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JULY 4, 2023

The studio has built several VR games, exclusively published by Oculus Studios, for the Rift, Go, and Quest headsets. After working closely with Twisted Pixel under Oculus Studios, it was announced late last year that Meta had acquired the studio, along with several others.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. The news comes shortly after we reported on developer frustration that Meta's Unity and Unreal integrations, which are described as using OpenXR, block other PC VR headsets. What Is OpenXR? Meta writes.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine 4.25 Unreal Engine is one of the most popular game engines for building XR content. This week Unreal Engine 4.25 Epic Games says that Unreal Engine now offers production-ready support for HoloLens 2. On the VR side, Unreal Engine 4.25 The post Unreal Engine 4.25 Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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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.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Meta's Unity and Unreal "OpenXR" integrations block other PC VR headsets, and developers aren't happy about it. But companies like Meta and Pico still also offer their own integrations for Unity and Unreal. OpenXR is the open standard API for AR/VR/MR supported by the vast majority of the industry.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. ” Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR. .”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Phase Sync Latency Reduction in Unity and Unreal Engine. Image courtesy Oculus.

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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. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. This is the big news the XR development world was waiting for for a long time. VIRTUOSO SDK (VSDK): Making XR Development More Streamlined. Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2018

Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. million in seed funding to expand the scope of the title.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2020

Oculus has updated its UE4 Quest development tools so that developers can spend less time waiting and more time testing and iterating on their VR applications. SEE ALSO Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. The following VR games and apps are available now on the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 100% free of charge via the Oculus Quest Store, App Lab, and SideQuest: COUCH. Couch is available free on Oculus (Meta) Quest via the App Lab. NEVER BOARD.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2021

Oculus Mixed Reality Capture is a plugin that lets content creators make amazing mixed reality videos of a VR game for the Oculus Quest. Since I had to make some tests with Oculus MRC for our game HitMotion: Reloaded (download it now on SideQuest !) Are you ready to implement Oculus MRC like a boss?

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Today I publish a very specific post to help Oculus developers in a particular situation I’ve been myself in: how to publish an update to an App Lab experience of yours when the “Production Channel” is missing in the Oculus Developer Hub interface and the web uploader has been deprecated. My story with this problem.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

The end for Oculus Go is nigh. The latest Oculus SDK (v19/1.51) no longer supports the company’s first true standalone VR headset. The company says in the SDK’s developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus Go has officially been dropped.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

A short video shows VR music production on the Oculus Quest 2. We’ve yet to receive any news regarding which headsets will receive support, although you can clearly see an Oculus Quest 2 headset at the very beginning of the video. You can pick up this app for free on the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 via SideQuest.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

Fortnite doesn’t natively support VR headsets, however an update coming to the popular battle royale shooter today reportedly holds mention of Oculus, possibly pointing to future VR support for the game. Epic added stuff related to Oculus (Quest, Quest 2 & Mobile) in today's update. — HYPEX (@HYPEX) August 30, 2022.

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APRIL 9, 2020

One of the coolest parts of developing with Unity or Unreal Engine is the ability to instantly hop into your VR headset and view 3D creations at scale. The ladder even has a VR mode that lets you build in-headset using the Unreal Editor tool set. Users will soon be able to view their 3D scenes in VR. Additional features on the way.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Oculus recently revealed in a blog post that in the past months they’ve been working on bringing native mixed reality capture support to Oculus Rift, and it’s available today for developers to start creating mixed reality videos. image courtesy Oculus. 3D printable mixed reality mount, image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Oculus’ PC SDK version 1.19 This week, Oculus announced the addition of LMS to their PC SDK 1.19. The post Oculus PC SDK Adds NVIDIA Lens Matched Shading to Boost Performance appeared first on Road to VR. Back in 2016, NVIDIA offered an approachable explanation of LMS. With 92.2% of Rift users using NVIDIA GPUs (65.8%

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Following a two-part blog series in partnership with Crytek , where the studio shared some of its research into VR locomotion comfort , Oculus has now added 8 new experimental locomotion methods to the SDK. A recent entry on the official Oculus blog provides an introduction to the techniques. Unreal World Beyond Static Cockpit.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2021

Built using Unreal Engine, this VR project will look and feel like a cozy modern studio filled with unique collectibles and stylish furniture. Ekholm’s NFT VR experience is designed to be used on the most common VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

Unreal Engine 4.20 In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. Unreal Engine 4.20 Updated Oculus SDK. For developers using Unreal Engine to build titles for the Rift, UE 4.20 The post Unreal Engine 4.20

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Red Matter (2018), the sci-fi puzzle-adventure from Vertical Robot , is slated to launch on Oculus Quest on August 15th. The post Sci-fi Adventure ‘Red Matter’ Coming to Oculus Quest in August appeared first on Road to VR. In the meantime, check out why we gave Red Matter a solid [8.3/10]

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Following a prominent lawsuit between ZeniMax and Facebook/Oculus which resulted in a $500 million award to ZeniMax , the company is now seeking an injunction to prevent Oculus from continuing to use code that was found by the jury to infringe upon ZeniMax’s copyright.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

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. VR training lets surgeons in low-resource countries go through the motions before performing on patients.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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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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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store. Finally, Penrose Studios’ award-winning narrative VR experience is available for the Oculus Rift for $7.99. The MetaHuman tool is powered by the Unreal Engine.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2019

Oculus Rift S doesn’t have a launch date yet, although it seems the most recent Oculus software update has brought along with it a few day-one essentials for prospective Rift S owners. We suspect the ‘Oculus First Steps’ tutorial will automatically follow after a user goes through the initial setup of their Rift S.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Oculus recently published a new guide on how to optimize VR experiences along with some of the common pitfalls for devs to watch out for when tracking down and solving VR performance issues. SEE ALSO Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Back at CES, Oculus announced that Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi would exclusively bring its own branded version of the standalone Oculus Go headset to China. The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone headset is identical hardware to the forthcoming Oculus Go, the $200 standalone headset that Oculus announced late last year.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2018

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if the app passed minimum standards and a content review to determine it was a complete and polished experience. image courtesy Oculus.

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JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. There are a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking.

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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. Oculus improves development time for UE4 developers. Image by Pico).

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