VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Even at the low side of 100,000 units, that’s in the neighborhood of how many Oculus Rift DK2s were shipped globally , which at the time of launch in 2015 cost nearly one-sixth of the price of ML One. Abovitz reportedly later reduced that number to 100,000 units. Image courtesy AT&T, Magic Leap.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 28, 2017

I’ve been writing about the company since it released its first closed beta in early 2015 , and have met with their executives. I’ve used their platform with the Oculus Rift headset, with the Gear VR, and through their desktop viewer, and was impressed with their technology and business strategy.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As an electronics company, Apple’s general strategy seems to be to wait until a market is well established before joining it, then attempt to create an Apple-idealized product for that market. Apple is infamous for its patent strategy and you shouldn’t be surprised to find that they’re well into it in the AR/VR space.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2017

Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games announced today that Skyworld , a top-down strategy game built for VR is coming to the Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets. The game was shown way back in 2015 as one of the first demos made for the HTC Vive, and it’s now finally resurfacing this Fall. Full-feature VR game.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

I first tried to headset on near the end of 2015 and it struck me that this type of technology would change the world. Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. But then they might do dissection, which won’t work on an Oculus Go. I appreciate it. Steve: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

I first tried to headset on near the end of 2015 and it struck me that this type of technology would change the world. Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. But then they might do dissection, which won’t work on an Oculus Go. I appreciate it. Steve: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

I first tried to headset on near the end of 2015 and it struck me that this type of technology would change the world. Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. But then they might do dissection, which won't work on an Oculus Go. Steve: Alan, thanks for having me.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So, Rogue Initiative we started back in late 2015. And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So, Rogue Initiative we started back in late 2015. And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So, Rogue Initiative we started back in late 2015. And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. So we've launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It's on Steam and Oculus. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys. We connect them all in an agnostic way, and try to make sure that these folks are set up in the right way for success, that they have a strategy for achieving success and then for taking success and moving it into what I would call scale deployment. Google Pixel came out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys. We connect them all in an agnostic way, and try to make sure that these folks are set up in the right way for success, that they have a strategy for achieving success and then for taking success and moving it into what I would call scale deployment. Google Pixel came out.

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

Launched in December as a physical goods mobile AR game, HoloGrid: Monster Battle VR is one of the first Gear VR games to incorporate the use of the platform’s new GearVR Controller and add Oculus Gear VR Avatar support with VOIP so players can talk to their opponents during games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys. We connect them all in an agnostic way, and try to make sure that these folks are set up in the right way for success, that they have a strategy for achieving success and then for taking success and moving it into what I would call scale deployment. Google Pixel came out.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. Today’s guest is Teppei Tsutsui. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. Today’s guest is Teppei Tsutsui. Teppei: Yeah.

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ARVR

JANUARY 29, 2021

Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now, and has acquired a number of companies in this space in the past, including Metaio in 2015, Flyby Media in 2016, Vrvana in 2017, Akonia Holographics in 2018 and NextVR and Spaces in 2020.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? 2) 2017 needs to be about experimentation, just like 2015 and 2016. 2) It needs to be propped up by Oculus, Valve, Sony, and Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. Today’s guest is Teppei Tsutsui. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And back in 2015, I met with a guy called Julien in a pub, and he showed me an experience: The Night Café, in which you enter a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. ” There’s no strategy. Christophe: I mean, how to find this is reality of marketing strategy. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And back in 2015, I met with a guy called Julien in a pub, and he showed me an experience: The Night Café, in which you enter a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. There's no strategy. Christophe: I mean, how to find this is reality of marketing strategy. I don't know if you've tried that one. There's no forethought.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And back in 2015, I met with a guy called Julien in a pub, and he showed me an experience: The Night Café, in which you enter a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. ” There’s no strategy. Christophe: I mean, how to find this is reality of marketing strategy. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And back in 2015, I met with a guy called Julien in a pub, and he showed me an experience: The Night Café, in which you enter a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. ” There’s no strategy. Christophe: I mean, how to find this is reality of marketing strategy. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one.

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How To Training Machine Learning Virtual Reality 60

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

We are comparing a headset of today with one that has been revealed three and a half years ago (I don’t know why some journalists say that HL is of two years ago, it has been revealed in January 2015 ). So… what is the strategy of the company? Three and a half years ago is an enormous amount of time in computer science.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a 2015 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 19 May 2015, and received critical acclaim. Now you can share it to social media such as Facebook, Google Play, Imgur and Sina Weibo.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Interviewed just a week before this announcement, Senior Operation Manager Chris and Content Manager Keri confirmed the strategy of popularizing virtual reality in China through widespread dissemination of devices and a user and developer-friendly environment. Reason Two: Investment Fever.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China’s XR Industry has been growing rapidly and so is India’s, In the year 2015 India had under 10 XR Startups, today we have over 2000 XR focussed Startups in the Country. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Vinay is very active in the XR community, including board advisory, keynote speaker, and strategy guide.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

Tony Parisi | Head of VR/AR Strategy, Unity. Driving marketing strategy and sales development across Time Inc. Bell | Director of Digital Strategy, Hydro Studios. He is currently developing VR episodic series for Felix and Paul Studios and for Google. Julie Shumaker | Vice President, Business Development, Unity.

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