Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2019

Cloudhead Games CEO Denny Unger recently tweeted what appears to be an unreleased VR headset and motion controllers using SteamVR 2.0 Unger deleted the tweet shortly after posting it on Friday, although it can still be found in Google’s webcache. Image courtesy Google Webcache. Images courtesy 2flock, Google Webcache.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

At the birth of VR’s gaming ecosystem, a couple games got an “M” rating from the ESRB right off the bat, citing “VR interactivity” as a significant factor in the evaluation. The IARC is fairly young, having been formed just in 2013 by the ESRB and other international rating organizations.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

However, Almeida said that he had been waiting for something like an Apple headset for even longer than that – ever since he was, like so many others, disenchanted by the Google Glass device that launched in 2013. I specifically brought up gaming as one use case where I feel that a controller is still necessary.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Source: [link] When it debuted in 2013 the Google Glass was the first of its kind. The Smart-Accessory Revolution A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of 2013 showed that only 51% of adults in the United States owned a smartphone, 6 years after the launch of the 1st-generation Apple iPhone.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Investments in AR/VR companies are at 2013 level. Bad news for the VR ecosystem come from DigiCapital: the investments in AR/VR companies for the first quarter of 2020 are the lowest in these years and are back to the level of 2013. More info (Google Lens) More info (AR copy to Photoshop) More info (VROOM). I really can’t wait….

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

The recent screen-based AR solutions (such as Google Tango and Apple’s phone and tablet AR ) and a number of AR headsets. CastAR’s consumer hardware was due to launch this year. Concept render of the CastAR headset and controller | Image courtesy CastAR. A prototype development kit of the CastAR headset, circa 2015 | Photo by Road to VR.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013. Google’s approach was significantly lighter and simpler than what’s come since.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Thanks to a partnership with NBA Digital, Turner Sports and NextVR, basketball fans in the United States will have free access to a VR experience during the State Farm All-Star Saturday Night and the NBA All-Star Game, which all happens during the NBA All-Star Weekend on February 18th and February 19th. 66th NBA ALL-STAR GAME.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

5 | 1995 | Sci-fi | 1 Season “Welcome to the game, Sydney Bloom.” Rent or own it : YouTube | Google | iTunes | Vudu | Amazon Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D | 2013?—?Present Rent or own it : ABC | Netflix | YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google | Amazon 6. or go directly to [link] with your phone browser.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, Google Earth in VR is a rush, Facebook analyzes your face w/ augmented reality, GE uses AR to talk to machines, the funding wrap-up, cure lazy eye with VR, and more…. GOOGLE EARTH IN VR IS A RUSH. GOOGLE VR BRINGS 100M UK SCHOOL CHILDREN.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2019

.” Nintendo today announced the Nintendo Labo: VR Kit , the fourth kit in their ‘Labo’ product line—primarily targeted toward younger gamers and families—which offers build-it-yourself accessories which work in conjunction with specially made games and experiences. Image courtesy Nintendo.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2016

NBC’s popular late night talk show The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon has debuted a new segment called Virtual Reality Pictionary which uses the HTC Vive and Google’s Tilt Brush VR paint app. Tilt Brush actually got its own experimental pictionary game (which the creators call ‘Tiltasaurus’) back in September.

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JUNE 27, 2017

The company itself started when former Valve employees Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson left in 2013 with their AR research. Then in September it opened a new office in Salt Lake City, and took on former members of PlayStation, Google, and Activision in October. The news hits less than a year after CastAR went on a huge expansion drive.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. Smart glass manufacturers and solution providers like Vuzix, Google, Nreal, RealWear, Lenovo, Magic Leap, and others offer full-spectrum devices capable of agile use cases. Google also revealed the world’s first smart glasses, Google Glass, in 2013.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

In the past month, we’ve seen the sector accelerate with a string of events such as OC3, PSVR and Google Daydream. This either means Apple will miss this next tech shift, or that it’s playing the long game. If it’s a long game, what and when will Apple’s entrance be? tablets, mp3 players).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Selecting the nominees was done through an intensive process wherein the top rated games, experiences, and 360 videos were obtained from a public online vote posted on the Protos web site. Best Game. The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games. Bullet Train – Epic Games. Tilt Brush – Google.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Before the game’s release in July 2016, the words “augmented reality” probably didn’t mean much to the average consumer. Despite being an emerging concept for the last few years, Google’s April Fools-joke-turned-into-reality made the technology a mass hit. Gaming is the Natural Playground for AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

This startup makes a nice multiplayer full-body VR game called Hide and Freeze VR , described this way: “Players take turns in playing hider or seeker. If you get frozen you are still part of the game as you can still observe and call out to other hiders to unfreeze you.”. A photo of the game engine offered by Altheria Solutions.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

VR is growing but it is still a niche area, within which the non-gaming social platforms are another embedded niche. To me, modern VR started when Google released the Cardboard App in 2014 basically for free to a world that basically scratched its head and said, ‘huh?’ Virtual Reality is presented as a game, something to be played.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Interactive Easter eggs littered every corner and, in an age where you couldn’t Google the answers in a few seconds, it always felt like there was something else to discover. I remember one of the first things I learned from a VR developer was that traditional scales for 2D games don’t work in VR.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 7, 2018

It’s courseware that you can interact with either on a PC, or stick it on a Google cardboard and in there you’d have hotspots where you can find out more about certain elements, or control where you go within the experience. This disrupt-or-be-disrupted scenario is something that I experienced back 2013 when working for Mendeley.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. Let’s look back: Early trials: Virgin Atlantic ’s 2014 trial at London Heathrow Airport – in collaboration with SITA – included both Google Glass and the Sony SmartWatch 2.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

He has made games with Electronic Arts, small indie studios, and with hummingbirds on back patios, surrounded by succulents. After working in the game industry for multiple years he decided to put his research on storytelling through illusions and his love for everything 3D into practice and apply it to VR. Daniël Ernst. Lily Baldwin.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

When you’re in the mood to play a game, you can – all you have to do is open the select app and start playing. Video games have been known to have a wide variety of effects on the mind of people. Video games have been known to have a wide variety of effects on the mind of people.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 14, 2023

I put on the white frames, she put on the other pair and rolled out a fan-made retroreflective mat instead of the standard game board from the box. Creatures and cards sprang to life on the mat in front of me as we played a series of games she launched from her laptop. — Jeri Ellsworth (@jeriellsworth) February 13, 2013.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Once we had done that, we did that around 2013. I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: Google has published some numbers on that. Alan: Really?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Once we had done that, we did that around 2013. I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: Google has published some numbers on that. Alan: Really?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Once we had done that, we did that around 2013. I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: Google has published some numbers on that. Alan: Really?

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EnterpriseWear

JANUARY 10, 2019

Though Magic Leap the product may be “just another HoloLens” aimed at consumers; Magic Leap the company did a lot in 2018 – through strategic partnerships with AT&T, Sennheiser, and Wayfair – to impress upon consumers the potential for augmented reality beyond Google Glass and Snap filters.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Four years later, Nintendo followed up the wild and enduring success of the Game Boy with Virtual Boy, a headset/console built around (very red) stereoscopic vision. In the 90s, virtual reality was the future of entertainment, gaming, socialization and work. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 18, 2020

Scholastic just released a new book in the series of The Hunger Games, and we brought the cover to life in an augmented reality experience on the Web. I was just looking at it, and if you want to try, then go to geenee.me, and then you can just search down the case studies and The Hunger Games one is there. Alan: Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 18, 2020

Scholastic just released a new book in the series of The Hunger Games, and we brought the cover to life in an augmented reality experience on the Web. I was just looking at it, and if you want to try, then go to geenee.me, and then you can just search down the case studies and The Hunger Games one is there. Alan: Interesting.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I was a first-year at Stockholm University, studying game development, and had found out that we could actually make the faculty order us cool s**t if we just asked. The games behemoth themselves saw the potential of VR and its use in games, and decided to join the fun. I remember 2012.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 18, 2020

Scholastic just released a new book in the series of The Hunger Games, and we brought the cover to life in an augmented reality experience on the Web. I was just looking at it, and if you want to try, then go to geenee.me, and then you can just search down the case studies and The Hunger Games one is there. Alan: Interesting.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

From zero gravity chambers to organic gaming consoles, Hollywood has been dreaming up some of the biggest and best ways to implement virtual reality for decades. To qualify the list, these movies had to be using technology with the goal of inducing presence, whether that be in a game world, dreamscape, or recording of reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 20, 2017

The latest headset from the company shown at E3 last week promises integration with Valve’s SteamVR Tracking technology and support for both PC-based SteamVR games as well as Android VR content. Images provided by GameFace.

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MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Patents filed in 2013-2014 explore a variety of exotic optical designs, functional on paper, but with specifications outside the tolerances of existing manufacturing methods. Near-eye Optics Basics. While DigiLens’ work for the U.S.

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