Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2016

Zenka feels the same way about VR and AR headsets as we start to see more patents like Sony’s smart eye contacts or Google’s cyborg eye implants. — Sebastien 'Cb' Kuntz (@SebKuntz) March 31, 2014. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Ellis: the first HMD was invented by Galileo ! pic.twitter.com/eAO1tk6y5v.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Luckey was a long time tinkerer of head mounted displays prior to building the first Rift prototypes which lead to him founding Oculus and taking the Rift to Kickstarter in 2012 for what would become a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign. Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus, circa 2014 | Photo courtesy Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As a side note, I’m so glad we collectively stuck with calling it head-mounted displays, and not something like “VR Helmet”, “VR Glasses”, or any of the other many attempts to call it something else. But, in 2014, someone else stepped in: Valve. So this is in spring of 2014. Don’t have one yet? billion dollars.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

I’ve had my head in every iteration of PlayStation VR since it was announced all the way back in 2014 (back then called ‘Project Morpheus’). Sony somehow managed to nail this right out of the gate. Sony’s approach is very different. A Different Way to Wear.

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Head Mounted Display Sony HTC Trends 100

VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That was back in 2014, and I’ll never forget it. There’s an issue here in our industry that we have a concern about putting head-mounted displays and glasses on people’s heads if you’re dealing with thousands of guests. No need for a head-mounted display. Kevin: Yes!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That was back in 2014, and I’ll never forget it. There’s an issue here in our industry that we have a concern about putting head-mounted displays and glasses on people’s heads if you’re dealing with thousands of guests. No need for a head-mounted display. Kevin: Yes!

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