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Oculus Quest v32 Will Improve Media Sharing And Oculus Move
Oculus Quest v32 will feature big improvements to media sharing and Oculus Move.
3D Jigsaw App Puzzling Places Coming To Oculus Quest Store Next Week
Relaxing 3D jigsaw app, Puzzling Places, moves over from Oculus App Lab and onto the official Quest Store next week. The game from realities.io launches on September 2nd and there’s a store listing already up. In Puzzling Places, players piece together real-world locations captured via photogrammetry as if they were 3D jigsaws. The game saw…
The XR Week Peek (2021.08.23): Facebook launches Horizon Workrooms, Intel announces its graphics cards, and more!
???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. What I’ve not enjoyed
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Two Years After Launch and Still $1,000, Demand for Valve’s VR Headset is as Strong as Ever
A small number of people willing to buy an expensive product can really add up, as Valve is finding with its high-end Index headset. Despite shortages brought on by the Coronavirus pandemic, the headset made frequent appearances among the highest grossing products on Steam. With manufacturing bottlenecks clearing up, the headset has now been among […]
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XR Training & Gaming Startup Touts $5.2M Investment and Lamar Jackson Partnership
XR startup StatusPRO has announced it has raised a $5.2 million seed investment. While the company hasn’t fully revealed its product, it says it’s using AR and VR to create immersive sports training and gaming experiences. Teasing a partnership with NFL quarterback Lamar Jackson, the company claims its tech will usher in “a new era […]
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‘Skyrim VR’ Has Made Great Strides in Immersion Thanks to Mods
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR (2018) isn’t what you’d call a lazy VR port of the now decade-old open-world RPG, but it certainly leaves much to the imagination when it comes to the sort of immersion you’d expect to see in native VR titles. Like all things Skyrim, mods let you improve the experience in ways Bethesda […]
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PC VR Classic ‘Windlands’ Releases on Oculus Quest via App Lab
Windlands (2016), one of the founding pioneers of modern VR gaming, has made the quiet leap to Oculus Quest this past week where it lives on to finally serve up its dizzying heights and grappling hook-based movement scheme to the standalone headset. Initially released by indie developer duo Ilja Kivikangas and Simo Sainio as an Oculus […]
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Spacewalk is Postponed
The U.S. spacewalk outside the International Space Station originally planned for Tuesday, Aug. 24 with NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide has been postponed due to a minor medical issue involving Vande Hei. This issue is not a medical emergency. The spacewalk is not time-sensitive and crew …