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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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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. ” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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Intel to Buy Imagination Technologies or AMD’s RTG?

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First Intel – Nvidia deal happened in 2000, when Intel gave the best offer to Microsoft and won the deal for the first Xbox console. More recently, AMD spun off its engineering teams under the Radeon Technologies Group, which is lead by Raja Koduri. Acquiring Imagination Technologies. The NVIDIA – Intel Deal.

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Creators Behind ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Wallace and Gromit’, and More Share VR Insights Ahead of Develop:VR Conference in London

Road to VR

This work led him to develop a patent pending technology for non-invasive facial expression monitoring using wearable technology. Charles published the first review of virtual reality for surgical training in 1994 and has an extensive background in research and the evaluation of new technologies.

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Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

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Most recently we launched a frontier technology fund investing actively in VR and AI. From an investor’s perspective, we’re looking for more than just a great business model or great technology. Yang: I’m encouraged that all the major technology players have headsets either announced or on the market. and in China as well.

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12 Can’t Miss VR Talks You Have To See At GDC 2017

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Room 2011, West Hall. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. VR 201: Lessons From The Frontlines.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

The fact that all these technologies are moving so fast, everybody needs to help to just keep up with it all. So it still happens, but not as much as maybe in other technologies or other industries. They want to see this technology used for good. Ori: Also, Ray Kurzweil likes to say that every technology brings promise or peril.

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