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MAY 28, 2019

Wright is tasked with charting the wholly new and unaffiliated company “on a new course,” although it’s not clear at this time exactly what direction the company will go, be it a strictly enterprise route, or to bring more accessible hardware to consumers. Image courtesy Meta.

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MARCH 13, 2017

The Virtual Reality Industry Report: Spring 2017 launches April 4th, pre-order today to save 40% off the list price. 2017 will be another foundational year for the entire VR industry. The Virtual Reality Industry Report: Spring 2017 will push the industry forward with data-driven insights and practical thought-leadership.”.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV is traditionally one of the largest tech events of the entire year and CES 2017 is no different. For the full scoop, you’ll have to click through to the specific story of course because we don’t want this article ballooning to several thousand words that you may not care about.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Intel revealed at their CES 2017 press conference that Project Alloy, their standalone mixed reality headset and reference platform, would be productized “by” Q4 2017 in partnership with major OEMs. The post Intel Says Project Alloy VR/AR Headsets Are Coming in Q4 2017 appeared first on Road to VR. Photo courtesy Intel.

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JUNE 2, 2017

I am of course talking about the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, the biggest show in the gaming industry, and it’s right around the corner. The 2017 edition of the event officially takes place from June 13th – 15th, with three days of press conferences preceding it. David – Content Is King.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

When asked what Oculus’ “big goals” for 2017 are, Arnold responded: “We want to show the world a glimpse of the future of gaming and entertainment. Now that hardware is out there, the real interesting part is to see what developers will make. However, a few lines stood out as being particularly interesting.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

It wasn’t all good news, of course, but it was still an incredibly exciting time to be a Rift fan, and it laid the foundation for a massive year ahead. While VR as a whole is thriving at CES 2017, there’s been nary a whisper from the Rift. Tagged with: CES 2017 , facebook , oculus , virtual reality , VR.

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MARCH 23, 2017

SVVR 2017 is less than a week away , and with an exciting roster of speakers and demos across all major industry verticals, with 100+ VR/AR companies represented, it’s slated to be a star-studded gathering of VR experts. Here’s a peek of the far-reaching topics at SVVR 2017: Education And Virtual Reality – Clay Park VR.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The audience, of course, is potentially in relatively close quarters. While Bradley found some not inconsiderable success there, he also started exploring immersive media a few years later, even contributing to the launch of a namesake virtual theater studio at NYU in 2017. Navigating Hardware.

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At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017.

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If you’ve played Half-Life in VR before, it was probably thanks to the HLVR mod by Max Vollmer, who started back in 2017 to bring Valve’s iconic action-adventure shooter to the first wave of consumer VR headsets. The mod is free, however it of course requires you to own a copy of Half-Life to play (i.e.

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Founded in 2015, Pimax is best known for its first Pimax “8K” headset Kickstarted in 2017, a consumer PC VR headset that included dual 4K panels providing an estimated 200-degree FOV, by far one of the largest in the industry at the time.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

As we look forward to 2017 then, we’ve reached out to a bunch of industry experts and insiders to get their views on where we’re headed over the next 12 months. We asked all of these developers the same four questions: 1) What do you think will happen to the VR/AR market in 2017? 2) What NEEDS to happen to the VR AR market in 2017?

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Well of course we’re working on it,” states Kirkpatrick in the 8-month-old interview. “We We are building hardware products. We’re going forward on this. We want to see those glasses come into reality, and I think we want to play our part in helping to bring them there.”. Image Credit: Facebook / Oculus.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Today at the Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Community event in Shenzhen, China, the company announced that VR/AR (mixed reality) headsets from top manufacturers are due to hit the market in 2017. Today the company confirmed those headsets will hit the market in 2017.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

We have a firmer grasp on what’s working… versus 2017’s wild speculation on the technology’s world-shifting impendence. Smart glasses are of course the AR modality that will unlock the technology’s true potential. So where is spatial computing now, and where is it headed? But we’re not holding out for that.

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JUNE 11, 2017

At Microsoft’s E3 2017 briefing, the company’s event this year was all about the mid-generation Xbox hardware powerhouse formerly known as Project Scorpio. At Microsoft’s Xbox briefing at E3 2017, the company announced that the new console will arrive on November 7th around the world.

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Samsung revealed in February that it was partnering with Google and Qualcomm to develop XR hardware, with Qualcomm providing the chipset and Google handling "the software". But it's likely Google will make the XR version of Android available to other hardware companies too, as it has with variants like Android TV.

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But with HoloLens, Microsoft is leaving the mainstream Windows Holographic hardware push to partner – a strategy the company has adopted for decades of course. Chinese VR headset maker 3Glasses also joined the group, and will support the Windows mixed reality environment on their S1 VR headset in the first half of 2017.

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The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players. OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Of course you do. After our early experiments with standing VR gameplay, we were excited by the idea of building an original sport designed for the current generation of VR hardware. Sparc is currently slated for a 2017 release on Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR).

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

That’s a pretty big feat considering the comparatively smaller install base of SteamVR headsets on the platform, which according to the latest Steam hardware survey accounts for only a little over one percent of total players using Steam. Fallout 4 VR (2017). GORN (EA – 2017). Pavlov (EA – 2017). Beat Saber (2018).

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Insomniac Games have once again provided one of the highlights of an Oculus hardware launch in magic-duelling title The Unspoken , built for Oculus Touch which launched alongside the motion controllers this month. The Unspoken is available now via Oculus Home for Rift and Touch.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) has been celebrating momentous accomplishments in VR since 2017 with their annual VR Awards. Anyone in attendance could walk around a virtual lounge space and hobnob with other attendees, judges, and of course, meet the amazing people behind the nominated VR experiences.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

At CES 2017, the company are set to announce their latest product, the Snapdragon 835. This means of course longer battery life and cooler running. Precisely which devices will receive the new SoC and whether it will enable hardware based upon it to pass Google’s Daydream hardware certification program is unknown at this stage.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

VR’s immersive qualities will help it maintain its course in entertainment, but it will also broaden. And though it won’t be the be-all platform shift it was once touted to be in 2017, VR will find value in targeted verticals. Consider the web’s killer apps: boring things like publishing and communications.

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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. Games 360 report for 2017 right here. Nielsen’s ‘ U.S

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JANUARY 6, 2018

According to a report by Silicon Era , Sony expects to increase the number of PSVR games from 150 to 280 over the course of 2018. An ‘all-in’ first generation headset can still be purchased for less than $400, making it an easy buy for anyone already in the PS4 hardware ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Valve is also making it easier to develop new tracked products and accessories with SteamVR Tracking by removing the requirement of a $3,000 introductory course. There was just one catch though: people hoping to use SteamVR Tracking in their devices would need to attend a $3,000 introductory course in Seattle.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

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 the sobering realities of industry shakeout and retraction. The exception will be hardware that has specialized use cases – such as Vive PRO and Varjo’s focus on enterprise-grade specs. billion by 2023.

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JUNE 10, 2017

Given recent opinions shared by the founder of Oculus , that current generation virtual reality headsets would not see a successor until 2018 at least, it’s fallen to other technology leaders to push the state of VR hardware forward. SEE ALSO HTC and Intel to Show New WiGig Wireless VR Solution at E3 2017 (Updated).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The introductory course was likely a bit of quality control, but the price of the session was also a daunting obstacle to some. This is no longer a concern, as Valve is removing the requirement of the course, thus making the highly regarded tracking technology more readily available.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and lowlights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues as to where it goes from here. The most infamous example is of course, the legendary 3DHead system. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Even though it’s designed primarily as a three-player cooperative multiplayer game, the first time I played From Other Suns at GDC 2017 this week I was on my own. Because of course they did. It was just a minor hardware issue. It was like my own private trial by galactic fire, as it were.

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From there, the team started prototyping various technologies for PSVR 2 starting in early 2017. Of course, we know inside-out tracking was eventually the winner, but it’s interesting to note the company was at one point still considering an outside-in approach, similar to the original PSVR.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

An overhyped 2016-2017 was followed by a bad hangover in ’18 and ’19. Now, more evidence emerges on the content side (an indicator of hardware penetration). That includes loss-leader pricing in its hardware, and investments in startups. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways.

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Also, don’t forget to check out our detailed hands-on with PSVR 2 hardware to see what sets it apart from the original. We’re hoping the VR support is as good as the Quest 2 version, and decidedly better than RE7 Biohazard, which wasn’t bad, but it is showing its age since it was released in 2017. Firewall Ultra.

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