article thumbnail

Study Shows VR Technology Can Have A Positive Psychological Impact During Lockdown

VRScout

Italian researchers worked with 400 participants over a three month period as part of this in depth study. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Oculus Quest 2 pre-orders were five times that of the original Quest, which I’m sure brought him a totally different type of happiness. And that’s a pretty good feeling.

Study 545
article thumbnail

How to activate AR in your Oculus Quest Home Menu

The Ghost Howls

Today I was reading Upload VR, and I’ve found a very interesting article by David Heaney stating that now it is possible to use your real environment as your Oculus Quest Home environment. I immediately got excited, because this meant that the Oculus Quest has now some augmented reality functionalities! What can it be used for?

Oculus 495
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Morehouse College Opens VR Campus Powered By The Oculus Quest 2

VRScout

Remote students can study men’s health and world history from a virtual classroom. The post Morehouse College Opens VR Campus Powered By The Oculus Quest 2 appeared first on VRScout. This week the famed Morehouse College, alma mater of such influential figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Feature Image Credit: VictoryXR.

Oculus 545
article thumbnail

XR in Education Case Study in Focus: Oculus and Aptiv

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The company turned to The Leadership Network and Oculus (from Meta) to implement a new Virtual Reality solution. Together, TLN and Aptiv decided to build the lean training content on the Oculus for Business platform, by Meta. The Oculus for Business ecosystem also offered access to an easy-to-use headset solution.

article thumbnail

How to build your passthrough AR app for Oculus Quest in Unity

The Ghost Howls

So let me show you how you can develop an AR app for Oculus Quest 2 using Oculus Passthrough APIs in Unity. Oculus Passthrough APIs video tutorial. Oculus Passthrough APIs textual tutorial. Do this in the project settings to enable Oculus VR. Create and configure the project.

Unity 545
article thumbnail

Case Study: The Design Behind ‘Cubism’s’ Hand-tracking

Road to VR

Hand tracking first became available on the Oculus Quest back in late 2019. Needless to say, this initial demo had several flaws, and didn’t really take the limitations of the technology into account, which is why I decided to initially omit hand tracking support from the full release of Cubism on the Oculus Store. Future Work.

article thumbnail

Oculus Introduces Next Generation Of VR Avatars With ‘Expressive Avatars’ Update

VRScout

More lifelike avatars and a new avatar editor arrive on Oculus Rift & Go headsets. Since launching in December of 2016, Oculus Avatars has brought a much-needed sense of humanity to the Oculus platform, allowing users to interact with one another on a personal level while in VR. Image Credit: Oculus.

Oculus 344