The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Considering that this number doesn’t count the Quest users connected via Oculus Link, the actual number of VR users on Steam is even higher. Still no news on Oculus For Business program and Multiplayer SDK for Quest.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. Facebook Enables Native 360 Photos.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Made from high-res satellite imagery, aerial photography, and Street View data, Google Earth VR is surprisingly meditative when alone and fun when with a group. Founded at Carnegie Mellon in 2015, the company created an app (now unavailable) called Intraface – which could recognize seven different emotions (anger, fear, joy, etc.).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

You’re probably not through the sheer swarm of Oculus Touch titles that landed last week yet, but there’s still a fresh round of Rift and Gear releases to get through this week. Plus — check out our list of the best Oculus Rift games and best Gear VR games for more suggestions! Xbox One Streaming, from Microsoft.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Given the size of the AR/VR market today, and its practical applications for a broad groups of users, it’s too early for the company to execute that plan. See Also: 3 Moves Oculus is Borrowing from Apple’s Marketing Playbook. No that’s (sadly) not a stereo camera on the iPhone 7. Acquisitions.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up. If you already have an Oculus Rift and Touch controllers, you can join the early open beta and dial in your parents via Facebook Messenger.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The legendary video game studio had recently lost its most famous IP, the Halo series, due to a round of corporate maneuvering with Microsoft. However, rumor had it that the ambitious group was working on something even more impressive — something the gaming world had never seen before. Startups and Seagulls .

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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. In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft.

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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. In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft.

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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. In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. But then they might do dissection, which won't work on an Oculus Go.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Pixvana, a Seattle-based startup creating a cloud-based processing and delivery platform for VR video, today announced a $14 million Series A funding round led by Vulcan Capital with participation from Raine Ventures, Microsoft Ventures, Cisco Investments and Hearst Ventures, and existing investor Madrona Venture Group.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In November 2015, UploadVR.com marked its first birthday at the dawn of the consumer VR age. November 2015. The $100 consumer Gear VR also debuts during this same period, arriving alongside a virtual arcade from Oculus to let people play some classic games. December 2015.

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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. Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? And who owns the process?

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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. Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? And who owns the process?

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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. Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

2) 2017 needs to be about experimentation, just like 2015 and 2016. 1) I believe the virtual reality market will continue to have steady sales reaching over 2 million HMD’s between Sony, HTC and Oculus. 2) As with any platform, quality content and more robust features (Oculus Avatars, Parties, Rooms, etc.)

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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. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The GFR Fund is one such investor group, and this one in particular has cultivated an impressive portfolio of XR up-and-comers. 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. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The GFR Fund is one such investor group, and this one in particular has cultivated an impressive portfolio of XR up-and-comers. 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. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The GFR Fund is one such investor group, and this one in particular has cultivated an impressive portfolio of XR up-and-comers. 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. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. I think this was back in like 2015, and I had never seen anything quite like this technology up until this point in time. Can you talk about them?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? Want to dive deeper into the details? HTC VIVE LAUNCHES VIVE STUDIOS.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As researchers continue to push the boundaries of what is possible and companies like Microsoft prototype new haptic devices, we can probably look forward to a near-future where the virtual world will not only look realistic, but also feel real to all our senses. The Louvre, for example, has been using AR as early as 2015.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Mozilla took the lead in pioneering WebVR, launching its A-Frame VR content authoring tool in 2015, along with its MozVR resource. Google , Oculus and Samsung Internet also published their WebVR and open-source developer resources. . Looking Forward. Creating an AR Tracker.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As researchers continue to push the boundaries of what is possible and companies like Microsoft prototype new haptic devices, we can probably look forward to a near-future where the virtual world will not only look realistic, but also feel real to all our senses. The Louvre, for example, has been using AR as early as 2015.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. 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.

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