VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

San Francisco-based Vivid Vision has raised a $2.2M The company was founded in 2014 by a programmer named James Blaha who suffered from amblyopia his entire life and suddenly found himself seeing in 3D for the first time when experimenting with an Oculus Rift developer kit. OR JUST GROSS: HAPTIC SKIN. WEIRD OR AWESOME?

San Francisco 157

San Francisco 360 Video Montana Machine Learning 157

VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

VR is being used to correct conditions like amblyopia (sometimes called “lazy eye”) by San Francisco-based company Vivid Vision; instead of a childhood-scarring eyepatch or invasive surgery, virtual reality is the prescribed treatment. GET YOUR FEELS IN VR: NEW HAPTIC VEST ABOUT TO LAUNCH ON KICKSTARTER.

Los Angeles 173

Los Angeles Philadelphia Magic Leap Virtual Reality 173

Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2019

Tactical Haptics has been working on a unique haptic controller design since its founding in 2013. Reactive Grip is a haptic controller that relies on third-party positional tracking standards such as Oculus Touch, SteamVR tracking, and OptiTrak. Image courtesy Tactical Haptics.

Haptic 187

Haptic Controllers San Francisco California 187

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

Haptic 317

Haptic Oculus AR United States 317

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. The headset didn’t incorporate any touch, or haptics, technology. As soon as we get finger detection, we want haptics.

Technology 129

Technology Leap Motion Haptic Head Mounted Display 129

Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. Alan Watts was an influential philosopher in the ‘60s in San Francisco who popularized Eastern philosophy to a Western audience. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

Leap Motion 36

Leap Motion Architecture San Francisco Virtual Reality 36

Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

Here’s the new batch, across Vive X’s operating territories: San Francisco. Multiverse’s previous game, Reveries: Dream Flight, is one of the highest-rated VR games worldwide, and a top selling title on the Oculus Store. bHaptics enables users to enjoy VR with visual, auditory, and haptic feedback.

HTC 100

HTC AR San Francisco Haptic 100

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco HTC Unity Conference 100

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.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco San Jose Filming California 60

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 21, 2017

Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. Multiverse’s previous game, Reveries: Dream Flight, is one of the highest-rated VR games worldwide, and a top selling title on the Oculus Store. China, and more.

AR 131

AR San Francisco Haptic Tools 131

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

San Francisco 78

San Francisco Haptic Technology AR 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

San Francisco 78

San Francisco Haptic Technology AR 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Haptic Technology AR 60

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 27, 2017

.” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei. San Francisco. Multiverse’s previous game, Reveries: Dream Flight, is one of the highest-rated VR games worldwide, and a top selling title on the Oculus Store.

HTC 100

HTC San Francisco Haptic North America 100

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. Cameron: Exactly.

Augmented Reality 78

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. Cameron: Exactly.

Augmented Reality 78

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it’s just unbelievable just how far it’s gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford.

Trends 78

Trends Machine Learning Technology Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it’s just unbelievable just how far it’s gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford.

Trends 78

Trends Machine Learning Technology Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. Cameron: Exactly.

Augmented Reality 60

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. Cameron: Exactly.

Augmented Reality 60

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Most of us are already familiar with haptics from playing video games, where rumble and vibration are creatively used to create a connection between the action on the screen and the gamer. This is the idea that Apple piloted in its AR[T] walks, where digital works of art were placed around cities such as Tokyo, San Francisco and New York.

Trends 257

Trends Immersion Augmented Reality Haptic 257

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it's just unbelievable just how far it's gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford.

Trends 60

Trends Machine Learning Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I mean, if you look at the latest batch of VR headsets, the capabilities of something like the Oculus Quest, and what you get for that price bracket, it’s just unbelievable just how far it’s gone, because I still look back to case studies from places like the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford.

Trends 60

Trends Machine Learning Technology Training 60

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 23, 2017

With 26 different companies on display in San Francisco ranging from game developers, hardware manufacturers, utility creators, and everything in between there were a lot of different projects to try. bHaptics – I’m not convinced that wearing a haptic suit is the answer to the issue of full immersion in VR.

San Francisco 221

San Francisco Simulation Haptic Immersion 221

Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Most of us are already familiar with haptics from playing video games, where rumble and vibration are creatively used to create a connection between the action on the screen and the gamer. This is the idea that Apple piloted in its AR[T] walks, where digital works of art were placed around cities such as Tokyo, San Francisco and New York.

Trends 120

Trends Immersion Augmented Reality Haptic 120

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.

Technology 78

Technology Education AR Architecture 78

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.

Technology 78

Technology Education AR Architecture 78

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.

Technology 60

Technology Education Architecture AR 60

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And yeah, the audiences there, they put the headsets on, the band comes in and plays a couple of sets, and they see these amazing visuals and they feel haptics and temperature and scent. We use everything from haptics. So explain how the haptics are working. So we have our own app on the Oculus store.

Technology 78

Technology Haptic Machine Learning Industry 78

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And yeah, the audiences there, they put the headsets on, the band comes in and plays a couple of sets, and they see these amazing visuals and they feel haptics and temperature and scent. We use everything from haptics. So explain how the haptics are working. So we have our own app on the Oculus store.

Technology 78

Technology Haptic Machine Learning Industry 78

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And yeah, the audiences there, they put the headsets on, the band comes in and plays a couple of sets, and they see these amazing visuals and they feel haptics and temperature and scent. We use everything from haptics. So explain how the haptics are working. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. So it's not just VR.

Haptic 60

Haptic Technology Machine Learning Singapore 60

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And all of this when in 10 days there will be the Oculus Connect 6, where there will be announced something cool for sure… I’m rather thrilled while I write this e-mail! Oculus Rift has already OpenXR support. It seems that Oculus Rift has already hidden support for the OpenXR environment.

AR 168

AR HTC Google Microsoft 168

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Last week I was in Orlando at the Simulation Summit in Florida, and I had the opportunity to try the haptics gloves, where you put on these giant gloves, but they simulate touch and picking up things. It seems like we have only scratched the surface of what’s possible. So if you look at something far out, it’ll be in focus.

Training 78

Training Education North America Unity 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Last week I was in Orlando at the Simulation Summit in Florida, and I had the opportunity to try the haptics gloves, where you put on these giant gloves, but they simulate touch and picking up things. It seems like we have only scratched the surface of what’s possible. So if you look at something far out, it’ll be in focus.

Training 78

Training Education North America Unity 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Last week I was in Orlando at the Simulation Summit in Florida, and I had the opportunity to try the haptics gloves, where you put on these giant gloves, but they simulate touch and picking up things. I had basically booked a trip through what were the four biggest hubs down the West Coast.

Training 60

Training Education North America Unity 60

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Last week I was in Orlando at the Simulation Summit in Florida, and I had the opportunity to try the haptics gloves, where you put on these giant gloves, but they simulate touch and picking up things. I had basically booked a trip through what were the four biggest hubs down the West Coast.

Training 60

Training Education North America Unity 60

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

Virtual Reality 490

Virtual Reality Eye Tracking Apple Government 490