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VR: Fad or Fiction?

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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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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

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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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VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500,000 in 2016, PS VR to Top 2 Million

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Since then the HTC Vive , PlayStation VR and Google Daydream View have all entered the arena. The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Sony however, having debuted it’s PlayStation 4 powered ‘Morpheus’ (later.

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

ARPost

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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Oculus Founder Expects No Next-gen VR Headsets From Market Incumbents Before Mid-2018

Road to VR

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.

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Learn about Headsets

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Samsung Gear VR. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC Vive Pro. Check out our article for what comes next. Click on any VR Headset to learn more. Oculus Rift.

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