VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. The Santa Cruz standalone VR unit that Oculus is working on was briefly mentioned but no new version of the prototype was shown.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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AR Examples Data Head Mounted Display 381

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. And now with the advent of Oculus Quest and these really inexpensive headsets, I think it’s just opened up the world to developers, and clinicians, and medical practitioners. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear.

Machine Learning 78

Machine Learning Technology Virtual Reality Healthcare 78

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. And now with the advent of Oculus Quest and these really inexpensive headsets, I think it's just opened up the world to developers, and clinicians, and medical practitioners. And it also wasn't very comfortable to wear.

Machine Learning 60

Machine Learning Technology Virtual Reality Healthcare 60

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. And now with the advent of Oculus Quest and these really inexpensive headsets, I think it’s just opened up the world to developers, and clinicians, and medical practitioners. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear.

Machine Learning 60

Machine Learning Technology Virtual Reality Healthcare 60