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We’re not even half way through 2020 and so far this year is shaping up to be a big one for standalone location-based VR thanks to the Oculus Quest. Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset is contributing heavily to the rise of arena-scale location-based VR, due primarily to its affordability, convenience, and wireless 6dof capabilities.
TERMINUS was originally intended as a touring exhibition; partway through its multi-city tour, however, the outbreak of COVID-19 forced the team to end its run early, cancelling upcoming showings at various major events, such as the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. via the Oculus Store. Terminus VR is available now for $7.99
Developers use Oculus Quest to create location-based VR game inside their office. When Oculus presented attendees at OC5 with an arena-scale multiplayer demonstration of Dead and Buried 2 powered by the Oculus Quest, we knew the Quest was something special. Image Credit: Thrust Vector.
Originally released back in 2016 as a launch title for the Oculus Rift, Lucky’s Tale is considered an OG within the VR gaming community. Today, the company released a carefully crafted remaster of the original 2016 game developed specifically for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. on Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 headset.
Thankfully, John Nagle and John Paul Sommer, co-founders of Texas-based AR & VR contract development and consulting company Thrust Vector, have begun utilizing VR technology inside the cockpit to assist in real-time navigational guidance. Their next step will be working with the FCC to bring their technology to commercial flying.
Oculus is bringing two highly anticipated Rift exclusives to PAX South in San Antonio, Texas this year: Stormland and Defector. Oculus will be also publicly demoing the upcoming battle royale shooter Population: One from Big Box. PAX South takes place January 18th – 20th in San Antonio, Texas.
The year started out with ZeniMax Media taking Facebook-owned Oculus to court over an alleged theft of technology. A jury eventually ruled that Oculus must pay ZeniMax $500,000,000, but that wasn’t the end of things — ZeniMax wants more. One of the biggest stories of 2017 for the VR industry is also one of its longest.
Casino VR Poker (2016), online multiplayer casino hosting live Texas hold’em, is offering real prizes in their ‘High Rollers’ poker tournament taking place on 20th August including multiple Oculus Rift + Touch bundles, hundred of dollars worth of gift cards, and Casino VR swag like t-shirts and playing cards.
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The ongoing legal drama between Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack and his former employer ZeniMax continues today with Carmack suing the company. Carmack’s lawsuit alleges he’s owed $22.5 We note that this is Mr. Carmack’s second complaint against ZeniMax. In the recently completed trial of ZeniMax Media Inc.
Thankfully there’s a good amount of free VR content already on the Oculus Store to keep you playing before you’re paying. If you’re good at Texas Hold’em, you may not need to buy any at all by working up from your starting chips. Developer : Oculus. Developer : Fun Bits Interactive / Oculus.
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.
Mark Zuckerberg gave testimony during a lawsuit with ZeniMax about the real cost of Oculus. The Facebook CEO knows exactly how much his company paid for Oculus, clarifying the higher purchase price at a Texas courthouse. ZeniMax alleges that Oculus created their Rift VR headset from misappropriated trade secrets.
The legendary annual QuakeCon is held in Dallas, Texas hosted by parent company ZeniMax Media is home to publisher Bethesda Softworks’ world-famous IP, with this year’s focus on the Quake World Championships esport competition. Skyrim VR remains a PSVR-only title for now, but is likely to find its way to PC.
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Earlier this month, a deadly mass shooting took place at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, claiming the lives of 22 individuals and injuring 24 others. Last year the company distributed 17,000 Oculus Go headsets across its 4,700 U.S. Employees claim active shooter training helped them respond faster to the situation.
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Virtuix has been around for just about as long as Oculus itself, with a 2013 Kickstarter for its landmark VR treadmill Virtuix Omni bringing in over $1 million from backers.
Based on the original IP by Jim Ivon and the novel by Ryder Windham ( Scraper: The Rise of Cifer ), the game takes place in the future megacity of New Austin, Texas and centers around a war against renegade robots that have taken over the city’s high-rise skyscraper complexes. 5] on the Oculus Store.
ZeniMax filed for a proposed judgment and final injunction in its $500 million case against Oculus. A Reuters report suggested “the injunction could limit the number of games available for sale for Oculus’ Rift VR headset.” ” ZeniMax declined to comment. ” ZeniMax declined to comment.
Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Michael Catalano. Nick Pittom.
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Oculus recently integrated your Facebook profile with your Oculus profile so that you can meet up with your real world friends and hang out in Oculus Rooms, which look like beautiful floating islands in the virtual sky. HULU WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN VIRTUAL REALITY. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.
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Oculus VR is one of the first major legal disputes to happen in our young new industry. You might remember that, quite famously, John Carmack joined the Oculus team as CTO in 2013. His relationship with the VR company (namely Palmer Luckey) and the creation of the Oculus Rift is at the heart of the allegations. Oculus VR Inc.,
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Hello everyone from Austin, Texas! Quest Fitness Tracker “Oculus Move” is Getting Baked into Apple Health & Oculus App. Oculus, this is sexist… Funny link. I will write a little report soon, in the meanwhile, you can enjoy a video of me riding a mechanical bull shot by Charlie Fink: [link]. Other news. Learn more.
In 2012, Jonathan Coon backed the original Oculus kickstarter project and has a signed Rift DK1 to show for it. Still frame Meta glasses video capture in Austin, Texas. This first-of-its-kind facility sells the idea of residing on the hill in a few years in a home with a "frictionless lifestyle". "You I entered a building there.
Casino VR Poker , the online free-to-play casino hosting live Texas hold’em, has today launched on Oculus Home, now allowing users to play in a cross-platform space with either Gear VR or Oculus Rift. After all, it’s just Texas hold’em, right? inverse kinematics in the Oculus Rift.
Publisher: Oculus Studios. Available On: Oculus Quest (Rift coming soon). A few issues keep me from truly loving it, but Lies Beneath still proves to be a super stylish and serviceable shooter. Lies Beneath Details: Developer: Drifter Entertainment. Reviewed On: Quest. Release Date: March 31st, 2020. Price: $30.
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Austin, Texas-based video game developer Owlchemy Labs struck gold with their 2016 smash hit, Job Simulator. Vacation Simulator is available for demo at the Tribeca Virtual Arcade now until Saturday, April 28th and is set to release sometime later this year on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR.
This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute which could cost Facebook $4 billion. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus.
Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. While ITI has been training crane operators, riggers, and signallers for 30 years, the inclusion of VR in their training programs is a recent development.
The two-year long court battle between Oculus VR and ZeniMax Media has come to an end today. This includes Facebook founder (and now Oculus owner) Mark Zuckerberg, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, and id Software founder John Carmack. The Texas jury deciding the case has determined … Continue reading.
Casino VR , a free multiplayer poker game for Gear VR and Oculus Rift, now allows you to buy chips to fuel your need for table dominance. See Also : First Look at Casino VR, Where Social VR Meets Texas Hold’em. And no, you can’t spend them (yet).
The war of words continues between ZeniMax and Oculus in the wake of a $500 million mixed verdict issued yesterday by a Texas jury. Earlier today Oculus CTO John Carmack noted on Facebook “the internet would have viciously mocked the analysis” of an expert witness ZeniMax called in the case whose testimony is under seal.
His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.
Combined with a 360-degree camera or 3DCG software, faculty or students can create VR apps in minutes that can be distributed via web, mobile app, or head-mounted VR system (Oculus Go, Quest and Rift S). Learn More. This severely limited access to the technology. Others buy a limited number of licenses for students to share.
This world also contains the Texas State Capitol building and the river. The worlds are only available to PCVR, Oculus Quest and Windows PC users. I wander to the Texas State Capitol building and see the famous moontower nearby. Kammerdiener explains that they “had to scale it down in some respect.” The XR Experience.
Cameras like the Insta360 One X and headsets like the Oculus Go have made VR affordable/easy to use, while InstaVR has made editing and publishing VR accessible to non-technical people. see the Oculus Go “Release Channels” feature for a great new way to distribute VR apps).
Scraper is an original RPG sci-fi shooter that places gamers in the future megacity of New Austin, Texas, where they must battle renegade robots in high-rise skyscraper complexes to save humanity. For Oculus, Vive, Steam and WMR, we are releasing on 11/21/18 and for PSVR on 12/18/18. When is the release date and what will be the price?
Immersed covered the cost of my flights from the UK to its event in Texas, which made it possible for me to attend. If you've been around in VR since the Oculus Developer Kit days you'll recognize this as extended mode. Still, I didn't fly from the UK to Texas to try a skeleton demo of a display and optics.
With InstaVR — plus ubiqitous 360-degree cameras and affordable mobile standalone headsets like Oculus Go — any student in any department can make and distribute VR apps. STUDENT PRESENTATIONS Prior to InstaVR, virtual reality creation was mainly housed in the computer science or visual arts departments of universities.
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