Road to VR

JULY 30, 2019

Addressing shareholders during Facebook’s Q2 2019 earnings call last week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that unit sales of Oculus Quest are exceeding the available supply of the headset. This quarter, we shipped Oculus Quest, our first all-in-one headset with no wires and full freedom of movement. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2017

This means you can watch on Google Daydream View and Cardboard, and with a little extra creativity, on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with Opera’s new experimental browser and Gear VR through Samsung Internet. Discovery TRVLR comes exclusively to YouTube and DiscoveryVR.com, and on the Discovery VR app.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Luckily with new research, that might all change with the ability to meet your baby in virtual reality. 3D virtual model MRI view of fetus at 26 weeks. Sequentially-mounted MRI slices are used to construct accurate 3D models of the womb, umbilical cord, placenta and fetus that can then be examined in an Oculus Rift VR headset.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

VR headset manufacturer Pico has long been dedicated to enterprise in North America. With Oculus ending the Go and more recently announcing that users will have to sign in through Facebook , Pico is selling itself in private and secure affordable enterprise VR tech. Partnership Is a Beautiful Thing.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Originally started in 2015 as a traveling VR film festival spanning 10 cities in North America, Kaleidoscope has really come into its own this year. Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus.

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ARPost

APRIL 16, 2021

While Pico has both enterprise and consumer footprints in other geographical markets, in North America the company is strictly focused on enterprise. They’ve also taken up a piece of the market as enterprise users continually lose faith in Facebook-owned Oculus. What the Release Means for Other Markets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 13, 2023

The virtual reality landscape emerged as a low-cost, highly scalable environment, where trainers could create collaborative virtual sessions. Today, trainee employees can join educational sessions from any location, and communicate in real-time when working on virtual doubles of their chosen vehicle.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 28, 2017

Independent Canadian developer Frima announced today that its Norse-themed storytelling experience and movie-length narrative adventure, FATED: The Silent Oath, is now available on PlayStation®VR (PS VR) across North America and Europe. CatsAndVR.com.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2017

Later, the game was included as day-one launch titles for both PlayStation VR in mid-October and Oculus Touch in early December. Job Simulator was ranked the best-selling PlayStation VR game in North America for both October and November. Steam Spy reports the game has over 100,000 owners on Steam alone.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2017

Clocking in at just under three minutes, Battle Test: A Nissan 360-Degree Virtual Reality Experience is a action-packed ride that puts users in the driver’s seat of the new Nissan Rogue as they traverse a riveting ground-battle simulation from the Rogue One film. ” You can watch the 360° video below.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2017

For HTC Vive Tracker owners, Hailstone says Tracker support “amplifies the physicality and reality of the experience,” giving extra tracking points so your defensive game is more accurately reflected by your real-world movements. The mobile app is available for free for both Android and iOS devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

I don’t know if it is true or only a rumor, but if it happens, this is huge news for virtual reality. The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Engage teases Engage Link. News worth a mention.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 14, 2022

“They have either acquired interesting things like Oculus and Instagram, or they’ve been a fast follower of people’s ideas. It should be noted that during the conversation, Fils-Aimé shared that he favors augmented reality over virtual reality.

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Cats and VR

JULY 31, 2018

ARVORE, the immersive storytelling VR/AR company today announced the launch of long-awaited virtual reality game Pixel Ripped 1989.The The critically-acclaimed game is available on PlayStation VR (North America), Oculus Rift and HTC Vive for a limited time launch discount of $19.99, saving a total of 20% off of the full $24.99

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With Frogworld , the first public NatureSims™ VR prototype, now available on Oculus and Steam, I am turning back to the project that first inspired me to start along this path. How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

You will be able to finally buy it in Europe and North America for $599, from the dedicated page on the HTC website. The Vive Focus is HTC’s standalone headset , the one that the Taiwanese/Chinese company wants to use to start making virtual reality widespread. Oculus vs HTC, the eternal VR battle.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2016

When it comes to virtual reality, you really do have to ‘see it to believe it’, so Sony is joining the ranks of HTC and Oculus in opening demo spaces for their VR headset to retailers nationwide.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Meta is already feeling the pressure from Cupertino and has developed at record speed the possibility of watching Apple’s Spatial Videos, the ones you can record with the iPhone 15 Pro, on Oculus Quest. I sincerely hope so. Meta is not going to spare money in this rush to beat Apple for the dominance of the XR space.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

And after a few years of research, the Finnish company decided to move into virtual reality 360-degree capture cameras. The idea is that, as soon as we identified VR was coming — this was before the Oculus acquisition by Facebook — it was clear that one part of VR would be computer-generated experiences, games being the major example.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For a while, only desktop computer rigs were equipped to put out the power that the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift require. Alienware’s VR ready 13” is available to order starting today in North America, has a base model that retails for $1199, and an OLED screen option (first gaming notebook with this option) for $2099.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

vTime , the company behind the titular social VR app, today announced the studio is making a strategic expansion into North America with the opening of its San Francisco office. vTime now supports Oculus Rift, Windows VR headsets, Google Daydream, Oculus Go, Gear VR, Google Cardboard, as well as non-VR modes through Android and iOS.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2016

The first SteamVR powered virtual reality headset, the HTC Vive, launched in April and suffered a somewhat faltering start. Alongside this new online initiative, HTC are pushing hard into bricks and mortar retail, with 100 locations throughout North America due to receive a Vive demo area in the month of June.

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VRPlayin

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Part 2 – VR Zone and Part 3 – The Underdogs have to with venues, and the upcoming Part 5 will also address the ‘VR Arcades’ (nothing the likes available in North America to my knowledge ). Thank you for reading and see you in the virtual! VR for Promotional Use. As the Nismo is a high power sports car.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2017

One of the first in a line of Windows Holographic powered immersive devices, Lenovo’s first mixed reality headset will be here in time for US “back to school”, according to Lenovo’s North America VP of Consumer Products Mike Abary.

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Cats and VR

JULY 27, 2018

The world of Moss will soon extend beyond the virtual reality headset with the release of the Moss Soundtrack , dropping across major digital retailers August 3, 2018. The bundle promotion is available to everyone in North America and PlayStation®Plus subscribers in Europe for two weeks only. starting August 3, 2018.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

Back in 2016, Oculus’s chief scientist Michael Abrash predicted that within five years, VR headsets would have a monocular 4K resolution and 140-degree FoV. The company also plans to open customer service centers in North America and Europe customers, with a U.S. based support center due to open in March 2019.

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Peter Graham

JULY 22, 2019

3dRudder is a foot-based controller originally built for virtual reality (VR) headsets like Samsung Gear VR before supporting PC VR devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. VRFocus will in fact be running two competitions, one for North America and one for Europe, with a controller and digital game key on offer in both regions.

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 29, 2017

Lightform is funded by Lux , Seven Seas , the National Science Foundation , and Steven LaValle (a former principal scientist at Oculus). HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. He is listed as an inventor on several Apple patents.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 17, 2017

This experience is available only through Steam for the HTC Vive (with unofficial Oculus Rift with Touch support) and it has eclipsed the elusive $1 million benchmark in sales. The young studio has created one of the best-selling VR experiences available today, in Raw Data. According to an official release from the company, “Survios Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

And it is even more important now that after Christmas, many kids have entered virtual reality , and could be a victim of harassment or sexual predators. As many veteran people from our industry say, virtual worlds are a concept that is decades old, and the problems we are facing now have already been faced by others 20 years ago.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

billion, predominantly in North America. Instead, people everywhere are beginning to demand more virtual world integration into their physical environments. While augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) is paving the way for the immersive future. The Future of Mixed Reality.

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Peter Graham

JULY 17, 2019

Recently CCP Games reignited its virtual reality (VR) esports ambitions by updating Sparc with new content. Over the course of 2019 the WCG has been running preliminary matches with players from around the world including North America, the Netherlands, Poland, Australia, South Korea, and China.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2021

The VR/AR Association held their annual Global Summit for North America from June 2 through 4. For the second year in a row, the conference was held online but that didn’t stop it from delivering the kind of insights and announcements that we’ve come to expect from the annual event.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

At the time of this writing, F8 will be hosting eight virtual reality-related sessions spread across the two-day event in April: April 18th. ” Presented by: Michael Antonov (Chief Software Architect) at Oculus, Andrew Mo (Product Manager) at Oculus. Crafting Compelling Narratives in VR. April 19th.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Doctor Who: Edge of Time is due for release across various virtual reality (VR) headsets in less than two weeks. For those who own a VR headset Doctor Who: The Edge of Time will launch on 12th November for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and HTC Vive Cosmos. For further updates, keep reading VRFocus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The Coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the development of virtual reality , and in many sectors (like virtual events and remote collaboration), all companies have had a huge spike in the number of users, profits, and investments. Playing with the Oculus Quest 2 at home (Image by Facebook). Is LBVR dead? ” [cit.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The North-America-only limitation is quite a bummer for us Europeans, but honestly, as a developer, I understand the will of making an incremental deployment to be sure that everything works before expanding the product to many countries. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin.

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