VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. … well, sort of. Iñárritu’s new virtual reality film is showcased at LACMA.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Shared VR experiences seem to be the hot trend making rounds at film festivals this year. It wasn’t long ago that immersive lineups only included VR films that you had to explore by yourself. We got a chance to try the experience with friends at Sundance Film Festival. Afterall, VR is always better with friends.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The conference takes place in the heart of San Francisco at the Hilton Financial District Hotel. Already, content owners are experimenting with technologies, venue strategies, and business models to capture unprecedented levels of interest from consumers in trying virtual reality games, film, and interactive art.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Passing by this discreetly placed booth at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, you’d have no idea this was home to HBO’s first internally built experience in VR. The installation lacked all HBO branding, instead greeting you with a “Westworld: A Delos Destination” sign flanked by staff dressed head to toe in white.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Fast forward to this week at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, and it’s clear that Toyota brought their VR developer A game for the west coast debut of the all-new Toyota Prius Prime. After a quick e-mail signup, the experience begins with you donning a HTC VIVE headset and painting in a 3D space.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. Vancouver Film School, Canada. image courtesy VR First.

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MAY 2, 2017

Holospark, creators of the gorgeous VR app The Impossible Travel Agency , have returned to the VR space with something that aims to meld the best features of gaming and film into an interactive ghost story that can only be told from within a head-mounted display. You don’t have to wait long to try out Seance: The Unquiet for yourself.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. DISNEY USES VR FOR RESEARCH WHILE CEO SAYS WE’LL SEE AR AT THEME PARKS.

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JULY 5, 2017

Chinese “VR experience sites” have been so successful that HTC said it would open 10,000 of them in 2016. The HTC Vive costs $1,000 in China and consumers need a high-end gaming PC that could add thousands more to that price. Michael Park is the founder of LipSync , a VR and AR development studio based in San Francisco and Hong Kong.

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JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. Michael Park is the founder of LipSync , a VR and AR development studio based in San Francisco and Hong Kong.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The ceremony will be officiated by AltSpaceVR’s Community Manager and Social VR Content Creator Lisa Kotecki, who will be 5,000 miles away on the other side of the world in San Francisco. Guests receive formal invitation and there’s a process in place to manage RSVP and registration to make sure it all comes together.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Sony has a gameplan for its attempt to dominate the world of virtual reality experiences: a pocket full of priceless film franchises and an online store full of eager virtual reality users. The second most memorable detour is the pool room, a place of sanctuary in the film for Jennifer Lawrence’s character. Designing The Avalon.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We'll be talking about making an AR video with Will.i.am, creating art with Intel, and delivering on the promise of VR and AR with the San Francisco 49ers, San Jose Sharks, YouTube, and more. He's kind of like the Spike Lee of San Francisco, is what a lot of people say, but he works mainly in documentary.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 29, 2016

We’ve listed the companies below, each of which will be joining the accelerator through one of the Beijing, San Francisco, or Taipei locations. Kaliedoscope : A group of artists and creators from across the globe making original content such as VR films.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Confirmed speakers are as follows: Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality, HTC. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox. Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Venice Film Festival is featuring a rich VR section. Among the most important film festivals, La Biennale del Cinema di Venezia is the only one with an official VR competition. HTC Vive is supporting 6 experience showcased there, among which shines Inory , that accompanies the viewer on a spiritual journey. exits beta stage.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 5, 2018

We were deeply honored to have been able to sponsor their last events and we look forward to becoming more involved with the VR community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meanwhile at the 360 VR Bay Area Film Makers meet-up we saw talks from Apple and Pixar.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

We were meeting virtually in a Beta version of the much-anticipated Social VR platform – I was in London and he in San Francisco – and everything worked smoothly enough for me to believe they might actually pull this off. For Linden Lab, this can be a bit of a mixed blessing.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

During an updated demo in San Francisco, CA last week I got the chance to go hands-on with a dramatically upgraded build that shows some later portions of the game. The American Dream is slated to release at some point in Q3 of 2017 for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift with Touch, and HTC Vive. No exact price is set at this time.

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APRIL 30, 2017

This sim comes out on May 30 for Oculus Rift with Touch, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR). I was able to play a few missions with my fellow game journalists at a preview event at Ubisoft in San Francisco. Even in the new films, you just get fleeting shots of what those screens are. Votypka: Definitely.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

VeeR allows the audience to be immersed in scenes of the premium VR films, take adventures with people from all over the world. You can download VeeR VR in your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality , Google Daydream , Steam VR and Lenovo Mirage Solo to watch amazing VR content. Date: March 11-13, 2019.

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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. It can be just filmed.”

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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. It can be just filmed.”

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

So building and developing a new story that starts on the feature film side and then organically moves to interactive all the way through TV, through all the way to amusement park rides and toys. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. HTC is also one of our investors. Hrish: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So building and developing a new story that starts on the feature film side and then organically moves to interactive all the way through TV, through all the way to amusement park rides and toys. So we’ve launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. HTC is also one of our investors. Hrish: Sure.

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

So building and developing a new story that starts on the feature film side and then organically moves to interactive all the way through TV, through all the way to amusement park rides and toys. So we've launched Crowe: The Drowned Armory on Oculus and HTC. HTC is also one of our investors. Hrish: Sure.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. It focuses on media, AR/VR, and A.I.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. We actually did a project — that will never see the light of day, unfortunately — we filmed the world’s largest cannabis facility in VR, in 360. But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. We actually did a project — that will never see the light of day, unfortunately — we filmed the world’s largest cannabis facility in VR, in 360. But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. We actually did a project — that will never see the light of day, unfortunately — we filmed the world’s largest cannabis facility in VR, in 360. But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But a lot of it is independent. A lot of personal support.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But a lot of it is independent. A lot of personal support.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it's a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But a lot of it is independent. A lot of personal support.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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