VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles and Austin, TX-based startup called The Wave VR is building “the world’s first social VR music platform,” according to CEO Adam Arrigo, “[and] it lets anybody from aspiring DJs to Deadmau5 to put on online virtual shows that are fully interactive. THE WAVE DANCES ONTO THE MUSIC SCENE AND RAISES $2.5M.

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VRScout

JULY 24, 2018

Featuring innovative creations such as a simulation for homelessness and the chance to walk through space in anti-gravity, the VRcade offers a window into the lives of others. Since its origin in 1974, SIGGRAPH has been presented in sites all over the United States, including cities such as Los Angeles, Dallas, and Boston.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for It is a terrible moment for tech companies: after Meta and Unity, also Snap stock has lost -30% of its value after the CEO has announced that the company won’t be able to reach its estimated earnings goals. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Unfortunately, there is a trade-off as people get either simulator sick in normal VR setups or immersion suffers. In general, simulator (VR) sickness and motion sickness are two sides of the same coin. Following this announcement, we partnered with Unity and Audi and for a US roadshow that brought us from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

The company’s focus is on mobile VR, expanding into Asia, and commercial and enterprise use cases like healthcare, education, and industrial training simulations. UNITY ADDS MAP FUNCTION, SO LOCATION IS OFFICIALLY FOUNDATION FOR VR/AR GAMES. Based in the UK, augmented reality optics company WaveOptics announced a $16M Series B.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Interestingly enough, the open world features wildlife simulations provided by IBM’s Watson. Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Curioser and curioser….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. It is very cool.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

Can you tell me how did you got involved in Virtual Reality and how did you end up in Los Angeles? Jake Rowell: You can blame Neville ( Neville Spiteri, co-founder and CEO, WeVR ) for bringing me from Hawaii to Los Angeles. For VR engines, we have CryEngine, Unity Engine and Unreal Engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

The test that we’ve been doing here in Los Angeles in some local warehouses, where we’re able to create these spatial workflows, tasking and routing functionality, practically doubles the amount of time it takes for even a seasoned to pick-and-pack worker to be able to do X number of picks in a given day. Gabriel: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

The test that we’ve been doing here in Los Angeles in some local warehouses, where we’re able to create these spatial workflows, tasking and routing functionality, practically doubles the amount of time it takes for even a seasoned to pick-and-pack worker to be able to do X number of picks in a given day. Gabriel: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

The test that we've been doing here in Los Angeles in some local warehouses, where we're able to create these spatial workflows, tasking and routing functionality, practically doubles the amount of time it takes for even a seasoned to pick-and-pack worker to be able to do X number of picks in a given day. Alan: Yeah, an oil rig.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So a lot of people got in and said, “hey, we’re gonna make games,” and then, “maybe we should make training simulators or something like that.” Well, I guess if you look at who’s going to save money with these headsets, then that’s a more interesting equation for all the enterprises.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So a lot of people got in and said, “hey, we’re gonna make games,” and then, “maybe we should make training simulators or something like that.” Well, I guess if you look at who’s going to save money with these headsets, then that’s a more interesting equation for all the enterprises.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Arvind Neelakantan was earlier part of Unity India & was instrumental in the adoption and growth of the company's solutions across product verticals. A veteran in video games, serious games, and simulation industry. 37- Arvind Neelakantan. Tech Evangelist at Epic Games (India/ASEAN). and own sports VR IP.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So a lot of people got in and said, “hey, we’re gonna make games,” and then, “maybe we should make training simulators or something like that.” Well, I guess if you look at who’s going to save money with these headsets, then that’s a more interesting equation for all the enterprises.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there's so much of a mirroring of what's happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it's a surgical simulation or Walmart's using it to train for different employees. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. But once the WebXR 2.0

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