XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. Accenture and Bank of America have tapped VR after purchasing 60,000 and 30,000, respectively. Virtual Reality Guides: Case Studies. Global market leaders have already leveraged VR for their business agendas.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

Back in 2016, Oculus’s chief scientist Michael Abrash predicted that within five years, VR headsets would have a monocular 4K resolution and 140-degree FoV. The company also plans to open customer service centers in North America and Europe customers, with a U.S. In terms of display and optics, in the time of VR 1.0,

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 22, 2017

Knott’s Berry Farm in Orange County, California is said to be America’s oldest theme park. When you’ve got the headset on and gun in your hand, you can see your friend’s head and gun in the virtual world so you don’t bump into each other. Bottom Line.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

billion, predominantly in North America. Instead, people everywhere are beginning to demand more virtual world integration into their physical environments. While augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) is paving the way for the immersive future. The MR report also estimates the overall market may reach $9.21

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2018

We’ve rounded up a list of 20-something VR games launching in 2018 that we’re excited about, covering all three major VR systems: PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Platform : PSVR, Oculus, Steam (Spring 2018). ARK Park is a multiplayer adventure game based on the world of ARK:Survival Evolved (2017). Ace Combat 7.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

is a company that aims at using the data from the cameras of all the phones running AR applications, send them to a server, and merge them all together to create a full mesh representing the whole world. Finally, AR could become truly useful since it won’t be confined to rooms, but it can expand into the whole world. Donate on Patreon!

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

You’ll be able to sit in a real-world go-kart rig and race around in the virtual world. Teaming up with Oculus and ESL, Intel declared the world’s first virtual reality eSports league — with a prize pool of $200K. BRAND NAME GAMES COME TO VR: E3 HIGHLIGHTS. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some people switched to other virtual worlds like Neos. You can now try games on the Oculus Store. As usual, there you are some interesting articles about the M-word selected from a sea of fluff: PwC has published a very detailed survey conducted in America about the metaverse and how it is perceived by companies and consumers.

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

This week, we look at takeaways from Microsoft Ignite, Space X, Pokemon Go and VR training from Bank of America. The Omni One is an omni-directional treadmill which lets users walk and run inside games and virtual worlds in VR. Bank of America is bringing VR instruction to its 4,000 banks. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

According to UploadVR , Oculus intends to release their higher-end standalone VR headset named Santa Cruz at the first quarter of 2019. Oculus is ambitious on taking the market share by designing a VR headset with cameras added for inside-out tracking of 6DOF head movement and two Oculus Touch-style controllers.

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VRPlayin

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Part 2 – VR Zone and Part 3 – The Underdogs have to with venues, and the upcoming Part 5 will also address the ‘VR Arcades’ (nothing the likes available in North America to my knowledge ). VR for Promotional Use. Try this cool VR experience, for FREE! Until the re-match… fun! As the Nismo is a high power sports car.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 5, 2017

It was $200 more expensive than its chief competition, the Oculus Rift , but the headset also did a lot more than the initial PC-powered headset from Facebook when it first released. Oculus, however, went to market without hand controllers readied, supporting a single sensor for a forward-facing experience.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2021

The VR/AR Association held their annual Global Summit for North America from June 2 through 4. To create not just a game, but a virtual world where people are able to live and work.”. Within Victoria, all assets are purchasable and saleable for users. “We See Around in the Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

Wait, here I am, a black man in America. Though the majority of BTMP students are located in North America. We also have great representation from Africa, South America, and Europe. These are some of the very things we’re focusing on with the Virtual World Society and areas I’ve been exploring for some time.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. How different was it from today?

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 29, 2017

Lightform is funded by Lux , Seven Seas , the National Science Foundation , and Steven LaValle (a former principal scientist at Oculus). HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Traditionally based off of technological developments happening in the real world, some of the first movies with VR technology started coming out in the early 80’s when advancements in computer technology allowed research to begin on more affordable VR. Captain America: Civil War (2016). The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. And Oculus forces you to get Facebook to have Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. And Oculus forces you to get Facebook to have Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And that was all done in a sort of virtual world. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And that was all done in a sort of virtual world. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. And Oculus forces you to get Facebook to have Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And that was all done in a sort of virtual world. I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And that was all done in a sort of virtual world. I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week -- which I was at -- by Michael Abrash, who's chief scientist at Oculus. How did that precipitate? Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And that was all done in a sort of virtual world. I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week -- which I was at -- by Michael Abrash, who's chief scientist at Oculus. How did that precipitate? Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

What better publicity could a VR company ask for, than to have an Avenger demo your product in prime time, on one of the most-watched talk shows in America? You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You’ve got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. It’s been amazing for the military. What age range?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

What better publicity could a VR company ask for, than to have an Avenger demo your product in prime time, on one of the most-watched talk shows in America? You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You’ve got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. It’s been amazing for the military. What age range?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 30, 2017

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, the man behind the Rift concept and its first prototypes, is leaving the company three years after selling to Facebook. According to Oculus, this will be Palmer’s last week with Friday marking his official last day as an employee of Facebook. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

What better publicity could a VR company ask for, than to have an Avenger demo your product in prime time, on one of the most-watched talk shows in America? You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You've got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. It's been amazing for the military. Security training issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Alan: Yeah, it’s funny, it was brought up in the last podcast, that Andy Mathis from Oculus kind of brokered that whole deal.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Alan: Yeah, it's funny, it was brought up in the last podcast, that Andy Mathis from Oculus kind of brokered that whole deal.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Alan: Yeah, it’s funny, it was brought up in the last podcast, that Andy Mathis from Oculus kind of brokered that whole deal.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. Multiverse’s previous game, Reveries: Dream Flight, is one of the highest-rated VR games worldwide, and a top selling title on the Oculus Store.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 8, 2016

If anyone could take my mind off the missing-in-action Palmer Luckey at the Oculus Connect conference, it was Michael Abrash, chief scientist of Oculus, the maker of the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift. That is exactly what Oculus needed to do after Luckey angered many developers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Also, for the other worlds, all people will start with the Safety Bubble on by default: Safety Bubble is meant so that people can’t come too close to you and physically harass you in the virtual world. XR Bootcamp has released a nice guide on the Oculus Interaction SDK. And this is in my opinion good and bad news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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