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Led by Former Oculus Exec, Facebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Paves the Way to VR Streaming

Road to VR

Rubin joined Oculus in 2014 as was a key spokesperson for the company’s VR before his role expanded into Facebook’s broader gaming initiatives | Image courtesy Jason Rubin. It’s critical for us to start with latency-tolerant games so we can deliver a good experience for players across a variety of devices.

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Report Casts Doubt on HoloLens 3, Microsoft Says AR Headset is “doing great”

Road to VR

The team has demonstrably thinned out over the last few months, with HoloLens veterans such as principal optical architect Bernard Kress leaving the company recently for Google Labs. There’s some ostensible background radiation related to employee attrition here too.

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Nintendo Labo, or how Google Cardboard changed everything

VRWorld

If the idea of cardboard-based peripherals sounds familiar to you at all, that’s probably because of Google Cardboard popularizing the concept since 2014. The post Nintendo Labo, or how Google Cardboard changed everything appeared first on VR World.

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How to choose an LBVR product?

The Ghost Howls

BIO: Anton Zaitsev started in 2014 with writing real-life escape room scenarios and launching real-life ERs as a creative director. VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Image Credit: TripAdvisor, Zero Latency Madrid.

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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

VRScout

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. As of January 2016, Google Cardboard has shipped over 5 million units. Since then, we have seen a movement. Virtual reality has taken the world by storm.

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Best VR Headsets in 2018

VeeR VR

Google Cardboard ($15) . Google Cardboard, developed by Google for the promotion of the VR concept, is indeed made up of cardboard, and in different sizes for compatibility with different smartphones. It was first distributed to attendants at the 2014 Google I/O meeting as a gift. Google Daydream View ($99).

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PanguVR mixes virtual reality and artificial intelligence to revolutionize interior design

The Ghost Howls

But perhaps we will come back to it since there are many innovations appearing in AR such as those seen in the new Google Pixel 3. I returned to China from Silicon Valley in 2014 and have witnessed rapid changes in technology in Beijing and the rest of China. How do you envision the future of AI and VR together?