VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Audi VR experience will make use of both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headset, depending on where it will be shown, and will render vehicle data in real-time to show you the tiniest of details, such as the polish of the aluminum inlays or the various gloss levels of the paint finish depending on the position of the virtual light source.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Form factors have improved dramatically since then, and most people are familiar with the first commercially-available VR headset, then-Facebook’s Oculus Rift. It debuted in 2012 and later, became the world’s first consumer-ready headset in 2016.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Samsung’s incubation program, called the C-lab, has backed developer education since 2012, and the C-lab program will be showcasing four of their prime VR/AR projects in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress this week (remember that now-iconic Dystopian photo of Mark Zuckerberg strolling through a crowd of oblivious VR headset-wearing journalists?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. Do you have any statistical data to prove the effectivity of VR in your field? Does the military personnel also use some XR accessories (e.g.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. A new report from International Data Corp is now live, predicting that the immersive technology market will rise by 100%+ over each of the next four years. … well, sort of.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2016

Originally filed back in June 2012, months before the Oculus was to make waves with its Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign , this “continuation”, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office , extends an even older application, originally filed back in 2006.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

When the first Oculus DK1 (Developer Kit 1 — the first iteration of the Oculus headset) came out, I remember getting my demo of it, and I realized that we had basically created the perfect way of bringing real spaces into VR. It sounds like you guys had a pivot somewhere around 2011–2012 when you had that realization.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

Survios is well known for a number of VR titles including Raw Data, Sprint Vector , Creed: Rise to Glory and Electronauts , as well as upcoming projects Battlewake and The Walking Dead Onslaught. Prerequisites include 3D linear algebra, C++ and access to a VR ready PC and Oculus Rift/Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2018

I know, it was not a test with precise quantitative data but was perfectly ok to give me the idea of how the tracking drifted over time. It is a project from 2012) and has also been able to develop an AR framework working with only the RGB camera of your phone ( ARCore ), while HTC has just started working on that.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Inspired by FTL (2012) developer Gunfire Games is now applying their lauded old-school game design principles to new-school game tech, with a procedurally generated ‘rougelike’ that lets up to three players experience a galaxy full of unexpected threats on Rift (with Touch) and Gear VR. Gunfire Games is no exception.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2016

While between HTC/Valve and Oculus, the companies have been coy on official sales figures, Steam data suggests that the HTC Vive headset is approaching the 100,000 sales mark. That’s where SteamSpy comes in, which aggregates data from millions of Steam users into useful statistics about games sold on the platform.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

They created many VR devices including, the Data Glove, the EyePhone, and the Audio Sphere. When they licensed the data glove to Mattel to create the Power Glove, this is one of the first instances of an affordable VR device that was readily available to the general public, costing just $75 USD. . million USD in funding.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

In 2012, I saw the Palmer Luckey Kickstarter video, and I was like, “it has finally arrived!” Then, about four years ago, the Oculus Rift and the VIVE was coming out, and I saw that there was an opportunity to actually start making a living out of it. D6 is all focused on data visualization.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

In 2012, I saw the Palmer Luckey Kickstarter video, and I was like, “it has finally arrived!” Then, about four years ago, the Oculus Rift and the VIVE was coming out, and I saw that there was an opportunity to actually start making a living out of it. D6 is all focused on data visualization.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 16, 2017

InWorldz has been the most popular grid every month from 2012 on, and had 5,276 active users last month. Hypergrid Business data.). OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Kitely data.). VirTec data.). Gloebits Data.). Gloebit usage continues steady rise.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

The sensor is all black, with a big circular body that contains the circuitry of the sensor, and then an arc that contains nine EEG sensors, that communicate their data directly to the “body” Overview of the “spider” Bottom view. This is necessary so that to guarantee a more reliable data read from your brain.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 17, 2017

Party Destination Grid gained the highest number of registered users — 3661, but that’s only because they just made their grid public and we added their data to our list this month. Hypergrid Business data.). OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Kitely data.).

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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.

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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.

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VRWorld

APRIL 17, 2017

Live streaming is one part of what casino operator bgo dubbed the “casino of the future” in a recent blog post , along with skill-based games, virtual reality (VR), and big data. Newzoo indicates that the eSports audience grew by a billion people a year from 2012, with values tipped to reach more than $1bn by the end of 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. The vehicle sends different data from different sensors via this wireless communication.

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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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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

(Hypergrid Business data.). OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Hypergrid Business data.). That grid’s share of all active OpenSim users has fallen from a high of 40 percent in the summer of 2012 to its current low of just 15 percent. VirTec data.).

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Hypergrid Business data.). OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Kitely Market Data.). Gloebits Data.). In 2012, Avination more than doubled in size. The raw data for this month’s report is here. Exportable products on Kitely continue to increase.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Reflecting on his early work, Mann writes : I started exploring various ways to do this during my youth in the 1970s, when most computers were the size of large rooms and wireless data networks were unheard of. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Making his first appearance in a VR movie, Keanu Reeves (Johnny) lives in a future where one of the only secure ways to transport data is to upload it into storage devices implanted in the brain.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

Companies such as Oculus and HTC came out with their own headsets in 2016 – the Rift and the Vive – and the difference between these and their predecessors is immense. If you take a quick look at the data, you might be tempted to draw some interesting conclusions. Needless to say, neither lasted long. WHAT’S DRIVING VR ADOPTION.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you’re doing this through virtual/augmented reality, and the metrics that you’re able to collect, keep maps, and where people are looking and the amount of data that you’re able to collect from users in a digital world versus a physical world is actually really quite amazing. And in VR, it took six months. Alan: Why?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you’re doing this through virtual/augmented reality, and the metrics that you’re able to collect, keep maps, and where people are looking and the amount of data that you’re able to collect from users in a digital world versus a physical world is actually really quite amazing. And in VR, it took six months. Alan: Why?

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There are also app stores for the Oculus Rift , the Gear VR , the HTC Vive , and on Steam for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. GridSurvey data.). Active users have more than doubled from around 16,000 a month in 2012 to more than 37,000 earlier this year, before InWorldz stopped reporting their active user statistics.

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Headjack

MAY 30, 2016

When looking to buy a Mac Mini, look for a late 2012 model with an i7 2.3Ghz processor in it, since those work better as a server than the newer models. Tape sounds a bit old-school, but these things store up to 6TB of data for less than $50 each! Click here for a detailed manual on how to set up your own Mac Mini server.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. So in 2012, when I was doing a lot of work with iPads in the classroom. The Rift never launched here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. So in 2012, when I was doing a lot of work with iPads in the classroom. The Rift never launched here.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. So in 2012, when I was doing a lot of work with iPads in the classroom. The Rift never launched here.

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