Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Originally revealed at CES 2019 in January, at present, no one outside of HTC has seen or tried the device when it comes to media coverage, a stark contrast to Oculus’ approach with headsets like Quest which saw massive build-up and press interaction before launch.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. It’s been viewed 15 million times so far, since it was posted in December 2016. Zuck is doing the same thing with Augmented Reality.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

billion in 2016 alone. It’s a belief that started at least as far back as when he advised and invested in Oculus prior to the company’s 2014 acquisition by Facebook. It’s not where the VR industry is today that brings Riccitello to VRLA, it’s where he believes it will ultimately go.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

We all want to live our Jedi dreams, but the Oculus Touch controllers are not quite “the Force.” Form factor will become increasingly miniature, progressing from the current generation of cumbersome head-mounted displays to light-weight glasses, and perhaps eventually to contact lenses that simply project light directly onto your retina.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. This technology could be in the form of a head mounted display, motion tracking, haptic systems in gloves or suits, locomotion, consoles or image capture. TRON (1982).

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Currently, the champion of minimum specifications is Oculus with its Rift, with some pre-build computers going as low as $500. Naturally, public announcement is one thing, availability is another – still to this date, neither Oculus, AMD nor CyberPowerPC came good on their word and shipped such as system. In meantime.

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MARCH 19, 2017

The last few years, VR has been about putting on a head-mounted display and looking around,” Edwards said. “It It reminded me of a speech by Mike Abrash , chief scientist at Oculus, speaking last fall. David Edwards, cofounder of Onotes , is making digital scent technology that is like a speaker for your sense of smell.

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JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. TwinCam is an omni-directional stereoscopic live-viewing camera that reduces motion blur and latency during head rotation in a head-mounted display.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

The developers behind Modbox (2016) , the VR physics sandbox for SteamVR-compatible headsets, have been experimenting with augmented reality recently, something they say is a perfect fit for the Modbox software.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As a side note, I’m so glad we collectively stuck with calling it head-mounted displays, and not something like “VR Helmet”, “VR Glasses”, or any of the other many attempts to call it something else. They even became “Christmas present of the year” here in Sweden in 2016! And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

One day, we will all regularly consume media through head mounted displays, just as we all watch television today. By 2016, a total of 6.5 HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS: These sales are intriguing because virtual reality never saw the concerted, unified effort that the DVD player saw.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

During the beautifully choreographed introduction to Marvel’s Deadpool (2016) , every object in the scene is rendered by a computer instead of filmed. 450 Mpix/second on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive today is almost a seven times increase in the number of pixels per second compared to 1080p gaming at 30 FPS.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, the man behind the Rift concept and its first prototypes, is leaving the company three years after selling to Facebook. According to Oculus, this will be Palmer’s last week with Friday marking his official last day as an employee of Facebook. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus.

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