TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And really, there's been a lot of documentation around the bias that is created when you have face to face meetings, when you're actually looking at the person, it can create a bias that -- right or wrong -- it just is a bias. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. Google's got a head office there.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And really, there's been a lot of documentation around the bias that is created when you have face to face meetings, when you're actually looking at the person, it can create a bias that -- right or wrong -- it just is a bias. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. Google's got a head office there.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Austin: Thank you for having me, excited to be here.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And really, there's been a lot of documentation around the bias that is created when you have face to face meetings, when you're actually looking at the person, it can create a bias that -- right or wrong -- it just is a bias. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. Google's got a head office there.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. Joonmo: We tried very different kinds of devices, including Oculus Quest, or Pico device for 3DOF, and Samsung Gear. Have you been able to document an increase in revenues or a decrease in times?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. Joonmo: We tried very different kinds of devices, including Oculus Quest, or Pico device for 3DOF, and Samsung Gear. Have you been able to document an increase in revenues or a decrease in times?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. Joonmo: We tried very different kinds of devices, including Oculus Quest, or Pico device for 3DOF, and Samsung Gear. Have you been able to document an increase in revenues or a decrease in times?

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2018

While it’s only been released on the Vive Focus so far, Western audiences may soon have access to Beat Reality and/or similar visualizer apps with the proliferation of MR passthrough cameras on standalone headsets, similar to features we’ve seen on hardware such as Magic Leap One Creator Edition, Oculus Quest and the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. So one of things that I was doing throughout our journey with virtual reality was documenting all of the projects that we were carrying out. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. So one of things that I was doing throughout our journey with virtual reality was documenting all of the projects that we were carrying out. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2021

I mean, yes, it’s dead… I like to put on my dead Oculus Quest 2 to play dead beautiful games like InDeath: Unchained and have dead fun. At the end of 2017, VR Porn dot com published these statistics that proved that people were more interested in adult VR content than on Oculus’s official website.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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