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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Jason Mackenzie yesterday announced that he is leaving the company after nearly 12 years. After 12 amazing years, today is my last day @htc. He’s held various roles at the company over the years, moving from President of the Americas to Global Executive Vice President in January of 2016.

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DECEMBER 24, 2016

Last December the VR community was left guessing as to when the Oculs Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR would really release, and 12 lightning-fast months later we have them all and a new headset from Google to boot. Tagged with: 2016 , highlights , PS VR , rift , Vive , VR. What a year, huh? Until then, happy holidays!

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JANUARY 27, 2017

PSVR now has more than 50 titles supporting the headset, check out the most downloaded in 2016 below: Job Simulator ($30). Carnival Games VR brings an all new immersive virtual reality experience, allowing you to explore the park, interact with patrons and play up to 12 different games! PlayStation Store Rating: 4/5 Stars.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Founded in 2016 in Stockholm as a VR-exclusive studio, Fast Travel has developed a number of well-received games including Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife, The Curios Tale of the Stolen Pets, and Apex Construct. The studio also co-developed Neat Corporation’s Budget Cuts 2: Mission Insolvency. .

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JUNE 10, 2016

Steam Dev Days 2016 will be held from October 12-13 in Seattle, WA. After skipping Steam Dev Days last year in 2015, Valve is back in full-force with what is planned to be the biggest and best event yet. The announcement lists four main areas of focus, including virtual reality such as SteamVR and the HTC Vive.

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JULY 25, 2017

In both corporate training and K-12, companies and schools are reporting positive results about the impact of VR/AR on retention, engagement, and efficiency. 2 – The number of interactive teaching tools for K-12 teachers has exploded. Here’s a brief overview of the current state in VR/AR education. #1

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APRIL 29, 2022

Hell or High Water The Western is smartly modernized in this 2016 David Mackenzie drama. How to watch : Marriage Story is now streaming on Netflix. SEE ALSO: How to unblock and watch American Netflix from the UK. Chris Pine and Ben Foster star as a pair of bank-robbing brothers. How to watch : My Girl is now streaming on Netflix. Alias Grace.

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JULY 15, 2017

The next 12 months could be the year of VR. 2016 was supposed to be the year for VR. The Playstation VR system was launched in October of 2016, and before it’s one year mark it has made over 770 million dollars. We know the VR market is growing, but if it stays on course at this pace, the next 12 months could be the year of VR.

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MAY 4, 2022

In reverse order of greatness, starting with that unwanted stepchild: 12. Rogue One (2016). The nine Skywalker saga episodes and two "anthology" spin-off films ( Rogue One, Solo ) were not the only ones to get official releases in theaters. There's one cinematic stepchild that Lucasfilm would rather forget. The Clone Wars (2008).

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

The most recent round brings the company’s lifetime financing to $294 million, pushing it now to a $3.5 billion valuation.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Here’s the tally of titles in each year that are currently among this top 20: 2016 – 4. Again, let’s look at the tally of these top 20 most rated Rift titles by year: 2016 – 12. Tally by release year: 2016 – 7. I Expect You To Die. Dance Central. Asgard’s Wrath. Space Pirate Trainer. Vacation Simulator.

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MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company in March, recently opened up on record for the first time in an interview since September 2016. In that way the next 12 months will be rather uninteresting for VR users that are just waiting for the next hardware generation. The hardware will not change.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

macOS Monterey (also known as macOS 12) is now rolling out to everyone with a compatible Mac. If you have an early 2016 or newer MacBook, early 2015 or newer MacBook Air, early 2015 or newer MacBook Pro, late 2014 or newer Mac Mini , late 2015 or newer iMac, the late 2017 iMac Pro, or late 2013 or newer Mac Pro, you… Read more.

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MARCH 13, 2023

The report maintains Apple CEO Tim Cook is the principal force pushing the device’s launch forward this year, which has apparently been a source of tension since as far back as early 2016.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

First released for Samsung Gear in 2016, Bait! ’s first major content update in six years, introducing a new hangout spot for up to 12 players called Casters Cove. , a free-to-play fishing game from Resolution Games, receives multiplayer support today on Meta Quest 2. later arrived on the original Oculus Quest as a launch title.

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APRIL 28, 2024

This talk at Laval Virtual was on Apr 13, 2023, which was a month after my Featured Session at SXSW on March 12, 2023 about The Ultimate Potential of VR: Promises & Perils. That talk explored both the exalted potentials of XR as well as the more troublesome perils, and this talk was focusing on just the perils.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

For Fun Labs , the developers behind Eleven: Table Tennis VR (2016), are hosting a free weekend for Rift players this week on Oculus Home. The tennis table simulator will be free from February 8th at 10:00 AM PT ( local time ) until February 12th at 12:00 AM PT ( local time ).

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Arizona Sunshine (2016). Thumper (2016). Job Simulator (2016). SUPERHOT VR (2016). Episode 1: Call of the Starseed (2016). Water Bears VR (2016). Here’s a few standouts among the heaps of discounted titles: Bundles: VR Essentials Bundle – $112.56 (44% discount). Budget Cuts (2018). Sairento VR (2018).

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MARCH 23, 2021

That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” It’s not the revolutionary platform shift touted circa-2016. including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. it began to retract.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Squanch Games (formerly Squanchtendo) revealed at last night’s Game Awards that they’ll be bringing an expanded version of their free VR title Accounting (2016) to PSVR on December 19th. image courtesy Crows Crows Crows.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

The HADO eSports tournament first launched in 2016 exclusively in Japanese theme parks and malls, but has since managed to expand into countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. 2017 saw its second official international tournament as 12 teams from three different countries gathered together to duke it out.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Among 12 categories, the company had added two new ‘Best Experience’ categories for AR and VR to the Google Play Awards 2017. Ever since the reveal of Google Daydream at last year’s I/O event, and the launch of the first Daydream phone and headset late last year , Google has been making a big push for VR on Android.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Since 2016, in a move that can only be described as past meeting present, Sony has been channeling the spirit of late 1990’s, early 2000’s gaming with the release of two different Playstation VR ‘demo discs.’ Image Credit: Sony Playstation.

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JULY 20, 2018

EVE: Valkyrie – Warzone (2016) – $30 $12 (60%). Windlands (2016) – $20 $9.67 (-52%). Arizona Sunshine (2016) – $40 $32 (-20%). Your wallet may have just recovered, but some deep discounts are now available on Green Man Gaming , an authorized reseller of Steam codes. 40 and Under.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Resident Evil 7 ‘s surprise demo was one of the highlights of E3 2016, as was the news it could be played in VR. Recommendation: This is a must for Star Wars fans, and Battlefront can be found cheap enough these days that it might justify the price alone. Hands-on thoughts here. Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour Demo, from Capcom.

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MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. Bytedance is a credible competitor for Meta… not in the next 2-3 months, but in 12-24, for sure.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The long time operations head at the Google-owned VR development studio is taking over for Devin Reimer, who says he’s leaving “t o focus on new opportunities outside the company ” after 12 years with the studio. We plan on leveraging it for all future titles.”

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MARCH 11, 2017

The game originally released on Steam in August 2016, receiving initial VR support for the Rift in October. The original VR support for Oculus Rift began as a stretch goal during the game’s 2013 Kickstarter campaign , and arrived in October 2016, a couple of months after the standard game launched on Steam.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Kevin Lee (@infinite_lee) October 12, 2016. Pierre-Loup Griffais (@Plagman2) October 12, 2016. So many Linux nerds are happy right now #SteamDevDays pic.twitter.com/UlV4ZVXVzz. Busy day tomorrow! SteamDevDays #Vulkan pic.twitter.com/PzNI7GzNfL. Currently the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift only work on Windows machines.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Project Santa Cruz, Oculus’ in-development standalone VR headset first teased back at Oculus Connect 2016, doesn’t even really have a proper name yet, but at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) the company will be dedicating an hour-long talk to the fundamentals of developing for the new platform.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Phaser Lock Interactive , the studio behind VR titles Final Approach (2016) and Twisted Arrow (2017), are bringing their WWII-themed real-time strategy game Final Assault to Early Access next week. At launch of Early Access, the game will include both cross-platform PvP and PvE, and will see a total of 12 maps unlocking along the way.

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MARCH 26, 2017

GameStop’s stock is down around 31% in the past 12 months. As reported by USA Today , GameStop saw hardware sales drop 29% as compared to 2016. Software sales didn’t fare much better with a 20% decline.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

This announcement follows back-t0-back “Best Director” wins for Iñárritu ( Birdman in 2015 and The Revenant in 2016), though obviously this is his first for work in VR. This is the first time a VR experience has actually landed a statuette, following a near-miss for Google Spotlight’s Pearl last year.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

— Cymatic Bruce (@CymaticBruce) October 12, 2016. — Shawn Whiting (@shawncwhiting) October 12, 2016. Latest steamvr prototype stays in hand, allowing the virtual dropping of objects. Exciting innovation! pic.twitter.com/DcLkVeav8a. Could it mean another room-scale headset is around the corner?

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JULY 12, 2016

See Also: Hands-on – Oculus Touch 2016 Prototype Brings Refinements to an Already Elegant Design. — Brendan Iribe (@brendaniribe) July 12, 2016. .” — Brendan Iribe (@brendaniribe) July 12, 2016. — Brendan Iribe (@brendaniribe) July 12, 2016. IbD1oPQaH2. IbD1oPQaH2.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

Just as the clock was nearing 12:00 am, the music stopped at Deadmau5’s New Year’s concert and VRChat avatars of Rick and Morty appeared on the giant screens flanking either side of the EDM artists giant cube-shaped stage. Earlier this year the company also raised a $4 million Series A investment led by HTC.

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JUNE 27, 2018

Google’s Tilt Brush (2016) has shaped up to be a fully-featured VR creation tool since the app’s initial launch in April 2016 on HTC Vive, adding things like support for Oculus Rift, integration with Google’s other 3D VR creation tool Blocks (2017) , and the ability to export creations to Sktechfab.

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