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Unity CEO: VR Will Get Huge, But Devs Need to Survive and Avoid Hype Until it Does

Road to VR

It’s a belief that started at least as far back as when he advised and invested in Oculus prior to the company’s 2014 acquisition by Facebook. The price point is gonna have to come down. […] CPU, GPU, head mounted display—the whole kit—I believe has got to be significantly under $1,000 for the consumer.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

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The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. The Santa Cruz standalone VR unit that Oculus is working on was briefly mentioned but no new version of the prototype was shown.

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Don’t feed the FUD; VR sales won’t flatline. Here’s 4 reasons why

RealVision VR

The other image is an Imax®-in-your-pocket like offering; A VR head mounted display. Barco even chose to introduce the concept via a VR headset – the Samsung GearVR, to drive the point home about the future of immersive movie viewing. That first image in the composite is of a movie presentation format: Barco Escape.

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5 things Marketing and AD Agencies need to know about Virtual and Mixed Reality

RealVision VR

The current generation of VR head mounted displays are already beginning to show what’s possible with room scale VR. Oculus’ rift and even the Samsung GearVR (a darling of VR marketing depts) will soon have room scale tracking capability. We’ll revisit points 2 and 3 later again in this article.

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Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years

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As a side note, I’m so glad we collectively stuck with calling it head-mounted displays, and not something like “VR Helmet”, “VR Glasses”, or any of the other many attempts to call it something else. And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. non-literal quote from head professor). Don’t have one yet? VR was here.