Oculus

APRIL 23, 2021

We first launched Oculus Avatars back in 2016 to bring you into the virtual world. Today we’re expanding what “You” means, with an overhauled version.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

LinkBuds will immerse you in an incredible audio experience while keeping you connected to the real world. Niantic flipped the mobile gaming world upside down back in 2016 when they launched their AR mobile app Pokémon GO and started a global craze that still maintains a loyal player base to this very day.

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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2019

Tyler Hurd, the creator behind patently ridiculous VR experiences Butts (2016) and Old Friend (2017), has just joined the Oculus Medium team. There is also an intense amount of camaraderie and encouragement which is great for the user to feel like they’re engaging with the virtual world and the characters in it.”

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

First debuted back in 2016, publisher Wevr will be showing off a beefy 20-minute demo later today as part of the Venice International Film Festival.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

At I/O 2016, the company showed the first glimpse of Daydream in action. We also see Google’s new VR controller reference design in action, which allows gesture-based interactions within the virtual world. More on Daydream / Android VR: Google Announce ‘Daydream’ a VR Platform for Android N.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2019

There is also an intense amount of camaraderie and encouragement which is great for the user to feel like they’re engaging with the virtual world and the characters in it.”. Hurd, previously a developer at Double Fine Productions, is known for his award-winning VR experiences BUTTS (2015) , Old Friend (2016) , and Chorus (2018).

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2019

It’s also a huge improvement over some truly bad VR ad spots like this 2016 ad for Gear VR which had a bumbling protagonist and suggested you’d look like a goof using VR in public. SEE ALSO Smart Solution Makes Handheld VR Cinematography Easy with a Real Virtual Camera.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

With a March 2018 release date, Ready Player One will star Simon Pegg, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, and Tye Sheridan who’ll be playing the lead character Wade Watts, an American high school student who lives most of his life inside the virtual reality simulation called the OASIS. — bobby lee darby (@bobbyleedarby1) September 5, 2016.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2016

Philip Rosedale has been working with virtual worlds for a long time, having founded Second Life back nearly 13 years ago in 2003. One big limitation was having all of the virtual worlds hosted by Linden Lab’s servers, and so Philip wanted to flip that model on it’s head by going with an open source model.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

To further round out the department’s facilities, the university announced it’s partnering with Immersive VR Education, the company behind VR experiences such as Apollo 11 VR (2016) and the VR learning platform Engage.

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ARVR

JULY 4, 2020

Augmented Reality: Augmented Reality is engaging physical objects into the artificial world. It makes users aware and helps them interact with the real-world and virtual world in real-time. Mixed Reality: When the Physical and Digital world blends, there comes Mixed Reality. Source: IDC].

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Road to VR

JANUARY 15, 2021

Wave says the move will allow it to focus on bringing “more fans [to] experience our virtual events on popular streaming platforms.” ” Founded in 2016, Wave has raised some $40 million in venture capital, according to Crunchbase , to chase its vision of virtual concerts as the future of music performances.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2023

In fact, right from the start, we were asked to push a lever that existed in both the virtual world (as an interactive element) and in the real world (as a feedback prop). Divr Labs Divr Labs was founded in 2016 and its arenas are currently available in three locations: Prague, London, and Stockholm.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

While CCP Games was a pioneer in the VR space, having leapt into the medium with Gunjack (2015) , Gunjack 2 (2016) , EVE: Valkyrie (2016) , and Sparc (2017) , the storied studio is best known for EVE: Online , a non-VR sci-fi MMO that the company has been operating for more than 15 years.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016. But by exploring the grey areas between real-world and digital physics, we can build a more human experience. As we look to CES and beyond, it’s also a good time to look back.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

At the time the studio expected to launch the game in 2016. In 2016, Kite & Lightning announced that it had raised $2.5 who love trolling each other.”. The game’s new website glosses right over that part, and instead speaks to combat, arenas, items, vehicles, and characters. Image courtesy Kite & Lightning.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

We all dream of the Metaverse , a fantastic online virtual world where we can all hang out with other people and do whatever we want. And even worse, these virtual worlds are like silos: they don’t talk to each other, they are separate the one from the others, they are not connected in any way. What is your job?

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

Since announcing the ‘Knuckles’ controller prototype all the way back in 2016, Valve has been relatively quiet about its progress outside of a select group of developers who have been experimenting with early development kits. If you haven’t been following closely, let’s recap up to this point.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

Among them is the stylized and the ever so cool Superhot VR (2016) finally coming to PSVR. My body is anchored inside the virtual world because I have to dodge punches, knives, and bullets—it’s interacting with me in a significant way. Every pull of the trigger counts.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 16, 2023

And it’s not like there is any shortage of news in virtual worlds, social VR, and the metaverse to report on or editorialize over, either. Even though I have been working with virtual reality since December 2016/January 2017, I am struggling with a massive case of imposter syndrome.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2019

Stress Level Zero is a veteran VR developer, having released Hover Junkers as a Vive launch title back in 2016, and following up with Duck Season in 2017. Building out the game world in this way means that the virtual world and the objects in it behave consistently.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2018

The Void created Ghostbusters: Dimensions in 2016, and then followed that up with Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire in 2017 – both experience are still available for fans, with locations in NYC, Orlando, Las Vegas and London. Alien: Descent isn’t the first movie franchise to get the fully immersive treatment.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

It is interesting that now we are reaching the same levels of investments in XR that we had in 2016, that is during the peak of the hype for the technology. According to her backstory, Vee is a virtual space traveler who comes from the future VIVE Reality. In an accident, she teleported back into the current day virtual world.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Knuckles is Valve’s next-gen VR controller which is loaded with sensors that the company hopes will make VR more immersive by bringing more of user’s natural hand dexterity into the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Kavya: Well, I do have to go back to my experience with the very first virtual world, Second Life. This was in 2016 during the US presidential election time. The very first ever virtual currency was the Linden dollar, and with it, we discovered that you have to comply with money rules and money laundering possibilities.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

In March of last year, FOVE saw $11 million Series A investment round that was set out to “support [Fove’s] goal of accelerating mass production of the device in the Fall of 2016.”. We started FOVE as a small team back in 2014, and now we’re finally realizing an entirely new way for humans to interact with a virtual world.”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2018

This VR multiplayer/singleplayer real-time strategy game comes from Hidden Path Entertainment , the minds behind Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition (2016) and Age of Empires II: HD Edition (2013). Originally teased at PSX 2015 with a slated release for an October 2016, High Wire Games’ Golem is finally coming to PSVR.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2018

Since first opening its doors to visitors of Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward back in 2016, VR Zone Shinjuku has attracted international attention thanks to an impressive selection of exclusive location-based VR experiences. Battle alongside friends as a warrior, priest, or mage in this immersive reimagining of the hit 1986 JRPG.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Once that step is complete, spectators can then freely move around and view the VR-user from within their virtual world. Put simply, the PC captures, encodes, and then wirelessly transmits each frame from the experience to the smart phone device in real-time, in-turn creating a virtual camera with a live feed to reality.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Owlchemy Labs , the studio behind the critically acclaimed VR game Job Simulator (2016) , however recently revealed an ingenious way of watching and interacting with users in VR which may be as simple as pulling the smartphone from your pocket.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 31, 2016

With 2016 coming to a close, it’s time to start looking toward the state of virtual reality in 2017. This saves an immense amount of computational power since the system doesn’t have to render the entire virtual world all at one time. . Facebook looks to up the Oculus ante by investing in eye-tracking technology.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

Today at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Intel revealed Project Alloy, an all-in-one mobile virtual reality headset which the company says will launch in 2017 as an “open platform.” ” On stage at IDF 2016, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich unveiled the new headset during the opening keynote.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Oculus may be be closing out 2016 with a bang with the launch of its Touch controllers, but HTC is going to kick off 2017 with something special: a peripheral that makes its Vive headset wireless. A preview version of the kit was shown off today at Alibaba’s “11/11” global shopping festival in Shenzhen, China.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 9, 2017

Removing your headset and finding your icy beverage is annoying; why not just have it in the virtual world too? I’ve already seen a pretty cool multiplayer VR game that stuck a Vive Tracker to a phone, but I’m talking about bringing those devices into the virtual world with the user. Phones And Tablets.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

” said Pete Hines, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, after revealing that an incarnation of Fallout 4 (2015) and Doom (2016) are in development for virtual reality on the HTC Vive. Pete Hines on stage at E3 2016 | Photo courtesy Bethesda. So we have Fallout 4 for you to play,” he said.

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