Pro device at £1,799 in regions including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France. Moreover, Microsoft is powering many MR hardware and software solutions with its immersive software development kit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This reflects actions taken at Google, Snap, Microsoft, and Apple over the last few months regarding their respective smart glass offerings. Such innovations include its partnerships with Microsoft and Zoom, digital twin and hyperrealistic avatar construction tools , and AI-powered Research SuperCluster facility, among others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the VRARA and its Global Executive Director Kris Kolo , Meta’s renewed dive into the business world – following the Quest Pro and other delves during the Oculus era – may be rife with issues. Currently, the service is available to enterprise users in supported regions like the United States and the United Kingdom.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. Oculus Link is coming soon. Great times ahead for augmented reality!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. Finally Magic Leap will be available in almost all the United States. Magic Leap availability.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While some pundits felt let down by an underused consumer Metaverse, the firm is now joining enterprise solutions provider giants such as Microsoft and AWS to provide business-ready XR solutions. The service is now available for enterprise end-users in supported regions, including the United States and the United Kingdom.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 23, 2018

The United States is well-known for instances where civil juries award massive damages to aggrieved parties in court matters. This came to the VR industry in a big way, when an intellectual property lawsuit saw Oculus on the hook for some $500M in damages in a February ruling. 5 – Oculus vs. HTC price war.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. ” Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

Because in the United States — and I know this is a trend around the world — 60 percent of students can opt out these days. It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. As that trend grows, someone needs to provide that alternative.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

Because in the United States — and I know this is a trend around the world — 60 percent of students can opt out these days. It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. As that trend grows, someone needs to provide that alternative.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

Because in the United States -- and I know this is a trend around the world -- 60 percent of students can opt out these days. I guess one is still working, that the United States has dropped on to Mars. But then they might do dissection, which won't work on an Oculus Go. Steve: It is. Alan: Excellent.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. ” At least here in the United States. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. ” At least here in the United States. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. well, maybe a little bit more simplified -- but in the United States, it's a really, really complicated market. At least here in the United States. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. I was researching some file optimization this morning and I found two: one's called Simplygon, which is a polygon reduction tool from-- I believe Microsoft bought them. Alan: Yeah. Interesting. Boaz: Yep, that's right. Alan: The other one is InstaLOD.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. I was researching some file optimization this morning and I found two: one's called Simplygon, which is a polygon reduction tool from-- I believe Microsoft bought them. Alan: Yeah. Interesting. Boaz: Yep, that's right. Alan: The other one is InstaLOD.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

Boaz: For a long time, I worked with Oculus, Vive, HoloLens, and other headsets. I was researching some file optimization this morning and I found two: one's called Simplygon, which is a polygon reduction tool from-- I believe Microsoft bought them. Alan: Yeah. Interesting. Boaz: Yep, that's right. Alan: The other one is InstaLOD.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. And among these platforms onto which the game could be ported in the future, he has also mentioned the Oculus Quest. The HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition is now available to purchase online, but only in the United States. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

With currently 26 labs operating in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania, VR First is bringing the number to 40 labs by the end of year. image courtesy VR First. While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Microsoft’s contract with the U.S. Army to build a combat-ready AR headset is worth up to $22 billion, but only if the company can deliver the goods at “substantially less than” the projected $80,000 per unit, the Army tells Bloomberg. ” Despite best efforts, Microsoft’s contract may actually be at risk. .”

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While on the topic of acquisitions Facebooks takeover of Oculus initially was somewhat hostile with internal disputes between Oculus founders and Zuckerberg and his leadership team. Microsoft has done well in the mixed reality space as it relates to enterprise adoption.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Palmer Luckey’s defense company Anduril is taking over Microsoft’s beleaguered Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, whichseeks to produce battlefield AR headsets for the United States Army. Since the U.S.

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