Sign up to get a weekly summary of the most important VR and AR news, straight to your inbox. Available now in beta early access on Oculus Store to only a limited group of Oculus Quest users, the new version of Venues still offers users a front-row seat at live eventsincluding sports games, concerts, comedy shows, and a wide variety of other real-time broadcasts within virtual reality, but with a much stronger focus around social interaction and experiences. And you never share your real-life photo either; it's always just your avatar. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. By subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. Thats still the core of this new version, according to the store description, but the service has seen a massive visual overhaul. Check out our New To VR? Some on Reddit say theyve been able to download it, but UploadVR Video Editor Zeena Al-Obaidi couldnt find it listed at all. Ad Choices, With Venues, Oculus and Facebook Push Social VR Into New Territory. But while Hubs has been cited among the projects that will survive, it is unclear what is happening. Another way of doing this is to select any of the seats by you. I hopped around a virtual arena and sat with other avatars during a VR broadcast of a basketball game last week for an hour, and I didn't hate it. In addition to these new locations, newly-leaked images showcase a new avatar creation system. If the event is available to watch now you'll have an option to join the venue to get in. It is so possible for instance to wink with one eye and make a strange grimace with the mouth, and see the system still correctly tracking the facial expression. Concerts, sporting events, and movie nightsall live, in three dimensions, and surrounded by hundreds of strangers. But it's still one that Facebook and Oculus profess to be determined to get out in front of. "Just because you can in VR doesn't always mean you should. You can also see those friends friends, providing theyve opted in to sharing details of mutual commonality like Pages that you both like. LeBeau's team started putting users into the new version and they got it. Its parent company, Facebook, has never done anything like this. Thankfully, it seems I won't have long to do so. Theyll be joined by others watching it liveperhaps as many as in Red Rocks itself, perhaps more. Oculus Oculus 'Venues' Revamp to Add New Lobby, Avatars, and Social Features, Meta Connect Developer Conference to Be Held Virtually on October 11th, Zuckerberg Confirms Next Meta Quest VR Headset will Launch in October, Zuckerberg Responds to Meta Avatar Memes, Promises Upgrades to Visuals. Since I dont think that the PSVR2 is coming in 5 years (or well, at least I hope so) and for sure it is not managed by Sony Corporation, to me, this looks like a new project by Sony to enter the XR field. Montrouge, the le-de-France, France Lat Long Coordinates Info. This means if you like the Android Central Facebook page only the other people who have also like the page will be able to see that you do. Or so they found out when they settled on what LeBeau calls a "hamster ball" design. For instance, if you're watching a late night concert it will give you warnings about the potential foul language you might hear in the songs or audience.
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