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APRIL 1, 2017

With the Galaxy S8 and S8+ coming later this month , Samsung is hoping to sweeten the deal with a free Gear VR headset and Controller for US and Canadian pre-orders before April 20th. value) for an additional $99 to go along with your free Gear VR headset/Controller and Oculus content bundle. Free Gear VR with Galaxy S8 Pre-order.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

The investment puts the country’s ownership of Magic Leap over 50 percent, giving it overall majority control. ” The wealth fund, which is controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, invests in projects considered to be strategically significant to diversifying its national economy.

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MARCH 21, 2020

The headset, code-named ‘Del Mar’, will supposedly use a ‘Jedi’ controller. Along with several references to Oculus Touch and GearVR controllers, there’s also mention of an additional “Jedi” controller. Code-named ‘Del Mar’, the device was referenced briefly in an infobox posted on the official Oculus website.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Alien: Isolation (2014) was one of the first truly good games to get support for PC VR headsets. Oculus had first featured the title when showing off Oculus Rift DK2 back in 2014, bringing a special made-for-VR demo of the game to trade shows that, at the time, was looked to be one of the first ‘AAA’ VR games.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

I remember first hearing the name of the adventure game all the way back in May 2014, where studio CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh name dropped it ahead of an official reveal at that year’s E3. Back then we were waiting on the Oculus Rift DK2 to start shipping, and VR input was still largely based around the traditional controller.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

As part of the study, 77 participants were split up into three groups—a control group with no gum, an experimental group chewing peppermint gum, and a second experimental group chewing ginger gum—and immersed in a 15-minute VR helicopter flight. 2018 ), pleasant odors (Keshavarz et al.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

And he put his money where his mouth was by dropping more than $2 billion in 2014 to buy Oculus, a small startup that precipitated a grassroots resurgence of virtual reality technology. Their control over iOS and Android—platforms where hundreds of millions of users accessed Facebook each day—gave them outside influence over the company.

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MAY 31, 2023

The original Leap Motion was a desktop hand tracking accessory launched in 2014 that could be mounted to the front of early modern VR headsets like the Oculus DK2. It brought hand tracking to VR before most users even had access to motion controllers. Sure it’s cool to see your actual hands in VR for the first time.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Vox Machinae has a storied history dating back to at least 2014 when the game was first previewed , well before the advent of motion controllers as the standard means of input for VR content and nearly two years before the first tethered consumer VR headsets even hit the market.

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JULY 21, 2023

The job descriptions first showed up across the internet and that started the rumors, I’m going to say back in 2014, 2015.” Controller-Free Design While the Apple Vision Pro has more screens than most VR headsets, it has fewer controllers. “Somehow I’ve been following it for the last seven years,” said Almeida.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

With an unrivalled price point, the ZapBox kit includes controllers, two phone camera adaptors, world anchors, a content library of both pre-released and original experiences, and a Unity plugin for developers. Inspired by Google’s cardboard headset, ZapBox was conceived in 2014 as a way to meet consumers where they were at.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

In what might be the longest Kickstarter campaign conclusion to date, more than four years following estimated deliveries of the STEM VR controller, Sixense says they will fully refund all backers and pre-orders. At the time of the Kickstarter, Sixense had estimated that the earliest deliveries of STEM would reach backers by July 2014.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company was founded back in 2014, originally called Vrse, two years before the first consumer VR headsets hit the market. – – — – – Today’s acquisition marks the sixth VR studio that Meta has bought in an effort to have greater control over the destiny of killer VR apps and the talent behind them.

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MARCH 25, 2024

I could even drop the controllers from my hands to play the piano, letting the Joy-Cons hang from their wrist-straps. Because headsets like Apple Vision Pro rely on hand tracking out of the box, eventually Nintendo Joy-Cons (or controllers much like them) might end up being a match made in heaven for gaming on these systems.

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MAY 8, 2023

In its ‘Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation’ case, Meta is paying out to users affected by privacy breaches stemming from the Menlo Park-based firm’s leak of roughly 87 million users’ data with Cambridge Analytica, first brought to light in 2014, landing in the district judge’s hands in 2018.

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VR Game Critic

MAY 18, 2016

At its annual I/O developer conference today, Google is showing off a reference design for a new virtual reality headset that builds on the success of the Cardboard unit it launched back in 2014. And in a surprise move, Daydream's system doesn't just use a headset — it also features a new kind of control system for mobile VR.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

minimum Controls: touch, voice. You can control your glasses by swiping and tapping your fingers on the frames , as you could do with Google Glass back in the days. ac Wi-fi, Bluetooth 5.0 Compatibility: iOS 13, Android 8.1 Features of the glasses (Image by Ray-Ban). Functionalities.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Starting out in 2014, Tabar originally designed Serenity for the Oculus Rift DK2. ” The experience contains a number of items strewn about that you can pick up using your VR system’s motion controllers. According to Tabar, “any HMD with SteamVR support should work.”

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The launch of Apple Vision Pro is in some ways the most significant event for the XR industry since the acquisition of Oculus by Meta back in 2014. With Vision Pro now in the hands of many, host Kent Bye recently interviewed two XR insiders that have been part of the industry for more than a decade each.

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MAY 17, 2017

That means you’ll be able to pair the handsets with Daydream Ready headsets like Google’s own Daydream View and the upcoming device from Huawei and then access a wide range of apps available on the platform that utilise a three degrees of freedom (3DOF) motion controller that comes with the headsets.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

Team RiftWare’s winning Leap Motion hack lets you leverage the power of the Oculus Rift, Leap Motion, and Android Wear – so you can reach into virtual reality and control it with voice commands. This team used the Leap Motion Controller and Myo to make viewing notes feel more natural and fun. Leap Learning. Mini-game Mania.

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APRIL 27, 2017

This marks the first time since 2014 that Oculus will not be hosting a booth at one of the year’s biggest international trade shows. Oculus has hosted a booth at E3 since 2014, with the size of its structure roughly doubling every year since. Floor plan showing the growth of Oculus’ booth since 2014. Via Reddit.

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JANUARY 5, 2019

In August of 2014, Konami Productions published a short-form first-person psychological horror game entitled P.T. If you have trouble progressing through any of the convoluted puzzles, he’s included both a control manual and strategy guide within the main directory. Gaming’s most frightening hallway is even creepier in VR.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

For those just catching up, though, here's what people saw happen over that decade: In early 2014, Facebook acquired the Oculus startup and hired many of Valve's top engineers working on VR. Together, they beat Oculus to market with tracked controllers. In 2019 Valve launched the Index at $1000 for the full kit.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Jarvish was founded in 2014 by a group of motorcycle enthusiasts Click To Tweet. The company was founded in 2014 by a group of motorcycle enthusiasts and members of the former Advance Technology Division (ATD) team at Foxconn. And that’s exactly what Jarvish has set about doing.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The company was founded in 2014 by a group composed of both motorcycle enthusiasts and members of the former Advance Technology Division (ATD) team at Foxconn. That’s exactly what Jarvish has set about doing with a new line of advanced motorcycle helmets, one of which even featuring augmented reality integration. Image Credit: Jarvish.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Much like the haunted animatronics lurking throughout the halls of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, 2014’s Five Nights at Freddy’s is a seemingly unkillable entity. The infamous survival horror title arrives on PSVR, Oculus, and SteamVR this April.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Oculus Rift currently sells for $400, which includes the headset, Touch controllers, and 2 sensors. HTC last month lowered the price of Vive to $500, which includes the headset, Vive motion controllers, and 2 SteamVR sensors. The DK2, which launched in 2014, still holds 1.7% One big reason for the shift: price.

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APRIL 7, 2021

A new study finds that 82% of dead eagles examined between 2014 and 2018 had detectable levels of rat poison in their systems. Eagles are majestic, beautiful, and full of toxins that we’ve pumped into the environment. Read more.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Vox Machinae has a storied history dating back to at least 2014 when the game was first previewed , well before the advent of motion controllers as the standard means of input for VR content and nearly two years before the first tethered consumer VR headsets even hit the market.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Having been inactive since 2014, Dance Central made an unexpected revival in 2019 with the help of Oculus Studios. Releasing as a PSVR exclusive, it takes some time to get to grips with the Move Controllers but it brought us a worthwhile follow-up. Rock Climbing – The Climb. Running – Sprint Vector.

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MARCH 16, 2017

With no motion controls or positional tracking—and VR locomotion hardly worked out at the time—this was primarily a visual demo. StrategyVR – CES 2014. Couch Knights – GDC 2014 | Read More. Showdown – Oculus Connect 2014 | Read More. Thief in the Shadows – GDC 2015 | Read More.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

According to a Homido representative, the company has collectively sold approximately 557,000 HMDs since 2014. Starting all the way back in 2014, Homido first released its V1 model headset, which has since been discontinued for sale on their official site as they’ve transitioned to the V2 iteration.

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APRIL 11, 2019

A Chair in a Room first came to Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift DK1 as a free demo back in 2014. PSVR users will be able to use either DualShock 4 controllers or PS Move motion controllers so you can examine the world’s objects, some of which hold important clues as to what the Greenwater Institute actually is.

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JULY 30, 2017

Alien: Isolation (2014) is a survival horror game that’s rich detail, atmosphere, and tense moments make it a great candidate for terrifying VR experience. Prior to its 2014 launch, Alien: Isolation was briefly demoed with a VR mode running on the second Rift development kit (DK2).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Peripherals manufacturer Logitech recently announced the acquisition of Saitek brand and Saitek’s line of controller products. The future of Saitek’s long-awaited, custom controller for Chris Roberts’ upcoming game, Star Citizen is also in question. The post Logitech Acquired Saitek For its Future VR Controllers?

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JULY 17, 2018

Using an HTC Vive and a specially made controller, the ‘Holoroom Test Drive’ allows anyone timid around power tools to put on a VR headset to learn how to use the tools in a safe virtual space. Innovation Labs has been working with AR and VR platforms since 2014 with the original intent to assist customers with home projects.

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