Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Before Fez (2012) , before Limbo (2010) , and before Minecraft (2009) , Braid (2008) was one of the breakout successes in the formative years of indie game development and distribution. Jonathan Blow, the creator of one of indie gaming’s fomative successes, Braid , has begun hiring a team to develop his first VR game.

Gaming 352

Gaming Hardware Unity HTC 352

Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Coatsink , a British studio and publisher founded in 2009, has had a hand in the creation of a number of VR titles over the years including: Esper (2015), Esper 2 (2015), Onward (2016), A Night Sky (2017), Augmented Empire (2017), They Suspect Nothing (2018), Shadow Point (2019), and Jurassic World Aftermath (2020). If so, that.

Sony 295

Sony Groups Gaming 295

VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Beginning in 2009, the popular television sitcom developed a cult following thanks to its pop culture references and self-referential humor. Players will have the ability to customize their avatars with a variety of outrageous-looking skins, my favorite being the inflatable “riding a dinosaur” costume.

Gaming 400

Gaming HTC 400

VRScout

APRIL 6, 2020

Founded in 2009 by D.J. Another move towards the companies rumored AR/VR device perhaps? According to a new report by 9to5Mac , Apple is currently in the process of acquiring VR/AR live streaming platform NextVR for a modest $100M.

Apple 376

Apple San Diego California AR 376

GizModo VR

JANUARY 1, 2022

Created in 1954 by Mick Anglo and originally named Marvelman, the character’s been lost to time, even after his rights were eventually sold to Marvel back in 2009. For fans of the old superhero Miracleman, the last several years have been tumultuous. It wasn’t clear if or when he’d return to the comics space, but this… Read more.

124

124

GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The House of Representatives just narrowly passed a more than $2 trillion spending package that will include the first true climate change legislation passed since 2009. Read more.

United States 111

United States 111

Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2022

Listed below, the music pack spans the band’s early 2000s period as well as more recent tracks from when it returned from its 2009 – 2013 hiatus. The American rock band announced the news via Twitter , and included a full tracklist too. Thnks fr th Mmrs. This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race. Immortals. I Don’t Care.

Gaming 216

Gaming 216

GizModo VR

AUGUST 9, 2022

I know you don’t have any questions, let alone frequent ones, about 2009’s Dragonball Evolution. Let’s be honest with each other. Critically and commercially scorned, the movie based loosely ( ever -so-loosely) on Akira Toriyama’s best-selling manga and anime of (kind of) the same name has been largely forgotten… Read more.

98

98

Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2020

Founded in 2009, the Orange County-based startup broadcasts stereoscopic video of live sports and music to a wide swath of VR headsets, including Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, PSVR, and PC VR headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift S. At the time of this writing, neither Apple nor NextVR have commented on the alleged acquisition.

Apple 350

Apple Augmented Reality Video Samsung 350

GizModo VR

JUNE 14, 2022

In the opening of the 2009 film Hemsworth portrayed George Kirk, father to James T. In a video career retrospective with Vanity Fair while promoting Thor: Love and Thunder , Chris Hemsworth reflected on one of his earliest roles, playing a small but pivotal role in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. Read more.

Filming 98

Filming Video United States Entertainment 98

Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This week’s films include 3D versions of Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon (2017) and Ghost in the Shell (2017), and 2D versions of Star Trek (2009) and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Image courtesy Bigscreen.

Filming 215

Filming Indiana United Kingdom Sweden 215

GizModo VR

MAY 12, 2022

Thanks to a recent re-release , James Cameron’s 2009 CG megahit Avatar has toppled Avengers: Endgame to regain the #1 spot as the highest-grossing movie of all time. Chances are Endgame will get a revival eventually, and then Avatar will have another, and the two films will trade places back and forth for years, all… Read more.

Filming 98

Filming 98

Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Coatsink is a British game studio and publisher founded in 2009. Veteran VR studio Coatsink, currently in development of Jurassic World Aftermath , has been acquired for $30 million by game publisher Thunderful.

Oculus 303

Oculus Strategy Gaming 303

GizModo VR

MAY 9, 2022

If you thought that the sequel to James Cameron’s 2009 beyond-blockbuster sci-fi film Avatar was never going to come out, well, that makes sense, it’s been 13 years since the original came to movie screens, and the sequel was originally scheduled to premiere way, way back in 2014. It’s only taken eight years, but it… Read more.

Filming 98

Filming Entertainment 98

GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

And one of the signature failures of that period was a 2009 bill that would’ve created a national cap and trade program but ultimately never came to a vote in the Senate (it squeaked by in the… Read more. Prior to last month, the last time Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House was the early Obama years.

Controllers 132

Controllers Industry 132

GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The sequel to Cameron’s 2009 movie, which remains the highest grossing film of all-time , is set for release December 16, 2022, and a new piece of concept art gives us our first look at its new … Read more. Just about one year from this very moment, audiences will be lining up to see Avatar 2. Or at least James Cameron hopes so.

Filming 105

Filming Entertainment 105

GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Marvel—which Disney has owned since 2009 —unsurprisingly, disagrees and has filed lawsuits against all five to keep… Read more. The families of iconic Marvel comic book writers and artists Stan Lee , Steve Ditko , Don Heck, Gene Colan, and Don Rico have filed termination of copyright notices on the superheroes they helped create.

DC 105

DC Entertainment 105

GizModo VR

OCTOBER 27, 2021

He shows up in weird places to hang with random people, like that time in 2009 when he read poetry to construction workers. Bill Murray is an unpredictable man. He’s certainly not above a bit of trolling, so take a grain of salt—or should I say salz —at Murray’s announcement he’s in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp … Read more.

Construction 105

Construction Filming Google Entertainment 105

GizModo VR

OCTOBER 12, 2020

By 2009, Facebook had established its first content moderation team known internally as the “ porn cops.” The responsibility of hunting down posts containing spam and porn fell to a team of 150 entry-level workers. Read more.

116

116

GizModo VR

OCTOBER 30, 2021

When the first Paranormal Activity came to theaters in 2009, it spawned its own franchise and revitalized the found footage genre of horror films. Then it got.not particularly great, hence the reboot Next of Kin. Coming out alongside it, Paramount’s released a documentary about the making of the entire series for… Read more.

Filming 98

Filming Entertainment 98

GizModo VR

AUGUST 23, 2021

It was more than a year ago when Disney Parks announced its Splash Mountain theme park attraction would be rethemed around the 2009 movie The Princess and the Frog , replacing the problematic Song of the South. Now, we’ve finally got a few details about what’s in store. Read more.

Filming 98

Filming Entertainment 98

GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

A public service announcement for anyone who, like me, is using a years-old Dell computer as their primary machine: Dell has released a security patch for a security vulnerability affecting close to 400 different computer models manufactured between 2009 and right now. That’s, uh, a lot of laptops. Read more.

Technology 105

Technology 105

GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2022

Avatar , written and directed by James Cameron, was released in 2009 and became the highest grossing film ever—which it still is to this day. Read more.

Filming 76

Filming 76

GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

It is not 2009 and I’m not… Read more. With iOS 14, iPhone users finally got a taste of the sweet, sweet widget life anyone who’s used an Android phone in the last decade was already familiar with. I’ve shied away from most of the early widget apps and largely avoided using most widgets in general (and maybe you should, too! ).

113

113

GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

I worked there in 2009, during the height of the netbook’s popularity. I never owned a netbook, but I played with them constantly when I was interning at Maximum PC magazine. The idea of a tiny laptop with the basic functionality of my custom desktop PC at home was genuinely enticing to my nerdbrain. Not to mention,… Read more.

Technology 98

Technology Apple 98

GizModo VR

MAY 3, 2021

After all, who can forget Grassley classics like “PantsBurnLegWood” of 2009 and “WH:ANSWER MY LETTER” of 2017 ? Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has always used Twitter in a rather bizarre way. But the senator’s tweets over the weekend were particularly weird, even if you agreed with his central premise. Read more.

Iowa 98

Iowa Google 98

GizModo VR

APRIL 29, 2021

along with his wife Susan Downey, are executive producers on a new dark, family, fantasy show called Sweet Tooth , based on the 2009 DC Comic series written and drawn by Jeff Lemire. Iron Man might be gone from the Marvel Cinematic Universe but he’s bringing a whole new world to Netflix. Robert Downey Jr., The first… Read more.

DC 98

DC 98

GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2021

There were a lot of things wrong with the 2009 movie G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra — a lot of things. But it seems like the upcoming film G.I. Joe Origins: Snake Eyes has figured out to avoid them, and thus create the G.I. Joe movie franchise the previous films failed to do. First and foremost on that list? Not worrying about … Read more.

Filming 98

Filming Entertainment 98

GizModo VR

APRIL 12, 2021

The race to save Kara brings Supergirl to 2009. The fourth Hotel Transylvania has a title and a release date, and so does Snake Eyes. Legends of Tomorrow ’s new season teases a hell of a time for Constantine. Plus, what’s coming on Fear the Walking Dead. Spoilers, go! Read more.

Jordan 95

Jordan DC Entertainment 95

AR Insider

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In fact, this is what happened to search circa-2003 and social advertising circa-2009. — Downturns historically cause advertisers to re-examine and reallocate budget to emerging performance-based ad formats, as seen circa-2003 (search) and 2009 (social). AR could benefit from a similar shakeup by grabbing ad spend.

AR 324

AR Examples Hardware Trends 324

Road to VR

JULY 27, 2020

million seed round brought along with it a content deal which saw the creation of a location-based VR game using Nathan Jurevicius’ graphic novel Scarygirl (2009) as its basis. Founded in 2018, Dark Slope’s initial $1.5 Image courtesy Dark Slope.

Immersion 262

Immersion AR Entertainment Gaming 262

Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The company is reporting 100% in growth in revenues in 2009.

AR 133

AR 133

VRScout

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Since it’s initial launch back in 2009, the Angry Birds series has amassed an incredible four billion game downloads, making the franchise one of the most successful in mobile gaming history. Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs will be available on all major VR platforms sometime early next year.

Magic Leap 308

Magic Leap Entertainment Immersion Gaming 308

Mashable VR

JULY 14, 2022

Despite the fact its title makes it sound oddly like an action movie, Orphan: First Kill looks every bit as horrifying as the franchise's original 2009 outing.

78

78

VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2019

Since its launch back in December 2009, Rovio Entertainment’s Angry Birds has since become the most downloaded freemium game of all time. Mobile gaming’s most beloved franchise is taking over the XR space.

AR 295

AR Gaming Entertainment Technology 295

AR Insider

MAY 18, 2020

percent, the biggest monthly drop since the 2009 Great Recession. Beyond survey data, real-world “actuals” validate brick & mortar attrition. Census Bureau reports that retail sales during March were down 8.7 Clothing, furniture and luxury goods are hardest hit.

AR 421

AR Retail Data Survey 421

Mashable VR

MAY 28, 2022

And observations from 2009 show that some fragments might be moving fast enough! If the fragments that popped off the comet were ejected at great speeds — we're talking twice the normal speeds — then it'll be able to reach earth, and will show us a dazzling display of meteors. Tweet may have been deleted.

North America 128

North America America 128