Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2017

But now that the landlady has sold the house where it all started, CLR has turned to VR, or specifically, AltspaceVR, a social VR platform which established itself on early Samsung, Oculus, and HTC headsets back in 2015, and now supports all major VR hardware including Daydream.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe looking at a Rift prototype in 2012. Carmack seems to have gotten the performance he wanted out of VR hardware, but not from Zuckerberg’s organization. “The issue is our efficiency.”

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Back during the launch of the HTC Vive, The Gallery’s first episode released amidst a wake of tech demos and shallow experiences to show us that, albeit brief, immersive, engaging, and narrative-driven VR content was not only possible, but that it flourished from within a VR headset. And in a way, it’s a bit of a homecoming.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

With VR hardware prices dropping , more people outside of VR enthusiast’s will be looking for guidance on solid hardware purchases for their new VR gaming PC – so we put together this short cheat sheet. Mid-range VR Graphics Cards. NVIDIA GTX 1070. NVIDIA GTX 1070 Specs. VRAM: 8GB GDDR5. CUDA Cores: 1920.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. VR Hardware of the Year. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Osterhout Design Group is an integrated hardware company with a deep background in advanced augmented reality innovation with the US military, and have their principal outsider investor in 21st Century FOX. This partnership is sure to make major waves and shake up expectations for mixed reality content as well as hardware.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2016

Doom VR Executive Producer Marty Stratton sheds light on Doom VR , how Bethesda are approaching the project, what VR hardware they’re targeting and whether it’ll ever see a full release. John Carmack at E3 2012, now Oculus VR CTO. Was it a PR exercise? Would the demo be released?

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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. VR, for example, allowed some of our customers to focus on pilot training to start to train flying in formations which was not possible with previously used displaying hardware (i.e.,

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MAY 21, 2017

Pallister added, “It feels like the current set of hardware has tipped us over a point where people can feel a magical experience but it is really only just the beginning of the types of experiences depicted in those fictional works.”. Snow Crash imprinted [the idea of virtual life] on the culture,” Grossman said.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After years of anticipation, starting with the Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter for the first development kit (DK1) of the Rift headset, enthusiasts and early adopters have been eager to finally get their hands on the first consumer Rift headset which launched earlier this year. Judge us on our Touch launch.”

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Owlchemy Labs, founded in 2010, has raised $5 million in seed funding from Capital Factory, Qualcomm Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, HTC and The Venture Reality Fund. Dycus was a hardware engineer at Oculus VR, where he worked on early prototypes of the Oculus Rift headset as well as the final consumer model that launched in 2016.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

This also ties into the fact that, unlike its competitors who have been quick to embrace mobile VR, Linden Lab opted to restrict Sansar to working on tethered HMD’s such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStationVR. “I For Linden Lab, this can be a bit of a mixed blessing.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to virtual reality (VR) and crowd-funding the pair have had a long history, you could almost say Kickstarter helped birth the current VR trend thanks to Oculus’ campaign in 2012. Back on the VR hardware, Feelreal Inc. Let’s just hope it not the sort of delay which has plagued previous hardware stories.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. Edx.org is an online learning destination founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012.

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APRIL 5, 2017

One year ago HTC Vive started arriving for buyers. The tracking innovation made by Bellevue-based Valve Software and manufactured by HTC gave the Vive headset and controllers a six month headstart on Facebook’s VR team in the roomscale race. The more freedom enabled by the hardware, the more times “What happens if?”

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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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. See Also: HTC Vive – Review A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space. See Also: How to Use the Oculus Rift With SteamVR in 4 Steps.

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

With Oculus Go arriving in early 2018 and HTC Vive an official partner of RPO, headset-makers see a huge upside, regardless of whether the movie is commercially successful. The hardware has made huge strides in just a few years, making Cline’s 2045 prediction now seem conservative. Perhaps the movie could be VR’s Clownfish boom.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

2012 was also a big year for Palmer Luckey, he launched a Kickstarter campaign for Oculus Rift that raised $2.4 In 2016, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Playstation VR were all released. This fact paired with Oculus’ summer sale of hardware spurred the purchasing of VR headsets and gear. million USD in funding.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

The pinnacle of standalone performance is HTC Vive’s Focus headset that that uses "world-scale" and is similar to the HTC vive, a powerful headset tethered to a PC. Virtual reality’s reboot started in 2012 with Oculus’ Kickstarter being successfully funded and purchased by Facebook. Augmented reality is VR’s sister industry.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Image courtesy HTC / Panora. “Recent market experiments with cheap VR hardware have shown that there are millions of people willing to buy said hardware, but very few among them continue to use the hardware or invest in the software ecosystem for very long. […] Why the lack of use? . […] Why the lack of use?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

UltraLeap has evolved its hands-tracking runtime since its initial launch in 2012, and every major release of the runtime introduces a big jump ahead regarding the tracking accuracy. UltraLeap Gemini is the 5th iteration of the Leap Motion/UltraLeap hands-tracking runtime for Windows PCs. Look how the design is completely different.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. Image Credits: TechCrunch When HTC began imagining life after the smartphone, it looked a lot like VR. Later that year at Mobile World Congress, HTC announced the Vive name during its official unveil.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Valve chief Gabe Newell is optimistic about the future of VR, considering the studio is in development of three VR titles —not mini-games or experiences, but “full” VR games—but what about the future of VR hardware? The subsequent falling out would set the stage for Valve’s first SteamVR-capable headset, the HTC Vive.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The Wolfe is a new project about to hit Kickstarter that claims to offer a hardware solution to Macbook owners wanting to run virtual reality applications, an external Thunderbolt connected GPU. Those with Apple computers may well feel a little left out in the cold when it comes to running the latest virtual reality hardware.

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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. It released a development framework utilizing image recognition and tracking, and geolocation technologies in 2012. It can run on AR/VR hardwares. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2016

Back when Oculus launched the original Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign in 2012, it looked as if the new company had won a formidable ally in its bid to bring virtual reality to the masses. Commenting on the HTC Vive section or Reddit, Yates asserted : Alan Yates, ‘Chief Pharologist’ at Valve.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2016

Meta raises $50M more as it gears up for the next version of its AR headset, and China The market for augmented and virtual reality technology continues to heat up, and now one of the more promising startups making both AR hardware and software has raised a $50 million round to keep up the pace. Read more here.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

Artists previously used very expensive hardware and software to create digital assets, namely with delayed throughput. The company, founded in 2012, believed that Middle Eastern projects and the global market strengthened the industry with numerous experiences and knowledge for developing projects.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) experiences can then become ubiquitous across company hardware. ” Pixar developed OpenUSD in 2012 and open-sourced the file format in 2015 to the global community. This allows workers across public and private networks to access critical XR content in real time.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

The VR industry today is likely not exactly what Brendan Iribe envisioned it would be back in 2012. While both it and the HTC Vive push forward in the high-end PC space, the desire for tetherless, more affordable products has given birth to smartphone-based mobile headsets like the Oculus-powered Gear VR, made in partnership with Samsung.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Bye will be delivering a keynote at SVVR, as will Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic Group, Tony Parisi, Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. Not only was the little room packed to capacity, Nate Mitchell, a co-founder of Oculus flew up to demo content and hardware nobody had seen before.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

Barry: It started out of a project which we did in collaboration with IBM and Jaguar Land Rover in 2012 when Jaguar Land Rover was rebranding their whole setup. You still see it on the hardware, software, and interaction side. On the hardware side, if you set up a high-end VR experience, it would have a freaking bloody big PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

Barry: It started out of a project which we did in collaboration with IBM and Jaguar Land Rover in 2012 when Jaguar Land Rover was rebranding their whole setup. You still see it on the hardware, software, and interaction side. On the hardware side, if you set up a high-end VR experience, it would have a freaking bloody big PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. My background is in film. And then it became a website.

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