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

APRIL 17, 2018

How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? It wasn’t long ago that the best method of moving around games and virtual worlds were two joysticks or a set of keyboard keys and a mouse. No longer is a joystick or a button needed to move your head around. With the SteamVR 2.0

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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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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. Global Cloud Saves.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. A real space can be turned into a virtual one with the exact same layout (Image by syncreality). SyncReality’s Vision.

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ARVR

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the novel, the metaverse is a virtual world where users can interact with each other and with virtual objects in real time. MMOs are virtual worlds that allow large numbers of players to interact with each other and with the game environment in real time.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In effect, this lets you walk around the VR user’s virtual environment and freely take in the scene at any practical perspective while the VR user goes about playing the game. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Supports "Arena-scale" Tracking and Multi-room Guardian.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 16, 2018

During the hour-long town hall meeting, Keegen, the program owner from AltSpaceVR, introduced key team members behind the new virtual environment to assist her during the presentation. Creating an event the old way, meant logging into the AltspaceVR website through a computer and setting up the details of your event online.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

MR-integrated immersive wearables allow a user to combine their surrounding real and virtual worlds. MR passthrough enables users to display augmented visuals in real-world locations or introduce real-world items, such as a keyboard, into a workplace VR environment.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. I just want to augment my world.”. billion USD when he sold his VR company to Facebook. “It

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

At the end of this simultaneous performance, the participants gathered in the courtyard of the Palais Royal will be able to chat live with Jean-Michel Jarre’s avatar, erasing even further the boundaries between the physical and the virtual worlds. Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an industry landscape where unconventional, art-focused projects often struggle to find support, we were extraordinarily fortunate to connect with Meta (at the time known as Oculus). Far from being a mere menu or grid, our inventory system is organically woven into the fabric of the game’s universe.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2017

Spaces , available today as a beta on the Oculus Rift (and playable on Vive with a hack ), demonstrates a few key concepts of socializing in VR: Social VR doesn’t necessarily require virtual exploration of a virtual environment. Many other social VR apps place users in a world space and ask them to move about.

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Cats and VR

JULY 20, 2016

HelloVR’s MetaWorld will place players in nearly 10,000 square miles of virtual environment in the first ever massive, physics-based virtual social space of its kind. The scale of the simulated world, and its networked physics, is enabled by SpatialOS. That’s a key part of making a virtual world feel real.”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. Image by Oculus). In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2018

One of the employees even admitted that at home he sometimes uses an Oculus Rift and the various startups in the Vive-X are free to use Windows Mixed Reality headsets. So, while there are HTC and Oculus fanboys that hate each other, it seems that HTC people have absolutely no hate for Oculus. The Vive Wireless Adapter receiver.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual reality is described as a “three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”,

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Sinespace , a virtual world platform from OpenSim co-founder Adam Frisby, launched its virtual reality beta last week and reports 20 percent weekly user growth. Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Virtual meeting. (Image courtesy Sinespace.).

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ARPost

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We see a lot of resistance from professors to adhere to this system because they already have their syllabi (…) but COVID is forcing everyone into these virtual environments,” said IE Business School’s Tech Lab Head Chelu Martin. This is really the beginning of us understanding how virtual worlds have meaning,” said Shannon.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

However, following the release of consumer equipment like the HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Sony PSVR and the various mobile VR headsets , we now have a different situation with a much larger group of people (the general population) using virtual reality on a regular basis, for longer periods of time.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I Oh look, we have again an Oculus account on Twitter! Inside it, Mark Zuckerberg has shown a prototype Meta is working on, called Builder Bot. Some XR fun.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

In VR, the user is completely absorbed in a virtual environment and minimises boundaries and markers. The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

One of the leading generation-defining gaming studios in the world today, Respawn Entertainment has developed a significant following for titles like Apex Legends, Titanfall 2, and even Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. To unlock this new world, Sense Arena worked with the experts at VIVE. Alta VR, AWS, and Oculus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 4, 2022

From the world-changing augmented experiences offered by Pokémon Go, to the incredible worlds unlocked by the Oculus Quest, the innovations of XR in gaming are quickly becoming mainstream. Collaborative apps within a VR environment can bring team members together to work on game landscapes in real-time.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Your avatar is a representation of you in the virtual world, so they’re a very important part of the Metaverse experience. These assets travel with you, and that creates a more unified experience when traveling between different virtual worlds. Think of it this way. Your avatar can become your wallet.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Let me tell you what Facebook's metaverse is right now: it's a few tools for meetings in virtual environments. It's games and experiences on Facebook's Oculus virtual reality platform. It's a pair of not-very-good smart glasses. It's a failed digital currency project.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

AltspaceVR allows people to host and attend live shows, meetups, and classes from anywhere around the world in virtual reality although not the most suitable tool for business and virtual reality collaboration. It works on the desktop allowing you to turn your desktop into a virtual reality device. The Prospect v2.10

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

My arms swing at my sides (in real life, and in the virtual world) as I move along the rail. The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. He pressed the button to call the trolley but it wouldn’t come.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

My arms swing at my sides (in real life, and in the virtual world) as I move along the rail. The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. He pressed the button to call the trolley but it wouldn’t come.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JUNE 20, 2023

However, this could be about to change, as more developers work on the creation of mixed reality smart glasses and headsets, specifically designed for the enterprise. Even the newer enterprise-focused Oculus Quest headset from Meta offers access to mixed reality elements, to help businesses combine the virtual and physical worlds.

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XROM

MAY 1, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) headsets have gained popularity in recent years due to their immersive and engaging experience. Among the highest-selling VR headsets are the Oculus Quest 2, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Every new VR headset brings amplified visual fidelity, with Oculus Quest 2 , Pico Neo 3 , Varjo VR-3 and other remarkable VR devices enabling life-like quality of visuals. Integrating a function to retrace the steps is one of the ways to help users learn and advance within the virtual environment.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Much like our UI Widgets , it’s a set of interface elements – switch, lever and potentiometer – that can be embedded in any virtual environment. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Most of the focus so far has been on building those worlds and experiences, but if we’re ever to achieve a true sense of presence in these virtual worlds, we need to also be able to create really good avatars. Full immersion and meaningful social interaction can only really happen if we feel comfortable in our virtual skins.

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VRWorld

APRIL 11, 2017

PowerDVD 17 adds support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets to bring virtual reality content front and center for users, along with groundbreaking innovations in 360 video playback. ” Furthermore, TrueTheater HDR technology is bringing GPU-accelerated video conversion that emulates HDR video on standard non-HDR video.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. The best VR headset on the market just got even better.

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