VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

The world’s largest VR & AR conference is back again May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

Other huge gaming names like Capcom, Rocksteady Studios, Square Enix, and Bethesda are throwing big brands into virtual reality – Resident Evil, Batman Arkham, Final Fantasy, Fallout, and Doom all had moments of glory at the packed Los Angeles conference. Real Work to be Done: Aecom and Hololens Team Up.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2018

TheWaveVR also opened their new Los Angeles office today, where they plan to collaborate with artists and musicians on what they say will be “a number of high profile VR concerts this year.” The funding round follows a successful collaboration with Warner Bros. The app is available on Steam (U.S.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2016

.” With the social VR app’s newly announced FrontRow feature , which allows performers to broadcast their live acts to multiple instances of a room at one time, it’s shaping up to be the most inclusive live performance virtual reality has seen yet.

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2016

This eSports documentary episode follows one team’s journey to the 2016 Intel Extreme Masters World tournament in virtual reality. We are pleased to bring ESL’s thrilling eSports world to life in cinematic virtual reality for the first time,” said David Anderman, Chief Business Officer of Jaunt.

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Road to VR

APRIL 14, 2017

Distributing on Steam Early Access for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the platform lets you watch, host, and socialize in shows while music is mixed live. To further its development, the company has also garnered an additional $4 million in seed funds led by Upfront Ventures in Los Angeles, bringing total funds to $6.5

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

While developing for virtual reality can be an exciting and rewarding experience, it’s also anything but easy. Thankfully there are various accelerator programs, incubators and developer centers full of amazing teams committed to supporting virtual reality developers and their wild ambitions. I sure as hell am.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

By the end of 2016, IMAX VR centres should be up and running in six locations around the world, with the first two nearing completion in Los Angeles and Manchester (England). The aim is to provide a higher quality VR experience than what can be achieved at home, and to produce and deliver unique VR content for these centres.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M.

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VRScout

JUNE 16, 2016

That’s why it’s beyond exciting to hear that the master of special effects himself will be dipping his toes into the thrilling pool that is virtual reality. The company is based out of Los Angeles, California and is currently knee-deep in production of several original AAA intellectual properties.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2018

The heyday of virtual pets like Tamagotchi and Digimon may be long gone, reaching the height of their popularity in the late ’90s, but with new mediums come new possibilities, and new ways to interact with virtual pets too. Waba is launching on Steam Early Access July 10th for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. This is a nice feather in the cap of a game that VR users have come to adore since its release on Oculus Rift with Touch late last year. Runners up for the honor included Vertigo’s Arizona Sunshine and Virtual Virtual Reality from Tender Claws.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 1, 2017

It quickly turns into a modelling challenge to reproduce all the assets of Deckard’s apartment and a view on Los Angeles streets,” said Lengele of the project’s origins. Lengele doesn’t possess a current generation VR headset, just a now obsolete Oculus Rift DK1.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2016

The expo floor opens today, but this year’s E3 in Los Angeles has already kicked off with some big names in the industry making fresh commitments to VR on both the software and hardware side of things. Oculus Touch Launch Lineup Will Top 30 Games, ‘Oculus Medium’ Bundled. Click the link above for the full list.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

It’s interesting to note that although Nintendo did not directly develop this virtual version of the 2005 arcade classic Mario Kart GP , it is an official remake and has Nintendo’s blessing… but the experience will be using the HTC Vive and not Nintendo hardware (will the Nintendo Switch soon be the first VR-compatible hardware from Nintendo???).

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Mindshow, updated Samsung Gear VR, Samsung 360 camera release date, GoPro, HTC, mobile tracking innovation from Chinese developer Deepoon, Microsoft Hololens, investment wrapup, and more! HTC VIVE STEPS OUT SOLO. SEIZE THE SPOTLIGHT WITH MINDSHOW.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. West and Ebrahami demonstrated EditorVR last month at the company’s Unite 2016 conference in Los Angeles.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

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. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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ARPost

AUGUST 19, 2020

New technologies like virtual reality can help us revel in new experiences without fear of catching the virus. AmazeVR is the latest platform to announce a fully immersive virtual concert. They will be working with Ceraadi , a Los Angeles-based Hip Hop and R&B sister duo, to stage a show in late November.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 11, 2017

Whatever the case may be, I had to deal with acrophobia all the time until about a year ago, when I moved to Los Angeles, California. Everest on the HTC Vive – minus the limited air and intense cold. Even though I was in a room in Los Angeles, the fear of heights rushed back to me in a hurry.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream. in funding to add to their virtual reality development.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2016

When Ashley Pinnick of LA-based virtual reality creative studio, California Rex, set out to develop an adventure game for the new medium, little did she know how much her childhood growing up in a rural town in the Sonoran Desert would influence her creation. Developing the Absurd.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Virtual reality. “We started our directory back in 2015, before HTC Vive and Oculus had even launched, with 99 studios as members. Los Angeles: 124 studios. Virtual Reality Marketing is a comprehensive directory of 360/VR/AR studios and showcases the latest experiences and trends.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2016

The headset, which sets itself apart from others with a massive 210 degree field of view, is designed for high-end virtual reality experiences in the out-of-home market. The first IMAX VR Center pilot location will open this year in Los Angeles, and Starbreeze plans to expand to six centers by year’s end, he said.

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Peter Graham

JULY 2, 2019

When it comes to making an impression at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles you need to go big. So it was quite a surprise that none of these made anywhere near as much noise as the RedPill VR/Sensorium Corp booth, for their upcoming social virtual reality (SVR) music platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos will work with Vive Wireless Adapter. This week, HTC has not made another big reveal about the Vive Cosmos, so we’ll still have to wait to discover more about its price and its features. It’s more a logistic thing internal to HTC, so I think most of us can not care about this :D. Oculus Summer Sale has arrived!

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You can download VeeR VR in your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality , Google Daydream , Steam VR and Lenovo Mirage Solo to watch amazing VR content. You can enter the giveaway by sharing the page on your Facebook and Twitter to win Oculus, Nolo CV1, and many other gifts. SXSW-South by Southwest.

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VRWorld

JUNE 19, 2016

With the conclusion of E3 2016 trade show, which took place last week in Los Angeles, California – many international guests went on for the hunt for several hot ticketed items – HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and of course, Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. 449 – GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 10, 2016

If there was a theme for this year’s Proto Awards, the annual event celebrating excellence within the Virtual Reality (VR) community, it would be the sense of arrival. But Los Angeles, as the epicenter of film, television, music, and hub to a robust independent video game community, feels like VR’s once and future home in a way. “I

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

After spending the past ten days in Hollywood, we met with numerous industry members who are working on next generation of Virtual Reality content. For a pure enjoyment, theBlu experiences simply are the best way to immerse a person in virtual reality, no matter the age. We wanted to do the blue whale.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

This of course is the dream of mixed realities which are starting to gain traction, with the first one being the Virtual Reality. Things are changing now, and believable worlds are becoming virtually real. Now that Virtual Reality has become ‘the future’ just how will industries take advantage?

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

million pixels per eye, almost three times more than what HTC and Oculus offer today (2.84x more). These experiences, and much more will become available to visitors of IMAX VR Experience centers, which are being opened in London, Los Angeles, New York and Shanghai. The resolution of 5120×1440 pixels amounts to 3.69

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Available On: HTC Vive ( Steam , Viveport , Rockstar Warehouse ). Set in 1940’s Los Angeles, L.A. Upon selecting a case you’ll be treated to a short opening vignette that introduces your mission, and then you’ll be plopped out into a large open-world slice of Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As virtual reality continues to rise in popularity, more film festivals, both up-and-coming ones and established ones, are opening up virtual reality competitions. Here we selected 37 film festivals dedicated to virtual reality or with VR programs for your reference. Check them out and visit some in 2018!

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