InstaVR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

After a relatively quiet summer — outside of the Oculus Quest release ! First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2014, Snapchat paid $15M for Vergence Labs, a company experimenting with augmented reality and whose notable product was Epiphany Eyewear – a stylish pair of smartglasses that could possibly lay the groundwork for an eventual Snapchat augmented reality device.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

With a résumé that ranges from the Air Force to Salesforce, his career is a veritable cross-training routine that’s primed him for his role in AR at Ostendo … not to mention podcast host. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.”

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Flight simulators are VR for some people, and military funding to train pilots better is deeply involved in the origin story, which goes back to the 1920s according to some sources. To me, modern VR started when Google released the Cardboard App in 2014 basically for free to a world that basically scratched its head and said, ‘huh?’

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. For zen and psychedelic experiences, attendees won’t want to miss the Visual Reality Zone, featuring mind-bending immersive digital art installations.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Charles published the first review of virtual reality for surgical training in 1994 and has an extensive background in research and the evaluation of new technologies. He was tech lead on the BAFTA-award-winning Monument Valley (2014) and co-directed Gear VR hit Land’s End (2015). Peter Pashley – Head of Development, Ustwo Games.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Originally released in 2014, and available on PC, iPhone and Android, Mondly has expanded into the VR and AR world with some good results. Mondly VR, released in 2017, is available on the Gear VR, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Google Daydream ad Google Cardboard, with plans on expanding to Steam, Playstation VR and Oculus Quest.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

From the 1970s to the 1990s, the VR industry mainly provided devices for medical, flight simulation, automobile industry design, and military training purposes. After its 2007 release of google Street View, in 2010, google introduced stereoscopic 3D mode for Street View. 2014 was an exciting year for the VR community.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. I think what you’re doing is very smart, because we’re also seeing the same thing where we’re focused kind of on the training side of things. But if you make one training module, it does not translate to every role in the company. Is it the training group?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. I think what you’re doing is very smart, because we’re also seeing the same thing where we’re focused kind of on the training side of things. But if you make one training module, it does not translate to every role in the company. Is it the training group?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. I think what you're doing is very smart, because we're also seeing the same thing where we're focused kind of on the training side of things. But if you make one training module, it does not translate to every role in the company. And training is a good example.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

At Disney D23, people got the first preview of Vader Immortal 2, the sequel of the very successful game for Oculus Quest. Image by Oculus). In an interesting post on its blog, Facebook has detailed its Insight technology , the solution that performs the inside-out-tracking on the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. You also have North being acquired by Google, so Google's making some strides there. I remember back in 2014 when a lot of folks figured that the horizon, to at least being able to hit the hockey stick part of that, was going to be three to five years. I don't know.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. You also have North being acquired by Google, so Google's making some strides there. I remember back in 2014 when a lot of folks figured that the horizon, to at least being able to hit the hockey stick part of that, was going to be three to five years. I don't know.

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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. Training in VR is one of the big applications and opportunities, and that’s where a lot of investment is happening.

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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. Training in VR is one of the big applications and opportunities, and that’s where a lot of investment is happening.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. Immotionar and the first contact with AR and 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. Training in VR is one of the big applications and opportunities, and that's where a lot of investment is happening.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. You also have North being acquired by Google, so Google's making some strides there. I remember back in 2014 when a lot of folks figured that the horizon, to at least being able to hit the hockey stick part of that, was going to be three to five years. I don't know.

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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.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

If we talk about XR in general (including so also AR headsets and smartglasses), we have lots of use cases like training, maintenance, remote assistance, psychology, etc… where headsets and glasses are already used every day. Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers.

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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. You can train a neural network and it’s not going to take 10 years anymore. GB: Google Glass.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. How important is employee training? Alex: Right. Alan: Got it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. How important is employee training? Alex: Right. Alan: Got it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

VR has got the attention of the mainstream thanks to Alyx and the commercials by Oculus. For every studio that made $10M on Quest, maybe 20 indie studios have worked on some VR games of theirs that they never published, or that went on Steam but no one cared about, or that were refused by Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So RetinadVR actually got started in Montreal in 2014. Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. How important is employee training? Alex: Right. Alan: Got it.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A lot of it involved training with staff. 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. 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

A lot of it involved training with staff. 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. 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

A lot of it involved training with staff. 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. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word 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. Teppei: Yeah I guess.

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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. Teppei: Yeah I guess.

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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. Teppei: Yeah I guess.

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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. He's posted over 500 events all focused on XR, trained thousands of students on XR development, and worked with companies like Google and Ideo to train their development teams.

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