AR Insider

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

With that backdrop, the Games Developer Conference (GDC) is returning to San Francisco in March, including lots of AR & VR focus. The GDC Expo showcases the latest game development tools and services from leading technology companies such as Amazon, Epic, Google, Intel, Nvidia, Oculus, and Sony.

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2018

Written and directed by up-and-coming French VR Director Paul Mezier, Overview has been available since March on HTC Vive, but has now launched on the Oculus Rift as well. Download the educational experience now via the Oculus Store, Viveport or Steam for $9.99. It has since been shown at festivals such as Cannes.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others. Right away you see why this startup is gathering accolades.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2018

Sairento , which plays like a mashup between Raw Data (2017) and Superhot VR (2017) , offers players the chance to become an agile super-ninja, wielding swords, guns, bows, and more. The game has been released across all major VR platforms (Steam, Oculus, and Viveport), and holds respectable ratings across the board.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Written and directed by up-and-coming French VR Director Paul Mezier, Overview has been available since March on HTC Vive but now launched on Oculus Rift as well, Available on the Oculus Store, Viveport and Steam for $9,99. It has since been shown at festivals such as Cannes.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Speaking today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, SuperData analyst Stephanie Llamas said that the company scaled back its forecast for PSVR because of scarcity of supply at the initial launch and the lack of marketing Sony put into the headset’s October debut. This post originally appeared on VentureBeat by Dean Takahashi. .

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Over the past year he’s served as Vice President of Platform Products at WEVR but, most recently, he was planning a San Francisco-based startup, FormVR. We’re going to design and sell products, make compelling presentations and understand complex data.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive might offer a superior VR experience to PlayStation VR, but there’s one very big reason the latter is poised to perform better on the market, at least in the short term. We’ve reached out to AMD to ask to share such data. tipatat (@tipatat) December 7, 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. This expertise is also paid very well , with high salaries in cities like London or San Francisco. Add custom environments to your Oculus Quest… if you can.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Although gaze detection data and input didn’t make its way into this generation of consumer VR headsets, it’s expected that the technology holds the key to allowing systems to cope with the demands of higher resolution, next gen headsets.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2017

He’s taking my call as he pounds the pavements in San Francisco between meetings at an industry conferece, so I have to contend with traffic and street sounds in the background. Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 12, 2017

In the 2016 State of the Industry report , Oculus Rift dominated conversations over all other headsets largely in part because a significant amount had tried the device (77% for Rift) over Google Cardboard (46%), Gear VR (31%), PlayStation VR (21%), and well over the HTC Vive (19%). Source: GDC 2017 State of the Industry Report.

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2017

Oculus has officially announced their slate of games for 2017. At GDC 17 in San Francisco, we were able to try each one. Alongside the many announcements and demos at last week’s GDC, Oculus had a few major ones to share. And because this game runs on Oculus Touch, you select them by picking them up with your hands.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

Today at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Intel revealed Project Alloy, an all-in-one mobile virtual reality headset which the company says will launch in 2017 as an “open platform.” See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR. Photo courtesy Intel.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 3, 2020

The San Francisco 49ers and the Sacramento Kings also published AR experiences in the past aimed at team spirit. Training AR can also be used for learning and practicing different sports with the help of real-time data visualization of one’s moves, speed, precision, and technique. © Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd 6. © PuttView 7.

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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. A new report from International Data Corp is now live, predicting that the immersive technology market will rise by 100%+ over each of the next four years. … well, sort of.

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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. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. A genius has found a smart way to cover the Oculus Home button on Quest controllers for public demos.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION. Teleportation has become a common way to move users around a virtual environment, but Oculus was just granted a patent for a novel method of movement that could be more intuitive.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

is a company that aims at using the data from the cameras of all the phones running AR applications, send them to a server, and merge them all together to create a full mesh representing the whole world. VRX is a very interesting virtual reality event that will take place in San Francisco, from 12th to 13th December.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.” This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth.

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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. We’ll be live on the scene providing updates on all the best offerings.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One wearer said she was assaulted outside a San Francisco bar in 2014 for wearing the glasses. It bought Oculus for $2 billion in 2014, a move that signaled the start of massive investment in these technologies. This feature is called “passthrough” on recent Oculus headsets, and it could be Apple’s initial approach as well.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

According to a report by UploadVR , citing emails sent from Facebook to Oculus developers, the rumored Rift S headsets will be revealed next week at GDC. Rift S was first brought to light in a TechCrunch report last year about the leadership shakeup at Oculus and purported shifting product plans. Image courtesy Oculus.

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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. The real challenge in making the experience as close to real and true as possible lies in the accuracy of data. Ever wonder what that’s like?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 15, 2017

They’re sadly immobile, not the mesmerizing spiral of metal Dyas had designed, long ago inspired by falling Sycamore seeds outside his flat in San Francisco. Exploration peaks outside of the ship, under the visage of its massive, arching hulls. We have to make stuff to learn about it and get the audience feedback.”.

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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 reminded me of a speech by Mike Abrash , chief scientist at Oculus, speaking last fall. He said the brain doesn’t see the raw data of reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Speaking at the recent VRX virtual reality event in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, Riccitiello wasn’t gleeful about it, but he noted he was right about the “ gap of disappointment ” at our GamesBeat Summit event in May. Oculus is searching for an overall leader again, and that comes after a rocky year.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

Last year, he got the call to move to San Francisco and take over the reign over the company, and build relationships with different franchise owners. We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. That I was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As this episode goes live, Alan’s away giving a talk at the XR Intelligence conference in San Francisco. Today, we’re speaking with Kathryn Bloxham from Reuters Events brand, XR Intelligence, about their amazing business conference, VRX happening in San Francisco, December 12th and 13th. Kathryn: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Pokemon Go is putting digital objects around you anywhere, Foursquare’s the data elements of that. And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. And then the third part of SuperWorld is Monopoly. Hrish: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Pokemon Go is putting digital objects around you anywhere, Foursquare’s the data elements of that. And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It’s on Steam and Oculus. And then the third part of SuperWorld is Monopoly. Hrish: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As this episode goes live, Alan’s away giving a talk at the XR Intelligence conference in San Francisco. Today, we’re speaking with Kathryn Bloxham from Reuters Events brand, XR Intelligence, about their amazing business conference, VRX happening in San Francisco, December 12th and 13th. Kathryn: Yes.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Pokemon Go is putting digital objects around you anywhere, Foursquare's the data elements of that. And we have a big data strategy at SuperWorld. So we've launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. It's on Steam and Oculus. And then that would be characterized as kind of like Pokemon Go meets Foursquare, right?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. So, take SuperData’s data with a grain of salt.

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