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Samsung to Acquire AR/VR Microdisplay Company eMagin for $218M

Road to VR

Founded in 2001, eMagin has created head-mounted displays to showcase its OLED technology since the release of Z800, which launched in mid-2005. The company announced in a press statement that Samsung will acquire all outstanding shares of eMagin common stock on a fully diluted basis for $2.08

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How VR is Changing the Way We Think About Therapy

VRScout

Head mounted displays were clunky, computer processing speeds laughable, and 3D graphics downright primitive in comparison to what’s available VR today. Virtual Iraq VRET was developed from 2005-2007 as an answer to the military’s problem at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies.

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

VRScout

When I graduated college in 2005, the technology was pretty limited and relegated to military and really high-end entertainment; it wasn’t something people could get their hands on. There were no controllers, but we used the motion of the head-mounted displays being tracked to fake motion on the players.

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How To Watch The Gorillaz 360° Music Video On Any VR Headset

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They have a rich catalog of award-winning animated music videos, performed live with Madonna via hologram at the 2005 MTV Europe Awards to promote their record Demon Days, and even had augmented reality album art accompany their 2010 release Plastic Beach.

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How VR Saves Lives in the OR

VRScout

ImmersiveTouch of Chicago, Illinois founded in 2005, is surgical simulation company that uses Vive and Rift Head Mounted Displays (HMDs), patient-specific anatomy and haptic (tactile) feedback in order to train surgeons and team members, and educate patients themselves.

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Keeping VR users from hurting themselves

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The method of claim 1, wherein said location of said user is determined by continually monitoring the location of a portion of said head-mounted display. So important and clever, in fact, that Valve recently filed a patent about it. I’d like to direct viewers’ attentions to time point 0:52 in the video.