Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2024

Back in the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 days (circa 2014), the studio was already thinking about how to design games for VR motion controllers, despite no headsets on the market shipping with motion controllers until 2016. Cloudhead Games might be old-school as far as VR studios go, but it has always been forward-looking.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2020

An update to Oculus developer tools has brought a handful of updates, including support for Quest hand-tracking in Unreal Engine 4. Oculus released controllerless hand-tracking on Oculus Quest as a beta feature back in late 2019. 2020 color space for Oculus Quest, and Rec.709 709 color space for Oculus Go. .”

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

between 2018 and 2025, as stated in a Valuation report. By 2025, it will grow at a CAGR of $571 billion. Facebook and Rising Metaverse Technology Facebook acquired a virtual reality development company called Oculus, which included the Oculus Rift. When the acquisition took place, it almost seemed silly.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo. All three headsets bore both the partner company's logo and Oculus branding. It's unclear how LG and Meta's brands will be incorporated in any headset that results from the partnership.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The release of this headset is expected for the first half of 2025. But the release of the Apple Vision Pro has completely shaken up the industry and now many players are focusing on launching a competitor of Apple’s headset. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The second key year is 2025. In 2025, China wants to be the worldwide leader of Virtual Reality. The post China shows its masterplan to lead Virtual Reality in 2025 appeared first on The Ghost Howls. SUPERDATA research for what concerns the mobile gaming market. P.S. Many thanks to the epic Tony of Vrool.cn

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2020

With the recent news that Unreal Engine was permanently waiving engine royalties for the first $1 million in app revenue, we were reminded of a similar program for VR apps based on Unreal Engine 4 that Oculus established back in 2016. We’ve reached out to Oculus for clarity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

There was (and still is) quite a good hype for these headsets, exactly as there was hype for what was Oculus Santa Cruz, the codename of the Oculus Quest. The device will be available next year only in the US, then at the end of the year in other countries (like the UK), making me think that a more global rollout may happen in 2025.

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GizModo VR

JULY 11, 2022

Analyst and reliable Apple sage Ming-Chi Kuo claims the company is already working on a second-generation AR/VR headset set for a 2025 release, this time featuring both a high-end… Read more. If Apple’s rumored $3,000 virtual reality headset seems like a financial nightmare for you, then get ready for some potentially good news.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development. 73% of teams will have remote workers by 2028 ( Upwork ).

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go. Google + Lenovo’s Standalone Daydream VR Headset, Mirage Solo, Is On Sale Now For $399 Oculus Go isn’t the only major standalone VR headset launching this week: Lenovo’s Mirage Solo just went on sale too.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Now he accurately picked another number from his cylinder, and said they’re coming in 2025 , because “Apple has no AR glasses prototypes” at the moment. Other companies should take note….

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ARVR

JANUARY 10, 2022

And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Oculus Quest 2 grows to 35 percent of SteamVR headset usage. Accenture orders record 60,000 Oculus headsets. billion in 2025. Our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence, estimated in November that Oculus Quest sold almost 1.4 million players.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.01% between 2019 and 2025. Facebook invested heavily in Oculus Rift to bring in believable character avatars using generative models through deep learning. See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S. billion in 2018 and is expected to reach approximately US$814.7

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The report, which hasn’t received comment from either Facebook or Luxottica, maintains that the device should launch to consumers sometime between 2023 – 2025. The report mixes both terminologies, so it’s unclear exactly which end of the spectrum the proposed device should fall on.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. If things go the right way as predicted, then by 2025 the revenue can go beyond $45 billion. Some VR Gaming Market Trends Which Determine Its Consistent Growth.

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ARVR

JUNE 18, 2021

billion by 2025. With large tech players like Facebook with Oculus Quest 2 , Varjo with Varjo VR-3 , HP headset HP Reverb G2 , launching their new VR headsets. The next level of Pico Interactive devices is anticipated to compete with Oculus Quest 2 , which was launched in October 2020. Last year brought us many VR innovations.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

An internal email reportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company’s feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

billion in content revenue by 2025?—? Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2. Since Oculus Quest can’t track such big areas without drifting (trust me, I’ve done that), the company has built its own proprietary inside-out tracking technology, Samos Arena.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Oculus Quest and Vive Focus 3 get interesting updates. News worth a mention. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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ARVR

JANUARY 25, 2021

billion by 2025, while others are more conservative, expecting the value to be at no more than $22.5 Some of the most popular VR brands like the HTC Vive and Oculus already offer controllers because they offer users tactile feedback. Some predict that the VR market will reach $87.97

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 6, 2021

million in 2025 with a 41.4 According to IDC, the biggest growth was due to Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset. The firm predicts that virtual reality headset shipments will grow 29 percent this year and will grow even faster in the future. “The long-term outlook remains quite strong as global shipments grow to 28.6

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry. Screengrab of the VRTUOLUO website.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

CNBC reports the project is codenamed ‘Orion’, with an estimated launch taking place sometime between 2023 and 2025. Neither company has commented yet on the reports and the likelihood of anything being announced at Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) are slim. That little red and white logo can make all the difference.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

Furthermore, they estimate that the AR and VR device market will hit $198 billion by 2025. Devices such as the Oculus Rift or Quest and the HTC Vive provide outstanding experiences that can run independently of a computer. Leftronic reports that the number of augmented reality users will reach 3.5 billion by 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The glasses, codenamed Orion, should be made to replace smartphones and are slated for a release date of 2023–2025, that seems very reasonable, considering that no present tech is able to create truly consumer AR. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! Games on Oculus Quest are selling really well. Other relevant news.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 3, 2016

billion in revenue in 2017, garner 171 million users by 2018, and become a $35 billion industry by 2025. This exciting new technology will be accessible initially through Matterport apps for Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR (Powered by Oculus), with support for additional VR platforms in the future.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

While every carrier has touted their 5G roll out, in reality it is not available in most markets and will not be fully rolled out until 2025 or later. One of the great benefits of Mesh is the ability to create applications that work across iOS, Android, HoloLens, HP Reverb G2 and Oculus Quest 2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 24, 2017

The first thing that struck me was main character Wade Watts saying he was born in 2025 while establishing 2045 as a timeframe for his narration. Also, potential spoilers ahead but it is mostly just conjecture about what we’ve seen in the trailer. Introducing The OASIS. Excerpt from Ready Player One. What’s Left Unsaid.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

While many of Facebook’s properties retained their original branding, the “Oculus” brand, previously acquired by Facebook in 2014, adopted the new name. Is Meta Quest the Same as Oculus Quest? Oculus was initially founded in 2012 by a group of independent developers and hardware enthusiasts.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 19, 2020

According to a May report by Vynz Research , the virtual and augmented reality market will grow from $22 billion of revenue this year to $161 billion by 2025. “We The growth is expected to continue after the pandemic.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

A quick guess would be 2025.”. Pimax, Vive, Oculus and StarVR are all pioneering new technologies and gearing up for their 2 nd generation hardware. By the way, how did you meet and bring over Joel Burgess, Winifred Phillips, Max Preussner, and Lawrence Nelson? From the start, I wanted to create a new type of studio.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Newzoo forecasts global virtual reality and augmented reality will generate $569 billion by 2025. Insomniac’s Oculus Touch spellcasting game, The Unspoken , made its second straight tour stop in Katowice (following its debut at IEM Oakland), alongside Ready at Dawn’s Lone Echo and Croteam’s Serious Sam. Record-Breaking Numbers.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. At its recent Oculus Connect conference, where it was speaking to virtual reality fans and developers, Facebook made it very clear during its keynote “we are building AR glasses.” He was carrying around a VR headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. Just ask Vander Caballero, founder of Minority Media , creator of the VR game Time Machine VR. Caballero: For AR or MR?

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