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Small Mistakes Led to a $500 Million Verdict Against Oculus

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Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

in 2010, 2.2 I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). Meanwhile, the Great Recession of 2008-2010 made it almost impossible to find new philanthropic funding. Version 1.0 in 2008, 2.1

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These Are The Stocks You Could Buy To Invest In The VR Industry

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VR investments have broken into the billions of dollars with reports showing as high as $4-5 billion since 2010 and $2 billion in the last 12 months alone. Facebook – NASDAQ: FB – Oculus VR, VR headset, VR Camera, VR content, VR platform. Samsung – KRX: 005930 – GearVR (partnership with Oculus VR) and 360 Camera.

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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

VRWorld

Microsoft tried to use total body immersion combined with a voice and gesture interface which became the Xbox Kinect hardware. Some parts of the gesture tracking may have made it into Microsoft new AR device, HoloLens. The major players today are Oculus Rift, Vive, OSVR, HoloLens, PlayStation VR, and Magic Leap.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Recent Matrix investments include Oculus VR, Zendesk, Hubspot, Acacia Communications, Polyvore, Lever, Poynt and Namely.

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Reimagining Cinema with Radiant Images’ Michael Mansouri

XR for Business Podcast

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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Reimagining Cinema with Radiant Images' Michael Mansouri

XR for Business Podcast

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. So Metastage uses Microsoft's volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.