TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 28, 2021

San Andreas is Rockstar’s well-loved 2004 entry into the hit GTA franchise, which invites players to wreak havoc in an urban open world fashioned after cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Half-Life: Alyx is set between the events of the original Half-Life (1998) and Half-Life 2 (2004). . A trailer revealed today gives the first look at what Valve plans to unleash as both the company’s first full-fledged VR game and the first Half-Life game in 12 years. Half-Life: Alyx Trailer.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The venture, purportedly based in Singapore, is headed by CEO Or Kuntzman who, according to his LinkedIn profile, has co-founded two companies between 2004 and 2013, and was most recently the Managing Director at a now-defunct studio called Betastamp, which described itself as a sort of startup-idea incubator.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

A surgeon in Mexico City is ditching painkillers by bringing virtual reality into the operating room. Is virtual reality a powerful enough experience to distract humans from pain? As a result, Vazquez has supervised and performed over 350 successful surgeries using virtual reality on his patients.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2016

Like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004), Jesus VR was filmed in Matera, Italy under the direction of Passion executive producer Enzo Sisti. Father William Fulco, a religious adviser on the 2004 depiction of the life and death of Jesus, also signed on as to consult for Jesus VR. Funding to Build “Global VR Studio”.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 24, 2022

It lets you walk, run, and interact with your environment in virtual reality with possibly even more feedback than the Ekto VR boots, but it is much more cumbersome. One 2004 study from Japan states that the sensation of walking affects the way our brains process distance and movement.

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VRScout

MAY 5, 2017

History was made this past monday as Make-A-Wish Georgia granted the first ever virtual reality wish to seven-year-old Zayden Wright in an attempt to fulfill his request of flying to the planet Saturn in a red rocket ship. The first wish granted by Make-A-Wish using VR is an intergalactic trip on the ‘Zayden 7’ rocket ship.

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ARVR

MAY 26, 2021

I’m an Art Historian that started in museums as a Security Guard, Museum Educator, Registrar, and Intern Curator at Minneapolis Institute of Art (2004–12). Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 What are some pivots you made during your career journey that led you to be a VR Artist?

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2017

When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia. Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network.

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Veative

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

By creating specially designed virtual environments for the detection, assessment and treatment of this disorder, Virtual Reality can serve both as a diagnostic tool and an effective therapeutic strategy in the rehabilitation of children with ADHD. How can VR help children with ADHD. The VR-based approach to ADHD.

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Immersive Authority

MARCH 10, 2016

Virtual Reality is defined as “an artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (as sights and sounds) provided by a computer and in which one’s actions partially determine what happens in the environment” according to the Merriam Webster dictionary. Don’t get lost in Virtual Reality.

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Slashgear

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Founded in 2004, the Chinese behemoth – previously known as Letv – is already one of the largest online video companies in its home country, but is also building what it describes as a “Le Ecosystem” that runs from smartphones through internet-enabled … Continue reading.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We had a cross-continental VR call that, for lack of a better description, crossed the “uncanny valley” in virtual reality. The first call of this fidelity made at Reality Labs’ offices occurred in 2021. Doing the same thing in real-time with a live human in stereoscopic virtual reality is a much harder task.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

What a week it’s been for virtual reality (VR) news , or more importantly Half-Life details from Valve. On Monday morning a rumour spread about a VR-entry for the much-loved series called Half-Life: Alyx.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2022

According to Bloomberg, this would mark the first time that Meta has ever reduced its headcount since the company’s inception as Facebook in 2004. Zuckerberg also reportedly indicated that budget cuts would take effect across all most teams, even those seeing growth, such as the Reality Labs department.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

When Derek Belch was a kicker on Stanford’s football team in 2007, he took a class with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab’s Jeremy Bailenson where he was exposed to virtual reality technologies for the first time. The post Using VR Revolutionize Sports Training with STRIVR Labs appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2017

Though Valve is known for making some of the best games of all time—including Half-Life 2 (2004) and Portal 2 (2011)— it’s been more than five years since the company released any narrative focused titles, something that’s in serious demand in the VR space.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

And in 2004, Shapiro founded one of the pioneering online video sites called Veoh. “The future will be augmented,” Shapiro said via email when asked about his new company, and continued rather cryptically: “The Metaverse is a democracy. I’m with Her.” Before that, he was CTO of Myspace Music. Read more here.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Arriving the week after the Game Developers Conference (GDC), is on course to be the standout virtual reality (VR) title of 2020, and there’s a lot riding on it, both in terms of the franchise and the technology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The first Far Cry game, released in 2004, was lauded for its massive open world setting, long draw distances, seamless transitions between outdoor and indoor areas, and even an advanced rendering system for vegetation. It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, to see the studio embrace virtual reality. From Far Cry To VR.

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InstaVR

MAY 16, 2019

In 2004, he created the LONGUE-VUE agency, and worked with big companies such as RATP, Orange, the Château de Versailles… Since 2016, Antoine has been working with Manzalab to produce interactive 360° films. Question: What specific about Virtual Reality drew you to the technology? VR Immersion is Key.

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AIXR

MAY 13, 2022

Beyond the excitement that virtual reality generates, there are a lot of opportunities for immersive technologies to revolutionize industrial processes. It is w ith this in mind that Unai Extremo and Sergio Barrera founded Virtualware in 2004 in Bilbao, Spain. .

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

A disembodied voice told that I was about to take part in an Aperture Science Virtual Reality Experiment, words I was absolutely thrilled to hear. In my left hand was the Aperture Science Apparatus Retrieval Tool which functions much like the gravity gun in Half-Life 2 (2004).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Ten players trialling the virtual reality (VR) training module were on the team that earned the championship title. Virtual reality is another percentage point of performance and can become very important.” Biker deaths fell from 585 in 2004 to 310 in 2021, the 2020 UK report added.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As virtual reality continues to rise in popularity, more film festivals, both up-and-coming ones and established ones, are opening up virtual reality competitions. Here we selected 37 film festivals dedicated to virtual reality or with VR programs for your reference. Check them out and visit some in 2018!

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Leapmotion

MARCH 8, 2016

” Yi has worked as a game artist and programmer since 2004, producing PC, web, and mobile games. We designed lots of details for characters, background story, etc. and we hope players could have a new experience with RPS.”

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Peter Graham

MARCH 23, 2020

Even if this was a normal videogame the anticipation for Half-Life: Alyx would be enormous, the fact that it’s exclusive to virtual reality (VR) makes it even more palpable because Valve has created a title every VR gamer needs to play. First Impressions. What the hell is going on?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. Intuitively, I think the app will be large scale, multi-user or social, and “endless” in the way that World of Warcraft (2004) or a multiplayer game is.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Yesterday, VRFocus reported on a rumour Valve was working on a virtual reality (VR) edition of Half-Life called Half-Life: Alyx. Support for all SteamVR compatible headsets like Valve Index, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality is expected.

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Peter Graham

JULY 29, 2019

There are a growing number of military shooters for virtual reality (VR) headsets, some good, some not so. South Korean developer Dragonfly is hoping to break into this market by reimagining an old PC title from 2004, Special Force.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2019

High Fidelity notably created their own cryptocurrency and blockchain-based ledger system , the latter of which allows authentication of in-game items—seemingly the right ingredients to attract the sort of virtual business moguls and regular users that once populated Second Life. You guys, this is not Second Life in 2004.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 4, 2019

Cathy is an Emmy-nominated communicator-turned-augmented-and-virtual-reality-global-speaker, producer and, author. I’m going to take you way back, to 2004. So 2004, I was working for CNN, and part of my job there was to look at all the raw footage that was coming in from the war in Iraq. You can learn how to weld.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 4, 2019

Cathy is an Emmy-nominated communicator-turned-augmented-and-virtual-reality-global-speaker, producer and, author. I’m going to take you way back, to 2004. So 2004, I was working for CNN, and part of my job there was to look at all the raw footage that was coming in from the war in Iraq. You can learn how to weld.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. What is your opinion on virtual reality and augmented reality? I wanted to interview Kim to ask him how he got to such a cool result, and here you are his answers on the topic. Hello Kim, introduce yourself to my readers!

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 9, 2019

The beauty of virtual reality (VR) first-person shooters (FPS) is that they can be far more natural in their design layout and implementation than standard videogames. Essentially a VR reimagining an old PC title from 2004, Special Force, the title is being developed by Korean teams Reality MagiQ and Dragonfly.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The game’s spaceship environment gets high marks for style and execution, and really feels like it’s been ripped from Battlestar Galactica (2004) or Avatar (2009). Exemplar 2 is designed to push virtual reality experiences above and beyond what’s possible with systems built to lesser recommended VR specifications.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 17, 2020

Ok, so it wasn’t the sequel most hoped for and the fact that it was exclusive to virtual reality (VR) irked the normal PC gaming community but hey, Valve does what Valve wants because it can. However, that was reignited last year when Valve revealed Half-Life: Alyx. Half-Life: Alyx’s Story.

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