Introducing VR view: embed immersive content into your apps and websites | Google Blog
So Google announced that it will add a VR view functionality to the Google Cardboard SDK. This new feature will allow you as a developer or website owner to integrate VR images and video early. All you need is a few lines of code and you are all set to make you website or application more immersive for VR users.
VR views take 360 VR images or videos then make them into virtual reality experiences that users can view on a phone, with Cardboard VR, or on the computer. Native apps can embed a VR view by grabbing the latest Cardboard SDK for Android or iOS* . Embedding a VR view on the web is as simple as adding an iframe on your site.
I can’t wait to see what all the developers will do with this new feature. I think that this will enable more opportunities for example maybe snapchat might use this in their app.
Uncover one of Abbey Road’s Mastering Suites, where a record gets its finishing touches before a release. In Studio 1, experience what it’s like to be in a recording session with the London Symphony Orchestra with surround sound.
Inside Abbey Road for Cardboard VR, you can get closer to the history and innovation of the most famous music studios in the world.
Cardboard Camera app for Cardboard VR | Google Blog
Now you can see your amazing panoramic pictures in a full 360 view with Google Cardboard VR with this new app announced by Google. Cardboard Camera turns the smartphone in your pocket into a virtual reality (VR) camera.
VR photos are three-dimensional panoramas, with slightly different views for each eye, so near things look near and far things look far. With Cardboard Camera, anyone can create their own VR experience.
Taken with Cardboard Camera at Jackson Lake, Wyoming. | Google Blog
Partners and developers were showing experiences on the HTC Vive | HTCVive.com
The GDC attracts over 26,000 attendees where Valve unveiled The Lab which Forbes reported“is a collection of mini-games developed to introduce players to the various mechanics VR brings to the table. Stuff like room-scale, projectile physics, locomotion, and interaction with the environment among others.”
In addition to The Lab, HTC Vive invited over 30 developers to showcase their experiences in the Valve booth. These experiences included Selfie Tennis, Adventure Time, Arizona Sunshine and many more.
Another experience that had the conference attendees talking was Black Shield from China-based developer V-Sensory.
Finally, ILMxLab released their trailer for Trials on Tatooine which will allow everyone to live out their childhood fantasy of wielding a lightsaber against the Dark Side.
Second Generation Developer Kit, the Vive Pre | HTCVive.vom
The HTC Vive was well received at CES 2016 with over 20 partners showing the Vive on the show. Numerous guests had a chance to try out the second generation Developer Kit, the Vive Pre.
HTC Vive partners were showing off multiple use cases for Vive Pre and the technology it offers. Check out the HTC Vive CES recap videos below.
Oculus Rift deliveries begin today soon people all over the world will be experiencing fully-immersive VR in their own homes. Kickstarter units will start arriving today, and the first pre-ordered Rifts will start shipping mid-week and arrive soon after.
You can order a Rift on Oculus.com or purchase an Oculus Ready PC and Rift bundle from Amazon, BestBuy and Microsoft Store.
Dozens of VR games, 360 videos, film shorts, an incredible lineup of more than 30 games available on the Oculus Store.
Oculus Video for Rift launches today with thousands of Facebook 360 videos. Oculus 360 Photos, you can explore over 200,000 incredible destinations. You’ll relax on a beach in the tropics, peer over a mountaintop in the Alps, and enjoy amazing scenes from across the universe. Every Rift comes with Oculus Dreamdeck, a unique set of VR vignettes designed to introduce you to the world of virtual reality.
Oculus announce Farlands, a tiny alien world that comes with your Rift. It’s a new kind of virtual reality experience created by Oculus that’s built with Epic’s UE4 and designed for Rift.
Oculus PC SDK 1.3 is now available on the Oculus Developer Center. You can download the SDK here, and read more about building experiences for Rift on the developer blog.
Join Friends in VR with New Oculus Social Features | Oculus.com
Now you can experience games, videos, and more with friends in VR! Starting tomorrow, people with a Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus, can create a profile and then easily search for others on the platform by real name or Oculus username.
Social Trivia, created by Oculus, is a new game that lets you and up to four friends compete in a battle of knowledge. Look for it in the Concepts section of the Oculus Store.
Social Trivia, created by Oculus | Oculus.com
In the coming weeks, you’ll be able to like and share your favorite Facebook 360 videos from within VR.
Demo and purchase it at select Best Buy and AT&T | Oculus.com
Today he new Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus will be shipping today to everyone who got to pre-order it about week ago. You can check out the full detail here on the Oculus website.
Gear VR offers an immersive mobile VR experience that can transport you to another world through hundreds of VR games, movies, videos, and a bunch 360 photos.
Oculus also announced that Oculus Concepts is now available on Gear VR! Concepts is part of the Oculus Store where developers can distribute experimental apps and games. Developers can submit apps to Concepts details are in the Gear VR Submission Guidelines.
Oculus Community Game Night: VR Karts
You can also join Oculus, from 5-7pm PT, for the first Community Game Night with VR Karts on Gear VR!
Oculus Mobile is a key part of putting virtual reality in the hands of everyone. Samsung, introduced an all new consumer edition of Gear VR for $99. This new version will be compatible with Samsung Galaxy Note 5, S6 edge +, S6, and S6 edge.
Oculus Mobile is a key part of virtual reality | Oculus.com
A few of the incredible new games, videos, and experiences coming to Gear in the months ahead.
Coming to Gear in the months | Oculus.com
Dozens of new made-for-VR games are launching on Gear VR, including Land’s End by UsTwo, Gunjack by CCP Games, and Smash Hit by Mediocre.
Oculus introduced Oculus Arcade for Gear VR, which brings more than 20 classic games from Sega, Warner Bros. Midway, and Bandai Namco into your own virtual arcade.
Many of our favorites like Sonic the Hedgehog, Gauntlet, Spy Hunter, and Pac-Man will be available when Oculus Arcade launches later this year.
Oculus Arcade on Gear VR | Oculus.com
Oculus Cinema has been reborn as Oculus Video, and greatly expanded the content library with a group of amazing new partners.
Oculus Cinema has been reborn as Oculus Video | Oculus.com
Oculus is working with Hollywood studios to introduce a completely new way to experience movies you’ll be able to watch over 100 hit movies, all from a virtual theater.
Oculus also partnered with Twitch to bring live streaming video to Gear VR. You can even watch with friends in avatar form, showing a true social presence in VR.
And finally, Facebook launched 360 videos in News Feed, and starting in November, you’ll be able to access all of that 360 content right from Oculus Video.
Netflix VR now available on Gear VR
Starting today, Netflix customers can watch their entire catalog of award-winning original series, documentaries and films on Gear VR.
Oculus announced the new Oculus Ready PC program, designed to make it easy to buy a great PC for Rift.
Oculus ready for PC Logo | Oculus.com
When you see this logo you know this machine meets the recommended spec and has been tested to ensure a great experience.
New Rift Games and Rift SDK 1.0
The Rift SDK 1.0 will be coming this December. Games built with 1.0 will be ready to release on Rift day one. They’ll also be compatible with future releases of the runtime.
Introducing the New Oculus Platform
Oculus announced new features and services coming to Oculus platform this winter.
Head of Developer Strategy, Anna Sweet | Oculus.com
Oculus will be adding more robust features around User Profiles to allow people to personalize their Oculus accounts. Game developers will be able to customize information by utilizing things like OculusIDs and avatar pictures.
Also introducing Oculus Concepts, a new way for developers to distribute content in the early stages of development with the broader Oculus community.
Concepts will launch first on Gear VR, and next year on Rift.
Earlier this year, Oculus introduced Oculus Touch, a new pair of tracked controllers that let you bring your own hands into VR and take your games and experiences even further. T
Feeling that your virtual hands are your own | Oculus.com
Touch hardware available to developers, and the Touch SDK is shipping alongside developer hardware. The Touch SDK will have everything you need including API’s for determining the position of the controllers, recognizing hand controllers, and driving the haptics avatar hands. These will be fully integrated into Unity and Unreal with sample code.
Introducing ‘Oculus Medium’
Oculus Medium is a new art tool that was created for Touch.
It lets you use the Touch controllers to reach out and create incredible works of art in virtual reality.Medium will be shipping alongside Touch in Q2, and it’s also available to try here at Connect.
New Games coming to Oculus Touch
Oculus has 8 new games coming to Oculus Touch, including:
Final Approach by Phaser Lock Interactive
Moon Strike by Big Dorks
Pulsar Arena by ZeroTransformation
Job Simulator by Owlchemy Labs
I Expect You To Die by Schell Games
Nimbus Knights by Otherworld Interactive
Dead & Buried by Oculus Studios Team
Surgeon Simulator by Bossa Studios
Epic Debuts ‘Bullet Train’ Demo for Oculus Touch
Epic debuted a brand new Oculus Touch demo, ‘Bullet Train’, a VR gunfight experience allowing you to interact in bullet time and teleport around the scene.
Gear VR is bringing VR to millions, Rift is enabling next-gen gaming and true presence, and Touch is redefining the way we interact in VR.
Oculus entered into an agreement to acquire Pebbles Interfaces — one of the leading teams in depth sensing technology and computer vision.
Pebbles Interfaces has spent the past five years developing technology that uses custom optics, sensor systems and algorithms to detect and track hand movement. Over time, technology breakthroughs in sensors will unlock new human interaction methods in VR and revolutionize the way people communicate in virtual worlds.
Pebbles Interfaces will be joining the hardware engineering and computer vision teams at Oculus to help advance virtual reality, tracking, and human-computer interactions.
Oculus announced that the Surreal Vision team has joined Oculus Research!
Surreal Vision is one of the top computer vision teams in the world focused on real-time 3D scene reconstruction – generating an accurate representation of the real world in the virtual world. Great scene reconstruction will enable a new level of presence and telepresence, allowing you to move around the real world and interact with real-world objects from within VR.
Oculus will hold the second annual developer conference called Oculus Connect 2. They will have several keynotes about virtual reality. The year before there where over 1,000 developers that attended where they experienced the first Oculus Rift prototype.
Oculus Connect 2 takes place Sept. 23-25, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, CA. Applications to attend the event, along with a call for papers, will be available on the Oculus Connect website starting in June, and attendance confirmations will be sent out soon after.
Render the Metaverse with Oculus and OTOY | Oculus.com
Oculus and OTOY will partner up to create a virtual reality art show with $75,000 in prizes. Mary Lou Joseph and Anna Sweet joined the Oculus team as well. At Oculus, Mary Lou will be developing displays that will make it possible to push the boundaries of virtual reality technology. The International Commerce Now Available on Gear VR where you can play games like Viral, DarkNet, DreadHalls and more.
Oculus Game Developer Conference 2015 | Oculus.com
Oculus will be at the GDC event all week and they a lot of exciting things to announce this week. It will definitely be about games since its at the GDC where most of the attendees are gamers and developers. The Oculus team will be giving some talks about mobile VR and other virtual reality concerns. Oculus goes over a few technical issues that were men explained in their blog post. The Oculus Rift will show off a few demos which has code name of “Crescent Bay” at the moment. Oculus also announced the Oculus Audio SDK which helps developers find out the spacial sound around them to implement in the games or VR apps. It’s no surprise since they have a mobile VR jam coming up and I’m sure they will use this new SDK.
