AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013. Google paused Glass in 2015 and rejiggered it for business users.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Chen, Yang, Shjen, and Jeng (2007) examined how desktop virtual environments provided opportunities for students to interact with and manipulate objects while learning about orbital patterns of the planets. EXPERIENCED-BASED LEARNING In 2019, a major breakthrough product was released by Oculus. The findings produced by Chen et al.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). It was a moment that changed their lives.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

After its 2007 release of google Street View, in 2010, google introduced stereoscopic 3D mode for Street View. It was also in 2010 that 18-year-old Palmer Luckey created the first prototype of Oculus Rift, the famous VR headset. Two years later, in 2014, Facebook bought Oculus VR company for 2 billion USD.

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

I was in that headspace when I first held a vibrating video game controller—this was around 1999—and I’d been deeply immersed in the writings of media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who wrote a lot about touch. I graphed the uptick at one point based on Google Scholar results, and the results are really striking.

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