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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Game Cooks is an independent Games studio founded in Beirut by two Lebanese brothers – Arz and Lebnan Nader. Since 2011 they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. The real ‘Eureka!’

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This is Google Earth VR. Google Earth VR is a surprise project from Google’s Geo team that is being both announced and released today. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth. Google Earth VR’s primary locomotion system is flight. This is not the real Mt.

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MARCH 25, 2019

The Game Developers Conference was held last week in San Francisco and we wanted to get together to discuss what we saw at the show for Extra Crunch members. VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Making Daydream Real – Building for Google’s New VR platform. Nathan Martz, Product Manager, Google. Jason Finder, Software Engineer, Google. November 2nd, 3:30pm.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. If you’re confused as to what this means regarding the boundaries HTC and HTC Vive, well– I am too.

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JUNE 22, 2016

VRDC will take place November 2-3, 2016 in the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, CA. VRDC's first edition was held alongside the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in March 2016 with two sold out tracks covering VR/AR for Games and Entertainment. To register or submit your speaking abstract by July 8, visit: vrdconf.com.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

San Francisco-based Occipital is one of the many companies that wants to bring inside-out tracking to mobile VR, but its means of doing so stands apart from others. To showcase this, Occipital has created Bridget, a virtual robot that can navigate around obstacles and play games with the user.

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MAY 1, 2017

Tyler left a comfortable job at renowned video game studio Double Fine Productions to pursue a career making music videos and short films in New York City, but the grim reality of that path became abundantly clear rather quickly. Frustration breeds expression. and see what happens.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The Playful team brought Wonderland exclusively to the Upload Collective in San Francisco during VRDC this week for our hands-on visit to the world in four HTC Vives. That’s how the company’s first VR game, Rift launch title Lucky’s Tale [ Review 9/10 ] , got its start.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The Playful team brought Wonderland exclusively to the Upload Collective in San Francisco during VRDC this week for our hands-on visit to the world in four HTC Vives. That’s how the company’s first VR game, Rift launch title Lucky’s Tale [ Review 9/10 ] , got its start.

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JULY 12, 2017

The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies. Denny Unger, CEO, Cloudhead Games. Tommy Palm, CEO, Resolution Games. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve.

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. I’m not one of those journalists. We’re going to get that.”.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

He has made games with Electronic Arts, small indie studios, and with hummingbirds on back patios, surrounded by succulents. After working in the game industry for multiple years he decided to put his research on storytelling through illusions and his love for everything 3D into practice and apply it to VR. Daniël Ernst. Nick Pittom.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there?

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: The other thing we can do is we can also send those virtual photographs to Google ads as well. Alan: Really?

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: The other thing we can do is we can also send those virtual photographs to Google ads as well. Alan: Really?

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that. Once you already have your models, your materials and your configurations, we can then output any one of those to the Google ad platform. Ben: The other thing we can do is we can also send those virtual photographs to Google ads as well. Alan: Really?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there?

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MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. December 2015.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). Room 2011, West Hall.

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JULY 2, 2019

Admix is a platform that allows advertisers to place non-intrusive ads into VR and AR and gaming content. Previous to Admixed, Sam was part of the e-commerce platform Kout.io, social gambling app Betify and the first binary trading game on the app store, Rogue Trader. Now we have also an office in San Francisco.

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JULY 2, 2019

Admix is a platform that allows advertisers to place non-intrusive ads into VR and AR and gaming content. Previous to Admixed, Sam was part of the e-commerce platform Kout.io, social gambling app Betify and the first binary trading game on the app store, Rogue Trader. Now we have also an office in San Francisco.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Unlike the Lucasfilm AR headset, which uses a smartphone to power it (like the Google Daydream or the Samsung Gear VR does), the company says this concept is a standalone, self-powered headset. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has raised a $50M Series C for their hand- and finger-tracking technology. AND THE EMMY GOES TO… VR?

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DECEMBER 25, 2017

In 2016, the world-class graphics cards manufacturer Nvidia developed Nvidia Ansel, a screenshot software for taking in-game screenshots, most notably 360 panoramas, even if your games aren't in VR. Ansel is a compact program for taking in-game screenshots. What's Nvidia Ansel? link] Main features of Ansel. Watch Dogs 2.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Like every time I play a game and things are sized differently; that’s the size thing.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Like every time I play a game and things are sized differently; that’s the size thing.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Like every time I play a game and things are sized differently; that's the size thing.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. GPS is supposed to be accurate to roughly 4.9

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JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. GPS is supposed to be accurate to roughly 4.9

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AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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