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5 Future Predictions for the Virtual and Augmented Reality Industry

VeeR VR

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.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

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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NVIDIA Announces CloudXR Updates at SIGGRAPH 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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IGS 2022 Miami: XR Today Expert Round Table

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Many products showcased at the conference included flagship releases of VR headsets and solutions such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo ThinkReality A3, and AT&T’s Volumetric Video Photo Booth, among many others. Didimo’s technologies eliminated this by producing avatars “at scale.”

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Put the Car of Your Dreams in Your Living Room, with ZeroLight’s Barry Hoffman

XR for Business Podcast

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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Put the Car of Your Dreams in Your Living Room, with ZeroLight’s Barry Hoffman

XR for Business Podcast

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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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

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.