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As amazing as VR can be, nothing breaks the immersion like putting your hand right through a wall. While some teams are using haptics to simulate the sense of touch, a new study has a clever alternative – robots that move physical furniture around, so … Continue reading VR system moves furniture with robots to make virtual objects real
Facebook’s extraordinary Oculus Quest completely changed the VR game. No wires, no PC, no external sensors, this was the first proper all-in-one headset that you could take to a friend’s place, throw straight on their head and dive into a virtual reali… Continue reading Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 takes wireless VR to the next level
If virtual reality headgear is going to start gaining more mass appeal, making these wearables as light and as unobtrusive as possible is really going to help. To this end Facebook just unveiled some VR specs it’s busy working on, which look similar to… Continue reading Facebook’s new prototype offers a look at a lighter VR future
The Oculus Quest is an extraordinary, standalone virtual reality device that needs no wires, no high-end gaming PCs and no wall-mounted tracking cameras. I’m a big fan of this zero-barrier-to-entry VR headset, as you may have gleaned from our review, a… Continue reading Oculus Quest can now give you beautifully tracked virtual hands in VR
For the next nine days, anyone with an Oculus Go or Oculus Quest can access a 15-film lineup of immersive 3D films from around the globe, free of charge, curated and presented by the Tribeca Film Festival. Cinema360 will run from April 17 to 26.Continu… Continue reading Tribeca opens Cinema360, a VR film festival you can enjoy at home
I find it amazing just how many people haven’t yet had their first taste of virtual reality – but I understand why. It’s expensive, the headsets are bulky and weird, it looks pretty antisocial, and it’s the kind of thing you need to be a bit of a nerd … Continue reading Review: Why people are going nuts over the Oculus Quest
If you’re logged into Facebook, it will suck up information such as which apps you use to provide “relevant content, including ads.” Continue reading Facebook will target ads based on your Oculus VR data
Facebook’s Oculus announced built-in hand-tracking on the Oculus Quest for early 2020, but it’s now releasing the feature early to Quest users, with an SDK coming for developers next week.
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Developer icon John Carmack announced that he is stepping down as Oculus CTO so that he can focus on AI.
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Facebook-owned Oculus is getting new, deep Facebook integrations as Oculus revamps its social platform and plans to build more of its social infrastructure on Facebook’s tech.
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