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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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. Object Theory are the oldest Mixed Reality company around, having launched in June 2015, before the HoloLens had even started shipping Click To Tweet. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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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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Bernard Marr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Apple popularized the smartwatch, just as it did with the smartphone when it released the Apple watch in 2015. Google Pixel Watch 2 Rumors have it that the second iteration of Google's smartwatch will feature an enhanced version of the Body Response stress detection system featured in the Fitbit Sense 2.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Organisations such as the VR/AR Association have responded to the demands of a rapidly changing tech sector since 2015 by providing a platform capable of facilitating such transformative development. Conference A-List Attendees.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Now that the technology is stable and easily accessible, brands and businesses are increasingly looking to VR technology and incorporating it into their marketing strategies. It is available for free through Google cardboard. Now there are over 40 million active VR users around the world, with that number expected to triple by 2020.

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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

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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Upload VR

APRIL 28, 2024

Editor's Note: Amanda Watson joined Oculus VR in 2015 and took a cubicle outside John Carmack's office in Dallas where she worked late nights on the mobile SDK. There was literally no Oculus insignia anywhere – the only corporate logos on our persons were George’s Google sweatshirt and my Palantir book-bag.

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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. Alan: So that’s Google Cardboard. I appreciate it. Let me ask you a quick question. VIVE is 10 percent.

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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. Alan: So that’s Google Cardboard. I appreciate it. Let me ask you a quick question. VIVE is 10 percent.

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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. And then Google Expeditions -- which, you can decide if that's real VR or not -- they're at 31 percent.

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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. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley. The ones that get to San Francisco, start Facebook and Google and WhatsApp and the top tech companies.

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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. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley. The ones that get to San Francisco, start Facebook and Google and WhatsApp and the top tech companies.

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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. And the top people end up working in outsourcing for Facebook and Google and other top tech companies in Silicon Valley. The ones that get to San Francisco, start Facebook and Google and WhatsApp and the top tech companies.

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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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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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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

“The first metaverse that gains real traction is likely to be the last,” Oculus exec Jason Rubin wrote in a 50-page internal document laying out the strategy. “We Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene. We must act first, and go big, or we risk being one of those wannabes.”

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

The tactical strategy game, which combines elements of board games, collectible card games, and digital games, has been reimagined for VR and set inside a deep space game arena. Next gen AR and VR platforms, including but not limited to Microsoft HoloLens and Google Tango are also being explored.

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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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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. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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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. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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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. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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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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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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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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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

Barry is the chief strategy officer of ZeroLight, a leading real-time visualization company in the automotive industry. A big company like Apple, Google, really pushing the thing out and saying, “this is what it’s going to be,” and then making it part of everyday life. It’s not going to start with consumers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

Barry is the chief strategy officer of ZeroLight, a leading real-time visualization company in the automotive industry. A big company like Apple, Google, really pushing the thing out and saying, “this is what it’s going to be,” and then making it part of everyday life. It’s not going to start with consumers.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Jacob Lowenstein, VP of Business Development and Strategy at Spatial. Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out. Jacob: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Jacob Lowenstein, VP of Business Development and Strategy at Spatial. Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out. Jacob: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Jacob Lowenstein, VP of Business Development and Strategy at Spatial. Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop -- a 3D physics multi-touch desktop -- to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out. Alan: Yeah, Google Drive.

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