Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2017

HBO’s show Silicon Valley entertains with tales of the pervasive startup culture of California’s San Francisco Bay Area. Oculus and 360fly booths can also be spotted. In the next episode when the Pied Piper crew attends Hooli-Con, careful viewers will spot an Avegant Glyph booth in the background of one of the shots.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Architects have traditionally been communicating these visual narratives through drawings, 3D models and 2D digital simulations, and although these methods have proven to work, they do not allow a person to truly feel as if they are inside the property. About the Author.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 11, 2017

Whatever the case may be, I had to deal with acrophobia all the time until about a year ago, when I moved to Los Angeles, California. The pitch of the game was to simulate what it was like to climb Mt. Rizzo’s primary focus is to combat PTSD as he places them in a controlled environment that simulates combat scenarios.

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VR Game Critic

JUNE 12, 2018

This is the time of the year gaming journalists across the world migrate to Los Angeles California to experience, uncover and enjoy what the games industry has been working on.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

For this project, codenamed Steno, they partnered with the University of California San Francisco’s Chang Lab, who performed some experiments implanting electrodes into the brain of patients to let them type sentences just by thinking about them. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Interestingly enough, the open world features wildlife simulations provided by IBM’s Watson. Speaking of the Metaverse… say hi to Metaworld. Curioser and curioser…. Developers, rejoice!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

We’re still waiting on that epic jedi VR simulator that everyone wants deep down in their heart of hearts, but there are a few concepts sprinkled around to satiate a bit of the appetite. I know that Raw Data , a cooperative multiplayer wave-based survival game by Survios for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, is not a Star Wars experience.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started because I actually tested, like everyone, the first generation of Oculus, and then the second, and so on… and I was expecting like better visual quality … [me too!] HTC, Oculus, Sony are not offering headsets with big FOV and resolution… while you, Varjo, Pimax, are. Why have you started this adventure? (

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Lindero Edutainment is 2-year-old VR production company based out of California. Lindero's VR content was designed for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, which is accessible to a niche audience able to afford headsets and additional hardware; VR's financial premises hence enter a tug-of-war with the general audience's desire to enjoy free content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. Kura is a little startup in California that is working on a pair of lightweight AR glasses. The “Cablegate” is hurting Oculus Rift CV1 owners. Image by Kura). Kura teases second-gen AR glasses, but…. News worth a mention.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2023

Oculus Connect. Started by Oculus in 2014, Connect was where the earliest of early adopters could meet and learn how to make their games and apps happen for the first consumer VR headsets. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect. Why is that? Starting in 2020, Connect was exclusively livestreamed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! This week we had details on two research projects: a lens with a variable focus that may solve the vergence-accommodation problem ; and an AI system that builds realistic simulations of the muscles, bones, and joints that enable humans to move, which can help in building more realistic avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The market is at best 50% reopening , and we have seen the continued shutdown of California. Using the term LBVR has a danger of being confused with the Location-Based VR market that is a general term for training, and simulation , the definition of entertainment shows this specific focus. Is LBVR dead? ” [cit.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2018

Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab by Oculus. A single player mystery adventure set within the Blade Runner 2049 timeline, this Oculus-exclusive detective-style experience was a refreshing change of pace from the multiple wave-based shooters present at the time. Coco VR by Disney Pixar.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This, the company hopes, could one day give users the ability to bypass our senses to virtually simulate vision, touch, taste, and effectively our entire perception. neural dust, Image courtesy University of California, Berkeley. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Today's guest is Kevin Kunze , an award-winning interactive filmmaker based out of Berkeley, California. We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. Psst, which ones don't have guns?"

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InstaVR

MARCH 27, 2019

You can test different packaging and store layouts to see if your products get more attention in a simulated VR shopping experience. For example, if you’ve posted your completed app to iTunes, Google Play, Web, and the Oculus Store — you can see exactly which of these channels gets the most plays.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

7,000 building models making up the city simulation would have been enormous. For his dissertation, Mueller developed a simulation of Manhattan. The Oculus Rift shipped in spring 2016. He was very impressed and offered us direct access to executives of Oculus, who helped us in various ways to develop our VR applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2020

I’ve been with Nvidia for a little over two and a half years and I came out of a research group at the University of Utah were I managed a 200-person research group that focused on high performance computing simulation and most importantly visualization of high-end scientific data.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 4, 2020

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators. We are actually hosting an app on the Oculus Quest. And these cannot be captured.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 4, 2020

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators. We are actually hosting an app on the Oculus Quest. And these cannot be captured.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 4, 2020

Today, we're speaking with Aravind Upadhyaya, co-founder and CEO of 8chili, an Oakland, California based startup, bringing the dream of telesurgery to the real world. And that's what is missing in the cadavers or the existing VR simulators. We are actually hosting an app on the Oculus Quest. And these cannot be captured.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Hello everyone from Palo Alto, California! Omniverse Avatars are interactive AI avatars that combine technologies in speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding , recommendation engines, and simulation. Megadodo simulation has announced a hard pivot for its Decagear headset. Decagear headset is going to pivot.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2018

If you are into VR since some years, you surely remember that at the good old times of Oculus DK2, the limit was actually 7 in the beginning, but then was raised to 13 to play safer. We recently released the VRQ app on Viveport, Oculus and Gear, and are gathering data on nausea sensitivity across age group and between sexes.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. She has Masters in Economics, University of California, Berkeley. A veteran in video games, serious games, and simulation industry. 34- Nick Cherukuri.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

His content works with all VR HMD's including HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PSVR, Samsung Gear and Cardboard. He's also built an interactive experience, the "Waifu Sex Simulator", on MocuMocuDance , for Vive and Oculus users to be able to physically touch and move their waifu. San Diego Comic Con.

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