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A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship

TechCrunch VR

As free promotion for hardware startups go, one would be hard pressed to point to something better than a $175 million Spielberg film. “It Early versions of the Austin, Texas hardware startup’s product were on writer Ernest Cline’s radar well before the film’s pre-production began. It was actually Warner Bros.

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Live Comedy Show ‘Comedy Living Room’ Coming to Altspace Thursday

Road to VR

But now that the landlady has sold the house where it all started, CLR has turned to VR, or specifically, AltspaceVR, a social VR platform which established itself on early Samsung, Oculus, and HTC headsets back in 2015, and now supports all major VR hardware including Daydream.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! The newspaper describes the glasses as the hardware through which Tim Cook will leave his legacy because they are a new product line fully built under his management. There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article.

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Building The VR Experiences And Worlds of the Future

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Kim Pallister, the director of Intel’s virtual reality center of excellence, moderated a fireside chat about that topic with science fiction writer Austin Grossman at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. Snow Crash imprinted [the idea of virtual life] on the culture,” Grossman said.

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‘Finding Pandora X’ Is Live VR Theater At Its Absolute Finest

VRScout

The technology will need to play catch up to our dreams, but it will become more viable the more people have the hardware and the more the software becomes easier to manipulate,” said Kashani. ” How do you see VR technology playing a role in the future of live performance art? “There’s a huge possibility here.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

NEW CONTROLLERS & NEW GAMES ON HORIZON FOR HTC VIVE AND VALVE. The founder of Valve, Gabe Newell (known as “Lord Gaben” to some), recently teased us with the promise that Valve is developing three VR games — and designing new hardware at the same time. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: HTC Vive’s Viveport Launches Subscription Service. is also a company focused on AR development.