Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

Is Virtual Reality a growing market segment or a flash in the pan? 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.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Audi Virtual Training Car. In addition to highlighting their VR dealership experience, Audi also showed off the Audi Virtual Training Car, an Audi A4 equipped with a virtual reality headset for the driver. Technologies for portraying virtual cars have been in use at Audi since 2012.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

If someone told me back in 2012 that Tupac was going to be the surprise guest at Coachella, I would have asked them where they bought their LSD. When Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were joined on stage by Pac’s hologram, the crowd lost their minds. Except for the Tupac-is-Alive conspiracy theorists, who sighed a collective “I told you so.”)

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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

Getty Images, has launched the Getty Images Virtual Reality Group, a new business dedicated to the creation and global distribution of virtual reality content. Virtual Reality is completely transforming the way we view and experience world events.”

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Sword Art Online is easily one of the most popular anime ever to be based on virtual reality. First aired in 2012, the fictional events of the show were set in the year 2022. In the show characters don so-called ‘full-dive’ VR headsets to join a VR MMORPG.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The company has approximately 50 employees, roughly 20 of which work in software development, and has been creating 3D software since 2012. Peter Alden, VP of Sales for Floored, tells me that Virtual Reality was a very natural vertical for them. Virtual reality can improve on this facet of our lives. says Alden. “An

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ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2021

This virtual tour can help them decide which rooms to book. How Are Hotels Using Augmented Reality Technology? During the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, Holiday Inn used AR to create immersive experiences for guests around the hotel. Does Augmented Reality Technology Have a Future in Hospitality?

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

” said Pete Hines, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, after revealing that an incarnation of Fallout 4 (2015) and Doom (2016) are in development for virtual reality on the HTC Vive. “…this is a just the beginning of Bethesda’s future in virtual reality,” the company writes on their official blog.

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MAY 3, 2017

If someone told me back in 2012 that Tupac was going to be the surprise guest at Coachella, I would have asked them where they bought their LSD. When Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were joined on stage by Pac’s hologram, the crowd lost their minds. Except for the Tupac-is-Alive conspiracy theorists, who sighed a collective “I told you so.”)

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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. Whether to allow users to full-dive into Virtual Reality, freely move around, and be active in the medium.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 20, 2023

In April 2012, Oculus hit Kickstarter with the Oculus Rift developer kit , and the tech world whipped itself into a “this is the future” frenzy. VR — as in, a system for being exclusively in virtual reality — barely exists as a concept anymore. It’s hard to believe that it was only 11 years ago that VR captured the zeitgeist.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2023

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond (2020) was set to be the storied franchise’s first big push into virtual reality when it launched in late 2020, offering up some of its characteristic WWII combat missions alongside what hoped to be a robust online multiplayer.

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Veative

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In his book, Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution, David M. Virtual reality has the potential to fundamentally change our perceptions and notions of the self, and consequently, the definition of what it means to be human. Virtual Selves, Real Persons: A Dialogue Across Disciplines.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Though there’s a long history of anime based on virtual reality, Sword Art Online rose to popularity right around the time the Oculus Rift was starting to gain traction through its record-breaking 2012 Kickstarter. They will also die if someone attempts to remove the headset from their real body.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2019

Mitchell was among five core people at the inception of Oculus in 2012, which also included Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Jack McCauley and Michael Antonov, all of which have now departed the company following the 2014 Facebook acquisition. When we posted the Kickstarter in 2012, VR was mostly the stuff of science fiction.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2018

The move is the latest development in a years-long string of acquisitions, patents, and hirings by the company focused on augmented and virtual reality technology. Founded in 2012, Colorado-based Akonia Holographics claims to have 200 patents focused on holography, specifically pertaining to storage and optics. .”

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

Having recently departed Oculus after founding the company in 2012, Palmer Luckey has assured the world that he’s still very interested in virtual reality and has hinted at some of the things he’s pursuing for future projects. Sword Art Online. “I can understand what he was thinking.

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ARVR

MAY 28, 2021

He has been working in VR development since 2012, prior to the release of the first modern VR consumer headset, the Oculus Rift. I was very lucky to be at the right place at the right time when I met Nathan Burba and James Iliff who were pitching Project Holodeck as an Advanced Games project at USC in spring 2012.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 11, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, NGCodec has been developing the compressor-decompressor technology optimized for ultra-low latency, high-quality video encoding. Now dialing in on virtual reality, the company has created what it calls Reality Codec, a low delay H.265/HEVC said Oliver Gunasekara CEO and Co-Founder of NGCodec.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ten years ago, Oculus VR was founded and released its first prototype virtual reality headset. December 2012 marked the premier demo showcasing a hand-built Oculus VR prototype for their in-depth article.

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VeeR VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In 2012 the only way to have experienced virtual reality was with a high-powered computer and headset. This dynamic presented a problem for consumers, who had to spend a considerable amount of money on both items to jump in virtual reality. Are standalone devices the future of immersive virtual reality? .

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you’re interested in VR, you’ve probably thought at least once or twice about the simulation hypothesis—the idea that we might actually already be living in a virtual reality world. Several papers have hypothesized ways of actually testing if our reality is a simulation. Pushing the Limit.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond brings the iconic franchise back to life, now realized for virtual reality. With eight years between the most recent Medal of Honor game (2012) and this upcoming 2020 rebirth, it’ll be very interesting to see how Respawn re-imagines the franchise for VR, and whether it can truly carry it forward.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Founded in 2010, Leap Motion released its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered markerless hand-tracking. Updated Tracking.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

Welcome to the Getty Images Virtual Reality Group. Stock photo superstars Getty Images announced yesterday the creation of their brand new virtual reality initiative, the Getty Images Virtual Reality Group. There they began their initiative capturing the events and spectacles in glorious 360 degrees.

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VRScout

JUNE 12, 2016

E3 has already kicked off and the virtual reality gaming announcements are coming in hot. The surprise announcement came when Bethesda CMO Pete Hines took the stage during an E3 keynote, referencing their early work on VR initiatives that appeared at E3 2012, running Doom 3.

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Upload VR

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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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. Why is Virtual Reality so relevant for military training? Hello Otakar, can you please introduce yourself to my readers?

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2017

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: The New Frontier program at Sundance has been abuzz with virtual reality over the past couple of years. Nonny de la Pena’s immersive piece Hunger in LA that debuted in 2012 in the program did wonders to fan the flames of the emerging medium, and the movement keeps growing.

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VRScout

JUNE 30, 2019

We’ll meet twice a week in virtual classrooms and build amazing virtual reality content together. 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. “This is not just a simple online class,” commented Silkin.

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VRScout

MAY 13, 2017

The horrifying experience was initially available via Empire Magazine’s limited edition Alien: Covenant virtual reality issue released on Alien Day, April 26th (a nod to planet LV-426). Fox has experimented with virtual reality in the past ala a 360-degree experience promoting the 2015 film Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and a $9.99

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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. Then the FTC announced on July 27, 2022 that they're seeking to "Block Virtual Reality Giant Meta’s Acquisition of Popular App Creator Within."

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ARVR

DECEMBER 21, 2021

shared virtual space. Even LEGO went there in 2010 creating a Massive Multiplayer game called LEGO Universe , just to experience that it was too early, closing it down in 2012. But a lot has changed in the last 10 years: Our computers and networks are many times faster today. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Yvonne Felix has been using augmented reality as an assistive technology since 2012. She tells me, “I actually wear an augmented reality device that allows me to see. She tells me, "I actually wear an augmented reality device that allows me to see.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2020

0x10c was an ambitious sci-fi space and survival sandbox game project that Persson had been working on back in 2012, and after a demo of an early Oculus Rift prototype, he said he was “100% impressed and will make 0x10c compatible with it.” SEE ALSO John Carmack's Quest to Bring Minecraft to Virtual Reality.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Google and HTC already have a close working relationship, helping to push forward the tech giant’s commitment to virtual reality. In 2012, the search giant paid $12.5 Cher Wang, Chairwoman and CEO of HTC shaking hands with Rick Osterloh, Senior Vice President of Hardware at Google. Google VR & HTC. for under $3 billion.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

Once Microsoft has built an attractive mixed-reality library, products such as the three-dimensional teleconferencing app Holoportation could well join bestsellers like Office 365 Click To Tweet. Consulting firm Digi-Capital estimated the world market for augmented- and virtual-reality devices at EUR 3.3 billion in 2016.

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