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JULY 10, 2017

Played out through the scary stories told by a group of campers around the campfire, each story leads to what the press release dubs “an immersive ride into your darkest childhood fears.”. The post Director of ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ is Making a Live-Action VR Horror Series, Releasing Halloween 2017 appeared first on Road to VR.

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MAY 10, 2017

Even their website and trailer (below) for 2017’s expo imbue a heroic theme, building buzz for the event with high energy. ” AWE 2017 is being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center from May 31st to June 2nd. Event details and registration options are now live at the official website.

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JUNE 8, 2017

VR Village has welcomed art, simulation, and real-world applications in the past but the 2017 exhibit is focusing on diversity within the content and the content creators. “We made a conscious effort for diversity — we tried to normalize our content to be as diverse as possible,” says the 2017 VR Village Chair Denise Quesnel.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. Above: The Future Group’s Jens Petter Hoili (left) and Bård Anders Kasin. Image Credit: The Future Group. Image Credit: The Future Group.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

At GDC 2017, Unity held a keynote discussing their impact on the gaming industry, future updates to the engine, and much more. also will ship with support for the Vulkan API, a GPU standard from Khronos Group who announced updates to the API and the new VR/AR standard OpenXR at GDC this year. For Android and iOS, 5.6

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Thunderful Group, Coatsink’s parent company, released a quarterly report that maintains Coatsink is “now working on a launch title for PSVR2, PlayStation’s next-generation VR console.” ” The news was first spotted on Reddit.

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APRIL 25, 2023

The standard has been in development since 2017 and is backed by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the XR industry. “Magic Leap will continue to advance this vision as Vice Chair of the OpenXR Working Group. .

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JUNE 13, 2017

Looking at the wider industry, E3 2017 hasn’t been the most memorable show. For the third straight year in a row EA made an embarrassingly non-committal nod to VR, only stating yet again that it was looking into the tech with a new R&D group. That year may still come but, sadly, the stars didn’t align at E3 2017.

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Voices of VR

APRIL 15, 2024

I’m digging into my unpublished interview archives backlog to publish this conversation with Khronos Group President Neil Trevett marking the 1.0 Be sure to also see episodes #1382 that I just published from GDC 2018, #507 from GDC 2017, and #1385 with a current update on OpenXR 1.1.

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APRIL 15, 2024

is being released today, and so I'm digging into my archive of unpublished interviews to go back GDC 2018 when OpenXR working group chairman Nick Whiting presented some of the first information about the OpenXR specification, which wouldn't have it's initial release over a year later on July 29, 2019 (see episode #1384 for more on that).

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2017

A group of CEOs face immediate backlash after using VR to simulate being homeless during “CEO Sleepout.”. That’s what a group a CEOs are hopefully beginning to understand after facing the wrath of the internet for choosing to use VR in an attempt to understand what it’s like to be homeless. CEOSleepoutAu pic.twitter.com/b53wqESdLA.

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APRIL 15, 2024

minor release comes out today, which moves some of the more commonly used extensions into core and it also marks a new Khronos Group commitment to a yearly release cycle. on July 29, 2019, and Khronos Group President Neil Trevett […] The OpenXR 1.1 The OpenXR 1.1

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JULY 10, 2017

How The Future Group Is Redefining Live Game Shows With Mixed Reality via @UploadVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 10, 2017.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Inception Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Led By EU Media Conglomerate RTL Group via @RtoVR [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) August 3, 2017.

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JUNE 29, 2022

When the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program class of 2017 set out to plan their 5-year reunion back in December of 2021, they had to consider their former classmates taking time off of work, making travel and hotel plans, and a number of other logistics. Are college reunions more or less awkward in the metaverse?

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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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MAY 19, 2022

In 2017 we reported on a Norwegian game show from The Future Group and Fremantle Media (the company responsible for American Idol and X Factor ) that has players competing in a series of mixed reality competitions. This isn’t the first time a company has experimented with immersive technology in regard to television.

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MARCH 18, 2019

It’s backed by many of the biggest names in the VR and AR industries and has been in development by the consortium for two years now, organized by Khronos Group. The group today announced the ratification of OpenXR 0.9, Image courtesy Khronos Group. Today the group announced the ratification and release of OpenXR 0.9,

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Nevertheless, this is part of what Microsoft is promising with its planned launch of Windows Holographic Shell which it’s promised will arrive in every Windows 10 installation via an update some time in 2017. The post Microsoft ‘Holographic Shell’ Aims to Immerse You in Windows by 2017 appeared first on Road to VR.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Google Daydream is supposed to launch Fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps to the Google Play store until 2017. The post Only Select Developers Can Publish Google Daydream Apps Until 2017 appeared first on Road to VR.

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JULY 29, 2019

It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. OpenXR’s ‘working group’, under which representatives from member companies have been actively developing the standard, is facilitated by Khronos Group.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Reality capture company 8i debuted its narrative experience Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways To Mars and also hosted a panel where Aldrin chatted with a large group about his life and his goals with this collaboration.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Earlier this morning the Khronos Group announced a name and details for its open virtual and augmented reality standard committee. Christened now as the Open XR Working Group, the organization will be comprised of representatives from the worlds leading AR/VR companies. One name, however was missing from that list.

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APRIL 26, 2017

By this June, Zero Latency will have 10 sites across the globe and 24 by end of 2017, including U.S. Early on we found they’re integral to the experience because people have a one-to-one connection with them and the Game Master brings the group into the experience,” Ruse said. “We

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Companies like Kraft Group, Boston Syndicate (who led the funding round), NXT Ventures, and more collaborated to bring in the $2 million which will be used in a very important first step for the company: Building the complete SDK (software development kit). Tagged with: ar , brain control , input , VR.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

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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JANUARY 26, 2021

Launched into Steam Early Access in 2017, Gravity Sketch has been lauded for its full-featured VR creation tools and support for traditional peripherals such as Wacom tablets. “Providing a free product allows us to welcome a more diverse user group,” Gravity Sketch co-founder and CEO Oluwaseyi Sosanya says in a blogpost.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Thirty-one members of one of the most active white nationalist groups in the U.S. Members of the fascist group, Patriot Front —formed in late 2017 in the wake of the racist “Unite the Right”… Read more.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Viacom Next, the company’s technology group tasked with producing immersive experiences, is no longer. ” Next will be absorbed into the company’s Global Emerging Opportunities Group. .” ” Next will be absorbed into the company’s Global Emerging Opportunities Group.

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JULY 10, 2021

When Shonda Rhimes signed a history-making deal with Netflix in 2017, it made her one of the highest-paid showrunners in TV and put her on a path to becoming one of the most powerful women in Hollywood. . Shonda Rhimes and Netflix ink a new deal that could VR and gaming content to the continually growing entertainment platform.

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JUNE 7, 2022

” In the session, which was co-hosted by Chair of the OpenXR Working Group, Brent Insko, Watts reiterated that Magic Leap 2 is built atop an “Android Open Source Project-based OS interface standard,” and showed a range of open and accessible tools that developers can currently use to build for the headset.

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AUGUST 28, 2021

The Orlando Tech Council is a tech-focused group within the larger OEP. One organization that the Orlando Tech Council played host to fairly early, in 2017, was the VR/AR Association. “We In 2017, Cunningham worked for Disti, a virtual maintenance training company specializing in aviation and based in Orlando.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The app continued on after the group’s closure, but with seemingly few long term plans for the app, Facebook has decided to spin it out by handing ownership over to its original creator. In the early days of Oculus the company started internal groups like Oculus Story Studio which was tasked with exploring cinema through the lens of VR.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Many years before the release of Half-Life: Alyx , a group of fans built a rudimentary Half-Life 2 VR mod which allowed the game to be played with early VR headset development kits. But now a group of proven VR modders is aiming to finally make it a reality.

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MAY 1, 2017

Social Impact Award – Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story (Emblematic Group, Atrevida Productions, True Colors Fund). Narrative Achievement Award – Zero Days VR (Scatter). Best AR Experience – ProtoSpace (NASA). Best VR Experience – ASTEROIDS! Baobab Studios).

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JUNE 13, 2017

Dominic Mallinson, Senior Vice President of R&D at Sony Interactive Entertainment, spoke a little about the current areas of VR that the group is looking into in a video that ran before the company’s E3 press conference yesterday. You can see it below, the clip starts at around 43:20.

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