Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2017

Mason told me that opening up this huge co-working space in Los Angeles represents an energetic shift from the VR technology born out of Silicon Valley to focusing on content & storytelling in VR. UploadVR opened up their new 20,000 square foot Upload LA co-working space in April. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2020

It’s important to note, however, that Facebook finally released the Oculus for Business program on its Oculus Quest headset. Oculus for Business is an enterprise platform that introduces and streamlines virtual reality programs into the workplace, assisting in everything from training to prototyping.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This week, Oculus goes under the microscope along with other Facebook properties. There’s some grumbling about the closed Oculus VR ecosystem as well , entirely undeserved at the moment since FB is doing more to develop the VR medium, in a safe responsible way, than anyone. See the full roundup below. Image source: Facebook.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Learn More About the Los Angeles VR Weekend Workshop and Sign Up to Attend. 2 Days of Intensive Skills Training & Networking Dinner. HTC Vives & Oculus Rifts for Project Testing. WHAT’S INCLUDED. Access to Work with Instructors one-on-one. One Week Pass to Upload SF or Upload LA.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The next wave of athletic training takes place in a computer simulation, as companies such as STRIVR Labs , EON Sports and Beyond Sports help players prepare for games through VR technology. many teams find VR to be a great training tool. The rookie knows exactly what coverage the defense is in and what they’ll try to do next.

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ARPost

MAY 24, 2021

Available through both Oculus Store , Steam , and Viveport for PCVR headsets, the experience has received mixed reviews, but if you look closely at the comments, most of the negative feedback revolves around the fact that the experience is incredibly short – 14 minutes from start to finish and that includes the credits. “If

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. If you have a Samsung Gear VR, you can now connect with your Facebook friends through Oculus Home. In the official words of the Oculus blog, this is “just the beginning of social VR.”. OCULUS CEO STEPS DOWN, WILL LEAD PC DIVISION.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

The interest towards Oculus has grown up during the Holidays. Analyzing the data from Google and the subscribers of the VR-related subreddits on Reddit, it is possible to see that the interest in VR, especially the one branded by Oculus, has skyrocketed at the end of 2020. XR experiences may extend the experience in theme parks.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Kicking-off July 28th at the Los Angeles Convention Center, SIGGRAPH 2019 will feature the largest offering of immersive programming since the conference’s creation back in 1973. SIGGRAPH 2019 takes place July 28th – August 1st at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2016

Tucked away in a dark corner of the Los Angeles Convention Center, the team built a custom electric trike equipped with an onboard computer that powered an Oculus Rift headset. The “racetrack” was surrounded by 22 motion-capture cameras that tracked the movement of the tricycle, steering and your head.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Birthed in New Zealand and raised in Los Angeles, CA, volumetric capture company 8i has announced a Series B round of $27M. The collaboration platform is device agnostic (so you could use a Microsoft Hololens while communicating with someone wearing an Oculus Rift), and the B2B company is focusing on the training and education space.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Various genres such as escape rooms, Mission Impossible-style adventures, training simulations for crucial public servants like firefighters and EMT’s, even product design and presentation for brands and other marketers. The first universe is being revealed on Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

The world’s largest VR & AR conference is back again May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Additional expo highlights include Xtrematic’s extreme sports simulator, bHaptics’ full-body haptic suit, Bioflight’s VR medical training simulations and Phasespace’s large-scale motion capture system.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 15, 2019

Los Angeles-based AR studio ARwall has expanded with the addition of senior-level talent and entertainment industry advisors well known for their expertise in design, engineering, and XR. They also create visuals for advertising, games, training, and immersive content, including their own original content.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2017

If you jump into Facebook Spaces with your Oculus Rift, now you’ll be able to live stream your virtual world to your regular Facebook feed. Los Angeles, CA-based Hutch Interiors has raised a $10M Series A round , lead by Zillow (this is the Zillow Group’s first time investing in a startup). from Japanese firm gumi VR Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2019

Noctvrnal is an audio post-production studio based in Los Angeles. This is especially important in the military, training, and therapy realms, and we draw from our background in psychoacoustics in order to design these systems. So, how the audio for an AR/VR training experience should be designed? Have a nice reading!

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 21, 2019

Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment. Oculus Quest and Rift S now shipping. There are significant economic reasons for companies to persist. The company was formed and financed with $6.3

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

Teaming up with Oculus and ESL, Intel declared the world’s first virtual reality eSports league — with a prize pool of $200K. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Osso VR has raised $2M to progress production of their VR surgical training simulations. ARE YOU IN LOS ANGELES JULY 14-1TH?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

If you are in Los Angeles, at the end of July, the SIGGRAPH seems the place to go. Little indie studio Reality Rebels is creating a framework to let you play LBVR games in your house using Oculus Quest. Oculus Summer Sale has arrived! If you want to buy some Oculus game, this is the right time! Funny link.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2016

One of the most memorable demos that debuted at the recent VRLA conference, Mindshow is a platform being developed by Los Angeles-based Visionary VR (who also happen to be the people behind VRLA). Here’s my bet: Microsoft is quickly learning from the “lack of content” complaints around the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 22, 2017

The game more or less takes place in three phases, with these robot shootouts, an exploding train throwing debris at you and a final boss battle. The refresh rate of this system, however, is significantly less than the 90 frames each second displayed inside the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, which started shipping to buyers last year.

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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. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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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. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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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. Dean: I've trained theirs, but I haven't tried that particular demo. 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. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 17, 2017

As part of the Oculus VR for Good program, he and 9 other filmmakers were paired with 10 selected non-profits to create content with charitable causes. "In In Harmony" advocates for better musical education for some of the disadvantaged children in Los Angeles, where 68 percent of public schools do not teach instrumental music.

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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. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc.,

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 27, 2017

My friends went to Los Angeles and they tried a demo of them. I have a business here in town called the Monkey Train. I’m a journalist for VR World, here to interview you today. First question: what gave you the idea to start a VR arcade? My friends bought these machines , we call them the eggs. They’re from NINED.

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InstaVR

AUGUST 20, 2019

While lacking the cache of say an Oculus Quest app , there’s still some real ROI to be had from embedding WebVR in your web site or having a standalone full-page WebVR experience. And from a marketing standpoint, that’s huge. Literally billions of people can potentially view your WebVR. A couple cool benefits of WebVR… 1.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Laura Escudé aka Alluxe will be performing this weekend at the VR Los Angeles Summer Expo taking place August 5th & 6th as part of the first ever VR Rave presented by Skull Candy. Escudé is a classically trained violinist, and a Certified Ableton expert. Salar System is out now.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

They’ve envisioned it as the latest method of psychoanalysis, human enhancement, law enforcement training and so much more. Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. Though, they do not appear to provide any haptic feedback.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 26, 2018

Startup AiSolve is taking the VR technology in gaming and using it to train doctors for rare conditions where lives are at risk. “We Simulated training for doctors-to-be isn’t new. Simulated training for doctors-to-be isn’t new. We want doctors to be better prepared,” said Shauna Heller, president for North America at U.K.-based

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The multi-sensory massage experiences created by the Esqapes Immersive Relaxation Center in Los Angeles have proved the commercial appeal of such concepts, and it’s the sort of thing that gets people like Jeff Bezos rather excited. Training and Education.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The multi-sensory massage experiences created by the Esqapes Immersive Relaxation Center in Los Angeles have proved the commercial appeal of such concepts, and it’s the sort of thing that gets people like Jeff Bezos rather excited. Training and Education.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I said the other huge area that we’re seeing just enormous amount of applications is in training. And really when you’re training, you really want to ideally do it yourself and be immersed into the context of the environment, to have all the emotions that are coming up when you’re under pressure to make a decision.

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