Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 10, 2019

The Rizort VR app works on headsets such as the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear to allow potential guests to virtually explore hotels, resorts and experiences from anywhere in the world Click To Tweet. To date, the San-Francisco based company has raised $2.9M To date, the San-Francisco based company has raised $2.9M

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VRScout

JANUARY 28, 2020

If I were a betting man, I’d put money on each location offering access to popular VR experiences available on existing headsets like the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift S rather than developing their own original content. The ill-fated Atari Jaguar headset in all its glory / Image Credit: Geek.com. Feature Image Credit: Atari Inc.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry’s next bet is a series of technologies usually called augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality. Here’s what the biggest companies in tech are doing to try and make augmented reality the next big thing. Display technology is another limiting factor for augmented reality.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 13, 2019

If there’s a good metric for finding out whether virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality companies are doing well then just look at their job vacancies. San Francisco, CA. Dublin, CA. Unreal Mobile Rendering Engineer. Click Here to Apply. London, UK. Software Engineer, React VR. Click Here to Apply.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s since when I launched my blog that I always dreamed of interviewing someone from Oculus , and finally today this dream has come true. The VRX conference will be held in San Francisco on December, 12-13th and will feature very high-level speakers from companies like Oculus/Facebook, HP, Snap and many others.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2019

Fable, founded by former Oculus Story Studio alumni, today announced a distinct pivot in their focus, moving from an immersive storytelling studio to a “virtual beings” company which plans to build persistent, AI-powered, characters which can interact naturally with viewers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. This expertise is also paid very well , with high salaries in cities like London or San Francisco.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Beach Body Bros – While showcasing Oculus Medium as a production-ready sculpting tool, Beach Body Bros takes you on a ridiculous musical journey through a world of pure muscle, intense strength, and stupid greatness. Neural AR: Immersive Augmented Reality With Real-Time Neural Style Transfer.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well. Image courtesy Oculus. Santa Cruz is Oculus’ high-end standalone VR headset.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Hardware-wise, the business uses Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset with Oculus for Business, not the generic customer hardware available in stores. Virtual reality has gotten an overall bump and better reputation from the coronavirus pandemic, but is yet to massively be adopted among edtech founders.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

In all seriousness though, this is a post meant to inspire thoughtful, informed discussion about virtual and augmented reality. Next week, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) will be getting underway in San Francisco and this year’s show should be a big one for VR. And Daddy Zuck has very deep pockets.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

The company, which also has offices in San Francisco, has raised $502 million in funding led by SoftBank, with previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures also participating. He was hired in 2012 by founder Palmer Luckey directly; they were longtime friends before Dycus became the first Oculus employee.

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ARPost

AUGUST 16, 2019

This report comes two months ahead of the company’s XRDC conference , which will take place in San Francisco on October 14-15. After three years of dominance in the top for platforms preferred by developers, HTC VIVE hands the crown to Oculus in 2019. As you may know, Oculus launched this headset model only a few months ago.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I had the chance to demo the headset in-person in San Francisco and my first impression of the device was around just how compact and well-designed the hardware appeared. It’s designed for portability with a compact design and 189 gram weight, though there are some big caveats which I’ll get to later.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

As social media giant Facebook begins its push into 2020, buoyed by the success of Oculus Quest and with social virtual reality (VR) world Horizon in the works, the company has announced a new hire, event management and ticketing platform Eventbrite’s chief marketing officer (CMO) Brian Irving.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

And the video trailer showed a guy playing with a gamepad and the Apple headset , like people playing with the Oculus CV1 at launch. Terms Tim Cook has clearly called the technology “Augmented Reality”, so Apple did not invent any fancy names for it. What year is it? 2016 or 2023? Which is good news.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

VRDC will take place November 2-3, 2016 in the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, CA. To register or submit your speaking abstract by July 8, visit: vrdconf.com.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

After much recent speculation of a possible price drop, the HTC Vive has joined the Oculus Rift in the discount club—cutting $200 off the previously $799 tag. Facebook recently launched its Camera Effects platform for augmented reality, so this acquisition of talent/patents/IP could help their near-term uses for Fayteq’s technology.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Virtual and augmented reality technology is being used to help people who are blessed with perfect vision – and lots of interesting solutions are out there. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company. LETS COUNT THE WAYS.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

More info (Interview video) More info (UploadVR’s selection of most interesting XR things) More info (John Carmack on augmented reality) More info (John Carmack on LBVR multiplayer SDK). VRX is a very interesting virtual reality event that will take place in San Francisco, from 12th to 13th December.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

During a recent meeting with Microsoft in San Francisco, I got to try the VR controllers for the first time paired with the Acer Windows VR headset. With both a trackpad and a thumbstick, they look like a crossbreed of the Oculus Touch controllers and the Vive controllers.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 1, 2018

Tribe’s VR DJ school – now available on Oculus – does this by allowing anyone to learn to DJ and mix music using a virtual deck which mimics the setup used in nightclubs around the world. Wannabe DJs learn controls and techniques from virtual DJ mentors, and mix sets.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This week, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco —the flagship hub for the tech giant’s efforts in mixed reality (MR). To help fuel this opportunity, we are expanding our investment in technologies that enable the broader ecosystem to create for mixed reality worldwide.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2017

Since the launch of Tilt Brush last year, we’ve witnessed a surge in creative expression in immersive technologies, amplified by the presence of other applications popping onto the scene, such as MasterpieceVR , Oculus Medium , Quill , Kingspray , ANIMVR , and Sketchfab. That is, until May 20 at Terra Gallery in San Francisco.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. But actually, HTC , once the biggest competitor Oculus had, added these functionalities to its devices one month before Meta , but the news was not reported by the main VR magazines.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

More sharp eyed readers of this post can see the pixel grid on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, and this is where Varjo hopes to make the difference. Still, using an Oculus Rift for a demo instead of an actual prototype is somewhat underwhelming, which was noted by several major media outlets.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing. Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 22, 2014

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. At the same time, GetVu wants to bring a new level of control to augmented reality with Leap Motion technology.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 20, 2017

Well, put your lemonade down and get your VR headset on, because one San Francisco-based company is doing just that – placing you directly in the driver’s seat. Users can watch via iPad, mobile, PC or tethered VR headsets: HTC Vive (through Steam VR and Viveport) and Oculus Rift. Ever wonder what that’s like?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

We were meeting virtually in a Beta version of the much-anticipated Social VR platform – I was in London and he in San Francisco – and everything worked smoothly enough for me to believe they might actually pull this off. As Sansar matures and the mobile VR platform matures, they will intersect,” Altberg said.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. The conference is organized by VR Intelligence, London-based firm whose leaders don’t hide that there’s an inflation of VR-related events.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

I was looking back at my 8+ years in the field, and I could identify already a few cycles of consumer XR: The devkit cycle: it’s the era of the good old days of Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2. This era ended with the launch of the first consumer-oriented PC VR headsets: the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift CV1. Our future is there.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2018

The app launched in Early Access on the Oculus Store in December. San Francisco-based VR development startup Tribe VR is concentrating on immersive learning applications for virtual and augmented reality to enable users to learn real-world skills.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

We caught up with Diplopia creator James Blaha to discover how his work with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller could change how we see the world. San Francisco, CA. Oculus Rift image courtesy of Oculus VR. Oculus Rift image courtesy of Oculus VR. Read more ». 888 Brannan St.,

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Using the algorithms acquired with 6D.ai, Niantic can so finally let developers offer augmented reality experiences that are shared and persistent in a location, that is exactly what we need for our mixed reality future. San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle? Other news. Learn more.

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