Oculus, Training and Unreal - Virtual Reality Pulse

PrecisionOS Brings VR Medical Training To Struggling Areas

VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2021

VR training lets surgeons in low-resource countries go through the motions before performing on patients. The VR medical company PrecisionOS along with support from Epic Games MegaGrant and Oculus , have launched a VR training module designed specifically for the global nonprofit humanitarian organization SIGN Fracture Care.

Training

Training Unreal Strategy Education

Super Fan Remaking Original Witcher Game In VR Using Unreal Engine

VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Rather than developing a mod for the original 2007 release, however, Loan is constructing the entire experience from the ground up in Unreal Engine, resulting in higher quality visuals as well as a new range of possibilities. The post Super Fan Remaking Original Witcher Game In VR Using Unreal Engine appeared first on VRScout.

Unreal

Unreal Gaming Construction Training

Open-Source VIRTUOSO SDK for Unreal Engine – a Standard Framework for XR Development

ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

And it is made possible by VIRTUOSO , an open-source SDK created by Charles Rivers Analytics, which is now available for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Immersive experiences are in greater demand in all fields: for home entertainment, for training in various industries, and for retail and marketing. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest.

Unreal

Unreal Leap Motion Unity Haptic

Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Or Unreal if that’s your language.

Training

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Axon Park To Offer Expert Level In-Headset VR Design Course

VRScout

JUNE 30, 2019

Survios CTO Alex Silkin will teach a semester-long course called Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Courtesy of VR education startup Axon Park , the ‘Unreal Engine VR Master Class’ will debut in VR this autumn. Axon Park holds that there are some prerequisites to consider when applying for the Unreal Engine VR Master Class.

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Epic Floated the Idea of Building a Launch Title for Sony’s Next VR Headset

Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room.

Sony

Sony Unreal Oculus Training

The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. of units more produced annually. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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Oculus AR Healthcare 360 Video

XR Swim Platform Wants To Become The Steam Of WebXR Content

VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

XR experiences in general, have proven themselves to be an amazing tool for everything from workforce training and digital marketing to product visualization, entertainment, and immersive online education. They will soon support a marketplace feature that will allow creators to sell experiences and digital downloads.

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Education Entertainment Unreal Tools

Epic Games Goes All In With Unreal Engine 4 Support for Google Daydream

VRScout

MAY 19, 2016

Riding the wave of excitement over Google’s new VR platform, Daydream, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri announced on the Google I/O stage today that the gaming giant has brought support for Daydream to Unreal Engine 4. In a collaboration with Hardsuit Labs on the plugin, Epic Games has made Unreal Engine 4 support for Daydream available now.

Unreal

Unreal Google Gaming Controllers

Epic’s New Action-packed ‘Robo Recall’ FPS is Beautiful, Brutal Arcade Fun

Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Now the company plans to launch Robo Recall , the evolution of their critically acclaimed Bullet Train tech demo. Last year at Oculus Connect 2015, Epic revealed the Bullet Train tech demo for Oculus Touch. SEE ALSO 'Bullet Train' on the Latest Oculus Touch Makes You a Bullet-Catching Badass.

Training

Training Oculus Unreal Gaming

The XR Week Peek (2022.10.24): Pico 4 Enterprise launched, Meta under criticism, and more!

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. Beware of negative training. An article in the Varjo blog warns us all about the risks of “negative training”. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip!).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.20): Oculus Quest goes AR, Oculus Jedi may be like Valve Knuckles and much more!

The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

Oculus

Oculus AR Unity Machine Learning

Veteran VR Developers Reveal How Gaming Influences Enterprise XR Services

XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. XR game developers commonly also work on business apps for training and other purposes, so the insight of such firms is invaluable. Now, these services are leveraged to create enterprise solutions.

Gaming

Gaming Head Mounted Display Training Virtual Environment

‘Robo Recall’ Behind-the-scenes: Insights and Artwork from Epic Games

Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room. Showdown – Oculus Connect 2014 | Read More. Bullet Train – Oculus Connect 2015 | Read More. ‘Showdown’, one of Epic’s VR tech demos build on Unreal Engine.

Gaming

Gaming Training San Francisco Oculus

NVIDIA Unveils Its Four Pillars Of XR Development [PAID]

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And also, for AI training, as we’ll see in a while, realistic rendering and physics engines to create synthetic training data are of paramount importance. Or it can be that you use that scene to perform the training of some AI (e.g. some robots), so you can use the AI training service.

Latency

Latency Training Tools Simulation

‘HeadOffice.Space’ Brings VR Coworking To The Moon

VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

Immersion Rooms: Enable fully immersive onboarding and training sessions, share experiences, knowledge and create unimaginable and unforgettable moments in these fully customizable rooms. A few examples include: Squadpods: Private, secure office space for teams to customize, meet and collaborate with work tools they know and love.

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Oculus Education Launches Pilot Programs In Taiwan, Japan, Seattle

VRScout

AUGUST 28, 2018

Oculus will provide headsets and training to three new pilot locations alongside a fresh helping of educational VR content. Oculus Education continues its ongoing streak of generosity with the expansion of its educational pilot programs to Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle. BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN SCIENCE.

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Taiwan Seattle Japan Education

Big XR News from Meta, OpenXR, NHS, CGS, GIGABYTE

XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 14, 2025

Meanwhile, AI is revolutionizing training and content creation, with platforms like Cicero delivering hyper-realistic scenarios and GIGABYTE partnering with TAICCA to launch an AI-driven XR content creation platform. This update makes OpenXR the recommended way to create immersive experiences across Unity, Unreal, and Godot.

Training

Training Taiwan Healthcare Immersion

The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Education and Training.

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On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Epic Games’ Technical Director of VR & AR, Nick Whiting

Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development. Oculus’ Head of Content, Jason Rubin.

Gaming

Gaming AR Construction Unreal

Epic’s New Robo Recall Dev Diary Details The Game’s Evolution From Bullet Train

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fans of the Rift will remember when developer Epic Games took to the stage of the Oculus Connect 2 keynote that year to announce a tech demo for the then-unreleased Oculus Touch controllers, called Bullet Train. Bullet Train, meanwhile, can now be downloaded on Rift for free.

Training

Training Unreal Oculus Gaming

The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to him, the technology can be used for training and delivering first-hand experiences to learners. As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Unreal Technology Entertainment

BBC Takes You To Space In VR

VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Inspired by NASA and ESA training programs and the experiences of real astronauts, Home – A VR Spacewalk enables you would-be astronaut to embark on a spacewalk 250 miles above Earth’s surface, something only 217 people have ever done in real-life. The experience was built in 1:1 scale within Unreal Engine.

Unreal

Unreal HTC Filming Virtual Reality

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. WALMART PARTNERS WITH STRIVR LABS FOR VR TRAINING. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR. APPLE TAKES A (VERY SOLID) SWING AT AUGMENTED REALITY.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Apple Unreal Training

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

Magic Leap

Magic Leap Europe AR Virtual Reality

What is Zuckerbergs’s Metaverse?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Although the move is not without its detractors, many analysts claim that Meta’s immersive journey is plagued with low user bases, and some see the Metaverse hype train as derailed thanks to the rise of chatGPT. Moreover, trusted gaming engines like Unreal and Unity are gaining new usage as RT3D engines.

Immersion

Immersion Technology Industry Training

The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

AR

AR Google Machine Learning Augmented Reality

Watch: 12 Minutes of ‘Robo Recall’ Gameplay with Oculus Touch

Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2016

One of the flagship announcements at last week’s Oculus Connect developer conference, Epic Games’ Robo Recall is a slick, polished first person shooter built for Oculus’ forthcoming VR motion controllers Touch. SEE ALSO 'Bullet Train' on the Latest Oculus Touch Makes You a Bullet-Catching Badass.

Oculus

Oculus Unreal Conference Training

How To Become A VR Designer: Careers in the Metaverse

XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

Today’s businesses are leveraging VR for everything from training and education to collaboration, product development, and even customer service. In the last few years, we’ve seen virtual reality transform from a novel concept connected to the gaming and entertainment space to a crucial corporate tool.

How To

How To Virtual Reality Software Unreal

How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Unity Course AR

SIGN Fracture Care & Precision OS Provide Oculus Quests to Aid VR Surgical Training in Developing Countries

Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

A couple of months ago surgical training specialist Precision OS hosted a worldwide virtual reality (VR) training course during the Global Spine Congress (GSC) helping to showcase its educational platform. will provide the training. will provide the training. developing countries. developing countries.

Training

Training Oculus Virtual Reality Unreal

Epic Games Technical Director: We Want ‘Robo Recall’ To Be The ‘Ultimate Tech Demo’ For Unreal Engine

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Robo Recall was easily one of the most exciting games we got our hands on at Oculus Connect 3 earlier this month. “When making Robo Recall, we started with the base of Bullet Train as it stood,” said Nick Whiting, Technical Director at Epic Games during a phone interview.

Unreal

Unreal Gaming Training Oculus

7Invensun reveals high-quality eye-tracking VR accessory for only $149

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2019

I haven’t managed to talk about it until now because of the posts I had to publish for Oculus Connect 6 , but now that the hype for the Oculus Link is over, it’s time for me to inform you about this incredible news, with some exclusive photos and videos that you won’t find in other articles!

Eye Tracking

Eye Tracking HTC China Virtual Reality

Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps.

AR

AR Unity Virtual Reality Course

Oculus Connect 3 Registration Now Open, Early Bird Passes from $199

Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

San Jose

San Jose Oculus 360 Video Conference

7 Insightful XR Education Case Studies to Read in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

One of the areas where XR is seeing the most significant and rapid adoption, is in the world of education and training. Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before. Meta Oculus and Aptiv. HTC Vive and Penn State.

Case Study

Case Study Education Study Magic Leap

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Real Estate Training

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Google wants you to play with Blocks, this smartphone wants you to get rid of your headset, a new marketplace connecting content creators with funding, the price of the Oculus Rift is slashed, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO PLAY WITH BLOCKS. GET YOURSELF A RIFT WITH THIS SWEET SUMMER DEAL.

Google

Google Oculus AR Entertainment

Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

AR

AR Filming Machine Learning Unreal

How to be a good VR startupper – Part 2

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

Let’s suppose that you are offering a solution for training in VR. Maybe you get featured on Road To VR, you get 200 likes on /r/Oculus. If you are in the VR training business, your customers are industrial companies needing training, not VR enthusiasts. Let me explain what I want to mean with an example.

How To

How To 360 Video Training Groups

Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Those enterprise customers have enthusiastically been adopting Microsoft’s mixed reality technology in a variety of productivity, collaboration, training, and visualization use-cases; while Microsoft, in turn, have been satisfying the wish-list of those dedicated customers. Trimble XR10 w HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Epic’s VR Shooter Bullet Train Is Now the Wacky Robo Recall

Wired VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4-driven VR shooter gets a humorous makeover, and it's free. The post Epic's VR Shooter Bullet Train Is Now the Wacky Robo Recall appeared first on WIRED.

Training

Training Unreal Gaming Virtual Reality

What to Expect From VR at VRDC and GDC 2017

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. What to Expect from Oculus. Oculus always has a big showing at GDC and they will again this year, especially since they were mostly quiet at CES. What to Expect from Valve.

Conference

Conference San Francisco Unreal Sony

#1489: “Gorilla Tag” Design Philosophy & Embodied Gameplay Deep Dive with Kerestell Smith

Voices of VR

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Since this is the last episode in my series from Meta Connect 2024, then here's a list of all 20+ interviews and 12+ hours of my coverage from this year: #1468: Kickoff of Meta Connect 2024 Coverage with Orion AR Glasses Hands-on Impressions with Tested's Norm Chan & CNET's Scott Stein #1469: Analyst Anshel Sag on Meta Connect Announcements & Orion (..)

Real Estate

Real Estate Unreal Trends Architecture

PrecisionOS Brings VR Medical Training To Struggling Areas

Super Fan Remaking Original Witcher Game In VR Using Unreal Engine

Trending Sources

Open-Source VIRTUOSO SDK for Unreal Engine – a Standard Framework for XR Development

Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

Axon Park To Offer Expert Level In-Headset VR Design Course

Epic Floated the Idea of Building a Launch Title for Sony’s Next VR Headset

The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

XR Swim Platform Wants To Become The Steam Of WebXR Content

Epic Games Goes All In With Unreal Engine 4 Support for Google Daydream

Epic’s New Action-packed ‘Robo Recall’ FPS is Beautiful, Brutal Arcade Fun

The XR Week Peek (2022.10.24): Pico 4 Enterprise launched, Meta under criticism, and more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.04.20): Oculus Quest goes AR, Oculus Jedi may be like Valve Knuckles and much more!

Veteran VR Developers Reveal How Gaming Influences Enterprise XR Services

‘Robo Recall’ Behind-the-scenes: Insights and Artwork from Epic Games

NVIDIA Unveils Its Four Pillars Of XR Development [PAID]

‘HeadOffice.Space’ Brings VR Coworking To The Moon

Oculus Education Launches Pilot Programs In Taiwan, Japan, Seattle

Big XR News from Meta, OpenXR, NHS, CGS, GIGABYTE

The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Epic Games’ Technical Director of VR & AR, Nick Whiting

Epic’s New Robo Recall Dev Diary Details The Game’s Evolution From Bullet Train

The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

BBC Takes You To Space In VR

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

What is Zuckerbergs’s Metaverse?

The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

Watch: 12 Minutes of ‘Robo Recall’ Gameplay with Oculus Touch

How To Become A VR Designer: Careers in the Metaverse

How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

SIGN Fracture Care & Precision OS Provide Oculus Quests to Aid VR Surgical Training in Developing Countries

Epic Games Technical Director: We Want ‘Robo Recall’ To Be The ‘Ultimate Tech Demo’ For Unreal Engine

7Invensun reveals high-quality eye-tracking VR accessory for only $149

Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

Oculus Connect 3 Registration Now Open, Early Bird Passes from $199

7 Insightful XR Education Case Studies to Read in 2022

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

How to be a good VR startupper – Part 2

Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

Epic’s VR Shooter Bullet Train Is Now the Wacky Robo Recall

What to Expect From VR at VRDC and GDC 2017

#1489: “Gorilla Tag” Design Philosophy & Embodied Gameplay Deep Dive with Kerestell Smith

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