XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Virtual reality (VR) is one of four key forms of immersion, with others including augmented, mixed, and extended reality (AR/MR/XR). Recently, new virtual reality guides have helped many navigate the expanding world of immersive tech. The sector is estimated to reach a value of roughly $57.55 billion USD by 2027, according to research.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2021

Founded in 2012, Sketchfab plays host to over 4 million 3D assets, all of which are accessible through its web-based platform across PC, mobile, and immersive headsets.

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ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2021

During the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, Holiday Inn used AR to create immersive experiences for guests around the hotel. Without even setting foot in the bedrooms, guests can inspect them thoroughly. This virtual tour can help them decide which rooms to book. How Are Hotels Using Augmented Reality Technology?

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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. The post Tribeca Immersive’s Cinema360 Gives Attendees a New Perspective On Social Causes appeared first on VRScout. Image Credit: Bobby Carlton.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The event drops players into a familiar setting to celebrate the iconic anime with interactive exhibits, immersive clips from the show, and even a live performance. First aired in 2012, the fictional events of the show were set in the year 2022.

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

From winning the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Advanced Imaging Society, being named a New America Fellow and Yale Poynter Fellow, and joining the extraordinary list of CNET’s influential Latinos in technology, VR and AR Pioneer Nonny de la Peña is no stranger to recognition for her groundbreaking work in immersive technology.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Based in British Columbia and founded in 2012 Cloudhead’s pioneering approach to VR gave rise to broadly adopted movement standards including Snap Turns and Teleportation. Inputs and Haptics are incredibly important to Virtual Reality as a major tenant in reinforcing immersion and tactile interaction with virtual objects.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. It debuted in 2012 and later, became the world’s first consumer-ready headset in 2016. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

A friend of mine who is a language professor at Colgate University suggested I move to France and immerse myself into various conversations, pay close attention to what was being said, and use the things I see along with the sounds, smells, touch and taste as part of the language learning process. It will even correct you when you’re wrong.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Henning is an award winning filmmaker that helped take home an Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s Hugo in 2012. Students at the class were able to benefit from the expert teachings of Alex Henning. “There are two goals here.

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Tech Trends VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There are many tantalizing possibilities around immersive technologies, but where they usually hit a snag is the fact that most cool experiences require complicated equipment. So the holy grail for achieving a truly immersive experience is, of course, for it to just happen all around you – just like real life. It very well might be.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Thanks to a recent partnership with ILMxLAB , The VOID will be expanding their already impressive catalogue with an additional FIVE immersive experiences based on some of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Marvel Studios most prolific IP’s, beginning with Wreck-It Ralph.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”, The presence of scaffolding, interactivity, and immersion is the foundation of successful virtual environments. Like Huang et al.

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2018

Since its initial transition into VR content back in 2012, NextVR has become one of, if not the leading provider of live VR event broadcasts. The company has provided immersive live streaming services for multiple high-profile clients, from the NFL and the International Champions Cup, to the WWE and Live Nation.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Via a free update to PS4’s WipEout: Omega Collection (which includes WipEout HD {2008}, WipEout HD Fury {2009} and WipEout 2048 {2012}) , PSVR owners will finally be able to step into the cockpit for a level of immersion that only VR can provide. The update is due in “early 2018.”

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Voices of VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The US Federal Trade Commissions (FTC) attempted to sue Meta for alleged anti-competitive behaviors of their 2012 Instagram acquisition, but it was 8 years after the fact in 2020.

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VRScout

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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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. Those experiments established RYOT as leading immersive journalists and led to a recent acquisition by the Huffington Post. There, he and David Darg teamed up on a pair of documentary shorts before co-founding RYOT in 2012.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2017

Established in 2007, the New Frontier exhibition in Park City, Utah was created to “provide the highest level of curation in the emerging [immersive media] field, incorporating fiction, non-fiction and hybrid projects to showcase transmedia storytelling, multi-media installations, performances and films.”

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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 enables users to be truly immersed in the simulations for military training. The more the soldier is immersed during the training the more value the training brings.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Cathy Hackl and You Are Here Labs , an immersive experience lab focused on XR marketing and training, has recently unveiled what they claim is the world’s first holographic press release at the PRSA International Conference this past October. You Are Here Labs started in 2012 as an innovation lab serving agency clients.

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Road to VR

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.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2017

The minds behind the well-executed-but-a-little-too-expensive The Martian VR Experience are working on a new immersive tie in for the next entry in the Alien movie franchise, Alien: Covenant. We’re hoping that the same level of polish, creativity and immersion seen in The Martian VR Experience transfers to this new project.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

You can slide the device into the front of the headset and use the phone’s display and computing hardware to immerse yourself in VR. In 2012, the search giant paid $12.5 The first Daydream ready phone, the Google Pixel powers Google’s Daydream View VR headset. billion for Motorola Mobility, a leading Android handset manufacturer.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2020

Across a handful of tweets, he’s called the game “ incredible ” and “ super immersive.” Recent tweets from Persson tell us that he’s been playing Boneworks with Valve’s new Index headset and having quite a bit of fun with it. “Boneworks is what really sold me on VR again. .”

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2020

Magyari founds Immy to explore immersive video. “I Between 2012 and 2019, Magyari applies for or is rewarded no fewer than eight patents for the Immy display. What he is doing, is experimenting with using high-definition audio to help people with addiction. I think the technology is amazing.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. Nobody truly grasps how the world is going to change, but make no mistake, VR is the immersive engine at the core of the incredible standalone spatial computing experience that is both Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. This is happening.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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

MARCH 30, 2018

Wipeout Omega Collection launched back in 2017, and brings remastered versions of WipEout HD (2008) , WipEout HD Fury (2009), and WipEout 2048 (2012) together on PS4. You can also race from a third-person view, but I found I enjoyed the immersion of the first person view the most when playing on PSVR.

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EnterpriseWear

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The trends towards grid parity and liberalization of the energy market are clear: 50 gigawatts of coal-fired generation capacity were retired between 2012 and 2017, and BMI expects the capacity of renewables (wind, solar, etc.) to double by 2026. See my next post for use cases! Tickets now available at www.aweeu.com.

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Cats and VR

JULY 9, 2016

It switched over to VR in 2012. NextVR is able to capture and transmit live HD, 3D VR content over the internet, delivering an immersive and life-like experience. NextVR is virtual reality capture and delivery technology company based in Laguna Beach, California. The company started as Next3D, a 3D TV broadcast technology company.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Since launching back in 2012, the C-Lab initiative has been hard at work developing industry-changing technology that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with virtual and augmented reality. Samsung’s C-Lab initiative is churning out some seriously incredible projects.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ready Player One is a great visualization of the Metaverse called The Oasis When we talk about Metaverses today, we refer to the fusion of social networking, entertainment, gaming, and very soon shopping that will allow for new immersive experiences like joining a Travis Scott concert in Fortnite?—?together a shared virtual space.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Emblematic is involved in using MR, AR, and VR tech to create immersive experiences for education and entertainment. Founded in 2007, the company first turned heads with its 2012 Hunger in LA experience. This year’s winner is War Remains by MWM Immersive and Flight School Studio. Thus the Out-of-Home VR Entertainment category.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Then, in 2012 they posted the video that would go viral and change everything for them. Wickert and Leigh had to leave school at Chapman due to the rigors of creating these videos, School might call them back one day, but for now they are enjoying being fully immersed in an industry that is just beginning to thrive. “I

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A direct tie-in to Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to Disney Animation Studios’ 2012 smash-hit, Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks VR will be available at select VOID Experience Centers beginning November 21st. Break into the internet in the latest location-based VR experience from ILMxLAB & The VOID. .

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