XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Using live-action, volumetrically-captured 3D footage of artists, AmazeVR has unlocked photorealistic renders of virtual environments to democratise VR solutions for some of the world’s top record labels and their musicians.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 26, 2024

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 was developed partially by John Carmack in 2015 for the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR. Watching traditional media on a giant virtual screen is a key focus of Apple's marketing for Vision Pro so far.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A Brief Foray into Funktronic Labs Founded a decade ago at the intersection of art, technology, and design, Funktronic Labs took the plunge into VR development back in 2015, a time when the industry was still in its infancy and precedents were scarce. This design choice is not only intuitive but negates the need for a separate tutorial.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Anthony Steed is a professor in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. Anthony was also the winner of the 2016 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award presented at the IEEE VR conference this year. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments , 6(4):355–385, 1997. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pages 1271{1274, 2015. Basic features of Augmented Reality by fernanda rodríguez. Augmented Reality References Helen Papagiannis. Augmented Human: How Technology Is Shaping the New Reality.

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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). Others dream of a future where VR replaces the need to go to a physical office, with most meetings taking place in virtual environments.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 16, 2018

During the hour-long town hall meeting, Keegen, the program owner from AltSpaceVR, introduced key team members behind the new virtual environment to assist her during the presentation. Creating an event the old way, meant logging into the AltspaceVR website through a computer and setting up the details of your event online.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 2, 2017

Whereas Netflix’s VR app seats users in a cozy virtual environment to watching content on an enormous screen, it’s likely that any HoloLens app would project a screen into the real world. A company spokesperson also confirmed that “support in a basic way” was coming to the device. No date yet, however.

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XROM

AUGUST 29, 2021

oVRcome was developed by Adam Hutchinson, who previously created CamperMate, a free travel app bought in 2015 by the world's largest campervan rental company, Tourism Holdings.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In June, 2015, Oculus and Microsoft jointly announced that the feature would be coming to the Oculus Rift, allowing users to play their Xbox One games projected onto a big screen in an immersive virtual environment. SEE ALSO Microsoft Says New Surface Studio is VR Ready(ish).

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Theme parks have been eager to add virtual reality rides to their list of attractions, but the majority of experiences are repurposed existing roller coasters, essentially offering the same ride but with a virtual environment to look at. Holovis is keen to point out that this is more than repurposing an existing ride.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

Description: The product of neuroscientific insights and advanced machine learning, Neurable interprets user intent, bringing new degrees of freedom to virtual and augmented reality. It poses the question: “What if you could use your brainwaves to control your computer and virtual environment?” Out of Exile.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

Movement is a big issue in virtual reality, and developers have to be careful to make sure users are not nauseated by vestibular mismatch (your brain/eyes say “I’m moving” in the virtual world which contradicts your inner ear/balance which say “I’m stationary” in the real world).

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VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2017

VR gives people with phobias the ability and power to confront their fears head on in a virtual setting. VR therapy treatments for PTSD and phobias are similar in that they use the virtual environment to have the patient confront their fear or trauma in a safe, controlled setting. Founded by psychotherapist Thomas J.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

That source is Virtual Human Interaction Lab , at Stanford University. VR’s possible ability to facilitate Empathy has been a major theme since 2015, when Christopher Milk’s TED Talk produced another seminal moment for VR. One research area has been the relationship between VR and empathy. Calling it a game is insulting.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. If you could do that in VR and can have that similar behavior that a human has inside the virtual environment, that really is cost saving for companies like Volkswagen.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. If you could do that in VR and can have that similar behavior that a human has inside the virtual environment, that really is cost saving for companies like Volkswagen.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. If you could do that in VR and can have that similar behavior that a human has inside the virtual environment, that really is cost saving for companies like Volkswagen.

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Veative

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Virtual tours are not a substitute for the original experience, but can help in recreating it if the user has already been to the site, bringing out different nuances in their experience, or to give them a taste of the place in advance if they have yet to go. The world of virtual tours is still fluid and evolving. Hohstadt , Thomas.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Kate Edwards at Konsoll 2015, where she spoke about strategies for game culturalization. We as human beings want to understand what our environment is about, so if we’re going to be putting people into high-fidelity virtual environments, we need to allow them to feel and interact in a way that’s high fidelity.”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Then why play real VR games when you can stream your console ones onto a virtual screen? Okay that’s a little harsh, I’m sure some people will find a lot of use for this long-awaited app, first promised in 2015. Billiard: VR is simple a game where you play the classic sport in a virtual environment.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. Lee Vermeulen is breaking new ground with his experimental AR prototypes. .

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2014

These early beta experiences are just the beginning as we continue to work with developers into 2015. s Tran;section places you inside a bleak office playing an old-school platformer, but with a twist – monsters and obstacles must be defeated with objects in your virtual environment. So what’s next? Requires the Oculus Rift.).

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments. This is obviously the big one for virtual worlds. Creativity. Discoverability.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. In addition, it’s going to feel more natural to first-time VR/AR users as they can carry on their natural hand gestures into the virtual environment.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Image Credits: TechCrunch When HTC began imagining life after the smartphone, it looked a lot like VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And back in 2015, I met with a guy called Julien in a pub, and he showed me an experience: The Night Café, in which you enter a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. And I think so far we’ve failed a little bit on creating virtually real humans. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And back in 2015, I met with a guy called Julien in a pub, and he showed me an experience: The Night Café, in which you enter a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. And I think so far we've failed a little bit on creating virtually real humans. I don't know if you've tried that one. I don't know if you've tried that one.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And back in 2015, I met with a guy called Julien in a pub, and he showed me an experience: The Night Café, in which you enter a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. And I think so far we’ve failed a little bit on creating virtually real humans. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And back in 2015, I met with a guy called Julien in a pub, and he showed me an experience: The Night Café, in which you enter a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. And I think so far we’ve failed a little bit on creating virtually real humans. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one. I don’t know if you’ve tried that one.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

All of them have the same problem — they are limited in terms of how you interact with a virtual experience and by the quality of the phone’s hardware. There are a number of compatible controllers, with the Steel Series XL being the one Oculus gave away at its 2015 developer conference.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Thanks to its comprehensive VR support on PC, Project CARS 2 is another great showcase for VR sim racing, offering better performance than Project CARS (2015) in a much more compelling package. As with the majority of VR racing simulators, the experience should be reasonably comfortable for most people.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out. And Jinha started to really think about how he could change interfaces to enable people to access information anywhere, interact with it more intuitively, and even better connect people. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out. And Jinha started to really think about how he could change interfaces to enable people to access information anywhere, interact with it more intuitively, and even better connect people. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out. And Jinha started to really think about how he could change interfaces to enable people to access information anywhere, interact with it more intuitively, and even better connect people. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The good news is that Oculus Quest, in just 4 months, is already counting as 20% of that big amount made in 4 years (the Oculus Store opened for Gear VR in 2015, as Road To VR remembers us). Oculus claims that from its opening, the Oculus Store has made $100M in apps sales. in 2018 ( according to SuperData ).

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