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Road to VR
MARCH 16, 2019
According to a report by UploadVR , citing emails sent from Facebook to Oculus developers, the rumored Rift S headsets will be revealed next week at GDC. Rift S was first brought to light in a TechCrunch report last year about the leadership shakeup at Oculus and purported shifting product plans. Image courtesy Oculus.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 25, 2017
ARM claims that its Mali line of mobile GPUs shipped over 750 million units in 2015 with its latest G71 series being pitched as sporting the grunt required to meet the high demands VR places on rendering hardware. SEE ALSO Hands On: SMI's Gear VR Eye Tracking is Accurate, Fast and Lightweight.
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Road to VR
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Samsung’s Nick DiCarlo weighs in on how we might come to find it. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. SEE ALSO Samsung Gear VR Install Base Has Passed 5 Million Headsets.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 7, 2023
I was looking back at my 8+ years in the field, and I could identify already a few cycles of consumer XR: The devkit cycle: it’s the era of the good old days of Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2. This era ended with the launch of the first consumer-oriented PC VR headsets: the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift CV1. The big dogs are all coming.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
The first one is the usual SteamVR hardware survey. monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest.
VRScout
JUNE 26, 2016
SAMSUNG AT VIDCON: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.
Road to VR
APRIL 13, 2017
VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. image courtesy VR First.
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