Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Google’s newly announced ‘Daydream’ promises to raise the bar for virtual reality on Android compared to Cardboard. We also see Google’s new VR controller reference design in action, which allows gesture-based interactions within the virtual world.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Assuming you aren’t actually hosting Thanksgiving, undoubtedly the easiest VR systems to lug around would be the selection of mobile VR headsets currently on offer, namely Google Daydream and Gear VR. The original PlayStation VR Demo Disc | Photo by Road to VR. Google Earth VR. Fruit Ninja VR. Oh, and definitely play Moss.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

While many were pumped to see a new iPhone, Watch, and Apple TV announced at Apple’s special event from the brand-new Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, we’ve all been waiting to hear more about the company’s augmented and virtual reality efforts.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. And when you have finished it, you have immediately 5 demos of games that are waiting for you. When I demo the Quest to people, everyone loves it. User Experience. And the reason is mostly one: the content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 29, 2017

Even when René Pinnell launched Kaleidoscope’s virtual reality festival in 2015, his vision had always been to build a funding platform to help independent VR creators and studios raise money for their original VR projects. There is money to be made by investing in virtual reality. Now that day is here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In October, Igloo Vision , a major provider of immersive collaborative spaces, refurbished its demo centre in London to provide five novel immersive spaces for its Hoxton-based showroom. What a FANTASTIC day yesterday opening our newly refurbed London demo centre Missed out & want to see if for yourself?

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Cats and VR

APRIL 24, 2017

During VRLA 2017 Spring Expo I ran into Jonathan Krusell, former Executive Producer at Mindshow and now Producer for Google Daydream. I told Jonathan that the Google Daydream booth at GDC kind of bored me and I was not impressed by Ubisofts Rabbids VR game demo. Just a tad bit bored with Google Daydream at GDC.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Mr. Mi highlighted his passion for using virtual reality to teach creativity to children and in fact, all four Lenqiy’s products are aimed at fostering creativity in children. He also said that Space Code too is similar to a project of MIT and Google called Scratch.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 17, 2018

WEARVR.com, the web's leading independent virtual reality app store, is launching a brand new competition aimed at seasoned virtual reality developers, which challenges them with updating their original Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 demos, games and experiences and bringing them back for the latest Oculus headset.

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2017

Last month, Google launched their Blocks VR creation tool , enabling anyone to 3D model low polygon objects with no prior modeling experience required. Daydream Labs is a way for the Google VR team to explore different applications and interactions for virtual reality, pairing engineers with designers to rapidly prototype concepts.

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VRScout

JUNE 1, 2016

Now Microsoft has announced that they want to be a major part of virtual reality too. The latest concept demo video (above) shows three users, one wearing a HTC Vive, collaborating remotely to design the interior of a retail store. The post Microsoft Wants to Power Virtual Reality Headsets appeared first on VRScout.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 1, 2024

According to reports, Meta reportedly snubbed a potential partnership with Google that would have seen the pair collaborate on an extended reality platform. Meta currently runs a modified version of Android on its headsets, but Google has not made its full suite of apps available.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

More info (Roblox is coming to Quest — Road To VR) More info (Roblox is coming to Quest — Upload VR) More info (Roblox on Quest may increase scrutiny on the platform) Other relevant news (Image by WIRED) Mark Lucovsky has left Google Mark Lucovsky has just left Google. More info iVRy makes the PSVR2 work with SteamVR!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

PanguVR works with two amazing technologies like virtual reality and artificial intelligence , so I was really interested in talking with him. We agreed that we would have met virtually so that I could discover more about his company anyway. You can see a demo of it here. In other words, what you see is what you get.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2017

Google is celebrating some new milestones this week with an announcement at Mobile World Congress that more than 10 million Cardboard viewers have shipped worldwide. This week during GDC, Google announced that Sky VR is now available for download. Google also teased a slew of new titles that were available to demo at GDC.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the meanwhile, in physical stores, clerks are preparing to provide demos during the launch weekend of February, 2nd. The most affected by this “restructuring operation” is the “1P AR Hardware” team, the one working on augmented reality devices. This does not mean that Google is not still committed to AR, though.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2016

NBC’s popular late night talk show The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon has debuted a new segment called Virtual Reality Pictionary which uses the HTC Vive and Google’s Tilt Brush VR paint app. Jimmy Fallon is no stranger to VR. He’s also had the HTC Vive on the show in a number of one-off segments.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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VRScout

JUNE 7, 2016

The Google VR team is exploring and sharing the possibilities of multiplayer VR with bowling and puzzle collaboration. After unveiling Google’s VR eco-system Daydream during the keynote at their annual I/O developer conference, Google is showing off more of their latest VR prototyping from the team at Daydream Labs.

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ARPost

JANUARY 31, 2022

BRCvr – the official virtual Burning Man event) to AltspaceVR last year, is giving us a little something between burns. See Also: 2021 Burning Man: A Virtual Reality Experience Is Coming Your Way. The event inspired Jacobson and Demos to organize a specific day to celebrate the experience through film.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, virtual reality can be a little … intense. You might have thought you were too cool for this demo that comes pre-installed on the Quest 2, but you might learn something. At the time, it was how a lot of people had their first experience in virtual reality. That’s true at any age. First Steps (Quest 2).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Also, the awareness has grown , because every gamer knew about Alyx, and so about virtual reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 28, 2017

A lot of people believe that when things are all said and done that augmented reality (AR) will be the dominant technology over the likes of virtual reality (VR.) On the heels of Apple’s developer-friendly ARKit announcement users have already taken to the toolset to create some amazing proof of concept demos.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

now sporting Google VR ‘Daydream’ and OSVR native support. It also ships with a preview of the company’s impressive VR Editor, which allows developers to natively build their 3D applications entirely from virtual reality. Elsewhere, UE4 4.12 Elsewhere, UE4 4.12 The post Unreal Engine 4.12

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Luckily, it’s easy to find yourself a free demo of any VR major system out there. With high performance VR motion controllers right in the box, the system offers a highly immersive experience that lets you physically walk around a room-sized space while immersed in virtual reality. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location.

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InstaVR

JULY 8, 2019

The best way to learn though is to reach out to our sales team for a demo (contact at instavr.co) or sign up for a Free trial on our web site. There’s two ways to publish to Android — In-House (self-distribute) or Store (via Google Play). For Google Play Store, we’ll create a.apk file and.obb file.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 23, 2016

6 Reasons Why Virtual Reality Will Thrive in Film and Entertainment Mashable went to the Sundance Film Festival in January to try out the new VR film demos. They were clearly unimpressed by a couple of technical glitches so they came out with “ 10 reasons virtual reality ‘films’ are still a pretty terrible experience. ”

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

Google is working on ways to create the most realistic sense of presence while in VR. To help with that, Google has been experimenting with light fields to show how VR can come as close as possible to what you’d actually see if you were there. Download the demo for free and check it out for yourself. Image Credit: Google VR.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

This is something Google doesn`t yet have. Tell them I sent you and they will give you a demo :) [link] Elm Park : AR solutions for enterprise. “Worldwide Point Cloud to be Used by Users” Immersal : collaboratively turning the world into a point cloud, which is ready for location-based AR content. I hope it works as they advertise.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We’re live from Google’s Pixel phone media event, where we got hand’s on with the company’s new Daydream View VR headset. Much like the Google Cardboard and Gear VR, Daydream View is powered by your phone (in this case a Google Pixel phone). Google announced three colors for the fabric covering: slate, snow and crimson.

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Immersive Authority

JANUARY 12, 2016

Basic virtual reality browser based solutions have existed since the 90’s (e.g.browsers which supported VRML, the Virtual Reality Modelling Language that allowed you to create 3D interactive worlds). Mozilla and Google are the major players in enabling WebVR through the Firefox and Chrome browsers.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

When filing a UK trademark companies must specify the product categories they wish it to cover, from an approved prewritten list, and Samsung selected: Virtual reality headsets; Augmented reality headsets; Headphones; Smartphones; Smart glasses. The XR Headset With Google?

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AllThingsVR

MAY 17, 2016

EyeSight demos VR gesture control using standard phone hardware Over the past few years EyeSight has been establishing a name for itself by bringing gesture control to a series of computing platforms, from mobile devices to smart eyeglasses. The offering does so without the need for any additional hardware, utilizing the phone’s CMOS sensors.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 6, 2019

Google showed off virtual reality designed around cardboard in 2014, but it looks like Nintendo is ready to get in on the action now as well with a new Labo VR kit for the Switch that puts the system inches from your face. In Labo fashion, there are some pretty outlandish projects to be built here. The sets launch April 12.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Google have announced that developers itching to get started on building Android VR games using the Unity game engine can do so right now using a Daydream plugin. The post Unity Native Support for Google Daydream VR Coming in Summer, Plugin Out Now appeared first on Road to VR.

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VR Game Critic

JUNE 7, 2016

Following up on the debut of the Daydream virtual reality platform unveiled at Google I/O last month, Google posted on Tuesday two new examples of what it's cooking up at its Daydream Labs.

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