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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

VRScout

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Virtual reality has taken the world by storm. Here is a summation of all things virtual reality as we currently know it.

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LUMO Labs Bringing Wireless Full-Body Tracking And Dreamscape Games To VR

VRScout

While developing for virtual reality can be an exciting and rewarding experience, it’s also anything but easy. Thankfully there are various accelerator programs, incubators and developer centers full of amazing teams committed to supporting virtual reality developers and their wild ambitions. I sure as hell am.

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‘Planet Whack’ is a Multi-user VR Demo Showcasing PhaseSpace Motion Tracking

Road to VR

PhaseSpace has been a leader in high-performance motion capture for over 20 years, providing solutions for the research, industrial, and graphic arts communities. The system uses Samsung Gear VR headsets for visual output. The usual limitations of this mobile VR solution—i.e.

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Interactive Lab to Make VR Trike Racing a Thing at VRLA This Week

Road to VR

Interactive Lab bring something you never knew you wanted to try to this year’s VRLA Summer Expo, virtual reality room-scale and untethered trike racing. At VRLA’s 2016 Summer Expo, the team return with a new motion captured experience with a twist – room-scale, untethered Trike racing.

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VRLA 2018 Returns; Keynote Lineup Announced

VRScout

Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Gary Radburn, Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Dell. YouTube star Vsauce3 (aka Jake Roper). A special announcement from Ricoh.

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VRLA’s John Root on AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

Road to VR

Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Gary Radburn, Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Dell. YouTube star Vsauce3 (aka Jake Roper). A special announcement from Ricoh.

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VRJAM to Create Real-Time XR Simulation Platform for Business Conferences

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The pair aim to launch a futuristic virtual reality (VR) event technology platform, specifically to create real-time XR simulations of business conferences, training sessions and other enterprise events. All of which will be unveiled at the IBC Conference in Amsterdam later this year.