XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

These have evolved significantly over the years from clunky tools requiring constant connectivity with computers to standalone, lightweight solutions with greater immersive capabilities. It debuted in 2012 and later, became the world’s first consumer-ready headset in 2016.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. However, when the pandemic struck in 2020, it became a critical tool for keeping people connected, engaged, and creative. Currently, VR is finding its footing in various industries.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

“I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with VR since 2012 and contribute to the development of many innovative VR systems over these years. Must have access to VR ready PC and Oculus Rift or Rift S (hardware access scholarships available at selected destinations through partnership with VR First).

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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. VR is such a powerful tool.”. Image Credit: Bobby Carlton. I needed to get this story out.”

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Upload VR

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. We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Shot in first-person as a continuous take, 360° live-action spy thriller Agent Emerson is slated to arrive on all Oculus headsets as well as PC VR headsets November 22nd, followed later by a release on PSVR. While editing in cinema is a powerful artistic tool, crucial and unique for the medium, it does not work in VR,” Rozhkov continued. “In

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Experience of the Year.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Then, in 2012 they posted the video that would go viral and change everything for them. The tools get better every month,” explains Wickert. The tools we were using for the last one, I wish we had for the first one. Wickert says that it was essentially “Channel Surfer” fully realized as they originally intended it to be.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

Dawn Airey, Chief Executive Officer of Getty Images, spoke of the budding industry: “The technology is still in its infancy – as are the business models addressing how to use it – but we can expect to see VR become a leading tool for visual storytelling. All the sights and sounds of Rio, minus the smell.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

The research thus far creates a foundation for the most effective use of virtual reality as an educational tool. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

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. In the middle of this, of course, the Apple Vision Pro was also an iPhone moment, without forgetting Half-Life: Alyx in the mix.

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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. BISim’s technology portfolio encompasses desktop training, simulation host, image generation, terrain editing and management, AI, and software development tools.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

million in a seed round to build VR tools that could be used to treat eye problems known as “lazy eye.”San 4) The first employee hired to work on the Oculus Rift at Oculus VR — the virtual reality headset company Facebook paid $2 billion for — is quitting. Read more here. 3) Vivid Vision said today it has raised $2.2

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The German luxury automobile manufacturer is finally ready to bring their VR dealership experience to customers, having spent the last three years working on the simulation tool. Technologies for portraying virtual cars have been in use at Audi since 2012. A Virtual Audi Dealership.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 21, 2017

Assisting Intel’s original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, from Microsoft to HTC and Oculus, Pallister works closely with the underlying solutions making VR possible. His game credits include Ultima Underworld 2, System Shock, Trespasser, Deus Ex, Epic Mickey, and Dishonored, which received the 2012 BAFTA award for Best Game.

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VRScout

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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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

Quick to adapt to new image technologies, Getty images began building its collection of 360 and gigapixel imagery four years ago, pioneering the use of these techniques in its role as the Official Photographic Agency for the International Olympic Committee at the 2012 London Olympics. Click to see some of the Getty 360° Video content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The company produced facial behavior and demographic tools for developers, using video. These tools aid facial detection and understanding, and even let you swap faces. Certainly, this acquisition is impactful for Facebook and will pair well with technology gleaned through its Face.com purchase in 2012.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

When the first Oculus DK1 (Developer Kit 1 — the first iteration of the Oculus headset) came out, I remember getting my demo of it, and I realized that we had basically created the perfect way of bringing real spaces into VR. It sounds like you guys had a pivot somewhere around 2011–2012 when you had that realization.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 18, 2019

First released in 2012, immerse yourself in this VR updating of an iconic modern shooter as you once again take on the role of a Vault Hunter. Supported platform(s): Oculus Rift & HTC Vive. Interact with objects such as airlocks and consoles while utilising a series of upgradable weapons and tools.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

While many of Facebook’s properties retained their original branding, the “Oculus” brand, previously acquired by Facebook in 2014, adopted the new name. Is Meta Quest the Same as Oculus Quest? Oculus was initially founded in 2012 by a group of independent developers and hardware enthusiasts.

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Road to VR

MARCH 10, 2018

Quill , Oculus’ VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to show the incredible potential of drawing and animating in VR.

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VRScout

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. Selling tools to video editor software companies like Adobe, their plug-ins empower video editors to track objects—and then use that tracking data to add or remove desired objects.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Fortunately, the PC can be tested for compatibility before the purchase via a SteamVR Performance Test application or HTCs ViveCheck tool. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles. Oculus Rift.

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I found out today that HTC now ships a tool to measure users’ inter-pupillary distances with new Vive VR headsets. When I say “tool,” I mean a booklet with instructions in many languages, and a ruler printed along one edge of each page: Figure 1: IPD measurement chart shipped by HTC with new Vives. Alas, not so fast.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

We have over 12,000 creators registered for access to the platform, so we have way more creators than we need to get the feedback, and to ensure they get the tools they need to be successful. Haunted House – created by user Poppet McGimsie. “We For Linden Lab, this can be a bit of a mixed blessing.

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VRScout

MAY 21, 2020

Spaceteam VR is now available on Oculus and SteamVR headsets, offering players a colorfully chaotic cooperative experience that takes heavy inspiration from Sleeping Beast Games’ original 2012 mobile game of the same name. Luckily, each player is equipped with a handful of disaster prevention tools. No problem!

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VRWorld

APRIL 17, 2017

However, there’s a precedent for adding some of those elements already – Slots Million has an entire VR casino with 1,000 machines to play while Oculus launched their own Casino VR Poker as a multiplayer version of the popular card game that includes functionality for bluffing and player chat.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Oculus Rift. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Fortunately, the PC can be tested for compatibility before the purchase via a SteamVR Performance Test application or HTCs ViveCheck tool. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles. Oculus Rift.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2016

In 2012, while still in China, he backed the Rift Kickstarter. tools and engines targeting all of these platforms can be used free of charge. an Oculus VR Jam for a glimpse at what some of these developers are doing. future path that it will take. We live in a time where the development. keywords into a search engine.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. That grid’s share of all active OpenSim users has fallen from a high of 40 percent in the summer of 2012 to its current low of just 15 percent. Infinite Metaverse Alliance launches to help share code and tools.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve tested it with my Leap Motion Controller, the Oculus Quest, and a lot of scotch tape and I was very satisfied by the results.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As a current artist-in-residence on the Facebook Social VR team, Goro Fujita has been making some pretty impressive “quillistrations” as a part of his daily creative regime using Quill, Oculus’ first-party VR paint and drawing tool that he helped develop. — Goro Fujita (@gorosart) September 12, 2018.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

With $2 million raised Lynx is still very much in the early startup stage; while this amount is just a drop in the bucket compared to the resources of XR incumbents, it’s a starting point similar to Oculus which got its start after raising $2.4 million on Kickstarter back in 2012.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

In Dan Lejerskar’s experience, everyone from universities to governments see the value of XR — they just lack the content to make it a worthwhile, everyday tool. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. So this was before Oculus.

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