TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

In a 2013 Time interview , he briefly — and modestly — spoke of The Sword of Damocles, noting, “The name virtual reality might be applied, but it didn’t come along until ten years later.” Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 14, 2023

If AR & VR glasses are on parallel paths for the foreseeable future, as Meta’s top researcher Michael Abrash recently suggested , when will we see the first hit consumer AR product? In Las Vegas last week Jeri Ellsworth carried the consumer packaging for Tilt Five’s AR glasses. And can Tilt Five get there first?

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2017

. “There’s more Meta 2 pre-orders than there are HoloLens headsets in the world,” Ryan Pamplin, VP of Sales & Partnerships at Meta, told me during a recent visit to check out the latest changes to the company’s AR headset. SEE ALSO Exclusive: Meta 2 AR Demos Revealed in Full. Photo by Road to VR.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. Smartphones are old news. by Kif Leswing, CNBC.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

One name is notably absent from that list: Apple. Despite the occasional patent or acquisition , Apple has yet to make any concrete statement concerning its commitment to VR. In an interview with Buzzfeed , Apple CEO Tim Cook made some interesting comments related to AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It originally appeared in CNBC, including commentary from AR Insider’s research arm, ARtillry Intelligence and permission to re-post. . Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

.” Blau has held several senior positions at companies such as Autodesk, Silicon Graphics, and Double Fusion, and most recently as a Gartner analyst, serving as lead for Apple and other AR and VR technologies. ” Since its founding in 2013, vTime has operated out of their Liverpool, UK-based studio.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp. project worldwide VR/AR industry revenues to be $162B by 2020. Investors are certainly chasing after that future revenue. In the first half of 2016, the VR/AR industry saw $1.3B OWLCHEMY LABS LANDS $5M.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell is a book published in 2013 with historians Paula Fleming and Denis Pellerin. May isn’t new when talking about AR and VR. Both Diableries and Diabl-O-Scope are available from Apple’s App Store.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

At a Fortune magazine technology conference in Aspen, CMO Brian Wallace and CEO Rony Abovitz (who sold his surgical robot company for $1.65B in 2013) got on stage to fuel the fire on the hype train. The round was led by DFJ Growth, and also in the round are China Investment Corporation, Thrive Capital, FreeS Fund, and Max Levchin.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

Featuring special guest Sophia Dominguez, co-founder of SVRF.com (the first search engine for immersive content), and creator of AllThingsVR , a weekly VR/AR newsletter. Founded all the way back in 2013 by Eric Romo, Altspace VR was a social world that broke new ground– allowing new and old friends to virtually congregate.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony).

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? How are you? The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? How are you? The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? How are you? The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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