Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2017

Skyworld , a turn-based strategy game from Arizona Sunshine (2016) developers Vertigo Games, was initially introduced to the world as a demo during HTC Vive’s first public showing back in GDC 2015.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In an era where Sony appears to have a significant lead in console sales already, and with PSVR sharpening the system’s competitive edge, pressure is mounting for Microsoft to figure out its Xbox VR strategy. Moving the Needle. Photo by Road to VR. million units. A False Start for VR on Xbox One X. Photo by Road to VR.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Key to HTC and Valve’s strategy was handing out Pre kits for free: I still remember the cheers when Valve told everyone at the Vision Summit a few months later that they would be getting a free Vive, and I still see people using the Pre today. The HTC Vive has had a solid 2016. Asia, Alliances, and Accelerators.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Xbox’s lack of VR strategy has been a long ongoing story , reaching back to when the company first announced at E3 2016 that its Xbox One X console would “lead the industry into a future in which true 4K gaming and high-fidelity VR are the standard, not an exception.”

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MAY 24, 2023

An investor relations presentation delivered by Sony Interactive Entertainment chief Jim Ryan includes some new information detailing PSVR 2 units sales relative to the original PSVR launched in October 2016.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Oculus Touch officially releases to the world this December 6th, 2016, and will bring with it up to 50 titles from day one with support for the controllers on Oculus Home. Tagged with: cosmic trip , funktronic labs , oculus touch , rts , strategy. Typically, RTS games occur from a top-down perspective, such as in AirMech Command.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Press release: Greenlight Insights’ Virtual Reality Strategy Conference 2016 to Address Growth and Monetization Challenges VRS 2016 takes place Nov. 1-2, in San Francisco, and will feature new research findings from Greenlight’s fall 2016...

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

.” In addition to running three of its own first-party studios, over the years nDreams has published a number of third-party VR titles, including Little Cities (2022) from Purple Yonder, as well as the Brighton-based Near Light’s VR titles Shooty Fruity (2018) and Perfect (2016).

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AR Insider

MARCH 30, 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. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s Android OS years ago.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Only Aiming to Meet PSVR (2016) Unit Sales? At the time of PSVR’s launch in October 2016, over 70 million PS4s were in the wild, making for a pretty large potential install base. million units between April 2023 and March 2024.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 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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JUNE 1, 2018

E McNeill, an indie developer behind strategy games Darknet (2015), Tactera (2016) , and Skylight (2017), announced his real-time strategy game Astraeus , an Oculus Go launch title, is coming to HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PC on June 7th.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Onward (2016). “The acquisition is in line with Thunderful’s strategy to expand its Games segment by adding attractive platform partnerships and publishing deals. Esper 2 (2015) – Oculus Studios. A Night Sky (2017) – Oculus Studios. Augmented Empire (2017) – Oculus Studios. They Suspect Nothing (2018) – Oculus Studios.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016, Scape Technolognies is building a computer vision-based positioning system called Vision Engine that it says “can be used to precisely determine the location of any camera device, with more accuracy than GPS, and are automatically updated to reflect changes in the environment.”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Blasters of the Universe: VR Bullet Hell – A chaotic multiplayer co-op “bullet hell” in which teams of four must work together to survive the original 2016 VR Bullet Hell experience. Blasters of the Universe: Infinity Forever – A brand-spanking-new narrative adventure featuring free-roam locomotion and team activities.

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VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2021

In a paper titled ‘mLearning in the organizational innovation process’ written by Dr. Micah Shippee and published by Syracuse University in 2016, Dr. Shippee outlines his FUSION model. During an interview with VRScout, Dr. Shippee said, “The Fusion Model articulates a strategy for organizational adoption of innovative solutions.

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TechCrunch VR

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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MARCH 27, 2024

From Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivering a Rift in Alaska in 2016 to his unceremonious dismissal a year later, Oculus inside Facebook faced a series of leadership changes ( Hugo Barra ), strategy shifts ( Facebook accounts required ), and accelerated hiring sprees. A lot has happened in the decade to get us here.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

When you pair this resolution with an 210 degree, ultra-wide field of view and other contemporary features you get what might be the best VR experience out of 2016 device range. There are six locations planned for 2016, and an astounding number in 2017 and 2018. The resolution of 5120×1440 pixels amounts to 3.69

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AR Insider

APRIL 20, 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. Facebook’s VR strategy is best embodied in its latest hardware: Oculus Quest 2.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Learn from each combat and use strategy to locate hidden weapons in the arenas, but be quick, because the monsters that live in the astral dimension will do everything they can to thwart you with their cunning.and climbing to the top of the leaderboard won't be easy. “For

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 24, 2019

After passing through the boom and bust cycle of 2016 and 2017, the last two years were more about measured optimism in the face of industry shakeout and retraction. AR Wins With ‘Training Wheels’ The spatial computing industry is learning that its circa-2016 ambitions aren’t translating to mainstream adoption.

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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.

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AR Insider

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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Back in 2016 the company sought to block the Revive service for SteamVR which allowed non-Meta headsets like Vive to play exclusive Rift content from the official store. Meta has historically seen significant pushback whenever it’s attempted to entirely close down its headsets from third-party software.

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ARPost

JULY 27, 2020

His first article on the topic of AR in marketing, published in 2016, won the Business Horizons’ Best Article of the Year award. Goodman students will be among the first to have a solid foundation on how to use AR in marketing strategy.”. He is a member of Adweek’s Academic Council and a teacher of AR marketing since 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

AI and VR development firm AiSolve has acquired Clay Park VR , an LA-based strategy and advisory consultancy headed by Oculus-alum Shauna Heller. Heller founded Clay Park VR in 2016 to offer strategic advising for clients entering and navigating the VR sector.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 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. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s Android OS years ago.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Last week the studio announced that Space Junkies was coming to 100+ VR arcades later this month , which may serve as a potent marketing strategy, appealing to would-be VR eSports players looking for the next Echo Combat (2018). Cross-platform multiplayer hasn’t been confirmed at least for PSVR and the PCVR versions.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 5, 2018

In 2016, straight out of high school, Jak Wilmot started one of Atlanta’s first VR animation studios – Disrupt. In 2016, straight out of high school, Jak Wilmot started Disrupt, one of Atlanta's first VR animation studios Click To Tweet. Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief.

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MAY 27, 2019

The original PSVR headset launched in late 2016, a whole three years after the launch of PS4 (but ahead of the launch of PS4 Pro). SEE ALSO Pressure Mounts for Xbox's Missing VR Strategy as PSVR Revenue Nears $2 Billion. In some ways, it’s good to have a little breathing space between those things,” he said, CNET reported.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Demeo is widely considered one of the best tabletop strategy games currently available on VR headsets, and today Resolution Games gave us more details regarding the long-awaited PvP version, along with never-before-seen gameplay footage. ” More details about Rack Club will be unveiled in 2023. Demeo Battles (COMING 2023).

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a follow-up tweet, Kipman says he hopes HoloLens 3 will be as “mind blowing” of an upgrade as the 2019-era HoloLens 2 was over the 2016 version, both of which were class-leading standalone AR headsets. . — Alex Kipman (@akipman) February 3, 2022.

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APRIL 12, 2018

350: Josh Carpenter at GDC 2016. 362: Brandon Jones at GDC 2016. 456: Clay Bavor at Daydream Launch 2016. 465: Tony Parisi at Oculus Connect 2016. 471: Diego Marcos & Chris Van Wiemeersch after W3C WebVR 2016. 628: Tony Parisi at the Virtual Reality Strategy Conference 2017. . Support Voices of VR.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Facebook’s VR strategy is best embodied in its latest hardware: Oculus Quest 2. Its long-term VR strategy lets it sacrifice near-term margins to build a network effect and win early market share. Regardless of the reason, Oculus gained demand insights, which now inform Quest 2’s supply-chain strategy. million (see chart above).

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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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ARVR

APRIL 15, 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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