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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The Game Awards 2016 is building towards its third year, scheduled for December 1st at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Spiritual successor to the ten-year run of the Spike Video Game Awards, The Game Awards is considered the biggest annual award event for the video game industry, and 2016 promises to be bigger than ever.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Announced just last week, Microsoft’s Surface Studio all-in-one computer has been met with excitement and touted as an example of the company’s new approach to innovation. Microsoft says Surface Studio is made for designers and creators. SEE ALSO NVIDIA Expects New $139 GTX 1050 Ti GPU to Meet Oculus Min Spec.

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JUNE 12, 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. With the launch of the Rift only a few months under their belt, don’t expect anything new in the hardware department from Oculus.

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JUNE 22, 2023

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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JUNE 11, 2017

At Microsoft’s pre-E3 keynote today, we’ve seen plenty of non-VR games coming to the Xbox console family, now including XBox One X (formerly Project Scorpio). Whether that includes VR support for the score of Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets from various manufacturers remains to be seen. This news is breaking.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look at how Facebook’s money is funding battles on all fronts of the industry’s increasingly competitive landscape. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. Old Enemies – HTC. Launch – $800.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Yesterday’s announcement that Steam will support the forthcoming Windows VR headsets was big news which means that when owners get their hands on the headsets this holiday, they’ll have a strong library of VR content to draw from while Microsoft builds up its own library of VR games and apps on the Windows store.

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MAY 26, 2016

Microsoft may be preparing a new, much more powerful version of their Xbox One games console codenamed ‘Scorpio’ to power the Oculus Rift some reports are suggesting. It’s also claimed MS are pursuing a partnership with Oculus to supply headsets to go with the new console, said to be released in 2017.

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JUNE 18, 2016

E3 2016 has come to a wrap. Microsoft / Xbox. Microsoft is bringing VR to Xbox. Although they have done a modicum of work in the VR space with the VR port of the mobile title Hitman Go for Oculus Rift and Gear VR, Square Enix is now bringing their biggest franchise to virtual reality with Final Fantasy XV.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Things are changing though.

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JULY 15, 2017

Oculus slashed the original price tag in half to $400 on the Rift +Touch bundle last week, but the company’s ‘Summer of Rift’ sale only lasts for six weeks, leaving the question on the table as to exactly how much the VR headset + motion controller bundle would return to once the sale is up. Oculus says: $500.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

The studio has developed three Oculus exclusive titles, with its fourth and largest yet, Stormland , still due to launch in 2019. While Sony will surely focus in the near-term on leveraging Insomniac’s talents for more AAA non-VR titles, the acquisition is a strategic boon for PlayStation’s VR ambitions, and a blow to Oculus.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Microsoft has been a shadow player in the virtual reality arms race since it officially kicked off on March 28, 2016. On that date the Oculus Rift launched in each and every box was a Microsoft manufactured Xbox One controller. Tagged with: Headset , Intel , microsoft , minimum spec , VR Headset.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Microsoft had a big surprise for VR fans today, revealing a new range of VR headsets alongside its latest Windows 10 update. Not only are these devices cheaper than the Oculus Rift and Vive, but Microsoft says they’re better too. Microsoft, meanwhile, didn’t confirm if these new headsets would also run on it.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s had pop-up events and in-store demos as far back as 2016 to prepare for the launch of the original Oculus Rift. Opening physical stores though would be much larger step for Meta, putting it in the same retail class as Microsoft, Apple and Google; the latter just opening its first retail store this summer.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

On the one hand we have platform wars , where Vive, Play Station, Oculus and Microsoft compete for the users. Virtual Reality hype is a worldwide phenomenon. However, at the moment there is no coherent ecosystem. Most Innovative: App for Phantom Pain Reduction. Marc Zöller, Software Developer. Best Prototype: Saving Planet A.

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JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Though it’s Facebook’s newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company’s most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Released earlier this year, Oculus Quest has entered the fray and made a big splash. million PSVR headsets since the product’s launch in late 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Let me give you just a few very well-known examples: Meta bought Oculus VR for 2 billion dollars when there was still only a prototype headset. The US government closed a 22-billion contract with Microsoft for the development of AR for the military and the provision of HoloLens to soldiers. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for AR Headsets.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

If 2016 was the birth of modern VR/AR technology, than 2018 was its elementary school graduation. While this past year may have seemed like a quiet one when compared to the more exciting releases featured in 2017 and 2016, these past 12 months have been crucial in the development of the immersive entertainment sector.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Founded in 2016 by Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, the company’s social AR/VR workspace has since gone on to include support for Microsoft HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest, Magic Leap 1, Qualcomm XR2, Android/iPhone mobile device and traditional monitors. Million.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. The Santa Cruz prototype is a modified Oculus Rift which has on-board compute, display, and tracking.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Microsoft might not be doing much virtual reality (VR) development but its dedication to augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) has never been stronger. The announcement was made by Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum in a speech at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this week reports Reuters.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

For the most part, the two leading game consoles in 2016 (the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) exist in a state of being nearly identical. But it seems like Microsoft isn’t too impressed — even if they won’t come right out and say it. Plus, Microsoft has confirmed that they are not making a first-party headset.

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MARCH 30, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jacob Mullins is a managing director at Shasta Ventures, where he has invested in VR/AR since 2016. The top 10 best of VR in 2016. As an investor in VR and AR since 2016, I find it cautiously encouraging to hear all the talk of “metaverse” on trending business channels today. Jacob Mullins. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Fantastic Contraption (2016) , the building puzzler from indie studio Northway Games , is getting its first big update since launch, which includes double the levels and a few new tantalizing features that didn’t make the cut back in April 2016 when it hit Steam. The free update, dubbed Version 2.0,

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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 13, 2018

I Expect You to Die (2016) , the spy-themed puzzle game from Schell Games , was a big earner last year, achieving $1 million in revenue since its late-2016 until August 2017. Now a little over a year later, the studio reports they’ve recently closed in on the $3 million mark.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

As reported by Reuters , Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai yesterday, saying that HoloLens 2 will go on sale sometime in September. Image courtesy Microsoft. Check out our in-depth hands-on with HoloLens 2 for more. SEE ALSO OpenXR 1.0

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JULY 19, 2021

Founded in 2016, the company is made up of eight subsidiary companies focused on XR. Counterpoint’s Global XR (VR & AR) Model Tracker reveals Oculus Quest 2 Cumulative Sales. The streaming giant is going head to head with Microsoft, Sony, Google and Apple. The round was co-led by Qualcomm Ventures LLC and BITKRAFT Ventures.

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JUNE 13, 2016

Monday at the Xbox E3 2016 Briefing, Microsoft went on stage to unveil the next addition to the Xbox family, coming next year. Microsoft revealed their long-rumored Project Scorpio, a gaming machine that will reportedly come with a 6 TFLOPS GPU, 8-core CPU, and 320GB/s of memory bandwidth.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

What We Know: Microsoft is at the show in a multitude of capacities. What To Expect : The tricky thing about Microsoft’s headset is that they won’t actually let anyone turn them on yet. Oculus (Facebook). What We Know: This year’s biggest question mark by far is hovering over the Oculus Rift.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Marcos has since left Mozilla in order to work on the Supermedium WebVR browser, which creates a desktop VR browser designed for the Vive or Oculus to easily go in and out of viewing WebVR content as a seamless VR experience. spec include Firefox Release 55, Oculus Browser, Samsung Internet, & Microsoft Edge.

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MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. billion in 2016 to $18.6 IDC themselves predicted in 2011 that by 2015, Microsoft’s then new (and now dead) Windows Phone platform would overtake Apple’s IOS as in the mobile phone market.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Microsoft’s Project Scorpio, an upgraded version of its Xbox One console, is coming to market later this year, but we still don’t know much about it. Microsoft is positioning its new beast to push 4K gaming (a 4K UHD Blu-ray optical drive is included) but, as we all know, the system is also going to host VR experiences.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Following EA’s early keynote on Sunday, yesterday saw presentations from Microsoft and Bethesda, with some surprising no-shows and reveals. Microsoft says Xbox One X is the most powerful console today | Photo captured by Road to VR. Microsoft respond to Road to VR regarding Xbox One X VR no-show: Photo courtesy Microsoft.

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