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Road to VR
JUNE 22, 2023
At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space. Bell and I discuss what it was like founding the company, building the prototype and looking forward to Google Project Tango. How did Matterport come to be?
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Road to VR
MARCH 19, 2017
” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Sol founded REWIND, a VR and creative digital agency, in 2011 after growing demands for his professional work pulled him away from 15 years as a University Senior Lecturer in Digital Animation, Visual Effects & Emerging Technology. Solomon Rogers – Founder, REWIND. Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.
XR for Business Podcast
JANUARY 20, 2020
But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices.
XR for Business Podcast
JANUARY 20, 2020
But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices.
XR for Business Podcast
JANUARY 20, 2020
But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. They see the value.
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