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[Link] VR Sickness: A New, Old Problem
Read: 29/11/2022 hackaday.com
Have you ever experienced dizziness, vertigo, or nausea while in a virtual reality experience? That’s VR sickness, and it’s a form of motion sickness.
[Link] Being a Facebook Metaverse ‘Community Guide’ Seems Like a Nightmare Job
Read: 16/2/2022 www.vice.com
Imagine you had to moderate a Facebook comment thread, only each commenter was able to come up to you, wave their hands in your face, and scream whatever they want. Peanutbutter sighs loudly and approaches the group of kids.
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[Link] Meta's Oculus Quest rebrand is off to a disastrous start
Read: 6/2/2022 www.creativebloq.com
It's going to take us a while to get used to calling Facebook Meta, but spare a thought for Oculus Quest users, who are also being asked to call their VR headset by a new name.
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[Link] Meta to bring in mandatory distances between virtual reality avatars
Read: 5/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual reality business is to introduce a mandatory distance between people’s digital avatars following warnings that the social media tycoon’s plans for a metaverse will lead to a new wave of online harassment.
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[Link] Zuckerberg: Meta Will Continue To Subsidize Headset Cost
Read: 8/11/2021 uploadvr.com
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave insight into the company’s current and future hardware business model at Connect 2021, indicating that the plan is to continue to sell devices at cost or with subsidies to help build a larger ecosystem with as many users as possible.
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[Link] Facebook has ruined our reality, now it’s coming for the metaverse too
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
“Facebook”. The word paints a thousand pictures, every one of them a portrait of some element of the human condition I could happily live without. Message requests from veterans in Montana that read, “Hello beautiful Lady.
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[Link] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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[Link] What Crisis? Facebook Made $9 Billion In Profit in the Last 3 Months
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the face of it, Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in its history.
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[Link] Opinion: Dear Facebook: No one cares about Oculus; give us Instagram revenue!
Read: 26/10/2021 www.marketwatch.com
Facebook goes the Alphabet route — giving investors numbers on a young business instead of mature operations, while renaming the company — but can we just skip to the part where the SEC makes Zuckerberg tell investors what they actually want to know? Facebook Inc.
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[Link] Valve's Index successor rumoured to be a standalone VR headset
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Valve may have another VR headset design in the works to follow up the excellent Index, but this time it could be completely standalone.
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[Link] Developer Turns Half-Life: Alyx’s City 17 Into Quest Home Environment
Read: 21/8/2021 uploadvr.com
We probably won’t see a native version of Half-Life: Alyx on Oculus Quest headsets anytime soon, but one developer did bring the game’s iconic setting to the platform.
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[Link] Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the ethnic and religious clashes facilitated by their platforms.
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[Link] Editorial: Oculus Quest 2 Is Becoming A VR Personal Computer
Read: 7/8/2021 uploadvr.com
Earlier this week I installed Blizzard’s Hearthstone, Apple Music, and the flatscreen Android version of Netflix on Oculus Quest 2. To my left, I played a game of Hearthstone with hand tracking while on the right I watched Terminator 2 downloaded locally from Netflix.
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[Link] Oculus’ Passthrough API will enable experiences that mix VR and the real world
Read: 28/7/2021 www.theverge.com
Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video from the Quest 2’s sensors into their games and applications, creating a mixed reality experience.
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[Link] Lynx R1: XR2 AR-VR Hybrid Ships 2022 For ‘A Few Hundred Dollars’
Read: 14/7/2021 uploadvr.com
French startup Lynx is shifting strategy for its upcoming AR-VR hybrid headset, dramatically lowering the price to target consumers too. Lynx R1 was initially announced in February 2020 as a $1500 product focused on businesses & professionals.
[Link] Facebook Brings Subscription Support To Quest
Read: 17/4/2021 uploadvr.com
In a new Oculus blog post, Facebook announced official support for subscriptions services on the Oculus Quest platform. Rec Room, VZFit and more will be the first apps to adopt the new model.
[Link] Resident Evil 4 VR announced for Oculus Quest 2 as a first-person remake
Read: 16/4/2021 arstechnica.com
On Thursday, Capcom announced that its megaton horror series Resident Evil will soon return to virtual reality. But instead of adding a VR mode to the upcoming Resident Evil VIII: Village, slated to launch next month, the game maker threw horror fans a curveball.
[Link] Editorial: Pokémon Go Should Be AR’s Guide For Decades
Read: 12/4/2021 uploadvr.com
Pokémon Go is in a class by itself with near-universal appeal and it will be a guiding light for AR development in the years to come. Perhaps I’m a bit warped by my attachment to the creatures I started capturing on my Gameboy before the turn of the century.