AR Insider

APRIL 14, 2021

Snap’s rumored AR glasses could breath new life into its unspectacular hardware past. The displays would mark a significant technological improvement over previous Spectacles models, and would move Snap closer toward offering true AR hardware. Snap’s attempts to push into hardware have been less than spectacular.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2021

Dan Morris has been at Oculus since 2015, spending four years at the Head of Store, and another two years as the Head of Developer Relations, according to his LinkedIn profile. Beyond Niantic’s AR platform, the company is teasing AR hardware and software of its own. Lightship is currently in a private beta phase. ?.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2023

New filings point towards new XR hardware on the way. Back in 2015, Samsung filed a different patent for a smart ring that never came to be. Credit: KIPRIS This isn’t Samsung’s first attempt at a smart ring. ” The application for the trademark doesn’t provide much information about the rumored Galaxy Ring.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2023

Founded in 2015, Pimax is best known for its first Pimax “8K” headset Kickstarted in 2017, a consumer PC VR headset that included dual 4K panels providing an estimated 200-degree FOV, by far one of the largest in the industry at the time. “Of

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. Schwab continues, introducing a technically ‘wearable’, albeit very uncomfortable looking prototype from 2015 (below), “This thing is called Cheese Head.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

According to the filing, Pico, a VR hardware subsidiary to Chinese tech giant ByteDance, is expected to launch two nearly identical VR headsets with the exception of Pico 4 Pro’s additional eye and face-tracking function. Since its founding in 2015, Pico has exclusively targeted consumers in China and enterprise users in the West.

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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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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve also switched up the 2015 competition with two tracks: AR/VR and Open. The AR/VR track covers experiences built on tethered HMDs like the Oculus Rift, while the Open track covers desktop, hardware hacks, and the Internet of Things. Hardware hackers also have access to more resources as the Internet of Things continues to grow.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2020

Kat VR, the China-based company behind the original Kat Walk VR treadmill Kickstarter in 2015, is bringing its new consumer-focused VR treadmill ‘Kat Walk C’ to the crowdfunding platform on June 21st. The campaign is slated to begin at 10 AM ET ( local time here ) on Sunday, and will end on July 30th.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Before joining Microsoft in 2015, Kress worked as principal optical architect behind Google Glass, the company’s smartglasses that found marked success in the enterprise sector after a rocky reception by consumers in 2013. And there’s no doubts about it: Kress says he’s focusing on creating consumer AR hardware at Google.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The hardware has been progressing every year. Originally drawn to the project after seeing Wevr’s underwater VR series TheBlu , Favreau first began work on Gnomes and Goblins in 2015—the early days of the modern VR—before shifting gears dramatically in 2017. VR has continued to evolve.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2020

This article is actually a throwback to an article I wrote with the same premise back in 2015. Arguably the best consumer-focused headset out there, Valve Index , does cost $1,000 for new customers who don’t already have any VR hardware. Consider this article your official rebuttal to these tired arguments.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 8, 2015

In 2015, we’re building on this momentum with new resources for developers, while advancing support for several key VR platforms. In this post, I’d like to reflect on the year that we just left behind, and what’s coming in 2015. New hardware prototypes. Android beta SDK.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

Even before Google discontinued its home-spun Daydream platform in 2019, it was fairly apparent that the company’s interest in developing both VR hardware and software had substantially waned.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

It took place from the 1980s (when these were initially introduced into the markets) to 2015 (when they were finally fully adopted). AR, VR, and AI have already been introduced to the market, but we are very early in the evolution of the hardware and infrastructure that will lead to mass adoption. We are currently at a similar point.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 9, 2022

TL;DR: As of April 9, you can get a refurbished MacBook Air 13.3" (2015), 4GB RAM 256GB for just $365.99. For instance, a MacBook Air from 2015 that’s in great condition will cost you less than $400. inch MacBook Air from 2015. Plus, it’s been refurbished to work as if you just bought it off the shelf back in 2015.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Valve famously skipped 2015’s Dev Days, which was one year after the conference’s inauguration and first showing of Valve’s VR headset prototype. Had Dev Days 2015 taken place, it would have come only a few months after Valve unveiled its first version of the HTC Vive. The improved 2.0

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

That said, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all have headsets in development that offer inside-out positional tracking — meaning the headsets don’t need any separate external hardware to find the precise location of the headset in a given space. The startup company was founded in 2015.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

Samsung hasn’t really said much about VR since the release of Samsung Odyssey+, the hardware refresh to its Windows Mixed Reality headset that came to market in October 2018. However at Augmented World Expo (AWE), the company offered a few brief statements to underline their continued commitment to the space. Image courtesy Samsung.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Because dystopian desert fashion is so 2015. It’s no mystery that VR and AR hardware are not generally regarded as the pinnacle of high fashion. A few weeks ago, Branko Lukic’s studio went so far as to offer a few different takes on more beautiful and ergonomic headsets than we currently find on the market.

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It launched into the mobile market with a variety of products, however the desktop offering in 2015 was extremely limited - only two socketed desktop processors ever made it to retail, and in limited quantities. It caused quite a stir, and we’re retesting the hardware in 2020 to see if the concept of eDRAM is still worth the effort.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

The job descriptions first showed up across the internet and that started the rumors, I’m going to say back in 2014, 2015.” Hardware Integrations and Third-Party Companies A recurring point in the conversation was the room around the Apple Vision Pro itself for accessories, whether from Apple or from 3rd party developers.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Gear VR headset launched in November 2015, and was the first high-quality VR solution for smartphones. In his opening speech at CES 2017 this week, Samsung Electronics America president Tim Baxter announced that the company now has “more than 5 million” Gear VR virtual reality headsets in use.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Side note : the Oculus Store was opened up to paying customers back in March 2015, and first serviced Gear VR. The company says that more than 20% of that is from Quest alone; considering the standalone VR headset is only four months old, that’s a pretty impressive number.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

Positional tracking is the dream for immersive video content, but it is a complex hardware and software challenge. The company haven’t provided details about their process, but 6DoF support has been on their road map for some time, having spoken about the use of light field technology for this purpose in 2015.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I myself switched from Apple to Samsung in 2015 specifically for Samsung’s Gear VR headset. The hardware will be us,” he said. It was one of the first companies to develop VR hardware, starting with the Samsung Gear VR platform in 2014, which was paired with the Galaxy Note 4 phone.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 19, 2022

TL;DR: As of June 19, you can snag a refurbished Apple MacBook Air 13.3" (2015) i5, 1.6GHz 4GB RAM 256GB for just $365.99, when it would cost you $1,109 new. Here’s a deal on a MacBook Air from 2015 that’s been refurbished to work as good as new. The 2015 MacBook Air also comes with two USB 3.0 That's savings of 67%.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2023

Altspace VR initially launched on May 2015 under the supervision of the platform’s then Founder and CEO, Eric Romo – who went on to work as Meta’s Director of Product, Reality Labs Social Experiences until 2022 – and Microsoft acquired the Altspace service following a near closure in 2017.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

After setting up an internal XR unit to create VR software and hardware last June, Reuters reports that’s been scrapped and the unit’s 300 staff members are being told to seek other employment opportunities. Tencent is allegedly scrapping development for a new VR headset due to profitability concerns and high investment costs.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

CastAR’s consumer hardware was due to launch this year. A prototype development kit of the CastAR headset, circa 2015 | Photo by Road to VR. Concept render of the CastAR headset and controller | Image courtesy CastAR. ” This unfortunate news comes during a wealth of positive developments in the field of AR technology.

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Mashable VR

MAY 15, 2022

TL;DR: As of May 15, this refurbished Apple MacBook Air 13" (2015) i5, 1.6GHz 8GB RAM 128GB is on sale for just $388.99. This 13-inch MacBook Air hails from 2015, which means only four models have been released after it. Apple MacBook Air 13" (2015) i5, 1.6GHz 8GB RAM 128GB - Silver (Refurbished). ports and an SD card slot.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2020

From as far back as 2015, Carmack has considered Minecraft in VR his “quest” of sorts. That’s necessary but not sufficient – when we add a new platform, we have to support it fully in our daily testing, both with hardware and more importantly with time from everyone working on it.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Altspace VR initially launched on May 2015 under the supervision of the platform’s then Founder and CEO, Eric Romo – who went on to work as Meta’s Director of Product, Reality Labs Social Experiences until 2022 – and Microsoft acquired the Altspace service following a near closure in 2017.

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Road to VR

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. Limited hardware support is provided, and pre-release drivers are required”. Announced late last year , Valve has launched of a SteamVR developer build for Linux.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

” Founded in 2015, Nolo VR has since commercialized both its main hardware platform, Nolo CV1 , and its Nolo Home streaming software, which allows Oculus Go and Gear VR headset users to play SteamVR games.

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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 This will require greater awareness at the institutional / district / corporate level and ultimately lower hardware prices.

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Road to VR

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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