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JANUARY 27, 2022

Ever since Psy graced our ears with his now-iconic song ‘Gangnam Style’ in 2012, the popularity of South Korean music, film, and television has skyrocketed in places like the United States. It’s hard to ignore the growing rise of South Korean media and culture in Western countries.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

During the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, Holiday Inn used AR to create immersive experiences for guests around the hotel. Without even setting foot in the bedrooms, guests can inspect them thoroughly. This virtual tour can help them decide which rooms to book. How Are Hotels Using Augmented Reality Technology?

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JUNE 30, 2020

Founded in 2012, North (ex-Thalmic Labs) first set out to create Myo, a gesture-based armband. Google today confirmed in a blog post that it’s acquired North, the Canada-based smartglasses maker behind Focals. The acquisition price wasn’t disclosed, however early reports suggested it was around $180 million.

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JUNE 9, 2018

Mojave will launch publicly in the Fall as a free update for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, as well as 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards. A preview of MacOS 10.4 Mojave is available to members of the Apple Developer Program today, with a public beta beginning in late June.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In 2012, before he even formally joined Oculus, Carmack described his goal of a headset that would use "mobile phone hardware" and cameras for positional tracking with no wires. And in 2013, while CTO of Oculus, Carmack even described this ideal headset as running a version of Android.

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JULY 21, 2021

Founded in 2012, Sketchfab plays host to over 4 million 3D assets, all of which are accessible through its web-based platform across PC, mobile, and immersive headsets.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The filing also appears to indicate that ZeniMax wants the original campaign video for the 2012 Oculus Kickstarter to be barred from use, which includes footage of John Carmack, a key figure in the lawsuit, demonstrating a very early Rift prototype at E3 2012.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Check out the gameplay trailer below: Founded in 2012 as an entertainment and media company focusing on music and storytelling, Ionia will be Rotu’s first game for consumers as well as the first in what promises to be a continued Rhythm of the Universe series of VR titles.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Founded in 2010, Leap Motion released its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered markerless hand-tracking. .” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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JUNE 19, 2024

Luckey founded Oculus in 2012, the company whose Rift headset was the spark that rebooted the modern era of VR. That leaves it up in the air whether the headset will be built on a proprietary platform—and how it will support the “non-military stuff” that Luckey mentioned.

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JULY 31, 2019

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. He built the first prototype of his VR headset in 2011 and announced it on Kickstarter in 2012.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

Mitchell was among five core people at the inception of Oculus in 2012, which also included Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Jack McCauley and Michael Antonov, all of which have now departed the company following the 2014 Facebook acquisition. When we posted the Kickstarter in 2012, VR was mostly the stuff of science fiction.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

” This cohort, born roughly between 1997 and 2012, is both more health-conscious and more tech-focused than previous generations. The #Refreshwherevs campaign is an ongoing project by Coca-Cola to recognize – and market to – young creatives. See Also: “It’s Time to Go Spatial”: Get Hyped for AWE USA 2020.

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MARCH 16, 2023

Google Glass Explorer Edition | Image courtesy Alphabet Starting in 2012, the company was hoping to seed the device among prosumers with its Glass Explorer Editions, although public backlash spawned the term “glasshole,” putting a severe dent in Google’s ambitions to launch a more consumer-focused version of the device.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Via a free update to PS4’s WipEout: Omega Collection (which includes WipEout HD {2008}, WipEout HD Fury {2009} and WipEout 2048 {2012}) , PSVR owners will finally be able to step into the cockpit for a level of immersion that only VR can provide. And now its finally coming to PSVR. The update is due in “early 2018.”

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MARCH 11, 2025

0:00 / 0:42 1 The flatscreen version of Slender: The Arrival reimagined solo developer Mark Hadley's 2012 game Slender: Eight Pages a survival horror experience that explores the eerie internet creation and asks players to find collectables in a dense, unforgiving forest.

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APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Now under the banner of his own studio, Boss Key Productions, Bleszinski says he’s been seeking funding to develop a big budget VR title.

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MAY 20, 2022

Cinch’s study found that compared to 18% of baby boomers, or persons born between 1946 and 1964, 11% of Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2012) and 12% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) showed interest in renting or buying land in the metaverse.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Despite having launched all the way back in 2012, Subway Surfers remains one of the most popular mobile games currently available on iOS and Android devices. Interact with your favorite characters IRL for the first time.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

Founded in 2012, Colorado-based Akonia Holographics claims to have 200 patents focused on holography, specifically pertaining to storage and optics. million in venture capital back in 2012, according to Crunchbase. .” million in venture capital back in 2012, according to Crunchbase.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Beginning development as a Kickstarter project in 2012, Star Citizen has exploded in terms of its scope and scale. Nobody wants to have teleporting players in the verse right?” ” SEE ALSO 'Star Wars: Squadrons' Gets First Gameplay Trailer, October Release Date. million from Kickstarter backers.

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MAY 26, 2016

In 2012, RYOT was founded as a small news desk with a mission to connect every news story with an action. There, he and David Darg teamed up on a pair of documentary shorts before co-founding RYOT in 2012. It’s because they know who they are and they give a s**t. This is their story, with pictures.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Before Fez (2012) , before Limbo (2010) , and before Minecraft (2009) , Braid (2008) was one of the breakout successes in the formative years of indie game development and distribution. Jonathan Blow, the creator of one of indie gaming’s fomative successes, Braid , has begun hiring a team to develop his first VR game.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Drawing direct inspiration from pioneering real-time strategy title Herzog Zwei , AirMech started life as a free-to-play game on PC in 2012, where it has remained an open beta. The game originally appeared as a launch title for the Oculus Rift in March 2016.

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MAY 14, 2018

Consider Fez (2012 )—one of the best received indie games of the last decade—which took a little more than a month and a half to hit 100,000 unit sales. Yes, it was exclusive to the Xbox at launch, but that still represented a potential audience that was many times larger than all of the high end VR headsets today.

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MAY 22, 2018

A new role, Operations, is also a part of the expansion, which essentially works like a miniature version of FTL (2012) by letting you allocate crew members to 10 different stations: thruster control, main engineering, torpedoes, shield generator, transporter room, astrophysics lab, computer core, phaser control, scanners, and sickbay.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, NGCodec has been developing the compressor-decompressor technology optimized for ultra-low latency, high-quality video encoding. Investors in the most recent funding round include Belmore Capital, Xilinx and the National Science Foundation.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Available via The New York Times app, the AR experience was built on ARKit and ARCore using Atlas data from that infamous June, 2012 collision. Accompanying this breakdown is a free interactive augmented reality simulation of one of the particle collisions that helped contribute to the eventual discovery of the God Particle.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The former pillar focuses on the company’s purchase of photo sharing site Instagram ($1 billion) and messaging app WhatsApp ($19 billion) in 2012 and 2014 respectively. The Commission alleges that Facebook sought to buy-out its competitors rather than compete with them directly.

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2019

I competed in two Olympic Games: 2004 and 2012,” added Scott Dickens, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FORM. “At Users will also be able to download the official FORM Swim app on iOS and Android which they can use to track and share their progress, view other swimmers’ metrics, and customize their in-goggle experience.

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JUNE 20, 2018

Founded in 2012 by Elbit senior engineers, Beyeonics is developing its Clarity Bionic Visualization Platform, an AR/VR solution designed to provide surgeons with visualization tools that effectively replace surgical microscopes while allowing real-time integration of relevant data.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

From Other Suns is a co-op survival FPS set in space, and clearly draws inspiration from 2012 indie hit FTL: Faster Than Light. Today the co-op space survival game launched on the Oculus store priced at $40 , and a new launch trailer shows you what to expect.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Though the WSJ award is a culmination of years of hard work and successes by de la Peña, she is just getting started.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2012, the search giant paid $12.5 But more importantly when it comes to VR and AR, Google can better steer Android in a preferred direction, letting them ship Android devices with newer and more secure software, including VR platforms like Daydream and AR platforms like Google’s ARCore. for under $3 billion.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The VOID will kick-off the new deal this fall with the release of Ralph Breaks VR , an interactive VR experience based on Walt Disney Pictures upcoming animated film, Ralph Breaks the Internet , a sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph. This will be followed by a yet-to-be-announced project based on one of Marvel’s 2019 releases.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2018

Since 2005, the United States Supreme Court has battled tirelessly to reduce the brutal mandatory sentences of minors by courts and as a result the sentencing of life without parole for juveniles was made unconstitutional in 2012.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Their last music video, DoYaThing , was commissioned by Converse in 2012, and employed a mix of 2D and CGI characters combined with live action. In the band’s earlier ‘phases’, they often delivered high-tech live performances, famously pulling the ‘hologram’ trick with Madonna at the 2006 Grammy Awards.

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