Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

According to the latest figures from Valve’s Hardware & Software Survey, the Oculus Rift has set a new record for its highest historical market share on Steam, almost certainly driven by a major sale which has also brought the headset its largest ever share increase from one month to the next. The latter, launched in 2014, still holds 3.9%

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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. One wearer said she was assaulted outside a San Francisco bar in 2014 for wearing the glasses. Microsoft announced its augmented reality headset, Hololens, in 2015, and released the first version in 2016. Facebook Connect: The AR Angle.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Many of you recall that I started working in VR in 2014 and my first solution was a full-body system that needed a PC, a VR headset, an array of Kinects, and some networking magic to work.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. 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. But the race is on.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014. With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It will also move to build its “next generation data center design.” ” It is not indicated in the reports whether the data centre is the Research Supercluster (RSC) as outlined in previous reports. Failure to sustain these data flows could result in further blows to its profitability, leading to compounded issues.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” ” As just one example, Facebook has increased its annual R&D spend by $10 billion between 2014, when it bought Oculus, to the present. Lots of that is likely going to AR & VR. Then there’s Magic Leap.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

The simplest way to describe it is that Horizon is Facebook’s (as the company was called when it first launched) first attempt at creating a VR metaverse environment based around the Oculus range of headsets. This means that when users leave the meeting room and return to it, they will find it as they left it unless the host deletes it.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Data is in the environment. The dynamic has changed since 2014. Our body is our interface. Knowledge is in experience.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Everyone loves Beat Saber, and if the game offered a free multiplayer mode just requiring a Facebook login, many people would use that, and so Facebook could gather the data of all these players. Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link. Other relevant news. Image by Valve).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” 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.

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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. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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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. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". 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.

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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. NASA TRAINS ASTRONAUTS WITH VR.

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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. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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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. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. Image via Facebook.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

We’ve been investing in it since 2014. We got into AR seriously in 2014. GB: Mike Abrash, formerly of Valve, now at Oculus, their chief scientist, he made this interesting observation about Moore’s Law. It made the big data crunching that’s required for neural networks and pattern recognition possible.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The Oculus Rift S was Facebook’s only previous headset with a halo strap. Microsoft chose this approach for HoloLens 2, which Quest Pro actually bears a striking resemblance to.

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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. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. Will it hurt their eyes?

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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. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. Will it hurt their eyes?

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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. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. Will it hurt their eyes?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

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. And they’ve been doing great, especially the turning point for the company was the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest. The CEO is Ryan Fink.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

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. And they’ve been doing great, especially the turning point for the company was the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest. The CEO is Ryan Fink.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

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. And they’ve been doing great, especially the turning point for the company was the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest. The CEO is Ryan Fink.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Oculus (Facebook). What we know: The Oculus booth has been a staple of VR at E3 since 2014. Oculus has confirmed that it will not have a booth at this year’s show. Oculus works with dozens of partners and has plans to release at least one high-quality game each month this year through Oculus Studios.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. what, 2014? Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

He's been focused on growing and supporting the virtual reality industry since early 2014 at UploadVR, where he established coworking spaces in L.A. This is not the world where it woke up to virtual/augmented reality when Facebook bought Oculus for 3-billion dollars. And the Oculus at launch started what I call the third wave of VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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