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Final Fantasy XV itself was announced in 2006 under the name Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and only came out last year. So far, Final Fantasy XV has had a rocky relationship with VR. Square Enix announced a VR add-on for the game in 2016, and even allowed show attendees to play a VR demo that put the player in the happy-go-lucky shoes of Prompto, the lackadaisical comic relief of FFXV’s boy-band quartet in which players shot at the iconic Final Fantasy enemy, the Behemoth. MORE
Since first emerging back in 2006, American electronic group The Glitch Mob have gone on to become one of the most influential musical acts of the last decade. The glitch-electronica pioneers turn their latest album into a psychedelic immersive experience with the help of TheWaveVR. MORE
He founded Oblong in 2006, and launched Mezzanine for enterprise collaborators in 2012. Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way. MORE
In 2006, he created Blue Tea Games , an international development studio known for its Hidden Object Adventure titles, the most famous being the Dark Parables series which is distributed by Big Fish Games. MORE
Spice and Wolf is based upon a light novel series originally published back in 2006. Reaction to SpicyTales’ Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for its new VR anime, Spice and Wolf, has been incredibly strong. The experience, which comes from the developers of Project LUX , has already surpassed its $70,487 goal, currently sitting at $91,566 at the time of writing. The campaign started back on November 25th and still has 40 days to go having already reached early stretch goals. MORE
Good news. Robo Recall , one of the best looking games available on a VR headset today, actually cost a lot less to produce than the rumored $10 million. MORE
IKinema, a UK-based provider of high-end middleware and technology since 2006, say that Orion’s solved skeleton output is suitable for game engines, 3D packages, custom rendering environments, and VR/AR experiences. MORE
FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. MORE
“I n 2006, a world class Triple A game cost 10-20 million to produce now they’ll cost up to 100 million. Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. MORE
On August 2nd, 2006 Elon posted the first Tesla Master Plan , one we can say the company pretty much checked all the marks. In the late afternoon California time, or early morning Singapore time, Elon Musk, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Tesla Motors, Inc. MORE
Founded in 2006, UK-based independent virtual reality gaming development studio nDreams has raised £2.0M (just under $2.5M) in funding. Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. MORE
We were inspired by the ‘Capture Gun’ in Elebits, Konami’s 2006 Wii-exclusive title. MORE
Essentially Wii Sports (2006) for PS3 using PlayStation Move, it featured a table tennis mode that remains, to my eyes, the greatest motion-control game ever published. What puts the ‘E’ in E-sports? MORE
In 1999, Tal became IGN’s editor-in-chief before becoming its editorial director in 2001 and its VP and Publisher in 2006. 2016 was a big year for all of us at UploadVR. MORE
We were one of the first mobile game developers and our early success led to an acquisition by Konami in 2006. Los Angeles game developer Grab Games is coming out of stealth mode. Grab’s new VR game, Knockout League, is coming to Steam, Oculus, and Viveport in January. MORE
Prent company Sinewave Entertainment previously developed and launched three successful social game worlds, and during the peak growth period of Linden Lab’s influential Second Life, between 2006 and 2008, ran two of the largest brands within Second Life, each earning seven figures a year. “I MORE
Video game makers realized the potential of avatars over a decade ago: Nintendo debuted Mii characters for the Wii back in 2006, and both Microsoft and Sony followed suit with avatars in 2008. Apple’s iOS 12 addition of Memoji — personalized “me” versions of its Animoji animated emoji — isn’t exactly novel. MORE
– The Show with Ze Frank: July 14 2006 by Ze Frank. Following last week’s post, I wanted to touch on another type of research that is sometimes difficult to explain: artmaking. MORE
I first presented this at the 2006 Southern Economic Association Meetings in Charleston, SC From the inbox: 21-Dec-2017. Dear John, Thank you for submitting your revised manuscript to the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript BCA-2015-0053.R2 "A benefit-cost analysis of a red drum stock enhancement program in South Carolina" in its current form for publication in JBCA. MORE
101 In 2006, he became the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (now known as Sony Interactive Entertainment), leading the PlayStation business through the next few years in which it would start dabbling with VR. Kaz Hirai, the CEO of Sony Corp that oversaw the launch of the PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset, is stepping down. MORE
It’s directed by Alexandre Aja, best known for films like the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes and, uh, Piranha 3D. A new VR series produced by Oculus could make b-movie horror terrifying again. MORE
Today revealed at Oculus Connect, Lone Echo is a narrative-driven first-person game for Touch from Ready at Dawn , the same studio that brought you The Order: 1886 (2015), a number of mobile God of War games, Okami (2006), and Daxter (2006). MORE
Finwe Ltd is a Finnish company that was founded in 2006 by a group of research scientists and the company’s focus is on high-quality mobile software. MORE
Project Cars 2 is gearing up for its September 22nd release date, promising to be one of the most fully featured racing simulations for VR headsets yet. Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. Below is every car you can expect to get behind the wheel of when the game launches on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in two months’ time. MORE
After presenting the findings at the 2006 Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference in California, the pioneering surgeon received a considerable amount of attention as well as resources to further expand his project. MORE
Originally filed back in June 2012, months before the Oculus was to make waves with its Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign , this “continuation”, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office , extends an even older application, originally filed back in 2006. MORE
Founded in 2006, Lytro has garnered over $210 million in funding over its lifetime, the latest cash injection amounting to $60 million back in during its February 2017 Series D round. MORE
He sold the company in 2006 to Francisco Partners and has been an active investor for the past decade. Greycroft venture partner Jon Goldman has closed a $15.6 million fund to invest in virtual reality, augmented reality, games, and esports. Greycroft Partners is a limited partner and investor in the GC VR Gaming Tracker Fund, but Goldman will be investing the fund on his own as he looks for smaller investments ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 per startup. MORE
In 2006, while working at Ogilvy, he launched the blog GigantiCo to discover what had come of VR and explore the emerging AR industry. In this article we provide an introduction to near-eye optics, analyze the evolution of waveguides, then narrow the field down to holographic waveguides. Throughout we will examine the players in the waveguide OEM market (original equipment manufacturers), concluding with a focus on DigiLens of Sunnyvale. What The Reader Will Gain. MORE
In the band’s earlier ‘phases’, they often delivered high-tech live performances, famously pulling the ‘hologram’ trick with Madonna at the 2006 Grammy Awards. MORE
In 1999, Tal became IGN’s editor-in-chief before becoming its editorial director in 2001 and its VP and Publisher in 2006. MORE
Founded in 2006 and the developer/publisher shifted their focus to virtual reality in 2013. Publisher nDreams announced today that their gory virtual-reality beat-em-up, Bloody Zombies, will hit Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4/PSVR on September 12th for $14.99. MORE
The closest product to a general-purpose kinesthetic controller is probably still the Novint Falcon , first shown in 2006, but this is also fairly limited, as it needs to be attached to a desk. MORE
Google purchased YouTube from former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawad Karim back in 2006 for a whopping $1.65 YouTube introduces real-time face filters powered by machine-learning, but there’s a catch. MORE
Back in 2006, Nintendo’s Wii console popularised motion controllers, enticing people off the couch for a spot of ‘arm flailing’ with its addictive title Wii Sports. MORE
million in 2006. The Christopher Nolan film gets a VR short. The theatrical release for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming war epic Dunkirk isn’t scheduled to release for another couple weeks, but that isn’t stopping Warner Bros. Studio from turning on the immersive marketing machine. MORE
That information is contradicted by other sources close to the company, which claim AMD is working night and day of making a simultaneous launch of ZEN-based high-end CPU and Vega 10 GPU, where AMD could achieve platform leadership for the first time since 2006. AMD’s decision to rename and split the Northern Islands family into two is starting to unravel itself. MORE
The main stages are the: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Gobi Tent, Mojave Tent, and Sahara Tent; a smaller Oasis Dome was used in 2006 and 2011, while a new Yuma stage was introduced in 2013 and a Sonora stage in 2017. MORE
Mr. Taylor says that NSA has been communicating with him since 2006, and alleges that NSA personnel has threatened to kill him, insulted him, made racial remarks to him, and engaged in various nonconsensual sex acts with him via Virtual Reality. MORE
Here’s that original quote, which Sweeney confirmed today we reported accurately: “I n 2006, a world class Triple A game cost 10-20 million to produce now they’ll cost up to 100 million. Robo Recall is a very important game. MORE
Since 2006, Jonathan Winbush has been working in motion graphics on many high profile properties for studios such as Marvel, DC Comics, Warner Bros, Hasbro, FOX, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and many more. MORE
After all, the Mac already survived two major architectural transitions in its history: from Motorola’s 68000 to IBM’s PowerPC in 1994, then from PowerPC to Intel’s x86 in 2006. MORE
Originally filed back in June 2012, months before the Oculus was to make waves with its Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign , this “continuation”, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office , extends an even older application, originally filed back in 2006. MORE
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Today revealed at Oculus Connect, Lone Echo is a narrative-driven first-person game for Touch from Ready at Dawn , the same studio that brought you The Order: 1886 (2015), a number of mobile God of War games, Okami (2006), and Daxter (2006).
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DECEMBER 21, 2017
I first presented this at the 2006 Southern Economic Association Meetings in Charleston, SC From the inbox: 21-Dec-2017. Dear John, Thank you for submitting your revised manuscript to the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript BCA-2015-0053.R2 "A benefit-cost analysis of a red drum stock enhancement program in South Carolina" in its current form for publication in JBCA.
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Mr. Taylor says that NSA has been communicating with him since 2006, and alleges that NSA personnel has threatened to kill him, insulted him, made racial remarks to him, and engaged in various nonconsensual sex acts with him via Virtual Reality.
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Google purchased YouTube from former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawad Karim back in 2006 for a whopping $1.65 YouTube introduces real-time face filters powered by machine-learning, but there’s a catch.
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In the band’s earlier ‘phases’, they often delivered high-tech live performances, famously pulling the ‘hologram’ trick with Madonna at the 2006 Grammy Awards.
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IKinema, a UK-based provider of high-end middleware and technology since 2006, say that Orion’s solved skeleton output is suitable for game engines, 3D packages, custom rendering environments, and VR/AR experiences.
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million in 2006. The Christopher Nolan film gets a VR short. The theatrical release for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming war epic Dunkirk isn’t scheduled to release for another couple weeks, but that isn’t stopping Warner Bros. Studio from turning on the immersive marketing machine.
UploadVR
AUGUST 4, 2017
Founded in 2006 and the developer/publisher shifted their focus to virtual reality in 2013. Publisher nDreams announced today that their gory virtual-reality beat-em-up, Bloody Zombies, will hit Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4/PSVR on September 12th for $14.99.
UploadVR
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Spice and Wolf is based upon a light novel series originally published back in 2006. Reaction to SpicyTales’ Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for its new VR anime, Spice and Wolf, has been incredibly strong. The experience, which comes from the developers of Project LUX , has already surpassed its $70,487 goal, currently sitting at $91,566 at the time of writing. The campaign started back on November 25th and still has 40 days to go having already reached early stretch goals.
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Since first emerging back in 2006, American electronic group The Glitch Mob have gone on to become one of the most influential musical acts of the last decade. The glitch-electronica pioneers turn their latest album into a psychedelic immersive experience with the help of TheWaveVR.
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DECEMBER 12, 2016
“I n 2006, a world class Triple A game cost 10-20 million to produce now they’ll cost up to 100 million. Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today.
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FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim.
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FEBRUARY 7, 2017
After presenting the findings at the 2006 Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference in California, the pioneering surgeon received a considerable amount of attention as well as resources to further expand his project.
UploadVR
APRIL 17, 2018
It’s directed by Alexandre Aja, best known for films like the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes and, uh, Piranha 3D. A new VR series produced by Oculus could make b-movie horror terrifying again.
Road to VR
MARCH 28, 2018
Founded in 2006, Lytro has garnered over $210 million in funding over its lifetime, the latest cash injection amounting to $60 million back in during its February 2017 Series D round.
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AUGUST 30, 2017
Back in 2006, Nintendo’s Wii console popularised motion controllers, enticing people off the couch for a spot of ‘arm flailing’ with its addictive title Wii Sports.
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Finwe Ltd is a Finnish company that was founded in 2006 by a group of research scientists and the company’s focus is on high-quality mobile software.
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FEBRUARY 2, 2018
In 2006, he became the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment (now known as Sony Interactive Entertainment), leading the PlayStation business through the next few years in which it would start dabbling with VR. Kaz Hirai, the CEO of Sony Corp that oversaw the launch of the PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset, is stepping down.
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The closest product to a general-purpose kinesthetic controller is probably still the Novint Falcon , first shown in 2006, but this is also fairly limited, as it needs to be attached to a desk.
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In 1999, Tal became IGN’s editor-in-chief before becoming its editorial director in 2001 and its VP and Publisher in 2006.
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We were inspired by the ‘Capture Gun’ in Elebits, Konami’s 2006 Wii-exclusive title.
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We were one of the first mobile game developers and our early success led to an acquisition by Konami in 2006. Los Angeles game developer Grab Games is coming out of stealth mode. Grab’s new VR game, Knockout League, is coming to Steam, Oculus, and Viveport in January.
UploadVR
MAY 13, 2017
He founded Oblong in 2006, and launched Mezzanine for enterprise collaborators in 2012. Augmented reality may be the future of games, but there are some huge problems that stand in its way.
Road to VR
MARCH 16, 2017
Good news. Robo Recall , one of the best looking games available on a VR headset today, actually cost a lot less to produce than the rumored $10 million.
Road to VR
MAY 27, 2016
Essentially Wii Sports (2006) for PS3 using PlayStation Move, it featured a table tennis mode that remains, to my eyes, the greatest motion-control game ever published. What puts the ‘E’ in E-sports?
UploadVR
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Final Fantasy XV itself was announced in 2006 under the name Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and only came out last year. So far, Final Fantasy XV has had a rocky relationship with VR. Square Enix announced a VR add-on for the game in 2016, and even allowed show attendees to play a VR demo that put the player in the happy-go-lucky shoes of Prompto, the lackadaisical comic relief of FFXV’s boy-band quartet in which players shot at the iconic Final Fantasy enemy, the Behemoth.
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JULY 6, 2016
Originally filed back in June 2012, months before the Oculus was to make waves with its Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign , this “continuation”, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office , extends an even older application, originally filed back in 2006.
UploadVR
DECEMBER 6, 2016
In 2006, he created Blue Tea Games , an international development studio known for its Hidden Object Adventure titles, the most famous being the Dark Parables series which is distributed by Big Fish Games.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2016
Founded in 2006, UK-based independent virtual reality gaming development studio nDreams has raised £2.0M (just under $2.5M) in funding. Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst.
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Prent company Sinewave Entertainment previously developed and launched three successful social game worlds, and during the peak growth period of Linden Lab’s influential Second Life, between 2006 and 2008, ran two of the largest brands within Second Life, each earning seven figures a year. “I
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That information is contradicted by other sources close to the company, which claim AMD is working night and day of making a simultaneous launch of ZEN-based high-end CPU and Vega 10 GPU, where AMD could achieve platform leadership for the first time since 2006. AMD’s decision to rename and split the Northern Islands family into two is starting to unravel itself.
UploadVR
MARCH 17, 2017
Here’s that original quote, which Sweeney confirmed today we reported accurately: “I n 2006, a world class Triple A game cost 10-20 million to produce now they’ll cost up to 100 million. Robo Recall is a very important game.
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After all, the Mac already survived two major architectural transitions in its history: from Motorola’s 68000 to IBM’s PowerPC in 1994, then from PowerPC to Intel’s x86 in 2006.
UploadVR
JUNE 16, 2018
Video game makers realized the potential of avatars over a decade ago: Nintendo debuted Mii characters for the Wii back in 2006, and both Microsoft and Sony followed suit with avatars in 2008. Apple’s iOS 12 addition of Memoji — personalized “me” versions of its Animoji animated emoji — isn’t exactly novel.
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DECEMBER 28, 2017
The main stages are the: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Gobi Tent, Mojave Tent, and Sahara Tent; a smaller Oasis Dome was used in 2006 and 2011, while a new Yuma stage was introduced in 2013 and a Sonora stage in 2017.
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– The Show with Ze Frank: July 14 2006 by Ze Frank. Following last week’s post, I wanted to touch on another type of research that is sometimes difficult to explain: artmaking.
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He sold the company in 2006 to Francisco Partners and has been an active investor for the past decade. Greycroft venture partner Jon Goldman has closed a $15.6 million fund to invest in virtual reality, augmented reality, games, and esports. Greycroft Partners is a limited partner and investor in the GC VR Gaming Tracker Fund, but Goldman will be investing the fund on his own as he looks for smaller investments ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 per startup.
UploadVR
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In 1999, Tal became IGN’s editor-in-chief before becoming its editorial director in 2001 and its VP and Publisher in 2006. 2016 was a big year for all of us at UploadVR.
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Project Cars 2 is gearing up for its September 22nd release date, promising to be one of the most fully featured racing simulations for VR headsets yet. Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. Below is every car you can expect to get behind the wheel of when the game launches on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in two months’ time.
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On August 2nd, 2006 Elon posted the first Tesla Master Plan , one we can say the company pretty much checked all the marks. In the late afternoon California time, or early morning Singapore time, Elon Musk, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Tesla Motors, Inc.
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AUGUST 13, 2018
Since 2006, Jonathan Winbush has been working in motion graphics on many high profile properties for studios such as Marvel, DC Comics, Warner Bros, Hasbro, FOX, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and many more.
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In 2006, while working at Ogilvy, he launched the blog GigantiCo to discover what had come of VR and explore the emerging AR industry. In this article we provide an introduction to near-eye optics, analyze the evolution of waveguides, then narrow the field down to holographic waveguides. Throughout we will examine the players in the waveguide OEM market (original equipment manufacturers), concluding with a focus on DigiLens of Sunnyvale. What The Reader Will Gain.
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