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MAY 3, 2017

As one of the first game genres to embrace VR, sim racing has been successfully transitioning from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage (the first-generation consumer headsets). The HTC Vive launched on April 5th 2016, a week after the consumer Oculus Rift. Assetto Corsa.

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MAY 13, 2016

Oculus Share Shuts Down, Ending An Era Goodbye, Oculus Share. August 2013 was a different time for VR. The low resolution Oculus DK1 was really the only thing on the market for enthusiastic developers, and the tracking was so limited you couldn’t even lean around in it. Shortly thereafter, it was acquired by Facebook.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Jaunt, the cinematic VR company that pivoted to AR last year, today announced it has sold its software, technology, and “certain other assets” to American telecom Verizon. The Jaunt team has built leading-edge software and we are excited for its next chapter with Verizon.”.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

We’ve had a writer in a Dallas courtroom following the ZeniMax vs. Oculus court case this week and taking notes. John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) November 22, 2013. Tagged with: john carmack , oculus , zenimax. I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn’t work out.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. Valve Index.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR. That includes things consumers pay for such as hardware (headsets) software (games, apps) and LBVR admissions. But its share will start to diminish, given the rise of standalone VR, most notably Oculus Quest.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Steam vs The Oculus Rift Store Valve worked closely with Oculus in the early stages of research and development of the Rift throughout 2013, after Gabe Newell officially endorsed Palmer Luckey 's Kickstarter campaign in 2012. Together, they beat Oculus to market with tracked controllers.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Over the past two weeks, ZeniMax Media and Oculus have been duking it out in the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse in Dallas, TX, and we’ve been observing and taking notes. Beth Wilkinson, Oculus’ lawyer, also said Carmack shouldn’t have copied the files, and that he turned everything in within a year of the litigation being filed.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

“This led us to change tactics and build out Radical from the ground up as an SDK that we could license to larger, more established software providers who already sold en masse to our target customer base, but lacked the ability to easily add this new real time support natively to their own software platforms due to technical debt.”

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Oculus VR is one of the first major legal disputes to happen in our young new industry. You might remember that, quite famously, John Carmack joined the Oculus team as CTO in 2013. Carmack is the co-founder of id Software, a company acquired by ZeniMax Media in 2009. Oculus VR Inc., ZeniMax Media v.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Oculus VR trial had officially begun in Dallas, TX. After leaving ZeniMax and id Software, the game development studio he co-founded, he joined Oculus as CTO in 2013. Today, an Oculus spokesperson issued this official statement to Upload via email: “We’re eager to present our case in court.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute which could cost Facebook $4 billion. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus.

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AllThingsVR

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe The direction you look could one day control your VR or mobile experience thanks to Facebook and Oculus’ latest buy, The Eye Tribe. The company says the ITU Gaze Tracker they helped create has become the most popular open source eye tracking software.

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JULY 10, 2023

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth reportedly once argued for cancelling the Oculus "standalone VR project" and keeping Rift PC-based VR. One year later Oculus released its first standalone headset, Go. Worse, its fragmented software didn't deliver on the media cowatching the marketing promised either.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Payday 2 (2013) , the popular FPS with four-player co-op, has now updated to include access to the VR beta for HTC Vive. Oculus Rift users will have to do an extra step to emulate the Vive’s controller and remap Touch’s buttons however. image courtesy Overkill Software.

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MAY 20, 2016

If you’re unfamiliar with the original Titans of Space demo, it is one of the earliest pieces of software to be made for the Oculus Rift development kit in 2013. The post Exclusive: ‘Titans of Space 2’ Arrives In Early Access Next Week For Vive and Rift appeared first on UploadVR.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

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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JANUARY 19, 2017

Following Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance earlier this week, Oculus founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe answered questions in the company’s ongoing legal battle with ZeniMax Media over the alleged theft of VR technology. Luckey got into the nitty-gritty details about the origins of the Oculus Rift and more on Wednesday.

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MARCH 13, 2018

.” Leap Motion controller mounted on an Oculus RIft DK2, image courtesy Leap Motion. The Controller has been available since July 2013, although has since seen a major software upgrade in 2016 that has refined its made-for-VR hand-tracking engine.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company at the forefront of simulation training solutions for defense and civilian organizations. In 2013, Bohemia Interactive Simulations began operating separately from BI Studio after BISim was acquired by The Riverside Company. Our customers include the U.S.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Hrafn Thorisson has worked in the field of virtual reality (VR) experiences since 2013. link] Aldin Dynamics is an Icelandic VR software company founded in early 2013, focused on creating believable virtual reality experiences and technologies to sustain presence and immersion. Do you want to listen to the full podcast ?

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APRIL 5, 2017

While CEO Tim Cook continues to rave about AR instead , headset makers like Facebook’s Oculus don’t support the Mac OSX, citing the need for more powerful hardware to run headsets like the Rift. According to TechCrunch , it will feature more powerful GPUs and CPUs than the 2013 model, which featured a 22nm Intel Xeon E5-1680 V2.

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JUNE 2, 2022

2013; Nabben, 2021) that seamlessly integrates the physical world with the virtual world. Enabling Technologies and New Experiences The Metaverse is facilitated by enabling technologies and overlapping infrastructural components of software and hardware. Available at SSRN: [link] or ; [link] Buterin, V. Crypto Cities”. Dionisio, J.

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Road to VR

MARCH 23, 2017

The popular racing simulator previously only supported the Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive owners had to use the Revive hack to launch the game in VR. Assetto Corsa has a long history with virtual reality, having supported the first Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013 , back when the simulator itself was in its early stages.

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VR Geeks

OCTOBER 9, 2021

We’ve compiled a list of our top five favorites for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Sim racing has successfully migrated from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage as one of the first gaming genres to embrace VR (the first-generation consumer headsets). That, however, was not the case.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2017

Dedicated to VR software development since early 2013, Aldin Dynamics is one of the most experienced studios in the world, launching software on Oculus developer kits and Gear VR. The game acts as a test bed for Aldin’s real flagship software, Ghostline. It is currently the highest-rated VR app on Steam.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The report says this device could cost thousands of dollars and be available only in low volumes — more typical of a test platform for software developers than the mass-market products Apple usually releases. Of course, that’s assuming that there’s software worth using when the headset comes out. Facebook Connect: The AR Angle.

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JULY 15, 2019

As much as VRFocus and everyone else outside of Facebook/Oculus would love to know how many headsets have officially been shipped, those figures are never likely to be shared. This week ex-Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey responded to a recent negative CNBC interview on VR which listed several sales figures by revealing some of his own.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

A reborn mod project is bringing compatibility for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with full motion input support, remastered visuals, a made-for-VR UI, realistic weapon interactions, and more. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1. ” Sadly, it wouldn’t last. .” A Mod Reborn.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Publicly, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has been missing in action since the revelation that he supported a political propaganda campaign back in September 2016. This week, however, he’s unavoidably stepped back into the spotlight as he answered questions in the ongoing Oculus-ZeniMax legal battle.

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MAY 15, 2017

Half-Life 2: VR , a revamped version of an older mod which will adapt the beloved Half-Life 2 for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been green-lit, signifying Valve’s official acceptance of the mod for distribution on Steam. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1. Sadly, it wouldn’t last.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

Founded in 2000, Ninja Theory is the studio behind titles like Heavenly Sword (2007) , DmC: Devil May Cry (2013) , and the lauded Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (2017). The VR version of Minecraft also came to the Oculus Rift in 2016. Ninja Theory – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The new VR version was brought to life by Borderlands developers Gearbox Software , making it their first VR production. image courtesy Gearbox Software. image courtesy Gearbox Software. The VR version uses the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift’s respective motion controls, but annoyingly maps acceleration to the left trigger.

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JULY 17, 2016

At a Fortune magazine technology conference in Aspen, CMO Brian Wallace and CEO Rony Abovitz (who sold his surgical robot company for $1.65B in 2013) got on stage to fuel the fire on the hype train. OCULUS UPDATE: TOUCH CONTROLLERS AND NO MORE RIFT SHIPPING DELAYS. Interested? Apply here.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Apple Software Program Manager Kelsey Peterson took the stage to demonstrate the Memoji creator tool, which lets you select dozens of options including the shape and color of your eyes, face, and hair. Move over Samsung AR Emoji , because Apple looks to have gotten the cutesy Pixar-vibe down pat. SEE ALSO Apple Unveils ARKit 2.0,

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