XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products. In 2024, the space saw far less sophisticated XR devices with older products like early Oculus or Google Glasses. How will Meta use this data?

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. So, let’s look at the facts, the numbers and the data. HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. The Dangers of Your VR Headset: Data Visualization.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

They created many VR devices including, the Data Glove, the EyePhone, and the Audio Sphere. When they licensed the data glove to Mattel to create the Power Glove, this is one of the first instances of an affordable VR device that was readily available to the general public, costing just $75 USD. . million USD in funding.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. It’s trying to figure out how to expedite those clinical trials, and bring the data to the forefront faster. Which is all good and necessary.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. It’s trying to figure out how to expedite those clinical trials, and bring the data to the forefront faster. Which is all good and necessary.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. It's trying to figure out how to expedite those clinical trials, and bring the data to the forefront faster. Which is all good and necessary. Alan: Absolutely.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2017

We’ve been following the GameFace development story since back in 2014 when they showed us what VR looked like at 2,560 x 1,440 resolution , long before the first headsets of that resolution would actually hit the market. – – — – – Photo by Road to VR.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Reflecting on his early work, Mann writes : I started exploring various ways to do this during my youth in the 1970s, when most computers were the size of large rooms and wireless data networks were unheard of. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Facebook certainly believed so.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Some of them require all kinds of data connectivity to siloed data in your organization, and they will require other projects to be done just before we can do this. Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Google Pixel came out. Alan: Absolutely. What is it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Some of them require all kinds of data connectivity to siloed data in your organization, and they will require other projects to be done just before we can do this. Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Google Pixel came out. Alan: Absolutely. What is it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Some of them require all kinds of data connectivity to siloed data in your organization, and they will require other projects to be done just before we can do this. Alan: I'm going to Google it here. Google Pixel came out. There's fault in the hardware manufacturers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

We’ve been investing in it since 2014. I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive. We got into AR seriously in 2014. GB: Google Glass.

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VRWorld

MAY 19, 2016

When Google launched the Cardboard VR project on I/O 2014, the company wanted to make sure that VR is not a passing thing, like the ill-fated Google Glass project ended up being. Couple of months ago, Google announced they’re working on Android for VR and that day is here.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I work in the XR field since 2014 , and I’ve been able to follow almost all of its hype cycle. He makes the miracle of transforming your data into his money (Image by Tweaknology). If you follow the story described above, you can see that the hype for VR in 2014 was caused by Facebook buying Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

My first VR headset was just a [garbled] headset I imported from the States in 2014. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS. My background is in film.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

My first VR headset was just a [garbled] headset I imported from the States in 2014. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS. My background is in film.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

My first VR headset was just a [garbled] headset I imported from the States in 2014. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS. My background is in film.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

But it is still a niche : as Mathew Olson from The Information highlights, “[PwC data] translates to a projected $6.9 We of NTW started HitMotion: Reloaded because we asked HTC if it could be interested in a fitness game for the launch of the Vive Focus Plus.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

On Quest you can bring up the browser without minimizing the immersive app, so you could be standing next to a friend in a VR game while you quickly Google something. Meta’s CTO said he asked Google to bring its Play Store to Quest headsets, which could have brought the vast majority of Android tablet and phone apps to Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Then Facebook acquired Oculus for almost $3 billion in the spring of 2014, igniting a new boom in enthusiasm for VR. In May 2014, ZeniMax sued. I never tried to hide or wipe any evidence, and all of my data is accounted for, contrary to some stories being spread.”. The consequences also go beyond the monetary award.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. When you started your podcast in… what, 2014? As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. Alan: It’s happening and it’s happening fast. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. When you started your podcast in… what, 2014? As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. Alan: It’s happening and it’s happening fast. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. what, 2014? As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. I've been doing the podcast a May 19th, 2014 as I went into the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality conference. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. And then Google came out with a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. And then Google came out with a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it's a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. And then Google came out with a new feature.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2019

I work in virtual reality since 2014, when I have fallen in love with this technology after having tried an Oculus DK2. Probably Google had already understood that VR was a fad and so created controllers that could be converted easily into sex toys (Image by Google). Experimental 6 dof controllers for the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

After Luckey’s company was bought by Facebook for $2B in 2014, his reported net worth is $700M – so he has plenty of money to play with. The price of Oculus Touch, the hand controllers for the Rift, has been revealed via a GAME store display in the UK – and the intuitive data input devices will cost you about $200 in the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I entered VR in 2014 after having tried an Oculus Rift DK2 : it was the startup Oculus that made me love virtual reality. The data collection from XR headsets to offer targeted ads has to continue somehow. And for price parity, companies were usually working with Pico and HTC that have always had a better approach in the B2B sector.

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