TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 26, 2021

As Facebook and Apple begin to fire up more projects in the AR/VR world, Google has spent the last year shutting down most of their existing projects in that space. Today, the folks at Google announced they had ended active development of Tilt Brush, a VR painting app that was one of virtual reality’s early hit pieces of software.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 17, 2018

WEARVR.com, the web's leading independent virtual reality app store, is launching a brand new competition aimed at seasoned virtual reality developers, which challenges them with updating their original Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 demos, games and experiences and bringing them back for the latest Oculus headset.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2017

Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company’s first virtual reality hardware product. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from Google. ” SEE ALSO Google Daydream Review: Casual VR Closes the Gap.

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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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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Join us tomorrow for the final day of Soccerex Global in Manchester, UK, and discover the place where athletes are using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality tech to take their game to the next level. EON Reality will be at booth 175, where we will be showing how Virtual and Augmented Reality can impact the world of football.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In 2015, Google launched its formal entry into the world of mobile-powered virtual reality. Now Google seems to be stirring … Continue reading. Cardboard was revolutionary in the way it empowered VR experiences with nothing but, well, a makeshift cardboard headset with special lenses.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and so they’ve been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, the company announced that they’ll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR , and that they’re going to start experimental builds for WebAR.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Low-cost virtual reality viewers — some made out of cardboard — are a minimal investment from consumer standpoint or from a company who would like to distribute their virtual reality experiences themselves. Test driving a car through virtual reality makes a lot of sense. By the end of 2015, U.S.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2023

Back in 2015, Samsung filed a different patent for a smart ring that never came to be. It’s possible that the project is getting closer to reality after the company unveiled its XR platform during its Unpacked event on February 1st, 2023. Credit: KIPRIS This isn’t Samsung’s first attempt at a smart ring.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Virtual Reality. Somnium Space.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

Getty Images, has launched the Getty Images Virtual Reality Group, a new business dedicated to the creation and global distribution of virtual reality content. Virtual Reality is completely transforming the way we view and experience world events.”

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In fact, with the introduction of virtual reality in the game development industry, the revenue earned has gone up considerably. Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. At its annual I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California Google announced the launch of Tour Creator , a new tool that easily allows anyone to create interactive content in Virtual Reality.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Two of the biggest names in XR—headset maker Meta and chip maker Qualcomm—today announced a “multi-year broad strategic agreement” to collaborate on “customized virtual reality chipsets” for future devices. For Meta, which itself wants to control the destiny of XR, that’s a problem.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2024

And he put his money where his mouth was by dropping more than $2 billion in 2014 to buy Oculus, a small startup that precipitated a grassroots resurgence of virtual reality technology. Apple and Google held (and continue to hold) the keys to the smartphone castle. “The strategic goal is the clearest.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 20, 2016

Virtual Reality 101: An Introduction to VR I first experienced virtual reality (VR) in May 2015. In case you’ve managed to miss out on all the VR hype, an article on this site from earlier this year offers a pretty good overview – Will 2016 be the year of Virtual Reality? ] Read more here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A new report from Super Data offers new estimates for the market size of virtual reality in 2016, suggesting 6.3 This leaves Oculus, Google and HTC to split about a million units. million VR headsets were shipped in the whole of 2016. Last year saw the launch of several high-end VR headsets complemented by new mobile offerings.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

InFormation is a two part (25 min) immersive documentary investigating the medium of Virtual Reality and creative use of the technology to build empathy and new forms of storytelling. How are storytellers crafting experiences, new realities for the viewer, to contextualize social issues, to better understand the human experience?

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Immersive Authority

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Virtual Reality is the latest technology which is betting to change our lives as the quality improves and prices become more affordable. Here’s some of the top Virtual Reality cameras you should consider. It is a startup working on developing virtual reality cameras for the masses. Bublcam costs $799.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung, in partnership with Qualcomm and Google, has announced plans to develop a new extended reality product. XR is a term that encompasses virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality technologies. I myself switched from Apple to Samsung in 2015 specifically for Samsung’s Gear VR headset.

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ARVR

JULY 8, 2022

In January, 2015, amid a mounting wave of critical sentiment, Google withdrew Glass from the consumer market, with the promise of returning with a revamped product in 2017. One of the main reasons that Google Glass failed was that it fell into the ‘snob pricing’ category, and those who wore it were looked at as ostentatious pills.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 31, 2018

VR, however, can give us a sense of what the chaos looks – and feels – like, allowing us to better empathize with the millions of people who live this reality everyday. . Sadly, none of your choices lead to a truly positive outcome, an unfortunate reality for many civilians caught in the center of war. . million views. .

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Next Reality VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

With 2015's generation of flagship smartphones fast approaching, LG is turning to virtual reality to clear its G3 inventory. VR for G3 is a Google Cardboard-inspired virtual reality headset that was custom fit to encase the phone and uses a pair of lenses to create stereoscopic imagery.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry’s next bet is a series of technologies usually called augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

This is a great deal, that lowers even more the barrier of cost to enter virtual reality. Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones.

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Tech Trends VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Most of us are lucky enough not to have experienced urban conflict first-hand, but VR can give us a sense of what that looks – and feels – like for people on the ground who have to actually live that reality. Virtual Reality has been used many times to show the dreadful consequences of the Syrian conflict.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Augmented Reality Trends (Part 2) Brief history Some important AR facts: 60s : Engineer Ivan Sutherland, created the SketchPad project, a system based on what is now known as computer graphics, and created a see-through to present 3D graphics (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google’s Tango technology. SEE ALSO Asus 'ZenFone AR' Google Tango, Daydream VR Phone Launched, Specs Revealed.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” How I got started with virtual reality. This is how I got started with Virtual Reality development.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind. And that’s it!

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2017

The move comes just a week after the company announced a mobile standalone Vive headset in partnership with Google. HTC is by now one of the world’s leaders in the virtual reality space. Meanwhile HTC itself has yet to offer a Daydream ready phone that would work with Google’s Daydream View headset.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Google and Discovery expand the Discovery VR app with new VR travel series. Since launching August 2015, the Discovery VR app has accumulated over four million downloads and 123 million organic views. You can view the action in VR using the Google Daydream View headset and Google Cardboard, or on the web via Android and iPhone devices.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

In a new report from IDC (International Data Corporation), the market research firm predicts a near 10 fold increase in the shipments of augmented and virtual reality headsets in the next 4 years, bolstered by a plethora of new devices and “expanding array of content for both consumer and enterprise users.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 8, 2017

While Firefox has supported the Oculus Rift since 2015, it’s only now that the browser joins competitors Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in supporting the WebVR open standard. Firefox still leads Edge in supported hardware – Microsoft’s browser only supports the Windows Mixed Reality Headset.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Surprisingly enough, this isn’t the first time Rovio has jumped into virtual reality with some flavor of Angry Birds for VR. The company demoed a first-person prototype on Gear VR as far back as 2015 at the Rock in Rio festival that summer, although it never saw public release afterwards.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Brian Blau is the vice president of research for personal technologies at Gartner Research where he’s in the business of making predictions about the consumer adoption of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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