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AUGUST 1, 2016

Worldwide shipments of VR hardware is set to skyrocket in 2016, with some estimates pointing at volumes of 9.6 billion in 2016, according to IDC. Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google. The post The Crazy VR World of China Joy 2016 appeared first on VRScout.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Samsung confirms 5+ million Gear VR headsets are now in use worldwide, announced at their CES 2017 keynote. In his opening speech at CES 2017 this week, Samsung Electronics America president Tim Baxter announced that the company now has “more than 5 million” Gear VR virtual reality headsets in use.

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MAY 16, 2016

Samsung has sold over 300,000 Gear VR headsets in Europe this year. Continuing on the record pre-order sales in Europe for the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, Samsung has announced an exclusive Gear VR content package for new Galaxy S7 customers. Both numbers are milestones for Samsung, Oculus and mobile VR in general.

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MAY 8, 2017

The manufacturers have released only limited data points — with Samsung coming out with the largest number to date revealing the technology giant sold 5 million Gear VRs through the beginning of the year. The firm projects the overall mobile VR king this year will be Samsung approaching 10 million units total. percent from 4.56

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A new report from Super Data offers new estimates for the market size of virtual reality in 2016, suggesting 6.3 million VR headsets were shipped in the whole of 2016. Clocking in at number two on the list is the PlayStation VR with sales “approaching a million” by the end of 2016. The report estimates 4.5

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

2016 has been a big year for Samsung VR. Just last month, Samsung VR implemented a “reactions” feature to let us share our opinions with emoticons. Samsung VR also found its way to the web , which allows for intuitive browsing to find the latest and greatest content available. Advance Downloading.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

If you’ve got a compatible Samsung phone, here’s a deal worth considering: the 2015 Gear VR headset can be bought brand new for $60. See Also: New and Improved 2016 Samsung Gear VR vs. 2015 Model. The post Samsung Gear VR 2015 Model Now $60 appeared first on Road to VR.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Since the launch of the original Oculus Quest back in 2019, players have been begging for an official VR port, not including 2016’s Minecraft: Gear VR Edition for the now-discontinued Samsung Gear VR headset. QuestCraft is available now on the Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2.

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MAY 18, 2016

Google’s VR chief Clay Bavor said on stage at Google I/O 2016 today that major phone manufacturers are creating Daydream Ready Android phones to power the company’s high quality mobile VR experiences. It’s particularly interesting to see Samsung at the front of Google’s list of Daydream Ready phone manufacturers.

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JUNE 12, 2016

Being one of our favorite 360-degree consumer cameras on the market, you can now purchase the camera online in Samsung’s UK store for a price of £349.00, or roughly $496 USD. Samsung is also throwing in a complimentary leather-like luxury case with the first 350 orders placed online. They will even include free express delivery.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

It’s no secret that the latter half of 2016 didn’t go quite the way Samsung was hoping it would, but the company is looking to hit back later this month. Traditionally MWC is where we’d see the next iteration Samsung’s flagship line of smartphones. As always, the conference will be streamed live.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Samsung is searching for the next killer GearVR app and is incentivizing devs with an app challange. If your app has not been published for Samsung Gear VR yet, send them yourdemo/app experience created in the Oculus SDK with Unity or Web VR. Don't waste anytime cause the deadline is November 23 2016 and the prizes are pretty good.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Here’s a quick timeline of Oculus headsets: Rift – March 2016. We’re guessing that Facebook is not including in the calculation Samsung Gear VR—which was an early smartphone-based Samsung VR headset made in collaboration with Oculus—though we’ve reached out to the company for comment. Go – May 2018.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The Game Awards 2016 officially revealed its list of nominees today, including a brand new “Best VR Game” category. Here is the list of games nominated for “Best VR Game” at The Game Awards 2016: Batman: Arkham VR (Rocksteady Studios/WBIE) [ Review: 5/10 ]. EVE: Valkyrie (CCP Games) [ Review: 9/10 ].

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JUNE 11, 2020

Thankfully for its developers, Minecraft has been adapted to several VR platforms by now, with Samsung Gear VR getting the first official implementation back in 2016; a full-fledged version of the game arrived on PC VR platforms a few months later. A separate update tracker shows that the 2.03

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This comes alongside an alleged partnership with Samsung that would see the development of a wholly new consumer AR device that is rumored to tether to a Samsung smartphone. In any case, Samsung’s reported partnership with Microsoft sounds like very familiar territory for the South Korean tech powerhouse.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

million, with its most recent Series C bringing in the lion’s share of $50 million back in late 2016. ” Gerson sighed on to Survios as Chief Business Officer in 2016. Survios’ latest round brings the company’s overall funding to $70.9

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JUNE 30, 2016

If there were still any doubt that virtual reality is the next big thing in computing and entertainment, this should probably banish those. For the first time ever, Olympics, which will be held this year in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, will be available via VR, though not in live coverage.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500,000 in 2016, PS VR to Top 2 Million SuperData Research is a New York based research firm that has been creating detailed reports on the immersive industry for months. Its most recent study centers around likely sales figures for the major VR headsets.

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JULY 1, 2016

August 5, 2016 is the opening date for the 31st Summer Olympic Games. Our first test in Lillehammer, together with Samsung, for the Winter Youth Olympic Games was highly successful and we look forward to further exploring this exciting technology with NBC in Rio,” said Yiannis Exarchos, CEO, OBS. 360 degree stereoscopic video).

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AUGUST 11, 2017

One of the highest grossing tours of all time will be live via the Samsung Gear VR on August 17th. On August 17th Samsung and Live Nation will be broadcasting Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams Tour live from Soldier Field in virtual reality via the Samsung Gear VR platform.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Beyond Frames Entertainment and developer Cortopia announced a new spellcasting VR battle arena called Wands Alliances, touted as the spiritual successor to 1v1 magic dueler Wands (2016). This could point to a similar rollout in the future, although we’ll just have to wait and see.

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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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APRIL 1, 2017

With the Galaxy S8 and S8+ coming later this month , Samsung is hoping to sweeten the deal with a free Gear VR headset and Controller for US and Canadian pre-orders before April 20th. And while there are plenty of free games on the Oculus app store, Samsung is also giving away a free Oculus content pack to get you started (US purchases only).

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Released back in March of 2016, Virtual Desktop is a handy utility application that allows users the ability to view and access their desktop computer from the comfort of their Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or WMR headset. Virtual Desktop launches on Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR November 29th for $9.99.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

CCP Games (developer of EVE: Valkyrie, EVE: Online , and others) has launched Gunjack 2: End of Shift (2016) , for the Samsung Gear VR on the Oculus Store. Initially Gunjack 2 , launched in 2016, was exclusively available on Google Daydream. The title is the sequel to 2015’s Gunjack which had debuted on Gear VR.

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APRIL 6, 2020

The company has come a long ways since it initially launched the platform on Samsung Gear VR in 2015, amassing over 40 patents and strategic broadcasting partnerships with the likes of the NBA, NHL, WWE, FOX Sports, Live Nation, and the International Champions Cup, and significantly upping its video quality in the process.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

We saw the release of the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, the PlayStation VR, Google’s Daydream platform, the Oculus Touch controllers, and the continued growth of both the OSVR and Samsung Gear VR platforms.

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JUNE 30, 2016

NBC Olympics announced today that they will provide Virtual Reality (VR) coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games exclusively to authenticated users of compatible Samsung Galaxy smartphones (Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 edge, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note5) together with Samsung Gear VR via the NBC Sports app.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Samsung 837 NYC (@837NYC) October 11, 2016. This experience was had a few weeks ago at Samsung 837 , the company’s night club/ demo space in New York City. This creation from Samsung and Punchdrunk has gone largely under the radar, except for some social media by Punchdrunk themselves. @PunchdrunkInt at #837NYC.

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MAY 18, 2016

Samsung, HTC, LG, and More Bringing ‘Daydream Ready’ VR Phones to Android Today Google announced the next major step in bringing virtual reality to Android. They’re calling it ‘Daydream’ and it’s the company’s label for high performance virtual reality.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Samsung might already gearing up for its next iteration of Gear 360, the company’s 360 camera introduced back in 2016 and then refreshed in 2017 with a new hand-held design. Is Samsung targeting ‘less serious’ consumers as a result? image courtesy KIPRIS. image courtesy KIPRIS. image courtesy KIPRIS.

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MAY 24, 2016

Samsung begins selling the Gear 360 in New Zealand – who’s going to be next? When Samsung first unveiled their Gear 360 camera back in February, I was eager to learn more and compare the camera to other competing consumer 360° models. Back in February, Samsung announced that the Gear 360 would be shipping sometime in Q2 2016.

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JUNE 26, 2020

John Carmack showing off Minecraft on stage at E3 2016, Image courtesy Xbox. It’s a pity, considering even the now largely obsolete Samsung Gear VR has its own bespoke version of the game , which was released in the 2016 heyday of the 3DOF mobile VR headset.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Samsung actually partnered with Oculus, the creators of the Oculus Rift, to create the software which runs the Samsung Gear VR headset. First and foremost, the Gear VR only works with a very limited number of smartphones, all of which are created by Samsung. That will help explain a lot of the branding. Read more here.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Olympics in VR: NBC to Present 85 Hours of VR Content on Samsung Devices NBC is leaning into virtual reality — the hot tech flavor of the moment — with plans to pump out some 85 hours of VR programming for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

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