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JULY 28, 2020

This is the same group who attacked Han, Chewie, and Finn in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. “We’re Star Wars Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge launches later this year on Oculus Quest. No word on pricing just yet. Image Credit: ILMxLAB.

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APRIL 1, 2020

The Series B financing round was led by Georgian Partners, with participation by venture capital firms including Franklin Templeton, Prologis Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures and Alumni Ventures Group. The latest round brings the company’s overall investment to $51 million.

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JULY 5, 2017

Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. Continental GT3 (2015). M3 Group A (E30). Vantage GT12. Aston Martin. Vantage GT3. Aston Martin. Vantage GTE. Aston Martin.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Microsoft today revealed it hired Liz Hamren from Oculus to head up marketing for mixed reality as the company begins to build out its efforts beyond HoloLens into a broad range of devices including VR headsets. Hamren was the chief marketing officer at Oculus and joins Microsoft as corporate vice president of mixed reality marketing.

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APRIL 25, 2017

But now that the landlady has sold the house where it all started, CLR has turned to VR, or specifically, AltspaceVR, a social VR platform which established itself on early Samsung, Oculus, and HTC headsets back in 2015, and now supports all major VR hardware including Daydream.

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MARCH 16, 2017

At this point, however, Nick Whiting can’t be sure that’s how the game will be received, and he informs me that I’m the first person outside of the core Epic group he’s spoken to that has finished the game. Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Valve recently provided some positive news for VR on Linux, which has been fairly limited since Oculus ‘paused’ its Linux development in 2015. Announced late last year , Valve has launched of a SteamVR developer build for Linux. According to the GitHub page , “ This is a development release.

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JULY 3, 2023

Palmer Luckey gave his take on Meta Quest Pro and Apple Vision Pro and explained what he would do differently if still at Oculus. If you're unaware, Luckey founded Oculus VR in 2012 to launch the Kickstarter campaign that would eventually lead to the consumer Oculus Rift in 2016, after two publicly sold development kits.

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MAY 10, 2017

Snapchat patent points to AR Spectacles content, Oculus Story Studio shuts down while continuing their VR for Good program, Congress gets into VR, Milwaukee gets sued by an AR company, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: SNAPCHAT PATENT POINTS TO AUGMENTED SPECTACLES CONTENT.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Thank goodness Oculus is here to buck that trend. Quill is a VR art experience that is being designed and released by the award winning team at Oculus Story Studio ( Henry , Lost ). Quill is a VR art experience that is being designed and released by the award winning team at Oculus Story Studio ( Henry , Lost ).

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JULY 11, 2017

Google wants you to play with Blocks, this smartphone wants you to get rid of your headset, a new marketplace connecting content creators with funding, the price of the Oculus Rift is slashed, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO PLAY WITH BLOCKS. GET YOURSELF A RIFT WITH THIS SWEET SUMMER DEAL.

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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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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). Daniel Efergan – Group Creative Director of Digital, Aardman Animations.

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JULY 5, 2016

AR/VR M&A Timeline: Facebook, GoPro, HP, Apple Begin To Grab Startups In the wake of Facebook’s high-profile acquisition of Oculus VR, corporates from HP to GoPro are snapping up augmented reality and virtual reality startups. App maker Blippar operates in the mobile AR-game space and acquired visual search developer Layar in 2014.

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MAY 25, 2017

The company actually set up the HTC Vive Tech Corporation subsidiary back in 2015 under which all of its virtual reality activities have been coordinated. To draw an analogy, this move would be much like if Facebook released it’s own branded VR headset that had nothing to do with Oculus.

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JUNE 5, 2016

The Proto Awards , presented by graphics giant AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group for the second consecutive year, will be held in the fall in Los Angeles. See Also: Watch the ‘Godfather of VR’ Ivan Sutherland Speak at the 2015 Proto Awards. Road to VR is a proud media sponsor of the 2016 Proto Awards.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Anthony Steed is a professor in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. See Also: Oculus Shares 5 Key Ingredients for Presence in Virtual Reality. — KentBye Voices of VR (@kentbye) March 23, 2015. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Original investors included Comcast Ventures, HTC and Samsung, but now join Horizons Ventures, Twentieth Century Fox, Evolution Media Partners (backed by TPG and CAA), China’s Shanghai Media Group, Youku Global Media Fund and LDV Partners. series, was first revealed at the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference earlier this month.

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JULY 27, 2017

Among what’s now a fairly vibrant range of social VR platforms, AltspaceVR had an early mover advantage, opening it’s doors long before the launch of the consumer versions of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. We had a supportive group of investors that last gave us money in 2015. So what happened?

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Facebook’s Oculus dramatically dropped Rift’s price and Valve is building a second generation of the innovative tracking technology deployed by HTC that could alter the VR landscape.

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JUNE 26, 2016

LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION. Teleportation has become a common way to move users around a virtual environment, but Oculus was just granted a patent for a novel method of movement that could be more intuitive.

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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.

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

units since its release at the end of 2015– not bad for a headset that is only compatible with six of the most recent Samsung phones. OCULUS RIFT ARRIVES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. An Oculus Rift headset has been modified and certified for use in space by French space agency CNES. The popular Gear VR has moved 5.5M

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JULY 5, 2017

The group boasts a fairly eccentric group of investors, including Kevin Spacey, a couple of football players and, yes, Shakira. The agency has previously backed companies in creative communications, such as Naked, Poke, Broody, Saturday Group and The Romans. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Top 50 Terminologies related to AR/VR The Medical Staff Abbott uses Oculus Go for cardiologist virtual reality training Abbott chooses VR technology to facilitate the user training on its intracoronary imaging platform. The program is done with Oculus Go device and shows amazing results : learning engagement +45% and knowledge retention +72%.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

As 2015 progressed, it looked increasingly likely that fans would need a small miracle for that to happen, and no such miracle came. Ultimately Oculus stole headlines at CES — for both better and worse — with the launch of pre-orders for the Rift. Oculus had already set everyone’s expectations.

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MAY 30, 2016

With developer VR Nerds (also the group behind VRNerds.de ) starting work on the title as far back as 2014, the game has been designed from the ground-up for VR controllers. They’re currently developing on the HTC Vive, but also hoping to release on Oculus Touch and PlayStation VR once the platforms become available.

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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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AUGUST 11, 2017

Fantastic Contraption’s developers are part of an exclusive group of VR creators who have successfully generated in excess of $1 million. It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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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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AUGUST 14, 2019

In a series of development consultations and workshops which began last year, diverse groups of participants used roleplaying techniques to discover positive and negative behaviors from police officers, social workers, and other involved actors that could be simulated in an AVR environment.

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Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. If you’re going to do a lot of development, you had better use Oculus Link through a USB 3.0 Also, install the Oculus app and the Oculus Hub on your computer.

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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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JUNE 11, 2018

SpaceVR initially launched as a Kickstarter in 2015 with a plan to send a 12-camera rig to the ISS that would be capable of shooting 3D, 360-degree footage. million investment from China’s Shanda Group, however, that turned the project from a pipe dream to what now looks more of a viable proposition. It was a $1.25

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Not only are these devices cheaper than the Oculus Rift and Vive, but Microsoft says they’re better too. “These headsets will be the first and only to ship with inside-out, six degrees of freedom sensors,” said Terry Myerson, Executive VP of the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft. Stay tuned.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

However, rumor had it that the ambitious group was working on something even more impressive — something the gaming world had never seen before. They were calling it the Oculus Rift, and Planck had managed to score a Developer Kit 1, or DK1 for short, through a generous donation to the online fund. Startups and Seagulls .

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