VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap. Comparison shot of Varjo Bionic display and Oculus Rift display. You can read writing from across the room.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Viveport President, Rikard Steiber, recently announced at Virtual Reality Developer Convention (VRDC) in San Francisco that HTC will be unveiling the Viveport Arcade , a new content delivery platform for arcade operators. HTC says that it will then roll out to “thousands of locations” worldwide by the end of next year.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Google recently announced that they are partnering with HTC Vive and Lenovo to build new wireless headsets which we can look forward to later this year. San Francisco-based Vivid Vision has raised a $2.2M NO MORE FALLING OVER CORDS WITH UPCOMING WIRELESS HEADSETS. The race for standalone headsets is officially heating up.

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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. HTC VIVE LEADS THE CHINESE MARKET. It’s too bad this just exists in a lab and we can’t play with it. AUGMENT YOUR CLIMBING WALL.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

” Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset. Initially, the experience gives you a comfort mode in which your FOV is narrowed as you fly to reduce simulator sickness. The app is available now for free on the HTC Vive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 2, 2017

While at first it appears to have a silly, slapstick, sardonic tone that you’d find in other franchises like Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality from Owlchemy Labs, or the South Park TV show and video games, the full picture is actually much different. The American Dream is different. No exact price is set at this time.

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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.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that the company announced last year. Today HTC is revealing the second batch of companies that will receive investments and mentorship from the program. Here’s the new batch, across Vive X’s operating territories: San Francisco.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As this episode goes live, Alan’s away giving a talk at the XR Intelligence conference in San Francisco. Today, we’re speaking with Kathryn Bloxham from Reuters Events brand, XR Intelligence, about their amazing business conference, VRX happening in San Francisco, December 12th and 13th. Kathryn: Yes.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

link] Today he is back again being a super punk rock dev and kicking off his time at GDC in partnership with Gold Club San Francisco to launch Gold Club SF VR. Gold Club SF VR is now available on Oculus, HTC Vive, and PC as a free download at VRClubz.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As this episode goes live, Alan’s away giving a talk at the XR Intelligence conference in San Francisco. Today, we’re speaking with Kathryn Bloxham from Reuters Events brand, XR Intelligence, about their amazing business conference, VRX happening in San Francisco, December 12th and 13th. Kathryn: Yes.

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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. January 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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. Image by Oculus). There is not enough market yet.

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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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Filling up the halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, GDC has been a big event for the VR industry over the past few years, but it is seeing something of an explosion this year, which runs from February 27th – March 3rd. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). Chris Pruett (Oculus).

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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. Tagged with: Demo Day , htc , ViveX Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It’s easy to see why; the headset costs $200 less than an Oculus Rift and the console that runs it is much cheaper than a VR Ready PC, as well as being far more accessible to new users. But all the shrewdness Sony has displayed in the past few years makes the risk of PlayStation VR all the more baffling. added to that number.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. Alan: It’s interesting that PlayStation– you hear so much hype about Oculus and HTC, but PlayStation is just delivering VR headset after VR headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. Alan: It’s interesting that PlayStation– you hear so much hype about Oculus and HTC, but PlayStation is just delivering VR headset after VR headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. Alan: It’s interesting that PlayStation– you hear so much hype about Oculus and HTC, but PlayStation is just delivering VR headset after VR headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. Image Credit: Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. ” 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 23, 2017

This week we went to an HTC-hosted Demo Day for the second batch of ViveX funded VR and AR companies. 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.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Owlchemy Labs , creator of popular VR titles like Job Simulator, and the Rick and Morty Simulator for Adult Swim, raised $5M. The Series A was led by Qualcomm Ventures, and also involved The VR Fund (contributors to The Wave’s round as well), Colopl Next, Capital Factory, HTC, and more. HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

HTC has launched a new headset, we have another confirmation of Apple glasses, we read about the first hands-on on Kura glasses, and many other things have happened! 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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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