Road to VR

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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Road to VR

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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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. 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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ARPost

JUNE 28, 2021

Spatial was founded in 2016 driven by an impressive line-up of investors including Macintosh co-founder Andy Hertzfeld and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger. The company’s own co-founders, Anand Agarawala and Jinha Lee, have their own impressive pasts including working at Google, MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung. Meet Spatial.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Though Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR might have had a significant headstart , Google’s mobile VR ecosystem, Daydream is poised to lead the smartphone charge in the coming months. Microsoft probably has the most curious approach to a VR ecosystem right now, simply because we don’t know all that much about it.

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Road to VR

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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. Behind the curtains, all the big tech brands, including Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, are working to build AR glasses.

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Next Reality VR

MARCH 25, 2016

Since its purchase by Microsoft in 2014, Minecraft has regularly been pushed to new platforms such as Windows 10, Wii U, and Fire TV. In that spirit, Microsoft-owned Mojang has been developing virtual- and augmented-reality versions of the blocky sandbox game. Check out the gameplay video below.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Initially announced back in early summer of 2016, the joint venture outlined a capitalization plan of up to $25 million to be shared equally between Starbreeze and Acer through capital injections on a set schedule. StarVR headset circa summer 2016.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

At Microsoft’s Pre-E3 event, the Minecraft announced that the title will soon support players playing the game on any platform, including virtual reality devices like Samsung’s Gear VR. One small question remains, whether the Oculus Rift version will also support the feature once it arrives.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. It seems that according to it, Oculus Quest , considered by many the first VR headset that can become mainstream, has sold only 180,000 units in Q3 of this year, for a total number of 400,000 units sold since launch. Image by Microsoft). Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

At that time, Oculus had ambitions of releasing an affordable VR headset in the near future that would allow players to step into the game. This week Oculus announced a reshuffle that it thinks better reflects this state of the industry, revealing new PC and mobile VR teams. Old Dog, Old Tricks?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 21, 2017

Google unveiled the Daydream platform a year ago at I/O 2016, but the View headset only arrived in November. Facebook and Samsung have not shared how many apps are in the Gear VR store, but a quick count shows the number is around 1,000. Like Microsoft , Google is facing an uphill battle in VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. As VR hardware continues to compress in price and powerful smartphone based systems like Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s mobile VR Daydream platform gain steam, it’s expected that 50% of worldwide revenues will be generated by VR/AR hardware sales according to the report.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. THE UPCOMING SAMSUNG GEAR VR CONTROLLER IS COOL. HIGH-END VIRTUAL REALITY JUST GOT MORE AFFORDABLE. WHEN WILL WIRELESS VR GET HERE?

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

An odyssey is an epic journey, and Samsung’s Odyssey VR headset seems to be the latest upcoming step in theirs. The Odyssey VR headset has been long time coming ( since the leak of its name in early 2016 ), and a number of leaks have indicated that its formal announcement is coming very soon. Let’s tackle a few of these.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. But if 2016 was VR’s debut year, then 2017 needs to be the year of VR content. What to Expect from Oculus. What to Expect from Microsoft. Robo Recall.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

Chief Scientist of Oculus Research Michael Abrash described his vision of a mixed reality future: a world, 20-30 years from now, where we will wear stylish AR glasses instead of sporting stylish phones. It’s been viewed 15 million times so far, since it was posted in December 2016. Zuck is doing the same thing with Augmented Reality.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. This is happening.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Focused on harnessing immersive technologies to deliver groundbreaking VR, AR, Animation, DOOH, VFX and 360 degree video projects for some of the world’s largest brands including Sony, BBC, Red Bull, Microsoft and Lexus. Road to VR is a proud media sponsor of Develop:VR 2016. Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. It was the first time a 90-degree field of vision was used, and the new oculus rift headset relied on processing power of a computer to render its visuals. This reinvigorated interest in the VR space. .

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. was well underway by then, and we had a meeting to show Palmer Luckey our work at Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2016. He was very impressed and offered us direct access to executives of Oculus, who helped us in various ways to develop our VR applications. Rome Reborn 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But while we were great on the technical side, we weren’t good at doing business and marketing (I only started my blog in summer 2016 ), so in 2017 we closed the curtain on our crazy adventure. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. We had full-body room-scale VR in 2014 , we were so cool.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

A system that took much of what had been achieved with mobileVR in 2016 and packaged it into a reliable and compelling solution for the education sector, becoming a world leader deserving much more recognition. Another exhibitor using Beat Saber and the Oculus Rift S was Nutanix. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

While Sony competed in the home console space with several other companies, such as Sega and later Nintendo and Microsoft, what made the PS2 stand out was its built in DVD player. By 2016, a total of 6.5 Meanwhile, other companies like Samsung and Google have created lower-grade headsets that use your smartphone to simulate VR.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 20, 2016

And this system, configured “as is” – costs as much as one of those “AMD announces, but you can’t actually buy” CyberPower $499 VR Ready computers paired with an Microsoft Xbox One or Sony PlayStation 4. We did not expect that NUC will be VR capable, and it wasn’t.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

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. Founded in 2016, VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across all major VR headsets? 3- Ayden Ye. web, and mobile. 25- Pankaj Raut. 29- Clyde Dsouza.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset -- and they sold millions of these units. Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Mike Abrash, formerly of Valve, now at Oculus, their chief scientist, he made this interesting observation about Moore’s Law. Above: Microsoft’s HoloLens in action. Image Credit: Microsoft. Beliaeff: In 2016 I probably didn’t play a lot of PC, but then Civilization VI came out. Question: I work for Ashley Furniture.

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