VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Among the expected fare of films, games, animation, audio products and cosplay during the four-day conference, there was one obvious and unavoidable sorta newcomer to the scene — virtual reality. Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Its CEO, Ed Mason, has frequented the VR conference circuit for years now showing off headset designs. Unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to come back and see what he was showing with my own eyes before the conference ended, but after the show we did have a chance to dig into what GameFace is working on: the GF-LD headset.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

Now that the dust has settled on F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference, it’s time to look back and ask ourselves: what do those announcements actually mean for the end consumers? Leading up to F8, I wrote a piece highlighting five key predictions about what we’d discover at the conference. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

So what was he doing giving a keynote to a few hundred VR developers at VRLA 2017 last month, which, by the measure of the rest of the games conference industry, is a rather small affair? My friend Clay [Bavor, VP of VR] at Google, he’s investing and building… he’s creating something. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

It was no other than Google that delivered the first “million unit VR headset” By launching Cardboard VR application and the headset made out of… cardboard, Google set the stage for massive adoption of VR among developers, and the company isn’t stopping anytime soon. The difference between $75 million and $1.34

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

” The news comes after Apple debuted the Vision Pro at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June. This came amid the release of Pico 4 Enterprise and HTC’s XR Elite and Flow head-mounted displays (HMDs). And don’t just burden them with this massive price.” This is equivalent to $1,515.04

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

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. With companies gathering and the money starting to flow, so came some of the first VR developer conferences to existence.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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V-Rtifacts

MAY 22, 2012

Google has been tearing through the bandwidth over at the Patent Office in defense of Project Glass , April’s much touted announcement of Google’s entry into the world of augmented reality and head mounted displays. Trouble is: where’s the beef? Trouble is: where’s the beef?

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

AWE (Augmented World Expo), the largest and longest running conference and expo dedicated to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), officially opened its exhibition doors today to kick off the biggest event in the event’s 8-year history. www.kodakpixpro.com.

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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. The last few years, VR has been about putting on a head-mounted display and looking around,” Edwards said. “It It’s not just visual and sound.

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JULY 19, 2017

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. ” In addition to the VR Village, the Computer Animation Festival that is part of the conference is adding VR content projects to that portion of the event.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

That became obvious to everyone today as Apple announced a ton of new things, including new AR features for its messenger, and new privacy-focused features, at its World Wide Developer’s Conference. Same with Google. You know all those apps that make it easy to sign on by clicking a Facebook or Google button?

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear. Spending a lot of time in VR would sometimes cause simulator sickness.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. I've been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. And it also wasn't very comfortable to wear. Spending a lot of time in VR would sometimes cause simulator sickness.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear. Spending a lot of time in VR would sometimes cause simulator sickness.

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