VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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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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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. A while ago you announced a partnership with Pico and Unity. Can you tell us more about it?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. They see the value.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course). A future runtime could offer more functionalities , a bit like it has happened with Leap Motion that in 2012 was a rough accessory and now is an amazing hands tracking device. Hands-on with the demos.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

After 14 years of working on home and portable consoles, Ready At Dawn this month released Lone Echo and its multiplayer spinoff Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift & Touch. He’s referring to a conversation he had with Jason Rubin—Head of Content at Oculus—way back in late 2014. “We From there Oculus decided to sign it on.”.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Bye will be delivering a keynote at SVVR, as will Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic Group, Tony Parisi, Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. And the timing couldn’t have been more ideal; the Oculus Kickstarter had been gaining steam in the broader community. Enter: SVVR.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There are also app stores for the Oculus Rift , the Gear VR , the HTC Vive , and on Steam for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Active users have more than doubled from around 16,000 a month in 2012 to more than 37,000 earlier this year, before InWorldz stopped reporting their active user statistics.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. The first Oculus was… out in, what, early 2012? We’ve been playing with headsets since 2012. So you’re right there.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. The first Oculus was… out in, what, early 2012? We’ve been playing with headsets since 2012. So you’re right there.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. The sequel to 2012's Dishonored, the game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 11 November 2016. What's Nvidia Ansel?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). After stripping down the Guncube model and carefully removing the HDK with its 24 remaining channels of sensors and flexes, it was shipped to Skarredghost in Italy for tinkering, following his uber successful “Unity Cube” project.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

10:15 am – 10:45 am | Keynote: The World’s Most Compelling New Experiences (Unity). Tony Parisi | Head of VR/AR Strategy, Unity. Julie Shumaker | Vice President, Business Development, Unity. Tony Parisi is a virtual reality pioneer, serial entrepreneur and angel investor.

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