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VRLA’s John Root on AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

Road to VR

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Friday keynote speakers include: Cliff Plumer, CEO, The VOID.

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VRLA 2018 Returns; Keynote Lineup Announced

VRScout

The world’s largest VR & AR conference is back again May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. The two-day conference’s full slate of keynote speakers also include live performances. There’s quite no conference like VRLA.

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VRLA 2018 Highlights

VRScout

The Los Angeles-based conference has become a go-to platform for developers looking to expose their hard work to a public audience, serving as a Comic Con of sorts for those hungry for the latest in XR. The Los Angeles conference continues to prove that the XR industry is here to stay. OMNIVIRT 360-DEGREE ADVERTISEMENTS.

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There Will Be No Proto Awards In 2017, Return Planned In 2018

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

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The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. The m**averse hype is attracting investors.

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