VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Bennett was an entertainment industry veteran with 27 years of experience in film, television, and music. In 2016 they teamed up with Samsung to simulate an in-game basketball experience for the Rio Olympics. Two Bit’s Jake Sally taking someone through the Samsung Olympic experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

More info (CREAL announcing its new lightfield innovation) More info (Video showing the technology in action) Samsung acquires eMagin Samsung has just acquired eMagin, an American manufacturer of OLED microdisplays for AR/VR headsets, for $218M.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Perfectly located at the intersection of tech and entertainment, there’s no better place like LA, which has rapidly become the center of the VR content industry. Part industry event and part immersive tech festival, VRLA is a place where seasoned veterans can catch up on their latest updates while newcomers experience VR for the first time.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Saturday sessions feature industry experts from companies including Facebook, Glitched, VIVEPORT, The Third Floor, Vulcan, Kilograph, Framestore, VIBEHub, Walt Disney Animation, TheWaveVR, Chaos Group, Light Sail VR, Sunnyboy Entertainment, OTOY and more. Attendees can sign up for Circuit Stream’s workshops when they register for VRLA.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Juanita: How do you simulate flight in VR movies? Shaun: The method we use most of the time to simulate flight is via helicopter, with a stabilized camera on the nose of the aircraft. They also have proven to have very attractive ROI economics for developers/owners/venues. Shaun MacGillivray.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 19, 2017

You play the role of a young boy in bed tormented by visions of demonic clowns in an experience that could only be described as the worst possible form of entertainment for someone with coulrophobia (clown fear). By far the scariest of the three (at least to me), Night Night is an absolutely unsettling journey into abstract horror.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Google details Project Starline. Honestly, I think it will be the next project abandoned by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Together with this piece of news, Bloomberg also reported that PSVR 2 will feature an OLED display manufactured by Samsung. Every time someone will look for that game, he would find as the first result on Google the negative review by Carmack. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

Small studios and children’s entertainment see the most value in virtual reality. Samsung Gear VR expected 3.5 As of January 2016, Google Cardboard has shipped over 5 million units. Black Box VR – VR Workout Simulator. Birdly – Flight Simulator. Gen Z is the the most passionate segment in VR.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 23, 2019

All a user needs to access Virtual Reality is a headset like the Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Go — or really even just an iOS or Android smartphone and a Google Cardboard. Virtual Reality also, when built properly, will be interactive. Interactivity leads to a more memorable education experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

With the proliferation of mobile VR platforms like Google Cardboard and the new Daydream View, as well as Samsung Gear VR and others, Zhou believes that now is the right time for VR to go mainstream. The former Google senior research scientist partnered with former TangoMe marketing manager Elaine Lu to co-found Visbit in 2015.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. Let’s look back: Early trials: Virgin Atlantic ’s 2014 trial at London Heathrow Airport – in collaboration with SITA – included both Google Glass and the Sony SmartWatch 2.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Of course, not everyone wants to—or can—be on their feet for long periods, and plenty of immersive entertainment, like watching movies, is sedentary. Focused, acute pulses simulate sharp points; broader, more distributed ones can simulate sensations like dipping into water. Weight is tougher to simulate in VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

We’ve got great new apps from the BBC and Google and there’s some cool content for Gear VR, too. Blocks, from Google. Blocks is Google’s shot at getting everyone involved with VR content creation. Time to get stuck in. If you missed the previous entry of this list you can see those new releases here.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

You could do some sick simulations and distortions of the real world. Amazon, Tesla, Google, Facebook, and others, including most autonomous vehicle companies, are building the same for various purposes. ” He said “I learned Google is learning faster than we are.” Go even further.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications. Being that it was the first HMD both quality of the interfac e and realism of the simulation were rather low, and it weighed so much that it had to be suspended from the ceiling by metal cables. .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Now, with the Vision Pro App Store and the general availability of the device’s SDK for developers, Apple is opening up its upcoming MR headset for a trove of system-selling services ready for its 2024 debut, covering various use cases from gaming to communications to productivity to entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

to play simulation games) or if you don’t need to play games where controllers tracking is fundamental, like competitive shooters. In the communication, it is emphasized that it is able to work with 5G phones from different brands like Sony and Samsung. Google releases the Objectron dataset. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We already know that Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm are working on a competitor of the Vision Pro, which should be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Gen2+ and cost around $2000. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector. The price is $399.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A few games had come out that were barely functional, along with the occasional flight simulator. What makes VR marketing so compelling - is that you can now offer people an experience that is fully contained within the simulation and can expand the user’s line of empathy unlike anything before.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

It’s a healthy week of new releases across both Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear, with a combination of free and premium experiences you shouldn’t pass up. There’s also a Google Earth-style God Mode that allows you to explore every inch of it. Emmerholt: Prologue, from Oneiric Entertainment LLC. InMind 2 VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info (Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI) More info (The Q* algorithm could be the reason why Altman was fired) News worth a mention Samsung trademarks “Samsung Glasses” Samsung has filed a trademark for “Samsung Glasses” in the UK. And guess who is one of his first guests? This seems like a very good partnership.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2018

television entertainment. Up for award of Outstanding Original Interactive Program : Back to The Moon by Google. Originally released November of 2017 for the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR, Disney’s first foray into VR was much more than a simple promotional tool for the Disney Pixar animated film, Coco.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Whether it be visiting family members or entertaining friends, most can agree there are few celebrations more stressful than that of the holiday season. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, many families find themselves in crunch mode as they prepare for the unbridled chaos of the upcoming holiday season.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Collectively, these people have shipped Island 359 , Job Simulator , and Fantastic Contraption , some of the most well-known titles out today. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google). Alex Lee (Google). Experiments in Social VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So it started mostly as people in gaming a few years ago and the entertainment side, and gradually is actually getting more and more focused on enterprise customers. So this event is what we would call an ecosystem event, so it’s all-encompassing, everyone in the XR world, be it entertainment, gaming, enterprise, investment.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2018

I didn’t know that: Google has still to coordinate with OEMs and so at the moment there is no ARCore-compatible tablet. And it can also be used in training experience to simulate extreme situations (think about firefighters training, for instance). A Samsung Odyssey and a haptic vest: this setting makes VR more realistic.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So it started mostly as people in gaming a few years ago and the entertainment side, and gradually is actually getting more and more focused on enterprise customers. So this event is what we would call an ecosystem event, so it’s all-encompassing, everyone in the XR world, be it entertainment, gaming, enterprise, investment.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Generally speaking, the current state of the virtual reality market is a way for users to wear VR headsets (sometimes referred to as goggles) that sit on top of or in front of your eyes and/or face to provide an immersive entertainment experience. Google offers its Cardboard brand of experiences, which is the lowest tier of VR available.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You’ve got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you’ve got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail — across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You’ve got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you’ve got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail — across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: It’s a good analogy of the flight simulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You've got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you've got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail -- across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend? Which is crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He's worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you're saying is you've created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: It's a good analogy of the flight simulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He’s worked with a variety of global clients, including Adidas, Samsung, Ernst and Young, Save the Children, Sony, IKEA, KPMG, Nokia, and the list goes on. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people. Christophe: It’s a good analogy of the flight simulator.

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