Tech Trends VR

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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DECEMBER 6, 2016

I wanted to take a moment to dig into some of the more subtle technical nuances when comparing the Oculus Rift & Touch with the HTC Vive, but also some of the larger VR ecosystem considerations to take into account. The post Comparing Oculus Touch & HTC Vive Technology and Ecosystems appeared first on Road to VR.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Some of the leading companies like Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Lenovo, and Varjo Technologies, among others, have been leading global markets with their devices. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology. The History of VR.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Flagship products such as the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, and HTC VIVE Focus 3 and Flow devices have recently hit shelves, sparking interest in the emerging technology. In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. Enhanced Headsets.

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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. “The issue is our efficiency.” “Right now this is a 60 hertz screen, that’s what cell phones are, 60 hertz screen,” Iribe told me.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Tequila Works' first title, the BAFTA-nominated Deadlight, was published in 2012 by Microsoft Studios. Tequila Works, S.L. is an independent boutique studio founded in 2009 by Raúl Rubio Munárriz (founding member of MercurySteam Entertainment, developers of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) and Luz M.

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JULY 10, 2018

Dubbed TOKYO CHRONOS , the VR visual novel game is targeting HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR. Lead by Kazuma Miki, a producer behind VR-centric anime series Sword Art Online (2012), TOKYO CHRONOS is said to offer users a VR visual novel mystery adventure that blends visual animation with a comic book-style UI.

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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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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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JANUARY 25, 2019

Farrell is narrating all three episodes of the VR series, which was co-directed by 3dar’s Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado, the creators behind animated short Shave It (2012). Here’s a synopsis of Gloomy Eyes : 1983. To love what’s different will bring harmony once again,” Tereso and Maldonado said.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Steam vs The Oculus Rift Store Valve worked closely with Oculus in the early stages of research and development of the Rift throughout 2013, after Gabe Newell officially endorsed Palmer Luckey 's Kickstarter campaign in 2012. Less than a decade later, though, the Rift headset line was officially replaced by the Link mode of Quest headsets.

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MARCH 2, 2021

This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The growth in the volume of investments in VR is more than $2.5

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JULY 24, 2019

Bigscreen supports HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung Gear VR. Most recently, the platform hosted a free viewing of Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical film The Dictator (2012). The weather is a factor here however, with a 70 percent chance that the launch will be delayed.

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JULY 5, 2017

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. Below is every car you can expect to get behind the wheel of when the game launches on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in two months’ time.

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VRScout

MAY 6, 2019

Since 2012, organizers of the festival have included VR and AR projects as part of their Virtual Arcade, a section of the festival where storytelling and VR/AR technology intersect. Mr. Buddha ( Project Creator : HTC Corporation, Lee Chung). Image Credit: Bobby Carlton. Accused No. Mercy ( Project Creator : Armando Kirwin).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By utilizing the HTC Vive’s controllers as well as two Vive Trackers strapped to each foot and one around the waist, Vive lighthouse sensors are able to track and map a user’s entire body movement and translate it as instructions to the robot.

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VRScout

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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Road to VR

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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JUNE 22, 2017

None of these games are officially coming to the Rift at this time, instead releasing on rival platforms like the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR (PSVR). An early prototype of the Rift debuted at Bethesda’s booth at E3 2012 running id’s Doom 3.

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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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MAY 30, 2017

Luckey was a long time tinkerer of head mounted displays prior to building the first Rift prototypes which lead to him founding Oculus and taking the Rift to Kickstarter in 2012 for what would become a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign. The hardware will not change.

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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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OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a VR pioneer, Olivier JT has been working on Synthesis Universe as far back as 2012. French indie developer Olivier JT is finally getting ready to release his long-awaited musical sci-fi experience for VR headsets, Synthesis Universe.

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AUGUST 14, 2016

After thrusting a glimpse of a modern VR technology into the public realm 4 years ago at E3 2012 there’s a certain irony in Bethesda’s flurry of VR activity at this year’s show. John Carmack at E3 2012, now Oculus VR CTO. Was it a PR exercise? Would the demo be released?

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Fonseca is best known for her appearance as Alex Udinov in TV series Nikita (2010-2013) and Angie Martinelli on Marvel’s Agent Carter (2015-2016), meanwhile Denison is best known for playing Lieutenant Andy Flynn in The Closer (2005–2012). Agent Emerson will arrive for users of all Oculus and HTC headsets on November 22nd.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Pimax’s recent passing of Oculus’ Kickstarter , which tallied a total of $2,437,429 with 9522 backers at the time of its September 2012 conclusion, could mean many great things for the China-based company. Here’s the thing: it doesn’t mean as much as you think it would.

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JUNE 13, 2016

” said Pete Hines, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, after revealing that an incarnation of Fallout 4 (2015) and Doom (2016) are in development for virtual reality on the HTC Vive. ” That’s when Hines revealed that Fallout 4 be coming to the HTC Vive in 2017. Pete Hines on stage at E3 2016 | Photo courtesy Bethesda.

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JUNE 26, 2018

I also tried to go upstairs and downstairs and everything continued working, even in outdoor conditions, so kudos to both Google and HTC. 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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JUNE 10, 2016

Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. Although it’s not too different from their consumer model, HTC Vive is releasing a business edition of their high-end headset – and a dedicated Business Edition support line is one of the perks.

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VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2016

Launched back in 2012, Leap Motion first introduced us to their new way of interacting with computers in three dimensions. The company does sell a “Universal VR Dev Bundle” that includes a mount compatible with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with a 15 foot cable extender.

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AUGUST 27, 2016

Provided the project reaches its $80,000 funding goal, the studio is aiming to release Mythica VR on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift/DK2, Google Cardboard and with future support for Google Daydream. Pledge $20 or more – The game on release, for PC with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, or iOS or Android with Google Cardboard.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The growth in the volume of investments in VR is more than $2.5

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Sony’s positiontally-tracked wands bring your hands into VR with relative accuracy, but they pale in comparison to the HTC Vive’s wands or Oculus Touch controllers. Take a look at the video above for a system called DualPLAY, which was published in November 2012.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2016

See Also: ‘ War Thunder’ Adds HTC Vive Support. Developer Gaijin Entertainment is also know for a host of early VR games including Blase Rush, Star Conflict , and most recently War Thunder which now has both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive support. Once I threw on enough side-mounted chain saws and spikes to boot, I took her for a test drive.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Luna is an intriguing looking title coming from indie studio Funomena , and backed by some of the minds behind indie PS3 blockbuster Journey (2012). The studio has announced a launch date for October 17th and that the game will be coming to the Rift, Vive, and Windows VR (and PC).

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