The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Its XR headset will be the first major product launch since 2015, and Apple surely wants to launch it in the best way possible, with a cheering audience, on-site demos to journalists, and a well-orchestrated performance. The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. IDC themselves predicted in 2011 that by 2015, Microsoft’s then new (and now dead) Windows Phone platform would overtake Apple’s IOS as in the mobile phone market.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Microsoft product lineup surprised everyone today, but the biggest surprise was planned for VR fans. Not only are these devices cheaper than the Oculus Rift and Vive, but Microsoft says they’re better too. Following that, presentation continued with several features using Microsoft HoloLens. Stay tuned. Stay tuned.

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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. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive….

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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

AUGUST 24, 2016

HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media. According to the latest Adobe 2016 Gaming report , HTC Vive has been rising above the competition. billion visits to retail gaming and gaming-related websites over 2015 and 2016.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. See Also: Former Oculus VP of Engineering Demonstrates Long Range VR Tracking System. See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR. HoloLens’ sensor cluster has a whopping 11 elements.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 25, 2016

How Unity is preparing for the mobile VR revolution The gaming landscape looked quite different when TechRadar spoke to John Riccitiello, CEO at game engine Unity, back in June 2015. The game engine now supports 24 platforms, and it can be used to deploy to Oculus Rift, Gear VR, Microsoft HoloLens, and PlayStation VR.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. ICYMI: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM FACEBOOK’S F8 CONFERENCE.

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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. 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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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Or "It was a cold, dark winter night in the mountains back in 2015, snow was falling down and you saw the light of the lantern outside flickering inside an old house." So it was a 2015, around in the beginning. Florian: It was in January-February 2015. And we founded a company in April 2015. And also the funder.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Or "It was a cold, dark winter night in the mountains back in 2015, snow was falling down and you saw the light of the lantern outside flickering inside an old house." So it was a 2015, around in the beginning. Florian: It was in January-February 2015. And we founded a company in April 2015. And also the funder.

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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. In December, these plans become known.

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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. It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. But then they might do dissection, which won’t work on an Oculus Go.

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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. It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. But then they might do dissection, which won’t work on an Oculus Go.

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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. It's also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. But then they might do dissection, which won't work on an Oculus Go. I appreciate it.

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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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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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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. Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys.

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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. Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside FSX , the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006) , was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight sim. SEE ALSO This Awesome DIY VR Cockpit Hides a Flight Simulator in Plain Sight.

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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. Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys. Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? 2) 2017 needs to be about experimentation, just like 2015 and 2016. 2) Costs need to be reduced dramatically.

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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

Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. 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: Yes we did. Alan: Okay. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. 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: Yes we did. Alan: Okay. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. 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: Yes we did. Alan: Okay. 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. Kevin: Sure, yeah.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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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. HTC VIVE LAUNCHES VIVE STUDIOS. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it?

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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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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Microsoft has actually– it’s interesting, because the Hololens was in their devices division and they actually moved it last year over to cloud.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Microsoft has actually– it’s interesting, because the Hololens was in their devices division and they actually moved it last year over to cloud.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. Microsoft has actually-- it's interesting, because the Hololens was in their devices division and they actually moved it last year over to cloud. Like the cloud.

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