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DECEMBER 26, 2016

What many have spent the last 12 months calling the “year of virtual reality” is about to come to an end. ” However, as far as virtual reality is concerned, things have been going quite well. In 2016, virtual reality officially arrived. It is a holiday after all.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

The Oculus founder and a girl in a cape stole the gaming show. Some 110 VR games for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive got all the attention with new demos and mixed reality performances. The post Virtual Reality Takes Center Stage at Tokyo Game Show appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Sony has announced a $100 price drop to their PlayStation VR headset across the board. Bringing prices that haven’t been seen since temporary sales during 2017’s holiday shopping period, Sony is permanently slashing prices on the PlayStation VR, making it more accessible than ever. and the Doom VFR Blu-ray Disc.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The HTC Vive is a miracle of modern engineering. It’s undoubtedly at the absolute pinnacle of performance for modern virtual reality headsets. Sony and Oculus both either already have, or are actively building, reliable pipelines for producing high quality VR content.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. Since HTC has always made announcements during the CES, I think it will be announced in January.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

These are all real responses on a virtual reality forum after posters have asked: “Which headset is best?”…only Historically, virtual reality systems were prohibitively expensive and were limited to being used in controlled conditions by a small number of researchers, scientists, and groups like astronauts.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3.

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APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. Top news of the week.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In fact, with the introduction of virtual reality in the game development industry, the revenue earned has gone up considerably. As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. billion, followed by $5.8

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Sony is about to bring the third weapon to the high-end VR fight, and it could have a major impact on the market. The combination of content, pricing, and simplicity may mean that Sony could take a dominant position in the market over competition like HTC and Oculus. VR for Everyone.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

HTC’s new headset gets leaked. HTC has been teasing its headsets for a lot of weeks by sharing images of small black corners of the upcoming device. Sony is finally accepting preorders for the PSVR 2 headset. The post The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

Two days until Oculus begins delivering its Touch controllers to ravenous fans around the world, that is, if you haven’t gotten yours already by accident. These controllers will be enabling new games, new experiences, and an entirely new way to enjoy VR for Oculus Rift users. There are just two days left people.

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JULY 7, 2016

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

NBC’s popular late night talk show The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon has debuted a new segment called Virtual Reality Pictionary which uses the HTC Vive and Google’s Tilt Brush VR paint app. He’s also had the HTC Vive on the show in a number of one-off segments.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Here are the latest PlayStation VR games Sony teased at E3. However, as far as virtual reality is concerned, the expo has actually been fairly generous in terms of new games and experiences. The post Sony Reveals 7 New Titles Coming To PSVR appeared first on VRScout. That is so long as you own a PSVR. Star Child.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Also, the awareness has grown , because every gamer knew about Alyx, and so about virtual reality. The Quest will still be the king.

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JANUARY 29, 2017

Virtual reality may be one of the newest arenas for these types of competitions, but it already has gladiators ready to do battle. There are a handful of major players already cutting their teeth in VR including Google, Sony and Samsung; but the two titans sitting at the top of the heap are Oculus and HTC.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Formerly known as Oculus Quest 2 , this is a standalone VR headset that offers the best of both worlds: great performance at an affordable price ($299 and $399). HTC VIVE Pro 2. The good news is that HTC Vive Pro 2 is compatible with Valve Index controllers (currently one the most advanced on the market). Sony PlayStation VR.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

The pre-show press conferences have already begun and that means the big virtual reality news is already breaking. Vive (HTC). What We Know: Today at 1pm HTC will be hosting a press conference to discuss its HTC Vive virtual reality headset. Oculus (Facebook).

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AUGUST 19, 2016

HTC VP On VR’s Biggest Rivalry: “Oculus Is Not Our Competition” “Oculus is not our competition,” Pao said. Much has been made about our two companies but at HTC our chief concern is to see virtual reality grow into the next great computing platform for the entire world.

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MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). No one can compete now.

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JULY 31, 2019

Is Virtual Reality a growing market segment or a flash in the pan? For the first time since the early 1990s, virtual reality headsets had sparked the interest of gamers Click To Tweet. For the first time since the early 1990s, virtual reality headsets had sparked the interest of gamers.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

It’s arguable that Facebook’s Oculus now takes up the majority of the attention in the virtual reality market, but it is hardly the only major player. HTC is still actively working on Vive, and Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality also dips into that field.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

The holiday season seems to have given virtual reality a reality check Virtual reality makes for an amazing demo. Sony’s PlayStation VR has gotten the biggest downgrade, thanks to what SuperData characterizes as modest marketing and supply inconsistencies. But good demos don’t equal good purchases.

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MARCH 4, 2021

This rule along with a long list of others will come in handy when you’re playing Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever ; a game from Sony Pictures and XR Games set in the Zombieland universe that draws inspiration from the light-gun games of the 90’s and popular fast-paced racing games of today. Image Credit: SPVR, XR Games.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Award-winning virtual reality developer and publisher announced that it has set aside $2m to co-fund and publish externally developed VR titles. nDreams is an approved developer partner with Sony PlayStation, Oculus, HTC, Microsoft HoloLens, Google and Samsung. nDreams Ltd.

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JULY 18, 2019

Formerly called the Global Virtual Reality Association (GVRA), today the XR Association (XRA) has announced that Microsoft has joined as a member company alongside founding members HTC Vive, Sony, Google, Facebook, and Samsung.

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JULY 29, 2023

Nvidia Sony Qualcomm Niantic Meta PICO Pimax HTC VIVE Nreal Nvidia Investing in everything from AR and VR streaming solutions, to cloud platforms for the modern metaverse, Nvidia has a range of options to offer gaming developers. So, which companies are leading the way to the future of immersive gaming?

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APRIL 9, 2018

The report published today by global analyst company CCS Insight shows the worldwide market for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) head-worn devices growing by an average of 50 percent annually over the next five years. In 2022, a total of 121 million units will be sold, with a value of $9.9 billion Click To Tweet.

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MARCH 4, 2017

My brain feels a few sizes smaller than it did at the start of the week but the few neurons that are still firing are sending out one last happy thought: this was an incredible week for virtual reality. CES 2016 and the week of the initial Oculus Kickstarter campaign are both strong contenders.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

Those of us who are old enough to have seen the rise of virtual reality in the ‘90s and then the fall and then another rise in mid 2000 and then another fall, know that the present hype about virtual reality may not be sustainable. Sony (PSVR) is clearly leading and is taking one third of the whole market.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Last year, the AIS announced the VR Society, a division dedicated to virtual reality, at their VR on the Lot event at Paramount Studios. It started with a preview of nominated VR experiences and ended with a lengthy awards ceremony where virtual reality and 360° video played a major role. Century Award: Google Earth VR.

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MAY 26, 2016

Alan Yates, a developer at Valve, calls the technology behind the Oculus Rift directly derived from Valve own research program. In a post on Reddit he spoke out about the various virtual reality headsets. On Reddit HTC Vive page spawned a discussion about the competition between the two major headsets.

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MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

In 2016 three major trendsetters in virtual reality – Oculus, HTC and Sony – released consumer headsets. For instance, Sony, unlike other companies in the industry, tends to use classic ways to move around games. It doesn’t mean that no shooter game allowing movement with controllers exist.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show , Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he’s continuing to work on projects within the VR industry. ” SEE ALSO Oculus Founder Backs 'Revive'—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding. .

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