Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. Tipatat is a General Partner of the Venture Reality Fund investing in early stage VR, AR, and AI companies. Oculus proved that VR was more than a product when they officially released numbers about their ecosystem last September at Oculus Connect 6. for developers.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

VR, AR, MR, XR — those are just a few of the acronyms used to talk about exciting new immersive technologies. But how do you know when you should be creating VR apps instead of the other options like AR? Interestingly, the same department within a company may use AR and VR for similar but very different purposes.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2022

At the connect event last year, Facebook officially rebranded as Meta, diverting the company’s vision from the social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to the Oculus brand of virtual reality (VR) hardware. Refocusing Hardware Ambitions. Instead, Meta is preserving the hardware for developers only.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

STRIVR’s enterprise-focused product is a performance training platform that uses VR and AR to help educate and train in areas like sales, operations, customer service, safety, and human resources. The hardware will get better in next 12 to 16 months.”. A less-immersive lite version is also available on mobile and tablet.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s that time of the week when I report to you the best news of the week in the AR/VR fields, so fasten your seatbelts and get ready! Some months ago, Road To VR unveiled that Canon was going to update its mixed reality offering with the Mreal MD-20, a high-quality passthrough AR headset that substituted the previous MD-10 model.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

And as the cost of the hardware continues to drop , headsets could eventually be as integral to gaming consoles in the home as motion sensors were a few years ago. So what are the most important things to know about testing VR software? Oculus, one of the biggest names in VR, refers to this in its Health and Safety manual.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

But before leaving you to the best pieces of AR/VR news of the week, let me tease you that in the upcoming days I will publish an article I’m sure you will all love… it’s a hands-on preview on… you’ll discover it! Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: So the first question I love to ask everybody is, what is the best VR/AR/XR experiences — or what are some of the best experiences — that you’ve had so far? It’s kind of like the space invaders of AR, I think, in terms of what those early games that caught fire and was easy to pick up and everybody loved.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: So the first question I love to ask everybody is, what is the best VR/AR/XR experiences — or what are some of the best experiences — that you’ve had so far? It’s kind of like the space invaders of AR, I think, in terms of what those early games that caught fire and was easy to pick up and everybody loved.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: So the first question I love to ask everybody is, what is the best VR/AR/XR experiences -- or what are some of the best experiences -- that you've had so far? It's kind of like the space invaders of AR, I think, in terms of what those early games that caught fire and was easy to pick up and everybody loved.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. These new graphics cards are a good evolution of the previous models and are based on the new RDNA 2 architecture that brings with it many benefits.

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APRIL 24, 2017

8i made its intention to bring VR and communications together a lot clearer this year by announcing a dedicated research lab in Washington state. VR #AR pic.twitter.com/WX2UKsCyvr. Facebook set up a trailer just outside of the convention center to show off its VR hardware. There wasn’t an Oculus Rift in sight.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen a lot of VR and AR, and the stuff that you guys are doing… that’s why I asked you to be on the show, because 1. By having training so scalable, you can deploy training to wherever you can put an Oculus Rift and a laptop. Alan: I’ll be honest. It’s beautiful. It’s really well done.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen a lot of VR and AR, and the stuff that you guys are doing… that’s why I asked you to be on the show, because 1. By having training so scalable, you can deploy training to wherever you can put an Oculus Rift and a laptop. Alan: I’ll be honest. It’s beautiful. It’s really well done.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

I hope this new year I can keep providing you with high-quality content about AR and VR like all the past five years. VR had a great Christmas, and in particular, Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. This would be another clue about Apple launching its AR/VR visor in 2022 , as many other reports seem to hint. More info.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

As long as you have a recently-modern device -- iPhone, Android phones, tablets, laptops -- and when it's AR enabled device it works in an AR mode, so you can place it around your physical environment. You've got experience in kind of building the hardware platform. At Oculus, they said 10 years. What's next?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

As long as you have a recently-modern device -- iPhone, Android phones, tablets, laptops -- and when it's AR enabled device it works in an AR mode, so you can place it around your physical environment. You've got experience in kind of building the hardware platform. At Oculus, they said 10 years. What's next?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

As long as you have a recently-modern device -- iPhone, Android phones, tablets, laptops -- and when it's AR enabled device it works in an AR mode, so you can place it around your physical environment. You've got experience in kind of building the hardware platform. At Oculus, they said 10 years. What's next?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

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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