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Best Android Apps For Oculus Go

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Oculus Go

The Oculus Go and the Gear VR are very similar, with the main difference being that the Oculus Go doesn't require you to put your phone inside of it. That's usually a good thing as it makes the Oculus Go easy to share with friends and lets people use VR

VR, presence and the case of the missing killer app

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killer

Compelling virtual reality shipped to developers and consumers nearly two years ago. The first flagship headsets arrived from Oculus and HTC back in the spring of 2016, offering enough resolution, frame rate, field of view, latency mitigation and position-tracking to produce believable visual immersion. But no one seems to know

Virtual reality app designed to alleviate workplace, other stress

by David Harris -
StoryUp

Hill is the founder and CEO of StoryUp VR, a virtual reality company that provides guided meditation and positive thinking activities designed to reduce stress. Founded in 2015, StoryUp recently launched a product for corporate use and an app that includes Ledford’s waterfall experience. StoryUp’s technologies have been used in corporations,

HTC Vive Focus VR Headset Shown In Trademark Apps

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The HTC Vive is regarded as one of the best VR headsets on the market. A lot of competition has been introduced since the HTC Vive originally launched including Sony’s Playstation VR headset but the Vive has still stood up as the favorite virtual reality headset among enthusiasts. Now, it

NASA Explores Virtual Reality Applications

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reality

NASA is the latest organization to embrace virtual and augmented reality. Thomas Grubb, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is leading a team to develop six multidisciplinary pilot projects highlighting the potential of VR and AR applications that could be used by NASA in the future. “Anyone who followed the

Facebook put cork in chatbots that created a secret language

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chatbots

A pair of chatbots has recently done something children often do: create a secret language. Last month, researchers at Facebook found two bots developed in the social network's AI division had been communicating with each other in an unexpected way. The bots, named Bob and Alice, had generated a language all on

Facebook Stories unlocks public sharing

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share

Facebook could jumpstart its Snapchat clone by letting social media stars and public figures post Stories publicly. When Facebook Stories launched globally in March, you could only share to all their friends or a subset of them. Now if you allow public followers, you can post your Story publicly so

Tracking my life with tech to improve my life

by David Harris -
quantified life sleep app

There’s this idea that if we quantify and track our lives, our lives will be better. But I’m not so sure about that. Over the past week, I’ve tracked both my sleep and bedroom air quality. Let’s first take a look at the Beautyrest Sleeptracker. The Sleeptracker comes with a couple

AltspaceVR social app is shutting down

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AltspaceVR

Social VR app AltspaceVR is shutting down its main service after running out of cash, saying it “can’t afford to keep the virtual lights on anymore.” The app was one of the first VR social experiences to gain traction and was available across a variety of platforms. In a blog post

The 10 best virtual reality apps

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Virtual reality apps can immerse you in incredible 360-degree visuals. You don't need to splash hundreds of pounds on headsets such as the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, you can enjoy a great VR experience using your smartphone and some brilliant apps. While early VR experiences were limited to advanced headsets, now there are

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