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JUNE 2, 2019

Devices such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and the Oculus Go all deliver a great VR experience, but neither of those devices really caught on and generated the excitement that the Oculus Quest has. The future is dependent on how people use the Quest and what stories the technology can help tell – and therein lies the challenge.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

In an official press release, Bob Buchi, President, Worldwide Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures said, “Bigscreen’s virtual reality platform offers a new way for fans to experience films in their homes,” adding, “We’re excited to be a part of this experiment using cutting-edge technology to give fans a new entertainment option.”.

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MAY 26, 2017

Videogame publisher and developer Square Enix, famous for its Final Fantasy franchise, among others, has launched its first game for the HTC Vive, Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur VR in Japan. The game’s Steam page officially lists support for the HTC Vive and Seated and Standing play areas. Photo courtesy Square Enix.

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MAY 30, 2019

While the gameplay is essentially the same to its PC counterpart, the immersion offered by VR technology takes the rudimentary experience to a new level of horrific. Combining the hide-and-seek gameplay of FNAF with the immersive possibilities offered by VR technology, Help Wanted is the franchise at its absolute scariest.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Things get serious in this week’s roundup for HTC Vive, featuring Serious Sam VR , the virtual release of The Golf Club with over 130,000 courses, and much more. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. Fine China, from Fine China Games.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Announced as “The Official Blancpain GT Series Game” , the sim brings many technology upgrades over Assetto Corsa (2014) , thanks in part to the move to Unreal Engine 4. Assetto Corsa supports Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Image courtesy Kunos Simulazioni.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

To preserve the history of the FBI’s investigation and capture of Kaczynski, The Newseum and HTC Vive Studios have partnered to develop and produce a unique VR experience titled, Unabomber: The Virtual Reality Experience. The FBI gave the go-ahead to print the manifesto, but only as a trap that would lead to Kaczynski’s eventual arrest.

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JUNE 22, 2017

The year started out with ZeniMax Media taking Facebook-owned Oculus to court over an alleged theft of technology. None of these games are officially coming to the Rift at this time, instead releasing on rival platforms like the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR (PSVR).

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company built the technology behind the magnetically tracked Razer Hydra controller which was one of the only consumer-available 6DOF controllers available when the first Oculus Rift development kit (DK1) started shipping. Sixense was once a name central to the early VR community.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

I found out today that HTC now ships a tool to measure users’ inter-pupillary distances with new Vive VR headsets. When I say “tool,” I mean a booklet with instructions in many languages, and a ruler printed along one edge of each page: Figure 1: IPD measurement chart shipped by HTC with new Vives. Alas, not so fast.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

Research about this rapid decline was conducted and issued by iiMedia Research, a third-party data collector and analyst of technological digital platforms. In October, we wrote about how HTC took the lead in opening the first Vive-branded cafe in Shenzhen. And this reaches all the way up to the major players. It’s growing.

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MAY 30, 2017

THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

To drive this message home Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, who acquired Oculus in 2014 for $2Bn, took to the stage to take part in a confident and altogether impressive demonstration of the company’s latest advancements in social VR. SEE ALSO HTC's $100 Million 'Vive X' VR Accelerator Announces First 33 Investments.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

While modern VR technology is still a long way away from offering lifelike experiences, it serves as a fine alternative in the meantime. Having been inactive since 2014, Dance Central made an unexpected revival in 2019 with the help of Oculus Studios.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Starting with its $2B acquisition of Oculus in the spring of 2014, Facebook has continued to build out its virtual reality strategy in a big way. ObEN is one of 33 companies in the HTC VICE X accelerator program – keep an eye out for their product launch in 2017. Special guest VRScout’s Ryan A.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Part of L’Oréal’s “Matrix Academy,” an educational beauty program for hairstylists, the VR education program will allow stylists to learn new techniques just by popping on a VR headset like the HTC Vive. This is not the first time L’Oréal has taken advantage of immersive technologies to bring products closer to consumers.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. Cutler will be joining Baobab as chief technology officer (CTO). and sequel ASTEROIDS!

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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. LG wants to establish a technology ecosystem by merging its TV division services with Meta’s XR portfolio. In the final quarter of 2023, Meta secured $7.8

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

So I had a chance to catch up with Robin to talk about using VR to cultivate a synthetic peak experience, using VR as a transformative technology, and the role of contemplative spiritual practices. SoundSelf raised more than $36,000 in a successful Kickstarter back in 2013 and was originally slated to launch in 2014.

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JULY 30, 2017

Alien: Isolation (2014) is a survival horror game that’s rich detail, atmosphere, and tense moments make it a great candidate for terrifying VR experience. Prior to its 2014 launch, Alien: Isolation was briefly demoed with a VR mode running on the second Rift development kit (DK2). .

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AllThingsVR

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The round was led by NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES), a leading internet technology company in China, and Dawn Patrol Ventures, and includes former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. friends and family round completed in 2014, bringing AxonVR’s total funding to $7M. These investments add to a $1.2M Read more here.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Adding to the Book of Face’s massive plans for mixed reality technology, they have made good on their promise to make a 360 camera open source and available to anyone. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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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. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

29-Year-Old Gamer Leaves Sony Behind to Bring Eye-Tracking to Virtual Reality Kojima, 29, is convinced the technology will become commonplace in VR devices. Kojima founded her startup in May 2014, soon after Facebook unveiled its $2 billion acquisition of VR headset maker Oculus. electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Co.

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JULY 23, 2017

While Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, Presence Capital contends that its was the first VC fund to focus on VR/AR. Before Presence, Mahajan was the founder and chief technology officer of MyMiniLife (which Zynga acquired) and the founder and CEO of Toro (which Google grabbed). Six of its investments are in game companies. “A

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Audi VR experience will make use of both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headset, depending on where it will be shown, and will render vehicle data in real-time to show you the tiniest of details, such as the polish of the aluminum inlays or the various gloss levels of the paint finish depending on the position of the virtual light source.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Facebook’s Oculus dramatically dropped Rift’s price and Valve is building a second generation of the innovative tracking technology deployed by HTC that could alter the VR landscape.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has poured scepticism on the hype surrounding VR post launch by voicing concerns about the cost and requirement of current systems, mostly (by the sounds of it) the HTC Vive. ” See Also: HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space. That’s not what we have in America.”

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VRScout

AUGUST 14, 2017

As VR continues its infiltration into mainstream technology, developers are scrambling to discover that “it” factor that will send the humble hardware skyrocketing in popularity. New Zealand developer Byron Mallett’s released a similar application in 2014 called Pensato. Act soon though as the deal ends August 16th! .

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JUNE 7, 2022

His directing credits include Elf (2003), Iron Man (2008), Chef (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016), as well as most recently working on popular Star Wars series The Mandalorian for Disney+. In 2016, he worked on a VR narrative experience called Gnomes & Goblins for the HTC Vive.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Notably, via its XR segment, the firm highlighted how spatial data cloud streaming will allow various industrial sectors, such as automated warehouse management, to grow and optimize operations thanks to emerging workplace technology.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

This eventually lead to the cell phone, which in a sense combined these previous technologies all into one! Over the past decade we’ve seen the emergence of new forms of technology that have the potential to leave a mark as large as the ones that came before. Some popular examples include the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Vavle Index.

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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. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive….

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

The interest from Hollywood and its key players in immersive technologies seems to be growing apace, with studios and creatives keen to explore the artistic and, of course, financial potential of VR. Favreau is one of those sickeningly talented people then, and now he’s turning his attention to VR.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

However, if I had been able to access Trinity VR’s technology at the time, perhaps I would have. Trinity VR is an ambitious new virtual reality company behind DiamondFX — an experience that combines the immersive power of the HTC Vive with the unending statistics of Major League Baseball.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Farrow stated that her medical school, one of the top 25 institutions in the United States, developed a new facility in 2014. Several of the world’s biggest tech giants, including Meta Platforms, Sony, Agora, HTC VIVE, Unity Technologies, Qualcomm, Magic Leap, Lenovo, and many others joined the event.

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AUGUST 12, 2017

The huge AAA budget hasn’t served to get the ambitious space action simulator out the door any sooner, with an initial release date planned for 2014, though now no firm date set even as of 2017. But it’s just having to fit in as a technology with all the other tech that we are currently incorporating into the game.

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