VRScout
MAY 29, 2019
When Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014, many were curious as to why a social media company, whose track record with hardware included a phone that failed just a year prior to the Oculus purchase, would be interested in buying the plucky VR startup for over $2 billion dollars. That’s where Facebook comes in.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
OCTOBER 10, 2016
There are some tricky wires to handle and space requirements to clear, though, which Sony detailed in a new video series below. It’s the end of a long chapter in the headset’s history, having originally been revealed all the way back in March 2014 under the code name of Project Morpheus.
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Upload VR
JUNE 7, 2023
"We felt like VR had been going upwards but relatively slowly since 2014-2015 and we really felt it taking off with Quest 2 ," says O’Luanaigh. We had an opportunity with Sony to do something kind of exclusive to the headset that really pushed it."
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
OCTOBER 7, 2016
So despite the great early response in which time we partnered with Sony, many early testers came away saying “man, I loved it but I really suck” So we had to figure out how to make it controllable and as intuitive as it could be. The world and trappings of Headmaster evolved November 2014 and through the holidays.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 10, 2018
But it wasn’t until Sony announced PSVR that things started to change. Project Morpheus, as it was called originally, was announced at the 2014 Tokyo Game Show and subsequently officially released as PSVR on October 13, 2016. Project Morpheus or Sony PSVR. There is also a strong case for haptics and robotics research.
VeeR VR
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications. Being that it was the first HMD both quality of the interfac e and realism of the simulation were rather low, and it weighed so much that it had to be suspended from the ceiling by metal cables. .
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
AUGUST 5, 2017
Behind the scenes, companies like Valve and Sony were trying to figure out what the VR medium would look like and began to get products into the hands of developers. Then in 2014 we raised a series A round, which amounted in about $4.2M. So that’s the #1 thing to simulate in a VR video-game. So let’s go back to Survios.
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