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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year. The report suggests that premium headset shipments like Google Daydream will see more growth over light mobile headsets. Google Daydream will sell the most premium headsets in 2017, getting 6.8M billion in 2017, rising to $9.1 devices into the hands of users.

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reaction as the original Oculus Rift. Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! I can't believe this!"

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

Facebook looks to up the Oculus ante by investing in eye-tracking technology. With 2016 coming to a close, it’s time to start looking toward the state of virtual reality in 2017. ” Now the company will be bringing this exciting tech to Oculus, hopefully adding a whole new dynamic to the already impressive headset.

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MAY 17, 2017

Google I/O’s 2017 keynote kicked off with some exciting statistics, showing off just how impactful and widespread the company’s applications are. There are 800 million Google Drive users and 500 million active Google Photos users. Pichai followed this up with the announcement of Google Lens.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Daydream, Google’s mobile-focused virtual reality platform, is losing official support from Google, Android Police reports. Google’s hardware business is already peanuts compared to their search and ads business, so it probably wasn’t clear what the point was.

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He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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JUNE 7, 2023

When a technology grows, it usually does that in steps: there is a technological breakthrough, then there are incremental innovations, then there is a new technological breakthrough, and so on. We were mostly all nerds playing with the technology and having fun with it.

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Facebook is currently developing a voice assistant that could function similar to Amazon Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant. Notably, it’s intended to support Oculus headsets in addition to Portal, and “future products.” SEE ALSO Oculus Job Posts Point to Facebook-built AR Headset on the Horizon.

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That’s a question that expands well beyond 2017, but there’s still a bunch of big questions we’re expecting to answer next year. Oculus is spending the kind of money that gets Epic, Square Enix and Insomniac involved with VR. Google thinks it’s on the right path, it just has heating issues to sort out.

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APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. We invite all industry technology providers and stakeholders to join us in this meaningful program.”.

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MAY 19, 2017

In 2017, with so much talk of head-worn devices as the future of immersive computing, it’s easy to see that Glass was ahead of its time. With the Glass team at the time teasing, “we’ve outgrown the lab and so we’re officially ‘graduating’ from Google[x] to be our own team here at Google.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Photo by XR Expo on Unsplash We are only a couple of months away from 2023 and the tech world is already buzzing with technological trends that are most likely to dominate the upcoming year. As usual, it’s going to be a year full of technological innovations, experiments, and upgrades. billion USD in 2017 to 2.4 You sure can.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Google announced at the W3C WebVR workshop in October that they would be shipping a WebVR-enabled Chromium browser in Q1 of 2017. SEE ALSO Google Shows HTC Vive Running at 90 FPS in Chrome with WebVR. SEE ALSO Oculus to Support WebVR Through New VR Browser Codenamed 'Carmel'. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. What to Expect from Oculus.

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Notice that I’m talking about Autumn and not Winter because I’ve been there during the real Winter of VR, in 2017-2018, and I can tell you that the vibes were totally different. Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers. I was so young and naive.

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APRIL 11, 2023

AR and VR are two of the most promising technologies of the modern era. However, these technologies have taken a long time to reach their full potential. It’s a significant increase from the 23% reported in 2017. And it’s understandable, given AR technology’s benefits to e-commerce customers. A case in point is Gucci.

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JUNE 6, 2017

Funomena’s Woorld won the ‘Best AR Experience’ category at the recent 2017 Google Play awards. In the game you scan your room with a Google Tango-enabled phone, and then you’re encouraged to decorate your space with extremely cute art and characters designed by Katamari’s Keita Takahashi.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The event, hosted by AIXR, aims to recognize outstanding achievements in VR technology. Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. The VR Awards recognize innovations in VR technology through twelve categories. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The organizers of VR’s biggest awards ceremony, The Proto Awards, say they won’t be hosting an event in 2017. They aim to bring the awards back in 2018, skipping the 2017 season “in order to assess the changing landscape of immersive technology and entertainment,” according to a prepared statement.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey left Facebook in 2017 to found his own defense technology company, Anduril Industries. Anduril doesn’t have to deal with the issue, as its main goal is provide the US Department of Defense with AI and autonomous technology, of which it currently holds a half-dozen such contracts.

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MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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The YouTube VR app originally debuted on Google's own Daydream VR platform (which it killed back in 2019 ) in 2017. In the years since, Google also brought YouTube VR to the Oculus Store on Samsung Gear VR in 2018 , then Oculus Go later that year , and was a launch title for the Quest Store.

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The designer, who worked on both HTC’s smartphones and its Vive VR headset at its San Francisco office, yesterday confirmed that he was leaving the Taiwanese company to join Google, where he’ll work on the company’s new Daydream mobile VR ecosystem. Claude Zellweger (@Claudibus) January 26, 2017.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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More than 70 virtual and argumented reality companies will showcase their products, innovations and demos at CES 2017, starting this Thursday in Las Vegas. Eight conferences on virtual reality and augmented reality out of all the conference sessions at the CES 2017 will also bring together various players and stakeholders in the sector.

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MARCH 3, 2023

But on the other side, we are all here now commenting that are entering an “autumn” of virtual reality : it is not a winter because the ecosystem is still alive (unlike in 2017), but for sure there is stagnation. For VR may be that that number is 15, and maybe for another technology is 8. Yes, Google Cardboards.

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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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MAY 7, 2022

The evolution of technology. The evolution of VR is usually compared to the one of other technologies, like the web or mobile. Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Let me show you why.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Immersive technology continues its push towards mainstream appeal. If 2016 was the birth of modern VR/AR technology, than 2018 was its elementary school graduation. Released without warning this past May during Facebook’s annual F8 conference, the Oculus Go brings convenient, comfortable VR to the masses. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Secret Location , developers behind Blasters of the Universe (2017), today announced they’ve brought their Philip K. Dick inspired VR experience, The Great C (2018) , to Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The Great C is based on the sci-fi short story by Philip K.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

2017 has been quite a year for VR. Though sales of VR headsets may not have lived up to certain market expectations, innovation and exploration in VR technology brought about new ways to create, communicate, and collaborate. Below are the 2017 winners: VR Headset of the Year : Rift by Oculus.

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APRIL 19, 2022

After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality. He was part of the team behind the GearVR app store and developed some of Oculus’ first native apps, e.g., Oculus Video and Oculus Social. Also, timing is crucial.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The smartphone was a seismic shift for the technology industry, creating entirely new business models — apps became $100 billion companies — while replacing everything from digital cameras to in-car GPS systems. The tech industry’s next bet is a series of technologies usually called augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Though Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR might have had a significant headstart , Google’s mobile VR ecosystem, Daydream is poised to lead the smartphone charge in the coming months. Google wants to essentially create the Android of VR by building on top of that exact operating system.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The ecosystem of digital game development is all about using the latest technologies to attract and engage gamers all over the world. Technologies like VR are being used widely to make games distinctive and entertaining so that both avid and casual gamers can enjoy their favorite games irrespective of time and place. billion and $9.6

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MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. David Edwards, cofounder of Onotes , is making digital scent technology that is like a speaker for your sense of smell. It’s not just visual and sound.

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