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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

Road to VR

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

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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VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500,000 in 2016, PS VR to Top 2 Million

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The age of high-end, commercially available virtual reality began on March 28 with the launch of the Oculus Rift. The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units.

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