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Title    Oculus Launches Venues App for Live Entertainment, Sports, Etc.
Date    Thursday May 31 2018, @10:56AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the take-a-look! dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/31/0054253

takyon writes:

Oculus launches live entertainment app Venues for Oculus Go and Gear VR headsets

Oculus VR's new platform for live entertainment experiences is launching today for the new, standalone Oculus Go headset and Samsung's Gear VR. The platform, called Oculus Venues, was first announced at Facebook's F8 developer conference at the beginning of May. It's centered on delivering live events like sporting matches, concerts, and comedy shows in the style of a streaming TV service — but in VR. That means viewers effectively get front-row seats to live shows from the comfort of their home, so long as they're content with wearing a VR headset for an extended period of time.

The first Venues event will be a live Vance Joy concert at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater, followed by a Gotham Comedy Live show streamed from New York City in partnership with live events platform NextVR. Oculus has also released an entire summer lineup through August 27th that includes a pretty diverse slate of sports matches, live shows, and movies.

Also at Engadget and TechCrunch.

Previously: Facebook Launches Oculus Go, a $200 Standalone VR Headset

Original Submission

Links
  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Oculus launches live entertainment app Venues for Oculus Go and Gear VR headsets" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17407222/oculus-go-venues-launch-samsung-gear-vr-live-entertainment
  3. "first announced at Facebook's F8 developer conference" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/1/17306830/oculus-vr-tv-streaming-service-espn-showtime-netflix-launch
  4. "Engadget" - https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/30/oculus-venues-hands-on/
  5. "TechCrunch" - https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/oculus-launches-venues-app-with-a-robust-lineup-of-summer-events/
  6. "Facebook Launches Oculus Go, a $200 Standalone VR Headset" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/03/0042247
  7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=26990
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