Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

During Day 2 of Google I/O 2017, following major announcements of support for standalone VR headsets and a ‘2.0’ Today, there are eight Daydream-Ready devices on the market, and momentum will continue to build throughout the year as flagship products from Samsung and LG begin to support the platform. image courtesy Google.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

Google Glass might be considered a sort of precursor to everything we write about on UploadVR today. Long before Cardboard, Daydream, and Tango, Google aimed to give the world a normal pair of glasses that presented simple AR overlays; far more primitive than what we see now with Microsoft’s HoloLens, but still very promising.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2018

When in 2015 I had my first Samsung Gear VR, I was amazed: finally, I could enjoy high-quality tether-less virtual reality. Today, thanks to the fellow VR community member Eloi Gerard , I’ve found an article on lowyat.net that confirms that Samsung is not that enthusiast about Gear VR and that has probably different future plans.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In an email to UploadVR, AltspaceVR announced that it will be releasing a “new version of its software” that consists of a “mobile app that fully supports Google Daydream View and also provides access into AltspaceVR for compatible Android phones even without a virtual reality (VR) headset.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2017

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. The title is the sequel to 2015’s Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR. Initially Gunjack 2 , launched in 2016, was exclusively available on Google Daydream.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Earlier this year those suspicions were proven correct when HTC as well as Lenovo announced their own upcoming versions of standalone VR hardware at the Google I/O Conference. 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.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Several companies including MergeVR, Curiscope, zSpace, Google Expeditions , QuiverVision and others couple these teacher resources with physical hardware or tactile tools to further engage learning. #3 of teachers are using VR/AR in their classroom, despite widespread access to inexpensive devices such as the Google Cardboard.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 2, 2017

Homido isn’t a household name around the world like Facebook, Google, Sony, or Samsung, but it has carved out a niche in the mobile HMD market over the past two years. Homido mini (pocket-sized solution, first released in 2015) has sold 244,000 units total. Regardless, this does paint an interesting picture.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2018

spec include Firefox Release 55, Oculus Browser, Samsung Internet, & Microsoft Edge. But Google Chrome and the WebVR developer community has been waiting for the official launch of what was being referred to as the WebVR 2.0 106: Josh Carpenter at GDC 2015. 112: Brandon Jones at GDC 2015. Support Voices of VR.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. With notable exceptions, these are often companies producing cheap replicas of existing mobile hardware like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear without any additional, unique features. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy. million).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The long time operations head at the Google-owned VR development studio is taking over for Devin Reimer, who says he’s leaving “t o focus on new opportunities outside the company ” after 12 years with the studio. Andrew Eiche is taking over Job Simulator studio Owlchemy Labs. We plan on leveraging it for all future titles.”

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

You may have read a couple stories here about haptic installations they produced for Verizon with the NFL and IndyCar in 2015. In 2016 they teamed up with Samsung to simulate an in-game basketball experience for the Rio Olympics. Two Bit’s Jake Sally taking someone through the Samsung Olympic experience.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

You can download Felix & Paul’s Emmy award-winning video on both Oculus Rift or Samsung Gear VR. It can also be streamed to Google Cardboard, Google Daydream, and traditional monitors via YouTube. This isn’t the first VR experience to win an Emmy though. ‘The People’s House’ for Rift.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. billion, the next year it increased to $3.6 billion, followed by $5.8 billion and $9.6 billion in 2017 and 2018.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2018

.” According to the developers, vTime has had “almost a million downloads” since launch in December 2015, something the company can claim thanks to its many platforms; vTime supports Oculus Rift, Windows VR headsets, Google Daydream, Gear VR, Google Cardboard, as well as non-VR modes through both respective Android and iOS apps.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

SAMSUNG AT VIDCON: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google. billion yuan ($236 million) in 2015, and is expected to rise to more than 5 billion yuan ($753 million) this year. Worldwide shipments of VR hardware is set to skyrocket in 2016, with some estimates pointing at volumes of 9.6

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2016

Robert Scoble told me that part of the negative reactions to the Google Glass was that it broke eye contact while talking to people, and that this violated our social contracts and cultural norms. Then on June 11, 2015, Zach Lieberman posted a picture of game developer Dimitri Lozovoy playing a VR game on the NYC subway.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This leaves Oculus, Google and HTC to split about a million units. Samsung is the only company to have released actual numbers, saying 5 million Gear VR headsets have been sold so far. Last November, before the figure was released by Samsung, Super Data estimated the company would sell far fewer headsets in 2016.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Samsung Gear VR. Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. November 2015.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

Press release: vTime Now the Most Widely Available VR Social Network with Launch on Google Daydream. Liverpool, UK – vTime , the VR Sociable Network, today becomes the most widely-available VR social network in the world as it launches for Google Daydream. www.vTime.net.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 8, 2017

Facebook 360 is a new app for Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR that brings portions of the social network into headsets for the first time. As the name suggests, the service will mainly be used for viewing 360-degree videos and images hosted on Facebook, a feature the company introduced in late 2015. That is until today.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

As VR hardware continues to compress in price and powerful smartphone based systems like Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s mobile VR Daydream platform gain steam, it’s expected that 50% of worldwide revenues will be generated by VR/AR hardware sales according to the report. billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

But Samsung isn’t stopping there… THE NEXT GENERATION OF GEAR VR MAY COME WITH CONTROLLER. Although not yet officially confirmed by the Korean company, a recent FCC filing indicates that the next version of the Samsung Gear VR will boast its own controller. THE NBA RELEASES THEIR FIRST VR APP ON GOOGLE DAYDREAM.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2017

The STRIVR company was born out of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford back in 2015 (founded in 2003 by Jeremy Bailenson, who founded STRIVR with ex-Stanford kicker Derek Belch). NFL REFS GET THE VIRTUAL TRAINING TREATMENT.

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VRScout

MAY 28, 2017

This is proven by the fact that in a 2015 study, 72% of millennials said that an experience is more important than having physical items. This can deliver the younger generation with an experience they will remember instead of a physical product/advert (poster, TV, radio). IKEA pancake flipping in-store experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The young organization managed to carve out a name for itself during the early days of the emerging VR industry and that first to market approach earned it a $65 million fundraising round in 2015 that was led by none other than the kingmaker of modern media itself: Disney.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The studio’s growing visibility and size culminated in Everybody’s Gone To Rapture , a 2015 exploration game created in collaboration with Sony’s Santa Monica Studio. Google Daydream already boasts a sci-fi title, dubbed Earthshape, from Thomas Was Alone creator Mike Bithell.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 17, 2018

About WEARVR: Since launching in 2015, the independent virtual and augmented reality WEARVR app store has seen over 2 million downloads of VR games, apps and experiences across all platforms including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream and Android, iOS, OSVR and more.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Object Theory are pretty much the oldest Mixed Reality company around, having launched in June 2015, before the HoloLens had even started shipping. Microsoft has this great patent portfolio and it would be great to take that amazing secret sauce of the HoloLens and license it out to their existing OEM partners like Dell or Samsung.”.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Emteq Ltd was founded in 2015 to improve lives through the development of facial sensing healthcare solutions and is applying its technology to VR. He was tech lead on the BAFTA-award-winning Monument Valley (2014) and co-directed Gear VR hit Land’s End (2015). Solomon Rogers – Founder, REWIND. Pete Short – CTO, Breaking Forth.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2016

The immersive and experiential VR studio of MPC that was launched back in 2015, has produced a variety of projects over the past year, showing their commitment to the new medium, especially as a platform for advertisers to immerse consumers in unforgettable experiences. The Goosebumps VR experience is quite a ride.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2017

Ever since HTC entered the VR arena at the Mobile World Conference in February of 2015, announcing its partnership with Valve on the Vive VR headset, we’ve been wondering if the company which made it’s name as a smartphone manufacturer would find a way to tie these two seemingly disparate ends of its business together.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 20, 2016

Virtual Reality 101: An Introduction to VR I first experienced virtual reality (VR) in May 2015. Why would I buy the Samsung Gear VR headset for Rs 8,000 when I could buy the Google Cardboard for Rs 400? When I looked around, slowly scanning the horizon, I could see the hilly, arid terrain of Mars all around me.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Samsung Gear VR. Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. November 2015.

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RealVision VR

JUNE 26, 2018

RealVision’s “Think in 360” at Google Dubai. Clyde DeSouza was invited by Google MENA to conduct a customized “Think in 360” session for Google’s agency partners as part of Google’s All Star Academy program. The hi-rez version in Stereoscopic VR for the Samsung GearVR.

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