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JANUARY 19, 2017

Following Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance earlier this week, Oculus founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe answered questions in the company’s ongoing legal battle with ZeniMax Media over the alleged theft of VR technology. Luckey got into the nitty-gritty details about the origins of the Oculus Rift and more on Wednesday.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute which could cost Facebook $4 billion. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The legal battle between ZeniMax Media v Oculus VR has a verdict from the jury. In the first of many questions put to the jury, they decided Oculus did not misappropriate trade secrets. The help Carmack offered Oculus during this time and the dispute of what code was made available to Oculus made up much of the trial.

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JUNE 9, 2018

ski, part of Apple’s GPU Software Architecture Team, announced that the Vive Pro is getting “plug and play support” on MacOS 10.4 Mojave will launch publicly in the Fall as a free update for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, as well as 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards.

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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. Together, they beat Oculus to market with tracked controllers.

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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. A decade later, Oculus VR is gone “ for now ” and the earliest faces to rally developer and enthusiast support for the imminent consumer revival of virtual reality have moved to other startups.

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JUNE 30, 2019

Have you ever wanted to attend a course on VR software design from the comfort of your own headset? Students do need to own an Oculus Rift or Rift S headset in order to attend the course, and there’s a tuition of $2,495 to consider. Survios CTO Alex Silkin will teach a semester-long course called Unreal Engine VR Master Class.

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MARCH 28, 2017

In the middle of August 2012 I wrote my first article about Oculus. There is VR hardware and software available via major retailers capable of making people feel emotions at a level of intensity which cannot be achieved with traditional video games. A few months later, I got my first demo.

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JANUARY 13, 2017

We’ve had a writer in a Dallas courtroom following the ZeniMax vs. Oculus court case this week and taking notes. Tagged with: john carmack , oculus , zenimax. I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn’t work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.

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JULY 10, 2023

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth reportedly once argued for cancelling the Oculus "standalone VR project" and keeping Rift PC-based VR. One year later Oculus released its first standalone headset, Go. Worse, its fragmented software didn't deliver on the media cowatching the marketing promised either.

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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. Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company at the forefront of simulation training solutions for defense and civilian organizations.

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MARCH 2, 2021

The rapid growth of software for virtual reality. This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. The growth in the volume of investments in VR is more than $2.5

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Publicly, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has been missing in action since the revelation that he supported a political propaganda campaign back in September 2016. This week, however, he’s unavoidably stepped back into the spotlight as he answered questions in the ongoing Oculus-ZeniMax legal battle.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. The technology also combines high-definition visuals, inward and outward-facing sensor tracking, and software to analyse human-computer interface (HCI) interactions, along with other tools.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

But more importantly when it comes to VR and AR, Google can better steer Android in a preferred direction, letting them ship Android devices with newer and more secure software, including VR platforms like Daydream and AR platforms like Google’s ARCore. In 2012, the search giant paid $12.5 for under $3 billion.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I tried it with the Leap Motion controller, the one that most of us have bought years ago to experiment with the OG Vive or the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1… but actually, UltraLeap (the previous Leap Motion) has created a second-generation camera sensor. UltraLeap Stereo IR 170 video review. I could interact with objects in a truly natural way.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The war of words continues between ZeniMax and Oculus in the wake of a $500 million mixed verdict issued yesterday by a Texas jury. Earlier today Oculus CTO John Carmack noted on Facebook “the internet would have viciously mocked the analysis” of an expert witness ZeniMax called in the case whose testimony is under seal.

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JULY 8, 2018

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Oculus Half Dome Prototype.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Carmack occupied key roles over the last decade in pushing forward VR’s path toward consumer adoption, from exchanging hardware with Rift creator Palmer Luckey to becoming CTO at Oculus and continuing to work at Facebook and then Meta. Despite all the complaints I have about our software, millions of people are still getting value out of it.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 29, 2021

A decade ago, Facebook’s apps were buggy, crash-prone HTML5 experiences, even as smooth native mobile apps were quickly becoming the standard for major software makers. That philosophy first became abundantly clear when the company bought the industry-leading VR hardware maker Oculus in 2014.

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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. 4 years ago, John Carmack exhibited a modified Doom 3 BFG running on a prototype headset that would eventually evolve to become the Oculus Rift.

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JULY 3, 2023

Palmer Luckey gave his take on Meta Quest Pro and Apple Vision Pro and explained what he would do differently if still at Oculus. If you're unaware, Luckey founded Oculus VR in 2012 to launch the Kickstarter campaign that would eventually lead to the consumer Oculus Rift in 2016, after two publicly sold development kits.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. This attractive price was largely achieved by a breakthrough in software; the hardware itself was fairly simple, containing two cameras and three infrared LEDs.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Form factors have improved dramatically since then, and most people are familiar with the first commercially-available VR headset, then-Facebook’s Oculus Rift. It debuted in 2012 and later, became the world’s first consumer-ready headset in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Palmer Luckey’s intuition in 2012 was realizing that with the launch of the iPhone, finally VR could have its iPhone moment (many of them, actually) and that’s how the Oculus Rift was born. ” AI is now the key of everything, all companies just mention AI s**t and every software has an AI button I almost never use.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Samsung’s incubation program, called the C-lab, has backed developer education since 2012, and the C-lab program will be showcasing four of their prime VR/AR projects in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress this week (remember that now-iconic Dystopian photo of Mark Zuckerberg strolling through a crowd of oblivious VR headset-wearing journalists?

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MARCH 2, 2021

The rapid growth of software for virtual reality. This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. This figure has been growing steadily since 2012 and does not plan to significantly stop its growth soon. The growth in the volume of investments in VR is more than $2.5

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JUNE 16, 2021

THE IMPLICATIONS OF VIRTUAL LEARNING In 2012, the first crowdfunding campaign was started for the Oculus Rift, a popular virtual reality headset now owned by Facebook. Cognitive load can be described as the amount of working memory that a person can contribute to achieving a goal (Julien, 2012).

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

While PlayStation VR owners have been enjoying Gearbox Software’s Borderlands 2 VR for almost a year now – and the ‘Bad Ass Mega Fun’ pack for the last couple of weeks – soon it’ll be the turn of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive owners, with the first solid release date now appearing on Steam. .

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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 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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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He was the VR technical adviser for the VR Pain and Anxiety Management pilot program at Memorial Hermann Prevention and Recovery Center , and has been actively involved in the VR scene since the 2012 Oculus Kickstarter. He has been a professional computer programmer for over 20 years.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

We built the software to capture the raw 3D capture that was created by this 3D sensor, so that we could have a real time 3D reconstruction system and actually get that to work reliably, so people could use it to build 3D models of buildings. It sounds like you guys had a pivot somewhere around 2011–2012 when you had that realization.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. Based out of Erfurt, Germany, software company Fayteq has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount. … well, sort of. You still have to set it up). in funding.

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JUNE 13, 2016

While Bethesda parent company Zenimax is in ongoing legal action with Oculus over work done by CTO John Carmack who was formerly employed by id Software (another Zenimax-owned company, with games published by Bethesda), Hines alluded to that early work and positioned the story to credit Bethesda as an early pioneer in VR.

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MAY 25, 2017

Founded in 2012, the company’s mission empowers developers to build enormous and detailed environments utilizing machine learning and distributed via cloud computing infrastructure. San Francisco-based Vivid Vision has raised a $2.2M …and just a few more.

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JULY 6, 2016

Originally filed back in June 2012, months before the Oculus was to make waves with its Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign , this “continuation”, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office , extends an even older application, originally filed back in 2006.

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