XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011. I’m quitting VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011. I’m quitting VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011. I'm quitting VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Building large virtual worlds is costly and time-consuming when done by hand. Using the example of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) , which remains one of the most expensive and richest game worlds ever created, Jacoby noted that this was, at launch, it only as big as downtown Manhattan (in terms of real-world scale).

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HaptX

JANUARY 18, 2018

That changed when the economy collapsed in 2008. The first is its HaptX Glove prototype, which simulates the feeling of virtual objects with incredibly precise fidelity. A VR user can use this interactive haptic glove to feel and experience the virtual world in the same way he or she would experience the real world.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Taking plenty of cues from Valve’s Left 4 Dead (2008), After the Fall offers up intense zombie-shooting action across a good handful of bespoke levels, each of them providing ample opportunities for exploration and surprise attacks.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this episode of Flux I talk with LaTurbo Avedon , an online avatar who has been active as an artist and curator since 2008. Recently we’ve seen a wave of next-gen virtual stars rise up, from Lil Miquela in the west to pop-stars like Kizuna AI in the east. And so much has happened since 2008. I want to explore that.

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AIXR

AUGUST 26, 2022

My Strange Head was created by Cassandra De Klerck, who has been designing and developing virtual worlds since 2008. Image Source: Cassandra De Klerck. In doing so, she has been pursuing the mission of bridging the gap between lightning-fast advancements in technology and film.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

How do we interact, will we standardize gestures or specific affordances, will there be regularly used icons or representations, what will be the social conventions, in both the real and virtual worlds? It was my first involvement: at lastminute.com labs back then we launched one of the first apps. So what’s different now?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Back in 2008, 2009. It’s really about experiencing things in the real world or in the virtual world. How do they behave in that world and how do you get their attention? And I know that because my first company, AR company Augmento, was really building AR games. And so how do you get people there?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Back in 2008, 2009. It’s really about experiencing things in the real world or in the virtual world. How do they behave in that world and how do you get their attention? And I know that because my first company, AR company Augmento, was really building AR games. And so how do you get people there?

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 6, 2023

Alas, the virtual recreation of a Tim Horton’s coffee shop, one of the few places where I could meet up with other Canadians in Second Life, has vanished into pixel dust now. (I It was somehow reassuring that, in a virtual world that was full of changes, I had found yet another place where time seemed to stand still.

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