Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

During Day 2 of Google I/O 2017, following major announcements of support for standalone VR headsets and a ‘2.0’ image courtesy Google. The post Google Expects “Tens of Millions” of Daydream-Ready Devices on the Market By Year’s End appeared first on Road to VR.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In an email to UploadVR, AltspaceVR announced that it will be releasing a “new version of its software” that consists of a “mobile app that fully supports Google Daydream View and also provides access into AltspaceVR for compatible Android phones even without a virtual reality (VR) headset.”

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2016

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015. .

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and so they’ve been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, the company announced that they’ll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR , and that they’re going to start experimental builds for WebAR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2017

An HTC Vive phone has been spotted in a promotional video leaked ahead of a scheduled press conference on January 12th. This video may indicate HTC is ready to make that move, using its now established Vive brand. Will HTC announce a mobile VR headset at its January 12th press conference? pic.twitter.com/ppONWlT5Mr.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2017

In a curious move, HTC has revealed a new mobile VR headset called Link that is not part of the company’s Vive brand. The move comes just a week after the company announced a mobile standalone Vive headset in partnership with Google. HTC is by now one of the world’s leaders in the virtual reality space.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 8, 2016

Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015. “HTC

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The title is the sequel to 2015’s Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR. Initially Gunjack 2 , launched in 2016, was exclusively available on Google Daydream. A permanent price drop from $13 to $9 also carries over to the Google Play Store for Daydream users.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2017

The Google Spotlight Story is in the running for best animated short. The Google Spotlight Story film from Patrick Osborne, the director of Disney’s Oscar-nominated short film “Feast,” is a coming of age story about a girl growing up with her musician dad set to the song “No Wrong Way Home.”.

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XROM

JULY 26, 2023

Singapore VR/AR conference announces speakers from Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, 3M, IMDA, HTC, among others. Global technology giants on the agenda include Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, and Qualcomm. Schussler (Deutsche Telekom).

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2020

Since 2015, Smart Study’s Pinkfong has continued to expand its brand through toys, games, books, and various other innovative collaborations. Collectively the Pinkfong YouTube channels have garnered over 27 billion views and more than 53 million followers , becoming one of the hottest child-friendly entertainment platforms in the world.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

While Firefox has supported the Oculus Rift since 2015, it’s only now that the browser joins competitors Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in supporting the WebVR open standard. However, only Firefox users on Windows with an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift will be able to view web-based VR content.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Pavia and the Cardano Metaverse. Somnium Space.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. In October, we wrote about how HTC took the lead in opening the first Vive-branded cafe in Shenzhen. HTC, Oculus, Sony, Samsung, and Google—all of which offer higher quality headsets with the reliability of market-testing, customer support, and general accountability.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2017

Bethesda recently announced that Fallout 4 (2015) is coming to HTC Vive this October, and Skyrim (2011) is soon to follow sometime in late 2017 on PlayStation VR. After all, SteamVR supports HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and OSVR natively.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The company demoed a first-person prototype on Gear VR as far back as 2015 at the Rock in Rio festival that summer, although it never saw public release afterwards. Surprisingly enough, this isn’t the first time Rovio has jumped into virtual reality with some flavor of Angry Birds for VR.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard? Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. In a clear Google snub, you can view Facebook 360 photos with a Gear VR… but not with Cardboard.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 27, 2020

When you think of creativity in virtual reality (VR) one app that’s surely going to come to mind is Google’s Tilt Brush. Originally released back in 2016 for HTC Vive, the app has made it to most VR headsets including Oculus Quest in 2019 but PlayStation VR was always notably left out.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones. This is a great deal, that lowers even more the barrier of cost to enter virtual reality.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Google wants you to play with Blocks, this smartphone wants you to get rid of your headset, a new marketplace connecting content creators with funding, the price of the Oculus Rift is slashed, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO PLAY WITH BLOCKS. THIS SMARTPHONE WANTS TO MAKE HEADSETS OBSOLETE.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. billion, the next year it increased to $3.6 billion, followed by $5.8 billion and $9.6 billion in 2017 and 2018.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

We don’t have a clear idea on precisely how many units have been sold for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Daydream View, or any other major headset on the market. Homido mini (pocket-sized solution, first released in 2015) has sold 244,000 units total. million headsets in 2016 compared to 450,000 Google Daydream Views.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

Many consumers have yet to even experience more accessible VR headsets like Google Cardboard or Gear VR — leaving quite a bit of head room for growth. HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media. According to the latest Adobe 2016 Gaming report , HTC Vive has been rising above the competition.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Its call for focus and optimization is likely to be cited countless times internally at Meta in the coming years, but his words also point to opportunity at companies like Sony, Pico, HTC, Valve, Apple, and Google. “The issue is our efficiency.” “So they refresh 60 times a second.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Opened to the public for the first time late last month, the museum makes use of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headset to take you into space in an exhibit they are calling their “Holodeck”. This is the museum’s first time utilizing VR as an educational initiative and is also one of the larger VR presences we’ve seen at a museum.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

The young organization managed to carve out a name for itself during the early days of the emerging VR industry and that first to market approach earned it a $65 million fundraising round in 2015 that was led by none other than the kingmaker of modern media itself: Disney.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google. billion yuan ($236 million) in 2015, and is expected to rise to more than 5 billion yuan ($753 million) this year. Worldwide shipments of VR hardware is set to skyrocket in 2016, with some estimates pointing at volumes of 9.6

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 17, 2018

Your entry can also be remastered for the HTC Vive or other contemporary VR platforms as well, but must include the CV1. The entry must include some manner of enhancement over the original (visuals, audio, controls, content, etc) that makes it contemporary with new releases on the Oculus platform.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This leaves Oculus, Google and HTC to split about a million units. According to this report, HTC’s Vive edged out Facebook’s Rift selling “more than 400K at its $800 price point.” Clocking in at number two on the list is the PlayStation VR with sales “approaching a million” by the end of 2016.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 4, 2017

over the 2015–2020 forecast period in any sector other than digital reality. Also, established by HTC earlier this year, the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance, or VRVCA, is an organisation comprising of VR-invested firms and companies who believe VR is the next big medium.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. November 2015. Ultimately, you get what you pay for. Check out our article for what comes next.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

Press release: vTime Now the Most Widely Available VR Social Network with Launch on Google Daydream. Liverpool, UK – vTime , the VR Sociable Network, today becomes the most widely-available VR social network in the world as it launches for Google Daydream. About vTime. www.vTime.net.

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VRScout

MAY 28, 2017

We don’t think so and believe that in the next couple of years major organizations such as Sony and HTC will start producing advertisements to be shown in virtual reality. This is proven by the fact that in a 2015 study, 72% of millennials said that an experience is more important than having physical items.

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JULY 23, 2017

That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015. Before Presence, Mahajan was the founder and chief technology officer of MyMiniLife (which Zynga acquired) and the founder and CEO of Toro (which Google grabbed). Above: Phil Chen was a co-creator of the HTC Vive and is a partner at a Presence Capital.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Even when René Pinnell launched Kaleidoscope’s virtual reality festival in 2015, his vision had always been to build a funding platform to help independent VR creators and studios raise money for their original VR projects. Now that day is here.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Facebook’s Oculus dramatically dropped Rift’s price and Valve is building a second generation of the innovative tracking technology deployed by HTC that could alter the VR landscape.

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