Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The event, hosted by AIXR, aims to recognize outstanding achievements in VR technology. Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. The VR Awards recognize innovations in VR technology through twelve categories. What Is AIXR? VR Marketing.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. Eric is the co-founder and co-organizer of the HoustonVR Meetup , and an event manager for the Immersive Technology Conference.

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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. The moment a pedestrian stepped into the car’s virtual path in the simulation, Audi Pre Sense City brought the car to an abrupt stop.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Two Bit Circus was founded in 2012 by Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman. In 2016 they teamed up with Samsung to simulate an in-game basketball experience for the Rio Olympics. For example, when an agency wanted an IndyCar simulator, they knew they wanted to shoot in 3D 360° with a haptic seat to maximize immersion.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Founded in 2010, Leap Motion would release its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered touchless hand-tracking. However, one place in VR still seems like a potential sweet spot for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking tech: mobile.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

However, technological advancement has generated new opportunities to apply virtual reality to more than just video games. While technology is constantly changing in the digital world, it is crucial to investigate how advancement in technology can impact learning. Virtual reality has been a known concept for the past 32 years.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2017

Beginning development as a 2012 Kickstarter project that raised a respectable $2.1 The huge AAA budget hasn’t served to get the ambitious space action simulator out the door any sooner, with an initial release date planned for 2014, though now no firm date set even as of 2017. million to date.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Coming off the substitute referee circus of 2012 and a series of rule additions of varying efficacy in subsequent years, the NFL is looking to VR for potential training of our thankless officials. However, the second that a call is against you, you’re wondering how in the world this person got the job.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Recent advances in computer hardwares and AI assistants are charting a path for AR devices to to re-emerge into a more technology-savvy generation. Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Source: [link] AR App Store AR technologies have been silently improving in the past couple of years.

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Road to VR

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. Image courtesy Facebook. Valve Knuckles. Image courtesy @AntonHand.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 28, 2017

In the middle of August 2012 I wrote my first article about Oculus. Those experts helped break down the basics of VR, pointing out much of the technology needed to make it possible was already in millions of homes with accessories like Microsoft’s Kinect sensor. Take Job Simulator as the chief example.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. months away!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

As the technology approaches ubiquitous and the cost of engineering these experiences comes down, the prevalence of the virtual tours is expected to rise. Enter Floored , a company with its eyes set on allowing its clients to create immersive simulations for architectural ambitions that may not even be out of the early concept stages.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

The devices will use positional tracking (which will not require any external sensors) developed from expertise learned through creating Google’s Tango mapping technology and optimized for virtual reality. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP. The beloved Austin, TX-based virtual reality content studio Owlchemy Labs has been acquired by Google.

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Mashable VR

MAY 22, 2022

Radar images of Apophis taken in 2012. Yet this planetary defense office exists because, at some point, a significant impact is inevitable ( unless we build technologies to successfully deflect threatening objects.) Credit: NASA/JPL-CalTech. We have never actually issued a warning.".

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We started the year strong, receiving the Lumiere Technology Award in January, alongside companies like Disney and Microsoft. We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 18, 2017

This short, sweet little movie from 2012, directed by Jake Schreier, doesn’t depict a dystopian future in which VR ruins our lives but instead a more plausible vision of years not too far from now in which A.I. Jake is essentially the living embodiment of the so-called millennial, grown up and living in a brave new world.

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Veative

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

VR, on the contrary, offers a simulation of the real world with benefits of its own. Emergent educational technologies, such as AR, which offer a seamless blend of reality and information, can help us not only raise and educate but also empower a new breed of learners in the digital age.

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Veative

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The technical definition of a virtual tour is a simulation of an existing location, usually composed of a sequence of videos or still images. Hohstadt further writes that VR, as a simulated environment, stimulates a participant’s senses and provides the feeling of being in a different place and time. University of Michigan Press, 2012.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Without exception, everyone who hears about VR technology is interested on some level, and because of this and its many uses, some have already started using VR technology. Of course, it would be almost 600 years before the birth of modern VR technology and VR headsets). Intro to VR Development. .

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. And very much VR has been like AI.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I’m responsible for securing some of the core components of our technology for future competitiveness and enabling together with my co-founders Nils and Daniel our rockstar team to keep developing amazing XR applications for moving vehicles. I’m 46 years old and an avid car-, tech- and games- enthusiast. Let’s talk about holoride.

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EnterpriseWear

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s power and utility companies are navigating a period of uncertainty: Political, environmental and social pressures are making it critical for the power sector to evolve the technology and business models by which it has traditionally operated. to double by 2026. Applications of XR and Wearables in Utilities.

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HaptX

JANUARY 18, 2018

It’s a convergence of film, art, and new technology,” said Shari Frilot, senior programmer for New Frontier. New Frontier arose as a reaction to the proliferation of digital technologies affecting filmmakers in the early 2000s. “We In recent years, New Frontier has become associated with virtual reality and augmented reality projects.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. Spatial computing techniques Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) SLAM stands for simultaneous localization and mapping technology. to make virtual content appear on real surfaces.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It's been said on this show before; XR doesn't have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. Alan: Hi, it's Alan Smithson here.

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EnterpriseWear

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s power and utility companies are navigating a period of uncertainty: Political, environmental and social pressures are making it critical for the power sector to evolve the technology and business models by which it has traditionally operated. to double by 2026. Applications of XR and Wearables in Utilities.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

For him, such industries would benefit ‘enormously’ from digital transformations via digital twinning, simulation, and computer-aided design (CAD). He explained further, “Amazon is using Omniverse to visualise their warehouse, [a] giant robotic system, to help their workers [and] to simulate their fleet of AMRs. [We

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Technology has imitated art and the other way around, with science fiction writers coining terms like “virtual reality” and “the metaverse,” and tech companies using science fiction writers as in-house futurists and advisers. In the not-too-distant future, technology has given birth to a form of immortality.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Traditionally based off of technological developments happening in the real world, some of the first movies with VR technology started coming out in the early 80’s when advancements in computer technology allowed research to begin on more affordable VR. TRON (1982). Virtuosity (1995).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

BCIs are still in the early stages, and even if they are evolving at a good pace, the technology for “brain control” is still not here. 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.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

” The technology served as a visually rich shorthand for dystopian cyberpunk fears in an age of rapidly accelerating technology. For decades, the technology has felt ahead of its time, beginning with Sensorama in 1962. Sutherland, who is still around today at 85, contributed important technological innovations for decades.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Edx.org is an online learning destination founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012. With their four-months VR Mobile Nanodegree program , you learn the latest tools and technologies that you can use to develop VR, including Google, Unity, and HTC. You get to develop shapes in React VR, Models and Animation, Weather Simulators etc.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 5, 2017

At the heart of Vive’s leap is a fundamentally different tracking technology which involves mounting little boxes to the walls just like you would speakers. This giveaway of advanced technology helped accelerate VR development into a new phase with greater freedom. The Future of VR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Parisi is also the author of O’Reilly Media’s books on Virtual Reality and WebGL: Learning Virtual Reality (2015) , Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL (2014) , and WebGL Up and Running (2012). He is currently Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, where he oversees the company’s strategy for virtual and augmented reality.

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