UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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ARVR

JUNE 27, 2022

COVID also helped professional implementation of VR which is closer to the real experience than Zoom, Google Meet or Teams. Meta is however still struggling with adaptation to business / education use since it abandoned Oculus for Business solution and now you need to have one Facebook account per each headset. Content ?—?that’s

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. ” Facebook VP of Play Jason Rubin.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Shaun: We first started working with AR five or six years ago and had the opportunity to test the first version of the Oculus alongside our 8K IMAX technology with the widest lenses possible. It’s a super fun and incredible project, which is scheduled to premiere in Washington, D.C. February 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Facebook will have its own Cloud Gaming Service, entering so the field of the future of gaming where other companies like Google (Stadia!),

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It is an end-to-end platform, from content capture to reporting/assessment, and the content is viewed with regular VR headsets like Oculus and Samsung Gear VR. STRIVR is currently working with HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR across all of its business. A less-immersive lite version is also available on mobile and tablet.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

Samsung VR is now somewhat similar to the App Store or Google Play store in that it’s where you can find the latest content for virtual reality products. LET’S TALK OCULUS: DRM NO MORE AND PATENT FOR NEW VR MOTION. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Virtual Reality (VR), by contrast, can be published across a wide range of devices (headsets like Oculus Go/Quest and Gear VR, phones, Google Cardboard, WebVR, and much more), is completely immersive, and doesn’t necessarily require a real-time data connection (ie can be run offline). So why is immersion important?

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2016

Here’s the video that Eva shot, as well as her original tweet: This is the future @oculus @LeapMotion #VR pic.twitter.com/1z7VscNsLO. Robert Scoble told me that part of the negative reactions to the Google Glass was that it broke eye contact while talking to people, and that this violated our social contracts and cultural norms.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

It’s hard to avoid the hype around virtual reality (VR) headsets like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or its mobile counterpart, Samsung Gear VR; much of that excitement is focused on console, mobile, and PC gaming. However, the technology has applications in most industries.

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NVidia VR

JULY 31, 2018

To jumpstart things, CyArk, in conjunction with Google — which has provided cloud computing resources, funding and technical support — has released a virtual tour of the ancient city of Bagan , in central Myanmar, that shows off what’s possible. Taste of What’s to Come. And they can get a non-commercial license to use the data, too.”.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony).

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

We have already seen some devices like Google Glass that gave us a taste of how they would improve the world, even while introducing new problems, deepest amongst them was that they didn’t provide enough benefit to offset the real social costs of wearing a computing device and the weight that a computer put on our face.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. Well, not just Oculus; PlayStation with the PSVR, and very soon, Valve is coming out with their own headset next month. Bob: You just mentioned Google Cardboard, and actually, something that I was looking at earlier today, that Nintendo [Labo] — is it “LAY-boh?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. Well, not just Oculus; PlayStation with the PSVR, and very soon, Valve is coming out with their own headset next month. Bob: You just mentioned Google Cardboard, and actually, something that I was looking at earlier today, that Nintendo [Labo] — is it “LAY-boh?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

And something that I've been sharing in my presentations the last couple of months is -- and actually I just I read another statistic just from an article today that made me think about it again -- I had the chance to attend a conference in Washington in December called the Longevity Conference, and it's all about the aging community.

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