VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Upskill, an augmented reality software training company, has cited seeing on average a 32% improvement in the workforc e of their clients. 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

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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

APRIL 13, 2017

The report, released today in partnership with Road to VR , as well as international contributing firms iResearch (China) and MoguraVR (Japan), includes global hardware, software and services revenue forecasts, as well as findings from a new survey of VR industry professionals. 5-year global VR hardware and software forecasts.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. CES 2015: Consumer VR Takes Shape. The OSVR HDK Headset.

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Upload VR

JULY 17, 2023

Instead, Apple organizes itself through departments, such as software engineering, hardware development, machine learning, design and more. Gurman reports that this dedicated division maintains its own independent teams that work on hardware, software and more, solely for the Vision product line.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Optometrists have been able to use the company’s treatment in their practice since 2015; this week Vivid Vision announced a new offering for the hardware/software-based eye-treatment that extends lazy eye treatment to the home. Vivid Vision offers a virtual reality based treatment for lazy eye disorders.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Introduction Following my first article earlier this year, Pimax’s Crystal has pleasantly surprised me with a series of software updates that activated new hardware features , whilst bringing quality-of-life improvements to headset connection and tracking. If you want to read his previous post, you can find it here.

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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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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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VRScout

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2015 its Sleepy Hollow production was one of the first VR experiences to win an Emmy for its accomplishments in “User Experience and Visual Design”. Operators are able to manage live sessions, view station-operating statuses, download and install new software, and troubleshoot hardware components and software.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

According to a report from Polygon , augmented reality company CastAR is heading for a shutdown, laying off staff from the Palo Alto headquarters and its internal AR software development studio in Salt Lake City. CastAR’s consumer hardware was due to launch this year. CastAR’s VR clip-on concept art | Image courtesy CastAR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2018

AMD today launched an updated version of their AMD Radeon Software suite which now includes the ability to stream SteamVR games to standalone and smartphone-based headsets, assuming you have a compatible AMD GPU. Screenshot by Tom’s Hardware.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 20, 2023

Nils Wollny : When my two co-founders and I came up with the idea of an in-car XR platform in 2015, we were employees of German premium car manufacturer Audi. In terms of software development, we split up based on our competencies. We took care of the headset integration, while Audi took on the software integration on the car side.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2016

The Wolfe is a new project about to hit Kickstarter that claims to offer a hardware solution to Macbook owners wanting to run virtual reality applications, an external Thunderbolt connected GPU. Those with Apple computers may well feel a little left out in the cold when it comes to running the latest virtual reality hardware.

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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.

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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. Tracking improvements.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 6, 2024

In early February, following the successful launch of the Vision Pro rocket, CareerViewXR, an emerging immersive edtech startup, spearheaded a statewide initiative providing over 300 HTC VIVE VR headsets and accompanying immersive learning software to schools across North Dakota. ” He noted.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

release of the Daydream software platform, Mike Jazayeri, Director of Product Management for Daydream, stated that “tens of millions” of Daydream-Ready devices are expected in the market by the end of the year. During Day 2 of Google I/O 2017, following major announcements of support for standalone VR headsets and a ‘2.0’

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Starbreeze made quite the impression at E3 2015 when they unveiled StarVR , the 210 degree, high-resolution VR headset born from project InfinitEye. VR is one of Acer’s key focus areas, as we continue to make huge strides across hardware, software and content development to unlock its potential,” says Acer Chairman and CEO Jason Chen.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The report says this device could cost thousands of dollars and be available only in low volumes — more typical of a test platform for software developers than the mass-market products Apple usually releases. Of course, that’s assuming that there’s software worth using when the headset comes out.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2017

Apple this week showed it’s getting serious about the VR medium with platform-spanning VR announcements this week crossing both hardware and software. Fast forward two years later to this week; Apple has made a slew of VR announcements including new computers that do indeed meet Oculus’ recommended hardware requirements.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

According to Laverde, this began in 2015. VIVE hand tracking has a number of features, though which features a developer uses depends on their target platform and hardware. So, the processing power of the hardware that developers want their projects to work on should be considered. “ Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 11, 2023

trillion (in 2015 U.S. From hardware to software, technology innovation will lead to lower form factor devices and increasingly accessible immersive services, in theory, promoting Metaverse adoption. A strong understanding of the underlying technology infrastructure is critical to establishing Metaverse solutions.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Augmented Reality Definition Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that overlays digital content (graphics, text, audio, and video) on real-world images using mobile devices, PCs, or glasses, which have an integrated camera and specialized software (Papagiannis, 2017). 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake. Jaimini and M.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 16, 2019

In 2015 its Sleepy Hollow production was one of the first VR experiences to win an Emmy , which it did for “User Experience and Visual Design”. Operators are able to manage live sessions, view station-operating statuses, download and install new software, troubleshoot hardware, components and software.

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Upload VR

JULY 10, 2023

I have decided to step away from my role at Google, where I was Senior Director of Engineering, responsible for OS and Software Platform for AR and XR devices. Bavor led Google's AR/VR efforts from 2015, as well as Google's wider Labs department from November 2021, until March of this year.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook announced today plans to acquire CTRL-Labs, a brain-computer interface startup developing hardware and software for decoding electrical activity from the brain to be used for computer input. Facebook says that with the company’s expertise, it plans to develop a wrist-worn neural input device.

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Road to VR

APRIL 21, 2017

Debuted at Oculus Connect 2 in September 2015, and bundled free with Oculus Touch controllers at the hardware launch in December 2016, Medium achieved its goal of delivering an accessible 3D modelling tool for the masses by emulating real-world clay sculpting, being more intuitive and approachable than professional software like ZBrush.

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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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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

You may have read a couple stories here about haptic installations they produced for Verizon with the NFL and IndyCar in 2015. Since then they have built numerous 2D and 3D cameras, custom stitching hardware, 360° live-streaming software, and stabilization and rotation tools for drones, dollies, and underwater camera rigs.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Smart glasses remain a luxury product, like virtual reality headsets (VR), but a lack of system-selling software slightly stuns the growth of AR hardware. Although, demand for AR hardware and software is making immersive firms scramble to create a relevant service. million units in 2022.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2018

Oculus has been on quite the hiring spree as of late, with over a hundred positions currently advertised on the company’s career website aimed at bringing hardware and software engineers into the Seattle area. million of it spent in 2018 so far. Image courtesy BuildZoom.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

In Jump’s wake, the company suggests that VR filmmakers make use of third-party stitching software such as Mistika VR and the Nuke Cara VR plugin. Google first introduced Jump back in 2015 as camera platform that essentially followed Cardboard’s path of providing an open design for all to use.

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