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. “This project will reimagine the live show experience and offer an inspirational glimpse into the virtual future of fashion.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Masterpiece VR is one of the best VR 3D modeling softwares because it lets you create 3D elements easily and also animate them, all in virtual reality, all in an intuitive way. The solution is continuously improving, and in fact, the software has recently had a big update launching a full suite called Masterpiece Studio.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Like with Meta (formerly Facebook), plans to create its version of the metaverse have remained fairly nebulous—par for the course since the concept of ‘the metaverse’ was co-opted to mean any virtual world, a summation of virtual worlds, or a monolithic virtual platform (metaverse with a capital ‘M’).

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VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2018

The open-source tool is free for download now on Oculus and Steam. According to Nanome, this VR software allows you to “traverse, build and modify the nanoscale world.”. According to the press release, the software involves an in-game camera which photographs your work in an easily-sharable format. Nanome Inc. ,

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Compatibility will be guaranteed with all PC VR headsets, including the standalone ones attached to PC ( Oculus Quest via Link and Vive Focus Plus via Viveport Streaming ). Valve has promised us a new kind of VR interactions that will change how we interact with virtual worlds , and we can’t wait to try them.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Facebook originally launched Oculus Quest 2 with a default 72Hz refresh rate and ‘experimental’ support for 90Hz, which has since become the new default. A faster refresh rate makes the virtual world inside the headset smoother, more comfortable, and more immersive. 120Hz Refresh Rate Likely Coming to Quest 2.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Facebook looks to up the Oculus ante by investing in eye-tracking technology. With 2016 coming to a close, it’s time to start looking toward the state of virtual reality in 2017. This saves an immense amount of computational power since the system doesn’t have to render the entire virtual world all at one time. .

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2022

XR gaming brings real-world elements and virtual elements together to create interactive 3D experiences. It encompasses all immersive technologies that bring the physical and virtual worlds together. It covers everything from virtual reality and augmented reality to mixed reality. See Also: VR Gaming for Adults.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2018

Oculus Research’s director of computational imaging, Douglas Lanman, is scheduled to give a keynote presentation at SID DisplayWeek in May which will explore the concept of “reactive displays” and their role in unlocking “next-generation” visuals in AR and VR headsets.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leaks in advance of Facebook Connect, particularly around the time that VIVE Flow was announced , had many anticipating new devices from Oculus. He also more than suggested at a couple of points that Facebook logins would no longer be required for Oculus headsets in the near future. Horizon Updates and an Interoperability API.

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VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2018

It is open-source so it’s free for download now on Oculus and Steam products. This virtual reality software allows you to “traverse, build and modify the nanoscale world,” according to a Nanome press release. Releases “World’s First VR-STEM Software” for Free Download appeared first on VRScout. Nanome, Inc.,

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2017

Citing “people familiar with its development,” the report reveals the Oculus-branded headset, code named ‘Pacific’, will ship sometime next year. SEE ALSO Oculus: ‘Multiple VR titles have made more than $1M in the Oculus store alone’. Oculus Rift, image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Once you’ve settled on a look, you can then pair your newly-created avatar and import it into your High Fidelity account or into any VR environment that uses High Fidelity’s open-source software, and use it during VR social events or work meeting. High Fidelity is available via SteamVR and Oculus.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

It not only refers to the monolithic online 3D environment where a part of the story takes place, but also the sum of all virtual worlds, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and the Internet as a whole. Jason Rubin, original Oculus executive and o ne-time head of AR/VR content, will lead the group’s content team.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company at the forefront of simulation training solutions for defense and civilian organizations. Today, we’ve grown to around 300 staff, about two-thirds of whom are software developers. . BISim products are used in over 60 countries and by over 300 integrators.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The sand is then carefully scanned by a Kinect depth-sensing camera, from which a virtual world is rendered. With the terrain data now built into your own virtual track, you can buckle up in the new Audi Q5, which becomes a portal to the virtual world you just created. This virtual world has real depth.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2022

. “You can play with friends in the same physical room or productivity experiences that combine huge virtual monitors with physical tools, and it’s a step toward our longer-term vision for augmented reality.”

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

The omnidirectional treadmill is one of a handful of locomotion methods shown in Ready Player One’s future world, but are any of these actually possible? How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? Driving and Flight Simulators. With the SteamVR 2.0

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. This information is very important to developers who can use the data to inform their software design decisions.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One half of the office had desks where the software was tested, the other half of the room was full of hardware. I imagined this must have been like when Oculus just started out. I’ve tried the Lynx R-1 in VR mode too which employs the ‘immersive cover’ and shows you a purely virtual world instead of passthrough AR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The latest update for Oculus Quest, v35, is rolling out to headsets starting today and brings with it mixed reality casting, global cloud saves, and Facebook Messenger calls in VR. This feature allows you to cast the VR experience to a smartphone while seeing your real body right inside of the virtual world.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A Dallas, Texas jury awarded half a billion dollars to ZeniMax Wednesday after finding that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, and by extension Oculus, violated the terms of a non-disclosure agreement in the early days of developing the Rift VR headset. In January, Oculus Luckey took the stand to deny the claim.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2017

Today Google is launching Blocks for free for both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in effort to let VR headset owners easily create low-poly 3D objects in the time it takes you to come up with an idea. Google says Blocks is designed to “feel more like playing with children’s blocks than working with traditional 3D modeling software.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. We all thought about a new Vive Focus with embedded 6 DOF controllers , ready to fight the Oculus Quest.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. The software analyzes the data to figure out what should be happening in a game. Just how far away is full-dive VR? Brain-Computer Interfaces. Eye-Tracking .

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience. That’s what I’m doing here.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I tried it with the Leap Motion controller, the one that most of us have bought years ago to experiment with the OG Vive or the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1… but actually, UltraLeap (the previous Leap Motion) has created a second-generation camera sensor. UltraLeap Stereo IR 170 video review. I could interact with objects in a truly natural way.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Described as “the next generation of music creation”, this built-for-VR software aims to give the user the ability to produce slick beats “without needing any prior musical knowledge, skill, or experience.” ” The title is planned to support SteamVR, HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Rift. Image courtesy Survios.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Users will also have the opportunity to take home some cash in the $1,000 Best Avatar contest, as well as the $700 Best Domain (virtual world) competition. . Users are free to explore new worlds, participate in various multiplayer games, and attend numerous special in-game events.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2017

Oculus’ Asynchronous Spacewarp rendering technology is designed to smooth out the VR experience by making dropped frames a thing of the past. The 90 FPS requirement is important for immersion but also comfort; dropping below that threshold can lead to dizzying jumps in the virtual world seen through the headset.

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VRScout

JUNE 4, 2020

It’s an important part of how modern VR hardware immerses you in experiences by allowing you to “feel” the virtual world around you. Feelbelt developed a patented process and a one-of-a-kind software to build out a tool that promises to deliver a new layer of immersion to VR, gaming, movies, and music.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

We really wanted this to be something that would make it easy to access your virtual world,” spoke Drew Bamford, VP of Vive Creative Labs, during the press conference. The strange-looking headset features four separate cameras and a pair of motion controllers baring a slight resemblance to the Oculus Touch system.

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ARPost

JULY 5, 2019

New virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Daydream have barely scratched the surface of the technology’s potential. Their software allows eldercare residents to revisit childhood homes or explore places they’ve never had the chance to visit. Seniors make up 15.6%

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest. Hands-On Review Unlike AR, VR is entirely simulated and disconnected from the physical world.

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