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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

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! THE SAMSUNG GEAR VR GETS A FACELIFT AND GOPRO DOUBLES DOWN ON 360. on August 19th.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Mario Kart comes to VR, E3’s VR news, Intel’s new VR eSports league AND wireless VR solution, Samsung buys their way into social, the investment & funding wrapup, and more…. SAMSUNG BUYS A SOCIAL VR CARD. Based in New York, a startup called VRB (pronounced “verb”) has been acquired by Samsung.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

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HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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VR ad industry working to fix fragmentation issue

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WebVR is currently experimenting a JavaScript API which will enable compatibility and visibility of content across Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard platforms on all web browsers. Microsoft has also announced that it has started to work on supporting WebVR for Edge , the new browser for Windows 10.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

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The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser.

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The Curious Relationship Between DVDs and VR

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INTRO: A little over a hundred years ago, the light switch was invented in the sleepy suburb of Lynbrook, New York. While Sony competed in the home console space with several other companies, such as Sega and later Nintendo and Microsoft, what made the PS2 stand out was its built in DVD player. As I said, terrifying.

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Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

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With what’s going on from Project Tango and Microsoft, there are definitely big players in this space. Above: VR Funhouse is a series of mini games for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. If you were to draw a map of valuations, the east coast of China has the highest valuations, then Silicon Valley, and then New York.

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