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Oculus now making virtual reality a social thing Got a Samsung Gear VR? Youc an now play VR games collaboratively with your friends. Oculus Social is a new option on the Oculus VR platform that will let users create online profiles, share videos with friends and game together.

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Facebook's Oculus adds Social Games and Video Sharing To Gear VR

Facebook’s Oculus adds Social Games and Video Sharing To Gear VR

VR technology which has gained traction amongst users in the last couple of months looks set to be breaking barriers and becoming a truly social hub for activities in the coming days. Facebook-owned Oculus has decided to shift its focus towards making our VR experience in the coming days more social with the addition of a number of features such as the addition of social games and social elements…

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Welcome to the Metaverse

With virtual reality head mounted displays connected to the internet it was only a matter of time before we saw the first iterations of the metaverse.  Right now they aren’t much to look at- basically low poly, customizable, 3D chat environments, but the more they incorporate web data sharing they more it looks like we are plugging into the beginnings of the metaverse.  

Here we highlight a few that are up and running right now. Though it’s far from a complete list- it touches upon the major players in the space.

VRCHAT

VR chat is a platform for navigating virtual worlds that you can host on webspace and explore it with othe VRchat users. If you are designing in Unity it’s as easy as downloading the SDK and exporting your scenes into VRchat files. Accessible through a web browser as well as oculus rift they have around 20 people coming to their weekly events which includ Gunters Universe a talk show about VR technologies as well as their Sunday night hangout where everyone gets together and explores the new worlds they have been creating

Janus VR

Janus is the one that really feeling like the beginnings of the metaverse. At any time you can hit tab, enter a website address and it immediately populates a well designed world with the website data and creates a portal that you can walk through. A few people wandering about!

Above is an example of a Janus VR world where you can walk right into a 360 video!

High Fidelity

Started by the founder of Second Life High fidelity is taking more of a minecraft meets unity approach. There is a marketplace that  feels similar to unity’s asset store where you can buy everything from terrains to avatars.  They are doing some revolutionary things on the sharing and hosting of virtual worlds and information. On top of running the high fidelity app you run a  stack manager program that runs behind the scenes aiding with the flow of data.

Convrge

Just a one world environment for now, hosting weekly meetups with friendly folks. Their events vary from movie nights, to art and music shows as well as social experiments

Oculus Social VR

Right now Oculus Social is limited to sitting in a room with 5 other people watching twitch feeds or choosing from a curated list of Vimeo content. The rooms are based on what is offered from the Oculus Video app store which include a classic theatre, a tiny ant world and a private theatre for you and your favourite 5 strangers from around the world . While that may sound limiting it really is one of the most engaging experiences available in Virtual Reality at the moment. You can finally step outside the ‘Swayze Effect’ of non interactive virtual reality content and have other peoples avatars look and converse with you.

COMEDY IN THE METAVERSE!

We are looking for a few comedians to do a short set in Virtual Reality Sunday December 6th. We’ll have the comedians gather in our offices in downtown Vancouver, but the audience will be everywhere! Want to be a part of the first ever VR Stand Up Comedy show? Start time is 7:00 and we’re looking for folks to do a 10-15 minutes set.

You will be wearing an Oculus Rift VR headset and once you choose from a list of avatars we will bring you in to our VR comedy club where other people from around the world will be watching you do a stand up routine.

Contact Mike ([email protected]) if you are interested/can make it/want more info!

THANKS!

Mike

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Video Hands-On with ‘Oculus Social’, Enabling Shared Experiences on Gear VR

In addition to the trivia game, Carmack promised some “VrScript based experiences.” Built on Scheme, VrScript is a new scripting language for Android VR that Carmack helped to develop to enable rapid iteration on virtual reality development. In addition to that, the VrScript is built to allow for easy iteration on networked social experience, like Oculus Social.

Palmer Luckey has already told us that the Social SDK goes “beyond a puppet and gameplay avatar and voice chat,” saying, “it is all the other things you need to be able to do.” It looks like we will see some of those things demonstrated over the next few weeks with Carmack’s trivia and VrScript apps.

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Samsung Gear VR reactions at Oculus Connect

Samsung Gear VR reactions at Oculus Connect

Yesterday, Samsung announced its new $99 Gear VR headset and we were there at Oculus Connect developer conference to spend some hands-on time with Samsung’s latest virtual reality hardware. (Samsung was keen to specify that the unit we played with was a pre-production model.) As mentioned during the announcement, the new hardware is designed to work with Samsung’s latest smartphone releases.…

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