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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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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

Road to VR

VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. Because even if Oculus sold 100 million VR headsets, but no third-party developer could make $1 million in revenue, then it wouldn’t be a platform; it would be a successful product for Oculus, but it wouldn’t be a viable platform to create an ecosystem of successful developers.

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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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‘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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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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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Oculus recently integrated your Facebook profile with your Oculus profile so that you can meet up with your real world friends and hang out in Oculus Rooms, which look like beautiful floating islands in the virtual sky. HULU WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN VIRTUAL REALITY. NEW CONTROLLERS & NEW GAMES ON HORIZON FOR HTC VIVE AND VALVE.

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Beloved former Nintendo prez craps all over Facebook and the metaverse

Mashable VR

At this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, Fils-Aimé took the opportunity to completely unload on Mark Zuckerberg's social media conglomerate, now known as Meta, while speaking with Emily Chang of Bloomberg. ” It doesn't end there.