AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Funding Roundup: Baobab Raises $25M, MEL Science Raises $2.5M, Valve Invests in Nitero, Wireless VR Company & Oculus Acquires InfiniLED Baobab Studios is aiming to move past the novelty of VR and create characters that people can grow to love (and hate) even more due to the richness of experience and interaction that VR offers.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 29, 2019

The original HoloLens arrived back in 2016 offering businesses the first real opportunity to explore MR technology. One of the main grievances with the original HoloLens was the field-of-view (FoV), coming in at a rather restrictive 35-degrees (an Oculus Rift is 110-degree for example).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The first time I tried the HoloLens I knew I was experiencing the first generation of a game-changing technology. Such as with healthcare provider Ocuvera, which is currently using this technology to prevent patients from taking a fall while in hospitals. This translates into enabling smarter solutions for a range of use-cases.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Some of the events are VR/AR/MR-focused, while others are segments of broader technology media and entertainment events. 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. Venue: Dublin, Ireland.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. She has also added that some companies are interested in licensing ML technology to build consumer glasses and ML is open to that.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Currently, the champion of minimum specifications is Oculus with its Rift, with some pre-build computers going as low as $500. Naturally, public announcement is one thing, availability is another – still to this date, neither Oculus, AMD nor CyberPowerPC came good on their word and shipped such as system. 4 GB of RAM.

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VRScout

AUGUST 23, 2018

The game was produced by Immersive VR Education (IVRE), a VR/AR studio based in Ireland which previously released the award-winning Apollo 11 VR moon landing experience back in 2016, and, more recently, an experience commissioned by the BBC commemorating the 100th anniversary of the RAF 1943: Berlin Blitz.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

But that’s one way to describe the technology behind meetingRoom, a VR space, where colleagues from around the world can gather and discuss business as if they were all in the same, plain ol’ multi-purpose room! For us, though, we’ve taken a step back and said, “how can we use today’s technology really effectively?”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

But that’s one way to describe the technology behind meetingRoom, a VR space, where colleagues from around the world can gather and discuss business as if they were all in the same, plain ol’ multi-purpose room! For us, though, we’ve taken a step back and said, “how can we use today’s technology really effectively?”

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2023

Oculus Connect. Pandemic notwithstanding, they all had one important thing in common: none of the conferences used the company’s core XR technology to virtually connect people. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect. Why is that? Starting in 2020, Connect was exclusively livestreamed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We used motion capture, face-scanning technology and professional voice actors to immerse users in the story Click To Tweet. Since then, they have grown their team from 4 people to 34 and worked with clients such as the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the BBC and Oxford University. “We

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

But that's one way to describe the technology behind meetingRoom, a VR space, where colleagues from around the world can gather and discuss business as if they were all in the same, plain ol' multi-purpose room! For us, though, we've taken a step back and said, “how can we use today's technology really effectively?”

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

WWDC by Apple Date: June 5-9, 2017 Venue: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Download the WWDC app from the App Store Oculus Connect Date: October 11-12, 2017 Venue: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Oculus Connect is an annual virtual reality developer conference hosted by Oculus from Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. The hype is rising….

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Darshan Shankar, founder and chief executive of Bigscreen, says that the business applications of VR were the first thing to strike him about the new technology, and he and colleagues regularly use Bigscreen to work together. VR is in its very early stages, he says, but even now, “there is enough technology to allow this to happen for some.”.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. We invite all industry technology providers and stakeholders to join us in this meaningful program.”.

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