Sentences with phrase «which oculus»

Facebook - owned Oculus VR has introduced a new audio product for Rift.It's called Oculus Earphones.As you've probably guessed, Earphones are in - ear headphones, which Oculus has described as «next - level audio integration» and a «new sound solution to satisfy... Read more

It requires installing a third - party tool called Revive, which Oculus has thankfully stopped trying to kill.

«Hand Presence», which Oculus had drummed up as a sort of differentiator against the Vive controllers, doesn't seem to be a clear cut advantage for Touch.

It's comparatively expensive in price, but offers unique advantage such as the ability of room tracking, which Oculus lacks tremendously.

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This is done through the use of 360 - degree video and / or virtual re-enactments of a scene broadcast onto a headset like the Oculus Rift (which is owned by Facebook (FB)-RRB-, or even using low - tech means like the Google (GOOG) Cardboard viewer, which essentially just holds a smartphone in front of the watcher's eyes.

Luckey's contribution to the Trump inaugural was made just a few weeks before Luckey left his role at Oculus, which was purchased by Facebook for $ 2 billion in 2014.

Facebook, for one, has said that it intends to develop Oculus's virtual reality technology, which is currently only used for immersive video games, into a new type of social platform.

YouVisit also produces virtual tours of companies, factories and health - care institutions, all of which could eventually use Oculus Rift.

Notable companies include navigation system Zurich Eye and eye - tracking tech startup the Eye Tribe — both of which were acquired by Facebook's virtual reality arm Oculus — and Terraloupe, an aerial image analytics startup.

There's no market at this point,» said Tom Frencel, the Chief Executive of Little Guy Games, which put development of a Glass game on hold this year and is looking at other platforms, including the Facebook Inc - owned virtual - reality goggles Oculus Rift.

Another example is Austin, Texas - based software company Chaotic Moon, which has plans to use Oculus Rift to allow consumers to view and test - drive cars.

Marriott teamed up with Reddit, which attracts a marketing - wary crowd to begin with, to ask users to create a pitch about why the hotel chain should send its «teleporter» (an immersive booth equipped with an Oculus Rift headset) to their home city.

The Facebook CEO conducted a brief, live 360 - video broadcast in which his likeness and that of Facebook's head of social VR Rachel Franklin promoted the company's upcoming Oculus Rift developer conference later this week while also talking about the company's humanitarian efforts.

Farmers Insurance, which is affiliated with Swiss giant Zurich Insurance Group, has started a major initiative to train its army of claims adjusters with the help of Oculus Rift headsets.

Facebook also owns Oculus Rift, one of the leading players in VR, which it acquired for $ 2 billion last year.

The technology is closely related to virtual reality, in which people wear headsets like Facebook's (fb) Oculus Rift that immerse them into completely digital environments.

When a phone is placed inside the Gear VR headset it takes the user directly into the Oculus app, which is basically a free app store.

For example, there's no YouTube app in the Oculus Store, which is unfortunate given that it's probably the leading platform for user - uploaded VR content.

Both the Facebook Oculus Rift and the Samsung Gear VR headset, which is co-developed with Samsung, are powered by Facebook's Oculus software.

Oculus, the virtual reality company Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, said on Wednesday that over one million people have used the Samsung Gear VR headset in April, which indicates that consumer use of virtual reality technology is growing.

Oculus has its own video app, which you can use to purchase Hollywood movies.

The Oculus software goes to sleep when it's not on your head, which is handy and saves battery, and will automatically wake up once you put it on again.

Last week, Facebook held its annual Oculus developer conference at which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network would give $ 250 million to companies and developers that build VR software in order to spur the creation of more compelling VR content.

Shipping and selling consumer hardware to millions of people represents a new challenge for Facebook, which to date has only tried smaller - scale retail pushes for its expensive Oculus VR headset.

Oculus has the deep pockets of Facebook behind it, which could result in a subsidized headset, aiding consumer adoption.

HTC said it would continue developing its own phones, like the HTC U11, which it released earlier this year, as well as its Vive gear, a virtual reality headset that competes with Facebook's (fb) Oculus Rift.

Lowe's recently rolled out its Holoroom, which uses Oculus Rift to help customers make remodeling decisions, in seven test markets.

Samsung has its Gear VR, produced with Oculus, which retails for $ 99 and uses a Samsung phone as the display.

Such mobile - phone operated VR headsets are less powerful than more expensive versions like Facebook's (fb) Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, or Samsung's recently announced HMD Odyssey VR headset, which must be tethered to personal computers to operate.

But is the device for real or is it just a opportunistic knock - off of the Oculus Rift VR visor, which Facebook recently acquired for $ 2 billion?

Google's Street View apps and YouTube platform, meanwhile, are among the only major online outlets that currently make publishing and sharing 360 images and video easy (Facebook, which owns Oculus, is the other).

The bundles, which start at $ 1,499, include a «battle tested and certified by Oculus» computer and the Oculus Rift kit that includes a headset, necessary sensors, a remote, an Xbox One controller.

Facebook acquired Oculus for $ 2 billion last year, a technology company which created the highly anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.

However, HTC also faces competition from Facebook's Oculus Rift, which retails for $ 600 and has earned generally favorable reviews as well.

«Through micro-optics and computer vision, we hope to improve the information that can be extracted from optical sensors, which will help take virtual reality to the next level,» Nadav Grossinger, CTO of Pebbles Interfaces, wrote on the Oculus blog.

Some recent examples of companies using VR technology include Farmers Insurance, which is using Facebook's Oculus Rift headsets to train its claims adjusters and PG&E, which also uses the Rift headset to help train workers in inspecting electrical equipment.

For the World Cup, Coke created a virtual reality experience in which users could move through a Brazil's Maracana Stadium locker room, go onto the pitch, and play on the field - all via the Facebook - owned Oculus Rift headset.

But unlike the Rift, which supports room - scale location tracking, the Oculus Go is designed for stationary or seated use.

His LinkedIn currently lists him as «Founder» of Oculus VR, which is owned by Facebook.

Facebook recently completed the $ 2 billion purchase of virtual - reality goggles maker Oculus VR Inc., which is based in Irvine, California, while Walt Disney Co. is buying Culver City, California - based Maker Studios for almost $ 1 billion.

It feels nothing like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive virtual reality headsets, which completely surround you with worlds that don't exist.

Similarly, Scruta Games, which also develops for VR, said that, until Luckey steps down, they'll be cancelling Oculus support for their games.

This afternoon, Superhypercube developers Kokoromi and Polytron announced that they're canceling Oculus support for Superhypercube, which was upcoming.

VR developers at studios big and small are speaking out against Oculus, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion.

That's because there will soon be a range of new gear available, including the Oculus Rift, which is expected to hit the market next spring.

News of his support came during a time when very few figures in Silicon Valley were publicly showing support for candidate Trump, the most notable being Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook who started the VC firm Founders Fund, which backed Oculus, as well.

Soon, the Oculus Rift (which Facebook acquired for a staggering $ 2 billion) will join virtual reality...

People often find it easier to fake positive emotions than negative ones, because they involve only two muscles: the zygomaticus major, which helps curl the mouth when we smile, and the orbicularis oculi that crinkles the skin around the eyes into crow's feet.

Based on these models, DTRA sent data simulating what Discreet Oculus sensors would record during the explosion to the Air Force Technical Applications Center on Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, which distributed it to four teams of experts from the center and the U.S. national labs.

Wit might also be part of Facebook's virtual reality strategy, which got a big boost last year when the company bought Oculus Rift.