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JANUARY 16, 2017

” 2016 was considered to be the year that VR finally made the transition from science fiction fantasy to a real consumer product available at your local Best Buy. With a plug-and-play install base of around 50 million PS4s, and the monolithic might of Sony behind it, it was the best bet the VR industry had. Cambridge Closing .

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Since then the HTC Vive , PlayStation VR and Google Daydream View have all entered the arena. SuperData Research is a New York based research firm that has been creating detailed reports on the immersive industry for months. The PlayStation VR was predicted to emerge as 2016’s overall sales victor before it even launched.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Apple’s WWDC 2017 keynote made that abundantly clear with their announcement of support for external Metal graphics, HTC Vive, SteamVR and Metal VR. IDC started to collect market share data for VR and AR shipments since Q1 2016 and just reported their Q1 numbers for 2017. In 3rd place after Samsung and Sony was HTC with the HTC Vive.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A beautiful experience created by the New York Times for their celebration of The year’s best actors in 2016. HTC Vive CEO, Cher Wang, earned this award for her team’s exceptional forward progress at the intersection of art and science in VR. HTC Vive CEO, Cher Wang, on a red carpet full of 360 cameras.

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AUGUST 20, 2016

Following the unfortunate closure of developer Evolution Studios earlier this year, the fate of the VR version of their 2014 PS4 exclusive Driveclub was unclear, but thankfully work has continued by an internal Sony team, and the game is expected to arrive by the end of the year.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Vive (HTC). What We Know: Today at 1pm HTC will be hosting a press conference to discuss its HTC Vive virtual reality headset. The Vive released earlier this year and HTC has been fiercely committed to the product’s success ever since. What To Expect : HTC has made its tracking system open-sourced for public use.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Before the calendar ever turned over from 2015 to 2016 people were already dubbing this as the “year of virtual reality.” It may seem hard to believe now, but just a few months ago the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR HMDs were available active developers only. ” This monicker was given for good reason.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Firewall Zero Hour (2018) , the tactical team shooter from ROM: Extraction (2016) developers First Contact Entertainment , has apparently celebrated some serious notoriety since it launched late last month on PlayStation VR; Sony has ranked it the top most downloaded PSVR game of August. Oh, and it’s a pretty great game too.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016 it released a compact smartphone-tethered headset for viewing 360° videos, to terrible reviews, and in 2017 it showed off a PC-tethered SteamVR headset prototype that it never shipped. Cho told The Guru that LG Electronics has moved XR device development into the division of the company that makes its TVs to "speed up development".

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Sony Pictures Entertainment experiences are coming to a headset or location near you. Characteristic of Sony Pictures to release a VR adaptation for feature film releases that make sense in VR, teleporting yourself into the world of Jumanji thanks to VR is a dream come true for so many.

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MARCH 19, 2017

.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. ” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2017

As wonderful a headset as PSVR is, Sony’s approach to VR is probably the most incidental, not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. The company believes that the Holographic operating system it’s developing, seemingly part of Windows 10 itself, could be the main OS for immersive headsets; not just VR but HoloLens too.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The following year at CES 2014, Oculus had to share the immersive technology limelight with a slew of new startups who had appeared in the wake of Oculus’ success. Both advancements provided a vast improvement in user experience, and provided the baseline technical platform for the consumer Rift when it appeared in 2016.

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JULY 10, 2020

Yesterday, Superhot Team announced a direct sequel to its time-bending 2016 hit which is scheduled to arrive later this month on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. On the bright side, those who own a copy of the 2016 original will receive a copy of Mind Control Delete 100% free-of-charge. No plans for VR at this time.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doom VFR, Id Software’s made-for-VR Doom franchise game, is launching soon on all major VR platforms, including PSVR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. Holding a weapon like the Plasma Rifle in a single hand hand (with Move controllers) just feels wrong from an immersion standpoint since (in VR) it lacks the mass implied by its form.

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APRIL 19, 2022

He left in 2016 and founded his startup. The rest is our long story… Well, I have time for a long story… Our story began in 2016 when Tao Hu, our founder, and CEO, left Oculus and started the company with VC seed funding and a group of like-minded geeks. This includes but is not limited to HTC, Oppo, Xiaomi, and Huawei.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

And while those other less immersive accessories today cost over $500, most of the time requiring a new, expensive device, we’re announcing today that these Creators Update accessories will start at just $299.” Back at Gamescom 2016 Oculus VP of Product Nate Mitchell dodged our questions as to if Rift could work with the console.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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JUNE 11, 2017

We know that Samsung has confirmed more than 5 million Gear VR units are now in the wild for example, and of course the headlines of Sony surprising themselves with PlayStation VR’s early sales figures – approaching 1 Million going in to 2017. Again, somewhat surprisingly, the HTC Vive trails at 10% recognition among those polled.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jacob Mullins is a managing director at Shasta Ventures, where he has invested in VR/AR since 2016. The top 10 best of VR in 2016. As an investor in VR and AR since 2016, I find it cautiously encouraging to hear all the talk of “metaverse” on trending business channels today. Jacob Mullins. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Luckily, Sony included a demo disc with PSVR that includes over two dozen demos, a huge variety to give you an idea of what is possible. If you look at other launch games or 2016 games not on the demo disc, there is just as much for a serious gamer to be excited about. Oculus Rift costs $599 and the HTC Vive costs $799.

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JULY 20, 2016

In just a few weeks, the world of Virtual Reality Experiences (VRX) is going to get super immersive add-on. to 2 hour experience is coming to HTC Vive through Steam, Valve’s online store and undoubtedly world’s #1 e-tailer for games. The post Is Everest VR the Most Immersive VR Experience? Khumball Icefall.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Officially formed February 11th, 2016, The Rogue Intiative is a brand-new AAA production company specializing in VR storytelling. According to a press release, the company is heavily invested in pairing Hollywood talent with AAA developers in an attempt to bring new levels of immersiveness to VR entertainment.

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JULY 5, 2017

” According to a hands-on by Tech Crunch , the headset packs a pair of high-resolution Sony MicroOLED displays measuring 0.7 inches diagonally that boast 3,000 pixels per inch (PPI)—a significant jump from Oculus Rift of HTC Vive’s 447-461 PPI. Prediction 2016 by Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash at Oculus Connect 3.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

While the company had originally collaborated with HTC to create the Vive, this time around Valve opted to handle everything on their own. But it’s also made for an awkward relationship between Valve and HTC who are now positioned more as competitors than partners. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy Valve. Vive Cosmos.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Naturally then, Sony took the opportunity to bring out their big guns to show off just what their console VR platform could do. See Also: ‘Driveclub VR’ Confirmed Exclusively for PlayStation VR in 2016. So, what does it look like in motion?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. January 2016. February 2016.

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MAY 28, 2017

Billion Dollars (2016) to over 20 Billion Dollars! We don’t think so and believe that in the next couple of years major organizations such as Sony and HTC will start producing advertisements to be shown in virtual reality. The value of the industry is set to rise from 1.9 IKEA pancake flipping in-store experience.

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April 2016. March 2016. October 2016. November 2016. April 2016. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

We have also to consider that in 2019, most of VR companies (Valve, Oculus, HTC, etc…) have already launched their devices, and given that VR headsets have usually a lifecycle of 2-3 years, I’m not expecting them to announce something new next year. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market. Standardization.

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JULY 6, 2020

Since around 2010 modern day VR has come out through the companies of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Sony Playstation VR. The ability to create 360 video has been around since around 2016 when users could attach a few GoPro’s together in a rig to capture pictures and video. As just one can create many different types of photos.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The five most popular headsets on Steam are: Rift S, HTC Vive, Oculus Quest, Valve Index, and Rift. Sony is believed to be the long-running leader in VR headset sales, but the company has not committed to building a next-gen headset, even four years after the release of PSVR. Immerse – $1.5 Key Data Points. Key Data Points.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) recently confirmed 5 million PlayStation VR’s have been sold since 2016 and the current model will support the upcoming PlayStation 5 console. However, working closely with headset makers including Pico, Facebook and HTC with company doesn’t expect the same issue in 2020.

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OCTOBER 13, 2019

HTC is working to solve the issues of the Vive Cosmos. This week HTC has started addressing all the issues that have been criticized by the community. Since many games are not Cosmos-compatible yet, HTC is working with developers to make sure that the most popular games will be playable by all Cosmos purchasers.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Population: One is an upcoming battle royale shooter from the studio behind VR indie hit Smashbox Arena (2016). Platform : Rift, Vive, Windows VR. Developer : BigBox VR. Star Child.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Sony has been awfully busy so far in 2016. I played Shadows of Mordor and The Last of Us Remastered a bit on the new PS4 Pro that Sony sent me for review because I’m as excited about 4K gaming as the next guy, but that’s not what the bulk of my assessment was focused on. Console Setup.

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