VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2011, LEGO unveiled their first fully integrated digital-to-physical gaming experience, Life of George. Powered by brick recognition software, Life of George challenges players to build physical models, scan them into the digital game and receive a score based on accuracy and speed. Life of George (2011) . Ultra Agents (2014).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the new deal slated for late 2024, Tencent, one of the largest video game vendors in the world, will receive exclusive sales rights to Chinese buyers. The budget-friendly headset will also include Tencent’s market of apps, games, and other solutions.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 5, 2023

If Tesla can sell cars and Apple can sell phones in China, why isn’t Meta present there? The challenge for Meta is how to balance China’s censorship demands with the expectations of politicians in its home country, especially given that Meta was banned from China back in 2009. Zuckerberg asked in a recent internal meeting.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

MediaTek is a key challenger to companies like Qualcomm, Intel, Apple, Google, and others, with the latter two also branching out with their own chipsets such as the M2 and Tensor G3, respectively. For example, Meta finally inked a deal with Tencent, the world’s largest video game manufacturer, after months of negotiations.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

AvatarLife grid plans mobile app AvatarLife is currently developing a mobile-based viewer for the grid which will see AvatarLife members playing all types of games on the mobile devices by next year, AvatarLife co-owner Sushant Chandrasekar said. The rest can win in-game tokens. “By September 2024, we should be on mobile. .”

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VRScout

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Three key areas were highlighted: travel, fitness, and gaming. . Freedman hinted at a coming announcement of aligning with a prominent indie game developer and also referenced a pitch competition that will launch in January. Apple CEO Tim Cook enjoyed a private tour of the show in January this year while visiting Toronto. .

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. In 2009, the MIT Media Lab group launched SixthSense, the world’s first wearable gesture interface to overlay digital information on the real world. Trigger XR has also developed numerous AR games and experiences for major blockbuster titles.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

The HoloLens incorporates several patent-protected Microsoft inventions, including Kipman’s motion sensors initially brought to market for the Xbox Kinect video game controller. The software for the HoloLens is developed in the Windows 10 operating system in the Windows Mixed Reality software environment.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2016

Arrowstorm Entertainment is what you might call ‘serial Kickstarters’, as they’ve successfully completed 13 different campaigns on the crowdfunding site—mostly focusing on small budget sword and sorcery flicks starring the likes of Kevin Sorbo from Hercules (1995) and Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) from Game of Thrones (2011).

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Mashable VR

APRIL 7, 2022

Recyclops steps up his costume game and gets more aggressive with his environmental demands. You can stream episodes of The Office on Peacock and follow along with the podcast every week on Earwolf , Apple Podcasts , or Stitcher. Then things take a turn.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Laguna Beach, CA-based company was founded in 2009, and has over 36 patents (some pending) pertaining to live streaming virtual reality technology. Steel Wool Studios , based in Oakland, CA and founded by former Lucasfilm, Telltale Games, and Pixar creatives, received $5M in Series A funding… entirely from HTC. FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

It is mostly unknown here in the West because its target market is mostly the one of its home country, but actually, it’s working on eye tracking since 2009 , so it has a deep expertise with this technology. I’ve read on your website about eye-tracking games. How can eye-tracking improve VR gaming?

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Not many people remember the Zeo sleep tracker these days — but I still recall how tired I was at its launch event in 2009. Most nights I also wear my Apple Watch to bed, again through sheer force of habit — I'm used to Sleep++, the sleep tracker app I used before the Oura.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 26, 2023

As with most of the industry, we’re excited by the recently launched Apple Vision Pro – but even the very best technology has a hard time being adopted if people are not ready for it. With the gaming-based origins of the hardware, it evolved with unnatural input mechanisms like joysticks. Alex Howland: The savings are huge.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. And then I realized that my kids are always stuck in front of a screen, computer screen or playing video games. Maybe can you just give us your first AR experience, and how did you get into this?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. And then I realized that my kids are always stuck in front of a screen, computer screen or playing video games. Maybe can you just give us your first AR experience, and how did you get into this?

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Virtual worlds and video games do create the feeling that you’ve gone somewhere else. They’re games, or videos, that people sit back and enjoy. Neither is in-world payments, though both Apple and Google have in-app payments for mobile game developers, and mobile is the single most popular platform for VR by a wide margin.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

We started in 2009 before really headsets were hitting the market. So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple. We finally got WebAR working, and then Apple shut down the cameras, and I was like, “what?” Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

We started in 2009 before really headsets were hitting the market. So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple. We finally got WebAR working, and then Apple shut down the cameras, and I was like, “what?” Alan: Yeah.

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