Reality Labs Celebrates 10 Years Building Toward the Next Computing Platform
Today, we’re celebrating the last 10 years of metaverse and AI work at Reality Labs—and looking ahead toward what the future holds.
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Rift, Vive, and Virtual Reality
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GhostofWar
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This looks like those scenes in movies where someone is in hologram control type thing. As a bit of a homeworld fan, i'm keen to give it a try.
Meta Horizon OS Will Run On Headsets From ASUS & Lenovo
Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to third-party headset makers, including ASUS and Lenovo.
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GhostofWar
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I wonder how they are going to deal with the different performance of these 3rd party devices. Like the cheap devices could cause performance levels that would cause vr sickness, the refund policy on their store is ok so I guess there is that safety net.Meta Horizon OS Will Run On Headsets From ASUS & Lenovo
Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to third-party headset makers, including ASUS and Lenovo.
cheapchips
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Meta's bodged version of Android seems like an awful future for VR OS. 
This was also my first take. But I see it more of a pita for the game developers. Till now the quest was a sort of console like environment with only a few devices to optimize for which made developing easier. Now you will have to make your game scale much more. If you look at the PC space now you see that this can spell disaster down the road. We are lucky now that there aren't that many mobile vr chipsets that you can target but that will probably be different in the future.
On a positive note. Meta has by one of the best software stacks of the vr-devices. To the point that some high-spec devices sometimes fall short because of poor software. It was always a shame that meta did not have a good high-spec vr-device. Now we can have other companies that can fill that space while still have the benefit the software stack from meta.
John Carmack Doesn't Think Meta Horizon OS Is A Good Idea
John Carmack just gave his take on Meta's new strategy of providing its headset OS to third-party hardware companies.
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John Carmack post was pretty balanced. He pointed out the positive things (more hardware variety that can fill some niches and maybe high spec devices) and the negative things (slower software development and decision making at Meta). Maybe I have misread it but he didn't really say if he things it's good or bad.John Carmack Doesn't Think Meta Horizon OS Is A Good Idea
John Carmack just gave his take on Meta's new strategy of providing its headset OS to third-party hardware companies.
I'm not sure I follow you here, why would it be Meta's job to refund sales of other companies products ?
If I bought a laptop that ran badly I wouldnt expect Microsoft to give me a refund just because they supplied the operating system.
GhostofWar
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Yeh I ment being able to get a refund on a game you bought through the meta quest store. Like you have a cheap device, buy asgards wrath 2 on the quest store then when it runs horribly and gives you vr sickness you could at least refund the game.
ahh, it still depends on who's fault it is that it runs bad the game or the device. Plus you could start to see games being released with minimum system requirements.
Since I'm here I have a question when I run a vr game on steam I get the choice of Oculus vr mode or steam vr mode - what's the difference ?
Since I'm here I have a question when I run a vr game on steam I get the choice of Oculus vr mode or steam vr mode - what's the difference ?
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Meta Sees 30% Quarterly VR Revenue Growth For Q1 2024
Meta's Reality Labs AR/VR division saw 30% year-over-year growth in Q1, "driven by Quest headset sales".
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GhostofWar
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I believe it's basically choosing between going through the oculus sdk/api vs going through steams vr sdk/api which is kind of like a translation/emulation layer for oculus devices. There should be some level of better performance going through the oculus path, probably not an issue or noticeable either way unless your system is in the lower end of the performance spectrum.
Alien: Rogue Incursion Coming To Quest 3, PSVR 2, And PC VR
Alien: Rogue Incursion was just announced for Meta Quest 3, PlayStation VR2, and PC VR. Survios calls it "the biggest, most ambitious VR game we have developed in our decade-long history".
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STAR WARS™: Squadrons £1.74 (-95%)
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STAR WARS™: Squadrons on Steam
Master the art of starfighter combat in the authentic piloting experience STAR WARS™: Squadrons. Feel the adrenaline of first-person multiplayer space dogfights alongside your squadron, and buckle up in a thrilling STAR WARS™ story.
I assume everyone knows about this but, just in case someone doesnt
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Half-Life 2: VR Mod on Steam
Half Life 2: VR Mod is a fan-made project, which adds full Virtual Reality support to the original 2004 PC gaming classic by Valve Software. Are you ready to become the Freeman?
