AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. Back to the issue of timing and underlying tech (a gating factor for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D in 2006), a force multiplier for all of the above may be 5G. The product’s main feature was 3D graphical renderings of U.S. Force Multiplier.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

VR director Jake Rowell, known for his work on Call of Duty, Superman Returns (2006), and theBlu, is also lending his talent to the project. The project has attracted some serious talent, which includes Jon Favreau, the filmmaker behind films such as Iron Man (2008) , The Lion King (2019) , and The Jungle Book (2016).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Farnborough, UK-based nDreams has changed a fair bit since its founding in 2006. nDreams, the veteran VR studio, today announced it was acquired by video gaming group Aonic for $110 million.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

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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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2021

Originally released back in 2006 on desktop PCs, the wildly popular multiplayer sandbox game has since expanded onto multiple platforms, amassing a rabidly loyal fanbase of mostly younger players in the process. Step into the block-like world of Roblox on your standalone headset using this step-by-step guide.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

Veteran horror director Alexandre Aja , known for his work on The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Pirahana 3D (2010), and Horns (2013) , is teaming up with Oculus and VR production studio Future Lighthouse to create a 360 live-action horror series entitled Campfire Creepers that takes you into long-forgotten childhood fears.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The curiously crafted PSVR exclusive Paper Beast got a new trailer today revealing a sandbox mode which looks like a cross between Viva Piñata (2006) and From Dust (2011). From the trailer the sandbox mode reminds me quite a bit of Viva Piñata (2006) and From Dust (2011).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Released in 2006, Half-Life 2: Episode One is the first in a series of games to reveal the aftermath of Half-Life 2 and launch a journey beyond City 17. Half-Life 2: Episode One is getting VR support soon, brought to you by the same team behind the recently released SteamVR fan mod for Half-Life 2.

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ARPost

JANUARY 31, 2022

Finally, TV Free Burning Man presents the story of how TV executive producer and long-time burner, Justin Gunn, painstakingly covered the festival in groundbreaking ways between 2006 and 2008.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2017

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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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2017

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. Returning with their first full album since 2011’s The Fall, British virtual band Gorillaz continues to innovate in its production techniques.

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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Mercedes owners are urged to check whether their vehicle is affected by a relatively major recall of approximately 290K SUVs sold between 2006 and 2012.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2021

Reprint from the work of Bimber and Raskar (2006). With that definition, let’s explore the AR systems that only hardcore fans know about… AR displays and their positions. Desktop AR: screen-based spatial display.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2019

Google purchased YouTube from former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawad Karim back in 2006 for a whopping $1.65 Another feature is that YouTube stories stay up for a week instead of a day, which offers some big benefits. “ billion USD, and from the get go, Google had big plans with the platform beyond simple video curation.

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Road to VR

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. The organisation recently announced a program to independently assess VR games in a controlled environment, with the aim of publishing the results through a rating system.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As part of the deal, Praetura Ventures director Mark Lyons will join the board as a non-executive director.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 26, 2022

In 2007, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale made a bold announcement that “The 3D web will rapidly be the dominant thing and everyone will have an avatar” Although Second Life stopped growing in 2006 , it was not necessarily a failure as it still stands as a major system where millions of people were introduced to and familiarised with (..)

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2018

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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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2022

2006–2020) Combining activities for different learning styles: Auditory, Sensory, Kinetic, Visual and Writing/Reading to allow kids to experience various types of media, choose and understand which media they prefer to reach their goals. Andreotti, V.,

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

Microsoft released the first-gen Zune in 2006, an MP3 player that looked to compete with Apple’s largely dominant line of iPods. Microsoft gained a great early start, but now the Redmond-based tech giant is positioned to play catchup, which historically hasn’t worked out that well. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, the object has been declared a planet, named, and, of course, demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006. It’s been 91 years since amateur astronomer Clyde Tombaugh first spotted Pluto on a set of glass negatives. Whatever its status, our fascination with Pluto has held fast. But until very recently, we didn’t have… Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

Founded in 2006 and the developer/publisher shifted their focus to virtual reality in 2013. The release of Bloody Zombies will mark Paw Print Game’s debut. Publisher nDreams is best-known in the VR world for the first-person adventure The Assembly. Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Released in 2006, Larry Fessenden ’s The Last Winter asked a question that’s even more… Read more. Thanks to the growing abundance of weird and dangerous weather , it’s getting harder to ignore the bleak reality of climate change —though that doesn’t stop many people, especially people in power , from blithely denying its existence.

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2017

million in 2006. Dunkirk looks to land in the $30 million to $40 million range opening weekend according to early industry tracking reported by Variety. Even at the high-end of this range, $40 million would be Nolan’s lowest opening wide release since The Prestige made $14.8 Dunkirk is in theaters July 21st. The post Warner Bros.

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The last time Apple ventured into such an undertaking in 2006, the company had ditched IBM’s PowerPC ISA and processors in favour of Intel x86 designs. Thanks to the company’s vertical integration across hardware and software, this is a monumental change that nobody but Apple can so swiftly usher in.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My knowledge of American pop culture from summer 2006 to fall 2013 is hazy, at best. Those were the years I lived abroad in Tokyo, first as a broke college student and then an underpaid journalist. Illegally torrenting films while dodging Japan’s internet police was my main method of movie-watching, which meant I had… Read more.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 4, 2021

He’ll direct and executive produce a Disney+ adaptation of American Born Chinese , a 2006 graphic novel written and illustrated by Gene Luen Yang. Destin Daniel Cretton— director of the biggest movie of 2021 : Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings— has settled on his next project. Kelvin Yu ( Bob’s Burgers ) will serve… Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

The British gossip site Popbitch used a sophisticated hacking tool called Google and discovered his direct cell line at the bottom of a 2006… Read more. Boris Johnson, British prime minister who’s been passing out his deets like a sloppy rando at last call, has left his personal cell phone number online for the past 15 years.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 25, 2021

I’ve been using MacBooks since Apple first introduced the line back in 2006. The white polycarbonate MacBook got me through college, a MacBook Air replaced it in my mid-20s, and then I graduated to a MacBook Pro when I needed to do more processor-intensive tasks for work. As part of my job, I’ve used a variety of… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 16, 2021

One such exception is the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane. The phrase “ Never judge a book by its cover ” is almost always true, with a few unfortunate exceptions. Those four words tell you everything you need to know about the movie: it’s about “snakes” that are “on a plane.” Why would snakes be on a plane? If snakes did… Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 13, 2017

He founded Oblong in 2006, and launched Mezzanine for enterprise collaborators in 2012. Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A fair comparison might be HDTV, in say, 2006 or 2007. In a separate interview with Laptop , Illenberg highlighted that the initial goal of the first Vision Pro model is not to sell units but rather to create buzz for the product. “A

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Mega-game publisher Electronic Arts pulled a similar move when it acquired DICE, the studio behind Battlefield , back in 2006. . ‘Star Wars: Squadrons’, powered by EA’s Frostbite engine, will support VR headsets | Image courtesy Motive.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Founded in 2006, recent years have seen major expansion for the Farnborough-based studio. The studio also confirmed its co-founders, CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh and Tamsin O’Luanaigh (Chief People Officer) will remain in their positions alongside the rest of the company's executive team.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 25, 2022

Rather, the name stems from two Wikipedia savvy, hoax-loving college students snacking away on Sour Cream & Onion Pringles in their dorm room back in 2006. For starters, a dig through Wikipedia's edit history shows an edit, from December of 2006 , adding the name "Julius" to the Pringles Wikipedia page. Credit: Justin Shillock.

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