Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the past month, three SSD controller designers have announced new enterprise NVMe SSD controllers, bringing a wave of new competition to the high-end enterprise/datacenter SSD market. FADU is a relative newcomer to the market, having only released one previous SSD controller. Silicon Motion SM8266 Controller.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. CONTROL VR WITH YOUR THOUGHTS. PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER FOR A PRICE BREAK ON THE VIVE.

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VRScout

JANUARY 15, 2022

Since then we’ve heard reports claiming the combination VR/AR device will feature everything from dual ultra high definition 8K displays with built-in eye-tracking technology, 12 cameras capable of supporting hand-tracking, swappable headbands, and a multitude of controller options.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

The job descriptions first showed up across the internet and that started the rumors, I’m going to say back in 2014, 2015.” Controller-Free Design While the Apple Vision Pro has more screens than most VR headsets, it has fewer controllers. “Somehow I’ve been following it for the last seven years,” said Almeida.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

It took place from the 1980s (when these were initially introduced into the markets) to 2015 (when they were finally fully adopted). AI will come to life with AI-controlled avatars participating in VR worlds and advising as our own AR advisors and consultants. The last big tech cycle included mobile phones, PCs, and the Internet.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2018

Coatsink , the studio behind VR titles A Night Sky (2017) and Augmented Empire (2017), announced they’re bringing their first mobile VR title, Esper (2015), to PlayStation VR, Oculus Go and Xiaomi Mi on June 29th. Esper is also slated to launch on HTC Vive via Steam on July 6th. training program instructor.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

” Cher Wang, who took over as CEO in March 2015 and then later stepped down to make way for Maitre, is said to return to the position of CEO from her previous position as Chairwoman of the board. Maitre took over as CEO just shy one year ago in late September 2019.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Alleged leaked image of Pico 4 controllers | Image courtesy SkarredGhost. Since its founding in 2015, Pico has exclusively targeted consumers in China and enterprise users in the West. The product announcement is taking place in Berlin, Germany at 2PM GMT+2 on September 22nd ( local time here ).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Golem , a forthcoming PSVR title that’s been in the works since 2015, has resurfaced this weekend at Sony’s PSX event. Golem was first announced way back in 2015, and after surfacing briefly in 2016, few concrete details have emerged from the studio since.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

” Founded in 2015, Nolo VR has since commercialized both its main hardware platform, Nolo CV1 , and its Nolo Home streaming software, which allows Oculus Go and Gear VR headset users to play SteamVR games.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

BMW has been equipping its cars with in-air gesture control for several years and I never paid attention to it. I didn’t know the 850i used gesture control, because, frankly, I had forgotten BMW had this technology; I stumbled upon it. Just make a motion in the air to control the volume or tell the navigation to send you home.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2020

Kat VR, the China-based company behind the original Kat Walk VR treadmill Kickstarter in 2015, is bringing its new consumer-focused VR treadmill ‘Kat Walk C’ to the crowdfunding platform on June 21st. The campaign is slated to begin at 10 AM ET ( local time here ) on Sunday, and will end on July 30th.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 8, 2015

In 2015, we’re building on this momentum with new resources for developers, while advancing support for several key VR platforms. In this post, I’d like to reflect on the year that we just left behind, and what’s coming in 2015. The post Leap Motion + VR 2015: A Look at the Year Ahead appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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GizModo VR

JULY 29, 2020

These are just a few of the emotions I felt when I bought my first gamepad for a smartphone, the Logitech Powershell , in 2015. You’re already carrying a tiny computer in your pocket all the time, snap that phone into a controller case and you’d have… Read more. The sales pitch sounded so sensible.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

” In the game, you take control of a Morty clone, ostensibly created for the sole purpose of doing chores for Rick. — Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) August 30, 2015. — Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) August 30, 2015. — Owlchemy Labs (@OwlchemyLabs) September 11, 2015.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Everything you have to do in terms of controls in games, in terms of understanding visual processing, in terms of competent design are leading you towards brain-computer interfaces and what they do.” . “There are interesting questions, like: are things sort of stable end goals or are they transition points?

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2020

Kat VR, the China-based company known for kickstarting its original Kat Walk VR treadmill in 2015, is once again returning to the crowdfunding platform to launch a new product later this month, this time serving up a VR treadmill called ‘Kat Walk C’ that promises to appeal to at-home consumers.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Schwab continues, introducing a technically ‘wearable’, albeit very uncomfortable looking prototype from 2015 (below), “This thing is called Cheese Head. ” The WD3 from 2015 is pictured below. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. This was one of the first ones that what actually wearable.”

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2020

Saatchi & Saatchi Sri Lanka , for example, made a virtual reality campaign for Hatton National Bank in 2015. Additionally, a leap motion 3D controller enabled them to interact with it. They called it New World Banking. Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

For Meta, which itself wants to control the destiny of XR, that’s a problem. Mark Zuckerberg has been eyeing this potentiality since at least as far back as 2015 , which drove him to buy Oculus in the first place—in an effort to get out ahead of companies like Apple and Google in the nascent XR space.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In late 2019 Facebook acquired a New York based startup called CTRL Labs, which had been working on the idea of a finger tracking wristband since at least 2015, though an early 2019 patent filing suggests Facebook was already working on it too internally. 0:00 / 0:13 1× Meta research demo of neural wristband tracking, from 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

The author of the much-appreciated XR Caliper controllers and of many tricks to improve the ergonomics of the Valve Index has just tested for me the Pimax Sword controllers , writing the most detailed review about them you will ever find on the web. Pimax Sword Controllers – review by Rob Cole for Skarredghost. Rob Cole is back.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Written and directed with VR sensibilities in mind, the film will tell its story entirely through the first-person perspective, similar to Hardcore Henry (2015). The story of Agent Emerson revolves around the themes of control over one’s own actions, the consequences, and personal responsibility that result from lack of that control. “The

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The title is the sequel to 2015’s Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR. As with the Daydream version, the game can be played using the headset’s controller. CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online , and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016) , for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2024

A Plan to Outplay Apple Image courtesy Meta We’d come to learn that answer from a leaked email sent by Zuckerberg to Meta’s senior executives in 2015. Their control over iOS and Android—platforms where hundreds of millions of users accessed Facebook each day—gave them outside influence over the company.

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2017

The video platform became one of the first major players to allow 360° video sharing in 2015. Every user has control of their end to end user experience,” said Erin Teague, Product Lead for VR at YouTube during a private press briefing. YouTube has been thinking about immersive video and the future of viewing experiences for awhile.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

According to Laverde, this began in 2015. While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. Hand tracking is not really meant to necessarily replace controllers,” said Laverde. VIVE’s Hand Tracking Roadmap.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The request was made by Grünecker Patent und Rechtsanwälte PartG MBB, the same corporation that managed the original HTC Vive application in Europe back in 2015. The hardware is also confirmed to feature a 3DOF motion controller just like the one used for the Google Daydream View.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

Concept render of the CastAR headset and controller | Image courtesy CastAR. A prototype development kit of the CastAR headset, circa 2015 | Photo by Road to VR. CastAR’s consumer hardware was due to launch this year. ” This unfortunate news comes during a wealth of positive developments in the field of AR technology.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2017

We heard at least as far back as the reveal of the HTC Vive headset back in 2015 that we might one day see a standalone ‘puck’ tracker using the tracking tech, and now it’s finally real. Like the Vive headset and Controllers, the Tracker has its own wireless connection to the computer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 9, 2017

Dreadhalls works with hand-tracked motion controls and this release represents the first time Vive owners can try it out officially. Locomotion is “similar to how it was in the Rift except that the movement is now directed by the orientation of the left controller,” wrote creator Sergio Hidalgo in an email.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 18, 2016

Oculus revealed Touch, their VR motion controllers, all the way back in June of 2015, but didn’t commit to shipping the controllers until the second half of 2016. Since the announcement, the controller has seen several design permutations, but Oculus says the controller is nearly complete, and better than ever.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Bebylon Battle Royale was first announced by studio Kite & Lightning back in 2015. In the intervening years, it doesn’t appear that much has changed to bring Bebylon Battle Royale in line with motion control-based VR design, making us wonder whether the studio is hamstringing itself by sticking with VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2018

E McNeill, an indie developer behind strategy games Darknet (2015), Tactera (2016) , and Skylight (2017), announced his real-time strategy game Astraeus , an Oculus Go launch title, is coming to HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PC on June 7th.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

The company is also planning motion controller support using the same technology. The startup company was founded in 2015. Even so, the technology might still represent a low cost option that could be useful in certain situations. Antilatency aims to launch a Kickstarter project in the coming months as well.

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

We now have a butterfly avatar in Unity with integrated VR controls, and we know the basics of how butterflies fly in standard forward flight. This allows us to, among other things, control the movement and rotation of our avatar through the application of forces. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2020

HTC has continued its work to reduce expenditure by optimizing processes, practicing cost control and seeking prudent uses of new technology. In 2015, the company laid off 2,250 employees, or about 15 percent of its workforce at the time. “Like many companies, we are seeing impacts from COVID-19 and global economic conditions.

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