Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. series, was first revealed at the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference earlier this month.

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VRScout

JUNE 1, 2019

Since the early 2010’s, the popularity of esports has grown rapidly. Imagine pulling up a bowl of popcorn, donning your Oculus Quest headset, and being immediately transported into an overhead view of a MOBA arena match. Image Credit : Nintendo. Now, VR is stepping up to answer that call for gamers. Image Credit : Nintendo.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 5, 2017

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. M3 Group A (E30). R18 e-tron quattro. R8 (LMP900). R8 LMS Endurance. R8 V10 Plus. Continental GT3 (2015). Continental GT3 (2016).

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million. As part of the round, Lawrence Unrein, Global Head of JP Morgan Asset Management’s Private Equity Group, joins Leap Motion’s board of directors.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Funding Roundup: Anorak Ventures Raises $12M Fund & Signia Venture Partners Raises $85M Fund While there’s no VR/AR company funding announcements this week, two investor groups funding the industries have raised rounds. Oculus seed investor Greg Castle was there for the birth of the company that rapidly accelerated VR’s sudden resurgence.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2016

Provided the project reaches its $80,000 funding goal, the studio is aiming to release Mythica VR on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift/DK2, Google Cardboard and with future support for Google Daydream. Pledge $20 or more – The game on release, for PC with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, or iOS or Android with Google Cardboard.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Funding Roundup: Baobab Raises $25M, MEL Science Raises $2.5M, Valve Invests in Nitero, Wireless VR Company & Oculus Acquires InfiniLED Baobab Studios is aiming to move past the novelty of VR and create characters that people can grow to love (and hate) even more due to the richness of experience and interaction that VR offers.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 8, 2016

Spectrum 28 Capital LLC and VMS Investment Group Ltd. Right now the studio, founded in 2010, is best known among those in the VR community for building the game Job Simulator , which was a bundled launch title for HTC Vive pre-orders and will be a launch title for PSVR and Oculus Touch. Citic Guoan Information Industry Co.,

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The company was founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010, attracting high-profile investments from companies including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., s Oculus Rift. It is attempting to construct a light-field chip using an approach known as silicon photonics. Qualcomm Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google was one of the first to invest.

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Road to VR

MARCH 10, 2018

Quill , Oculus’ VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to show the incredible potential of drawing and animating in VR. Sound by Paul Gorman.

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VRScout

MARCH 28, 2017

When it comes to embracing new types of media and art, there’s no better music group than the world’s most infamous virtual band, the Gorillaz. The fictional 4-person alt rock group is famous for including inventive content with their albums, something fans have begun to appreciate almost as much as the music itself.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

In order for students to think about how to create pieces of music and pieces of software, we enable groups to get together and make music as an ensemble. Carillon was really built for VR: the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller are key components in the work.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2017

If you own an Oculus Rift, it’s being brought to you absolutely free of charge. Publisher: Oculus. Available On: Oculus Rift (Oculus Touch Required). There are echoes of Rocksteady’s Batman combat, Platinum Games’ Vanquish (2010) , and even the recent Doom (2016) reboot. Robo Recall Details: Official Website.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

in 2010, 2.2 Meanwhile, the Great Recession of 2008-2010 made it almost impossible to find new philanthropic funding. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. He was very impressed and offered us direct access to executives of Oculus, who helped us in various ways to develop our VR applications. Version 1.0

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. I work in XR, organizing events and writing about AR and VR for my livelihood and yet, unlike some of my male peers, I purchased my very first piece of VR hardware just this year with the release of Oculus Go.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. Recent Matrix investments include Oculus VR, Zendesk, Hubspot, Acacia Communications, Polyvore, Lever, Poynt and Namely.

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