Jahshaka Blog
Oculus Quest’s secret trick: It can double as a wired PC VR headset
At Wednesday's Oculus Connect conference, the virtual reality company took the wraps off a secret that it had apparently hidden in its recent high-quality Oculus Quest headset all along. The $400 device has been marketed as a standalone wireless VR system, but thanks...
Oculus Quest standalone VR headset shipping next year
Oculus has announced its new headset, the Oculus Quest: a $399 standalone virtual reality headset that’s launching in the spring of 2019. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that “with Oculus Quest, we will complete our first generation of Oculus products.” Zuckerberg...
Jahshaka Studio 0.7.3 Alpha Release
The industry leading open source VR authoring toolkit, Jahshaka, has released version 0.7.3 alpha for windows, OsX and Linux. This release is the final in the 0.7 branch and builds on the new foundation laid out in 0.6.0 for powerful dynamic assets and materials. It...
Vancouver’s VR/AR Global Summit Puts Content First
Every day last year, the average North American consumed over 10 hours of digital media. On-demand streaming and the internet have transformed how individuals interact with screens, with most spending more time in front of a monitor than any other activity – including...
Pimax “8K” to Begin Shipping By Month’s End, Pimax “5K” Plus Announced
While Pimax has been met with several delays in delivering its ultra-wide FOV headsets, the quest to get headsets out the door to backers of its successful Kickstarter campaign may soon be coming to a conclusion. The company says the first “8K” and “5K” headsets will...
Early VR Pioneer CCP Games Acquired by ‘Black Desert Online’ MMO Developer for $425M
CCP Games, an Icelandic game studio known for the long running EVE: Online MMO and their eager jump into and eventual backpedaling in the VR space, has been acquired by Korea-based developer Pearl Abyss, the studio behind the MMO Black Desert Online. The surprise...
HP Partnership Expands Advanced VR Training
From utilities companies to first responders, more industries are adopting rich virtual training experiences for training purposes. There is a growing plethora of Industry 4.0 use cases for immersive technologies, and companies like Microsoft have partnered with...
Oculus Targeting Q1 2019 For Santa Cruz Release, Rift Ports Planned
Oculus is targeting Q1 2019 to launch its upcoming higher-end standalone VR headset, currently known by the code-name Santa Cruz. Multiple independent sources have said that Oculus has shared a Q1 timeline for wide release. The headset is designed to function on its...
NVIDIA Turing Propels VR Toward Full Immersion
Over the last few decades, VR experiences have gone from science fiction to research labs to inside homes and offices. But even today’s best VR experiences have yet to achieve full immersion. NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs are poised to take VR a big step closer to that...
Magic Leap ships out AR headsets to developers, report says
Magic Leap has begun to ship out its AR headset, the highly anticipated Magic Leap One, to software developers, Bloomberg reported Friday. "We have an early access developers program, and those partners have hardware," a Maigc Leap representative told CNET. "All...
Jahshaka 0.6.0 Alpha Release
The industry leading VR authoring toolkit, Jahshaka, has released version 0.6.0 alpha which includes a major overhaul of its asset and material frameworks. It sets a solid foundation for the way we store and share models moving ahead, and brings support for a wide...