Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung, in partnership with Qualcomm and Google, has announced plans to develop a new extended reality product. I myself switched from Apple to Samsung in 2015 specifically for Samsung’s Gear VR headset. I’m considering switching back to Samsung if they release a new XR headset. I’m

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

This week, reports emerged claiming that Chinese news publication Gyro Technology leaked the design specifications of Samsung’s upcoming MR headset. According to the leaks, Samsung’s MR device will cost roughly between $1000-$2000. Samsung’s Q2 net profits fell by 84.5 percent from last year to $1.4

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

Samsung confirms 5+ million Gear VR headsets are now in use worldwide, announced at their CES 2017 keynote. The Gear VR headset launched in November 2015, and was the first high-quality VR solution for smartphones. The full Samsung press conference can be watched here.

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Anand Tech

JULY 20, 2022

Samsung's lineup of portable SSDs has enjoyed tremendous success, starting with the T1 back in 2015. Earlier this year, Samsung launched the Portable SSD T7 Shield, a follow-up to the Portable SSD T7 (Touch) introduced in early 2020.

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Anand Tech

JANUARY 31, 2023

Samsung has been enjoying market success with their lineup of portable SSDs, starting with the T1 back in 2015. Samsung is officially bringing over the new capacity SKU to the North American market today. The company launched a 4TB version in this lineup in mid-January for the EU market.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 16, 2022

Samsung has combined several existing apps and services to create Samsung Wallet, an app that holds your digital keys, boarding passes, ID cards, payment cards, and cryptocurrencies, all in one place. It's all protected by the Samsung Knox security system. Credit: Samsung. Samsung Wallet is launching in the U.S.,

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2018

When in 2015 I had my first Samsung Gear VR, I was amazed: finally, I could enjoy high-quality tether-less virtual reality. Today, thanks to the fellow VR community member Eloi Gerard , I’ve found an article on lowyat.net that confirms that Samsung is not that enthusiast about Gear VR and that has probably different future plans.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2024

Wizards of the Coast partnered with now-defunct social VR platform Altspace VR in 2015 to bring the actual D&D tabletop game to VR for the first time officially. It was only on the platform for a few years however, and was gone long before Microsoft shut down Altspace VR in March 2023.

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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The first 2TB consumer SSDs started to show up in 2015, and now 2TB options are common across all the SSD market segments. The 8TB Samsung 870 QVO is a SATA drive from the brand that has been at the forefront of the past several capacity increases and leads the SSD market by most other measures.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2017

CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online , and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016) , for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store. The title is the sequel to 2015’s Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR. Initially Gunjack 2 , launched in 2016, was exclusively available on Google Daydream.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2020

The company has come a long ways since it initially launched the platform on Samsung Gear VR in 2015, amassing over 40 patents and strategic broadcasting partnerships with the likes of the NBA, NHL, WWE, FOX Sports, Live Nation, and the International Champions Cup, and significantly upping its video quality in the process.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2017

VR specialists Viemr had divers capable of holding their breath for up to 5-minutes record the footage during a 10-day shoot at the Red Sea in December 2015. The Dutch government provided a 50,000 euro ($59,000) grant to develop the waterproof VR goggles, which contain a Samsung smartphone mounted on a 3D-printed rig made of recycled plastic.

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VRWorld

MAY 9, 2016

14nm is getting traction not just by high-end chips from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Samsung and other large players, but also by smaller companies which are moving to revolutionize the way how we build virtual reality glasses, cars, infotainment systems, TVs and many other.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2018

Coatsink , the studio behind VR titles A Night Sky (2017) and Augmented Empire (2017), announced they’re bringing their first mobile VR title, Esper (2015), to PlayStation VR, Oculus Go and Xiaomi Mi on June 29th. Esper is also slated to launch on HTC Vive via Steam on July 6th.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Following official confirmation of the defect by Samsung, which says a battery issue has led to 35 reported cases of Note 7 combustion, Oculus has tweeted a warning to Gear VR users: Samsung Note7 owners: please don’t use with Gear VR until yours is replaced. Contact Samsung with q’s. OJL5z2dI9x.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

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. The HTC standalone headset will operate on the Google Daydream platform, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835. Image Credit: HTC.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

It was partially developed by John Carmack in 2015 for the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR. Netflix does have a VR app on Meta Quest , with a cosy cabin environment, but it's capped at 480p and hasn't been updated in years. 0:00 / 0:17 1× Media watching on Apple Vision Pro.

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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. It’s a pity, considering even the now largely obsolete Samsung Gear VR has its own bespoke version of the game , which was released in the 2016 heyday of the 3DOF mobile VR headset.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 15, 2016

One of most widely used VR HMDs (Head Mounted Device) on the market is GearVR, a love child of collaboration between Facebook i.e. Oculus and Samsung. Not to be outdone by swathes of competition – such as Chinese Baofeng Mojiong – Samsung is updating its GearVR with a third generation product. million active monthly users.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2017

Building on Facebook Live, a video streaming service introduced in 2015, 360-degree livestreaming was an inevitable combination of technologies, as 360 video playback has been supported in the News Feed since 2015. The global roll-out introduces a wider range of camera compatibility, and spatial audio has been added.

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Upload VR

JULY 10, 2023

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. Google Reportedly Killed Its AR Glasses Project Google reportedly killed AR glasses project, will instead provide Android XR platform for manufacturers like Samsung.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

ARM claims that its Mali line of mobile GPUs shipped over 750 million units in 2015 with its latest G71 series being pitched as sporting the grunt required to meet the high demands VR places on rendering hardware. The company claims to have delivered over 10 eye tracking solutions in the VR space to date.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2018

spec include Firefox Release 55, Oculus Browser, Samsung Internet, & Microsoft Edge. 106: Josh Carpenter at GDC 2015. 112: Brandon Jones at GDC 2015. 240: Tony Parisi at Oculus Connect 2015. 263: James McCrae at VRX 2015. The browsers that have implemented the WebVR 1.1 13: Vlad Vukicevic at SVVR 2014. #40:

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The music experience was created by Brighton, UK-based HelloEnjoy , an indie studio known for their commercial 3D work across a range of big names including Disney, Sony, Samsung, Swarovski, Absolut, Interscope, Lexus, Nissan and Peugeot.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At Oculus Connect 2 in 2015 it gave everyone a free Samsung Gear VR, at F8 2018 it gave everyone a free Oculus Go, and at F8 2019 it gave a free Oculus Quest. CEO Dave Baszucki referenced "thousands" of people being there in person and we asked Meta if the company could provide details on how many were given away.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 26, 2024

It was developed partially by John Carmack in 2015 for the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR. Netflix does have a VR app on Meta Quest , with a cosy cabin environment, but it's capped at 480p and hasn't been updated in years. It will still be watchable via the web.

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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. Microsoft and partners like HP, Asus, Samsung, Acer, and Dell launched a batch of ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ headsets [Amazon] a few years ago. Consider this article your official rebuttal to these tired arguments.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The NextVR app launched initially way back in 2015 on Gear VR, and eventually found its way to Daydream. Last year NextVR demonstrated upcoming support for 6DOF video and has been rolling out impressive higher fidelity content which takes better advantage of higher resolution displays in headsets like the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Today, there are eight Daydream-Ready devices on the market, and momentum will continue to build throughout the year as flagship products from Samsung and LG begin to support the platform. The post Google Expects “Tens of Millions” of Daydream-Ready Devices on the Market By Year’s End appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2016

Nestlé brand Cailler Chocolate , a 200-year-old Swiss brand, is taking the innovative approach of introducing the chocolate through pop-up retail store activations in airports and shopping malls featuring Samsung’s Gear VR headsets. This year Nestlé is on a mission to bring fine chocolates to the US.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. With notable exceptions, these are often companies producing cheap replicas of existing mobile hardware like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear without any additional, unique features. Expectedly, the many seized the opportunity for a feeding frenzy. million).

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. billion, the next year it increased to $3.6 billion, followed by $5.8 billion and $9.6 billion in 2017 and 2018.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 2, 2017

Homido isn’t a household name around the world like Facebook, Google, Sony, or Samsung, but it has carved out a niche in the mobile HMD market over the past two years. Homido mini (pocket-sized solution, first released in 2015) has sold 244,000 units total. Regardless, this does paint an interesting picture.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

As reported by The Verge , the adaptor is the third of its kind; the first was destroyed in a failed SpaceX launch in 2015, and the second was installed on the ISS in 2016. Bigscreen supports HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung Gear VR. Check out the links below to download.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

zSpace and Nearpod, which both provide VR software solutions for K-12 teachers, raised impressive amounts of $56mm in 2015 and $30mm in 2016/2017, respectively. Image Credit: Samsung. Companies including zSpace, Nearpod and Upskill were all founded before 2014, but began receiving much larger venture funding in recent years.

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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. In 2016 they teamed up with Samsung to simulate an in-game basketball experience for the Rio Olympics. Two Bit’s Jake Sally taking someone through the Samsung Olympic experience.

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