Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years. 2017 Predictions. 2017 Predictions. VR Ready PCs outsell standard PCs by Q4 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Also, the awareness has grown , because every gamer knew about Alyx, and so about virtual reality.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

The creative software company heats up to augmented and virtual reality. Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. It’s a great hybrid between the real world and the virtual world.”. “It’s not as bulky.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind. And it is fascinating that Fayteq, the German company that was perfecting diminished reality, has been acquired by Facebook in 2017. You can change the reality however you want.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In trying to highlight the best minds in both entertainment and technology, On The Lot gathered keynote speakers who could share insight about the VR/AR landscape from a variety of vantage points: Robert Stromberg , Academy Award-winning filmmaker and Founder of the Virtual Reality Company. Jerry Zucker , Director/Writer/Producer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

A user study demonstrated the effectiveness of the system’s alleviation of virtual reality sickness symptoms. Adaptive Dynamic Refocusing: Toward Solving Discomfort in Virtual Reality. Flock is a location-based, multi-user, untethered VR experience made for large-group interaction in the same physical and virtual space.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

VRX 2017, one of world’s premier conferences on the subject of business and technology needed for Virtual Reality, announced the first speakers for a two day event. Confirmed speakers are as follows: Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality, HTC. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. on an internal training program called Walmart Academy—and it turns out that virtual reality will play a part.

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. The final rule went into effect on January 18, 2018."

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

While most participants receive hands-on VR development training followed by three months of video tutorials, a select few receive grants worth thousands of dollars; in fact, Oculus awarded a whopping $620,000 in 2017 alone. We were given three months to develop a short demo that we delivered to Oculus along with a pitch deck.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The system is already used on the $3,000 HoloLens, an advanced augmented reality system, but with it employed on a low-cost VR headset Microsoft may have leapfrogged efforts by both Facebook and Google, powered by Windows. Low end VR on Xbox and these new headsets, all the way through high end mixed reality on HoloLens.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Google Daydream VR platform is set to launch in fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps. Google Play store is limiting access until some point in 2017. ” Google Pixel XL phone is manufactured by HTC. Everyone else will be allowed to publish apps “early next year.”

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

The Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC), the premier event for creators of immersive VR (and AR) experiences, today announced dates and location for its second edition – its first standalone event. Those interested in exhibiting at this year's show should visit www.ubmgamenetwork.com/vrdc for more information. Cats And VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. Gary Radburn, Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Dell.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. They’ll miss them again in 2017 by 60 percent or more.”.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

On October 31, Oculus and Kaleidoscope will kick off DevLab , a new initiative to support independent VR creators by bringing together 28 VR artists from around the world to incubate new work, explore new ideas, and create the next wave of great virtual reality experiences. Balthazar Auxietre. Eliza Mcnitt. Elliot Cole. Milica Zec.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Thanks to digital casino developing giants NetEnt; by the end of 2017 players will be able to completely immerse themselves in the world’s first VR digital slot. The concept of Virtual Reality casinos has been discussed since the technology was first conceptualized and they are finally here for all to see.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2018

Not all of the concurrent users on VRChat are in virtual reality, but it’s an experience that’s been inspiring a lot of people to buy a VR system in order to enhance their experience in the game. AltspaceVR actually put a lot of engineering effort to be able to integrate the open web into their platform.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing. Follow this event on social media: Silicon Valley VR Expo (SVVR) Date: March 29-31, 2017 Venue: San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Follow this event on social media: Or visit SVVR's update feed.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

And this is also what Marky Z thinks: a Redditor spotted Zuckerberg commenting the earnings of Facebook in 2017 underlining how XR is a 10-years journey and not a 5-years one. More info (Facebook earning call) More info (Zuckerberg commenting VR in 2017). Facebook Reality Labs continues working on cool stuff related to AR and VR.

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VRScout

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Refocusing On VR Innovation: Can Standards Simplify Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Development? Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google). Alex Lee (Google). Room 2011, West Hall.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Unity CEO John Riccitiello has made new predictions on AR and VR , and this time he talked about the projections for XR headsets in 2030. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. (Photo by David Fitzgerald/Web Summit via Sportsfile). Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

It was an exciting vision, and many people — including myself — got into virtual worlds as much for the possibilities they promised as for what they were actually able to deliver in the present. Virtual worlds aren’t the only visible path to a metaverse. Virtual reality ramps that up a hundred-fold.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. These are the projections for VR by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. For others, they might be a way of selling ads, Dr. Bautista said. […] In 2018, Intel shut down the Vaunt project, before selling many of its patents to North, the start-up acquired by Google. But it’s not the best PCVR game of 2021).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Everyone was waiting for the Oculus Rift CV1, the first Virtual Reality “consumer headset” for the technology to boom… but then when it launched, it was actually a boom-erang, because the price was too high and the features too limited to have a real consumer appeal.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

I lived a similar situation in the years 2017-2018 , that is the Winter of VR, the period that you may remember the most for being the “VR is dead” era. The amazing Unity Cube. I was brave enough to try an experiment, and in the end, it has been good for us of NTW and for the XR community in general. Don’t give up.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In 2017, Issa was one of the founding members of “The Reality Caucus,” a bipartisan group of lawmakers looking into immersive technology as it relates to national security and economic competition. “We wanted to present to general users who may not have a deep understanding of this technology,” said Hyman. are inherently dystopian.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. List of games that you can use Ansel with: As of December 25th, 2017, Ansel is compatible with the following 13 games: 1. What's Nvidia Ansel? For Honor?.

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