Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

With no motion controls or positional tracking—and VR locomotion hardly worked out at the time—this was primarily a visual demo. The player then controls a tiny cartoonish night who can run around the room and do battle with an opposing player’s knight, or even jump in the lap of the enemy’s avatar. ElementalVR – E3 2013.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

My team at Shopify started on VR stuff back in 2015 but we’ve been really focused on augmented reality shopping as of late. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. What has inspired you of the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest more than the use of controllers?

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DECEMBER 3, 2016

It brings a new level of visual fidelity in Unreal Engine 4 to the series, but will also deliver a well-known brand to the PlayStation VR ecosystem when it releases. Ace Combat 7 was announced at the previous PlayStation Experience in 2015 and things have been mostly quiet since then.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Ridley Scott’s 2015 sci-fi blockbuster, The Martian , is considered a return to form for the legendary director. This isn’t a simple 360 degree experience like other Fox VR projects such as Wild ; it’s a full VR production that uses position-tracked controls. It’s built in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

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MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” The company’s main product is a new platform for networked 3D graphics called SpatialOS.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

First launched in the spring of 2015, Kaleidoscope emerged as a global virtual reality festival — bringing audiences all over the world premiere VR content. Oculus just announced a short term, six-week sale that bundles the Rift and the Oculus Touch controllers for $399.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. With no motion controls or positional tracking—and VR locomotion hardly worked out at the time—this was primarily a visual demo.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The following paragraph is directly quoted from one of these job descriptions: Our team is building the software components that control and manage the hardware on our Augmented Reality (AR) products. These are the software components that run on the AR devices and are the closest to the hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. Learning New Skills.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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The Rift Arcade

APRIL 15, 2016

Back in 2015 we were fortunate enough to get some hands-on time with an early build of FATED: The Silent Oath and came away impressed by its characters, animation and atmosphere. There are no controls to learn, instead the game uses positional-tracking to let players make choices by moving their head.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

With HackingEDU just around the corner, Leap Motion is sponsoring the world’s largest education hackathon with over 100 Leap Motion Controllers for attendees to use. Once you have your controller plugged in and the Leap Motion SDK installed , you’re ready to begin. Imagine how you would control your computer with your bare hands.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

Games had developed better graphics and internet connectivity, but the controllers were basically the same. NB: Raw Data started when we wanted to switch to Unreal Engine. We were making Zombies in Holodeck when Unreal first came out. Even though they were developing better graphics, more triangles…. NB: Exactly.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. So it was in 2015 I/ITSEC, I believe, maybe -14. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. So it was in 2015 I/ITSEC, I believe, maybe -14. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. CES 2015: Consumer VR Takes Shape. CES 2015 brought yet more impressive advancements from VR and AR fields, and some notable setbacks.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. So it was in 2015 I/ITSEC, I believe, maybe -14. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. Oh wow… 2015 has called and said that it wants its user experience back.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

We were in the last six months of working on The Order (2015) and we had ideas in the team about what we wanted to do next. It was just this little room with the movement model with a controller and two balls that were basically your hands. And so work began in earnest in May 2015 on the project that was to become Lone Echo.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Gunjack was praised for its breakthrough graphics when it launched on Gear VR in November 2015, and with Gunjack 2: End of Shift, our development team has raised the bar again for mobile VR games,” said Michael Lee, Gunjack 2: End of Shift ’s Senior Brand Manager. SRP to $4.99

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We’re not exactly sure how you play; the footage looks like it’s being experience on a gamepad but the featured image in this article suggests position-track controls too. It appears Hanbitsoft actually first announced the VR game all the way back in 2015, but release is being planned for the beginning of 2018.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Florida-based developer HELM Systems has been working on its virtual reality (VR) fantasy adventure The SoulKeeper VR since at least 2015, with a Steam Early Access launch taking place in 2017. HELM Systems has already confirmed that players will have access to fully controllable dragons, horses and ships, both for travel and combat.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a 2015 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt. What's Nvidia Ansel? The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

When Epic Games showed its VR mode, that let you develop in Unreal Engine all within VR thanks to a dedicated editor, everyone got crazy and people for days started saying that all VR developers would have developed that way. This is a prediction for the VR market I used in a business plan around 2015. No one was listening to me.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the meantime, the headset sends the pose of the headset and the controllers to the PC , so that the PC can render the frames and execute the logic of the game for the next frame. You will be able to start a game, or choose a movie to watch in VR without having to use a controller anymore!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. And while I don’t think the use cases are really there for consumers yet, and the devices aren’t quite there– although I was really impressed with Unreal’s mixed reality glasses. In a way, it’s almost like a controlled environment.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. And while I don’t think the use cases are really there for consumers yet, and the devices aren’t quite there– although I was really impressed with Unreal’s mixed reality glasses. In a way, it’s almost like a controlled environment.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. And while I don't think the use cases are really there for consumers yet, and the devices aren't quite there-- although I was really impressed with Unreal's mixed reality glasses. In a way, it's almost like a controlled environment. But there's a lot going on.

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