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Super Data Report: 6.3 Million Virtual Reality Headsets Shipped in 2016

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The report, titled “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: 2016 Mobile and VR Games Year in Review,” is a compilation of information Super Data and Unity Technologies, though we clarified with Unity that they did not contribute to the estimates for VR headset data in the report. The report estimates 4.5

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Chatting With The Recipient Of The SXSW 2019 ‘Best Interactive Experience’ Award

VRScout

Her first VR creation, Cardboard City , earned an award at the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest in 2016. So I guess what I was thinking of was a form of AR where people could actually walk through the animations, ” Benzing told me as she explained how she crossed the wire from traditional theater to immersive technology, way back in 2015.

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FOVE Debuts Latest Design for Eye Tracking VR Headset

Road to VR

Fove raised $480,000 on Kickstarter (along with an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures) in summer 2015 to manufacture their eye-tracking headset, a technology that’s useful for a number of important applications such as foveated rendering, avatar eye-mapping, simulated depth-of field, and eye-based user interfaces.

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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

Tech Trends VR

Object Theory are pretty much the oldest Mixed Reality company around, having launched in June 2015, before the HoloLens had even started shipping. Microsoft has this great patent portfolio and it would be great to take that amazing secret sauce of the HoloLens and license it out to their existing OEM partners like Dell or Samsung.”.

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KLM’s Chris Koomen teaches us how to use AR/VR in the civil aviation sector

The Ghost Howls

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition.

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Creating Synthetic Photography, with ThreeKit’s Ben Houston

XR for Business Podcast

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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Creating Synthetic Photography, with ThreeKit’s Ben Houston

XR for Business Podcast

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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