AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Apple Hints At VR/AR Work Once More With Oculus, Magic Leap Hires Business Insider is reporting that the ever-popular tech giant made two key hires in recent weeks and months. One was from VR specialist and Rift maker, Oculus, the other previously worked at illusive and intriguing mixed reality company, Magic Leap.

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ARVR

JUNE 2, 2022

2013; Nabben, 2021) that seamlessly integrates the physical world with the virtual world. Physical devices provide the gateway interfaces to the Metaverse, including Augmented Reality (AR) devices such as Ray Ban glasses, Virtual Reality (VR) goggles such as Oculus, mobile phone applications, and computers. Available online: [link].

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

The game itself isn’t new as it’s been out since August of 2013. In the game you and your friends (or strangers) team up to take down heavily guarded banks, warehouses, jewelry stores, and more as a trained group of career criminals.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

At this point, however, Nick Whiting can’t be sure that’s how the game will be received, and he informs me that I’m the first person outside of the core Epic group he’s spoken to that has finished the game. ElementalVR – E3 2013. Showdown – Oculus Connect 2014 | Read More. Bullet Train – Oculus Connect 2015 | Read More.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

A reborn mod project is bringing compatibility for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with full motion input support, remastered visuals, a made-for-VR UI, realistic weapon interactions, and more. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1. ” Sadly, it wouldn’t last.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2018

Since PS4’s release in 2013, the console has sold more than 79 million units. Kodera told a group of journalists, WSJ included, that Sony is currently looking at ways to better incorporate mobility into the next PlayStation, similar to how Nintendo Switch can play equally as a portable device and at-home console.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I've been a bespectacled individual for a very long time, and back when I bought the Oculus Rift DK1 in 2013, it was arguably the only player in the game in terms of consumer level VR hardware. That headset came packaged with three sets of interchangeable aspherical lenses offering varying degrees of vision correction.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Half-Life 2: VR , a revamped version of an older mod which will adapt the beloved Half-Life 2 for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been green-lit, signifying Valve’s official acceptance of the mod for distribution on Steam. The best we can do for now is “soon”, as soon as the hands of our programmers and artists allow it.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2018

Apple is also integrating Animoji, as well as Memoji, onto FaceTime group chat, which is cool if that’s what you’re into. The resultant Memoji that Peterson created was decidedly on the Pixar-side of the uncanny valley, making it approachable and actually really cute. SEE ALSO Apple Unveils ARKit 2.0,

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

Founded in 2013, the social VR platform was one of the first to come online and connected tens of thousands of users monthly across a range of headsets. We had a supportive group of investors that last gave us money in 2015. This evening AltspaceVR has announced it will be closing its doors for good on August 3rd. So what happened?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Made from high-res satellite imagery, aerial photography, and Street View data, Google Earth VR is surprisingly meditative when alone and fun when with a group. You zoom in, closer and closer, until you are effortlessly flying down a city street. GE USES AR TO TALK TO MACHINES IN MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Along the road, it transformed socializing from something that’s mostly done interpersonally, between relatively small groups of people, into something done electronically, at a global scale. Back in 2013, Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems successfully sued Facebook over data privacy breaches. billion users.

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Leapmotion

JULY 11, 2019

Noah created what may be the first 3D-printable mount for the Leap Motion Controller on the Oculus DK1 in 2013. Thanks to the stellar group of people who chose to join us for this event, it really couldn’t have gone better.”. Every possible hitch we ran into got taken care of by one participant or another.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

It’s been said it only takes one visionary to champion VR within an organization; that one passionate (and sometimes crazy) person who “gets it” early and then slowly but surely gets others in the group on board. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

from the 2021 ‘ Zoom Fatigue ’ study to ‘ Using Superpowers in Virtual Reality to Encourage Prosocial Behavior , (2013).’ The same author’s First Day in VR with an Oculus also gives a sense of some of the basic things that happen. When the Oculus Go headset appeared in 2018, I could load it up with my own immersive video.

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2017

Having founded Oculus in 2012 and been an important face for the company throughout its growth from fledgling startup to $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and beyond, it was a shock to see Palmer Luckey leave the company just two months ago. Palmer Luckey throws swag to the crowd at Oculus Connect 2 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2022

AltspaceVR launched in 2013 and became available to the public two years later. Users of the desktop app now had the option to sign in via a Microsoft account, but Steam users were largely unaffected, as would be Oculus users beginning in another two years. If you’ve never used AltspaceVR before, consider this your invitation.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Make no mistake: if you have an Oculus Rift, then this is Obduction week. And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. Project Syria, from Emblematic Group. Obduction, from Cyan.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. The story of Strivr begins in 2013. Where to begin?

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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

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. 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

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

And don’t forget that UploadVR has a Steam community group , complete with a curated list of recommendations so that you don’t have to waste any money finding out what’s good in the world of VR. Project Syria, from Emblematic Group. Project Syria is a project that was developed back in 2013 and is now being released on consumer VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

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. Europe’s biggest broadcaster, RTL Group, led the round — with participation from Gigi Levy-Weiss, James Packer, and iAngels.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The total number of registered users went up by 12,161, the biggest single-month increase since early 2013, to 511,530, crossing the half-million mark again. For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Eureka World : 639 active users.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Players control Marcus Holloway, a hacker who works with the hacking group DedSec to take down the city's advanced surveillance system known as ctOS. The game was funded via a Kickstarter campaign in October 2013, and was released in August 2016 for PC, with a macOS version released in March 2017.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

Palmer Luckey, the co-founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift, is stepping down from his position at the company. Oculus told Upload VR the news, saying that it will be Luckey’s last week at the Facebook-owned VR headset company. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus.

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