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Valve Auctions HQ Tour & VR Demo for Elemental Music Charity

Peter Graham

So naturally, Valve doesn’t just let anybody wander in and around its headquarters in Seattle, Washington to see what’s going on. Prior to Valve, Lawrence was part of the Human Interface team at Apple, working on system features and applications for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac,” notes the description.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.17): HTC announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, PSVR 2 to feature eye tracking, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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Samsung Partners with Google & Qualcomm to Release Android-powered XR Device

Road to VR

TM Roh, Samsung’s president and head of mobile experiences, didn’t reveal any more than what was said on stage, namely the existence of the partnership itself, however speaking to The Washington Post he announced the companies are “getting there,” and that the XR device was “not too far away.”

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“But I don’t want to wear glasses”

Robert Scoble

Well, some do, but most of us use Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube, to listen to music now. Some people denigrated early efforts, like the VR headsets that HTC and Oculus produced, as a fad, comparing it to the Segway or earlier 3DTV attempts. The vinyl is more enjoyable. You can hear more detail in the highs.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

VRScout

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony).

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Small Mistakes Led to a $500 Million Verdict Against Oculus

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And then he went to go start the HITLab in Washington. You have Apple, with ARKit. So you have all these different 3D file formats. Or in Canada, USDZed.