VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Thanks to a big partnership between 20th Century Fox, New Regency, Advanced Micro Devices, and Alienware, a few lucky AMC theaters will feature the VR experience on several Oculus Rift headsets running Alienware’s new Aurora PC featuring AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics cards. Metreon 16 — San Francisco, CA. 34th Street 14 — NYC.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Indie VR developer Mixed Realms, creators of badass VR ninja simulator, Sairento , announced this week plans for their next chapter, coming in the form of Sairento Reborn. The game has been released across all major VR platforms (Steam, Oculus, and Viveport), and holds respectable ratings across the board.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

The newly launched Neo 2 & Neo 2 Eye headsets from Pico Interactive are lightweight, untethered, deliver 4K, and look most like a beefed-up Oculus Quest. When you consider that the Oculus Quest for business platform costs roughly $1000, the Neo 2 models actually offer more bang for your buck. System/SDK: Android8.1/Pico

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JANUARY 3, 2017

One figure in the Games category that many a Job Simulator [ Review: 8/10 ] fan might recognize is Alex Schwartz, CEO of Owlchemy Labs. Currently available for free with every new purchase of a Vive and now released on Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR, Job Simulator is a great example of what can be done with user-tracked VR.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap. Comparison shot of Varjo Bionic display and Oculus Rift display. So what is Varjo? Varjo solves this problem.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Transfr leverages virtual reality to create simulations of manufacturing-plant shop floors or warehouses for training purposes. Hardware-wise, the business uses Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset with Oculus for Business, not the generic customer hardware available in stores. Transfr’s core technology is its software.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2017

HBO’s show Silicon Valley entertains with tales of the pervasive startup culture of California’s San Francisco Bay Area. Oculus and 360fly booths can also be spotted. Photo courtesy HBO. Silicon Valley’s interest in virtual reality doesn’t end there.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The awards, hosted by Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, are set to take place on Wednesday, March 1st at the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It’s also unsurprising to see Owlchemy Labs’ Job Simulator [ Review: 8/10 ] up for the award. The category has a surprisingly strong list of nominees.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Viveport President, Rikard Steiber, recently announced at Virtual Reality Developer Convention (VRDC) in San Francisco that HTC will be unveiling the Viveport Arcade , a new content delivery platform for arcade operators. Job Simulator. This will be critical first step in making VR Arcades sustainable and legal. Hover Junkers.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

VRDC will take place November 2-3, 2016 in the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, CA. To register or submit your speaking abstract by July 8, visit: vrdconf.com.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. It’s too bad this just exists in a lab and we can’t play with it.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Makers of Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality and Job Simulator (which earned $3M in sales), it seems like Owlchemy will continue releasing the slate of original games already in their pipeline and will be able to distribute that content on platforms other than Google’s Daydream. San Francisco-based Vivid Vision has raised a $2.2M

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Initially, the experience gives you a comfort mode in which your FOV is narrowed as you fly to reduce simulator sickness. When asked about support for other platforms, such as the Oculus Rift, Podwal stated that the team was actively looking into ports but had nothing to announce. The app is available now for free on the HTC Vive.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

While at first it appears to have a silly, slapstick, sardonic tone that you’d find in other franchises like Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality from Owlchemy Labs, or the South Park TV show and video games, the full picture is actually much different. The American Dream is different. No exact price is set at this time.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2018

The app launched in Early Access on the Oculus Store in December. San Francisco-based VR development startup Tribe VR is concentrating on immersive learning applications for virtual and augmented reality to enable users to learn real-world skills.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As this episode goes live, Alan’s away giving a talk at the XR Intelligence conference in San Francisco. Today, we’re speaking with Kathryn Bloxham from Reuters Events brand, XR Intelligence, about their amazing business conference, VRX happening in San Francisco, December 12th and 13th. Kathryn: Yes.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

link] Today he is back again being a super punk rock dev and kicking off his time at GDC in partnership with Gold Club San Francisco to launch Gold Club SF VR. Gold Club SF VR is now available on Oculus, HTC Vive, and PC as a free download at VRClubz.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As this episode goes live, Alan’s away giving a talk at the XR Intelligence conference in San Francisco. Today, we’re speaking with Kathryn Bloxham from Reuters Events brand, XR Intelligence, about their amazing business conference, VRX happening in San Francisco, December 12th and 13th. Kathryn: Yes.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for A developer had the great idea to tie an Oculus Touch controller to a cardboard box so that the box can be ported into VR and be used as a magical box with which the user can interact. This is the reason why I think this announcement is so important.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Image by Oculus). There is not enough market yet.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. The theme park] Six Flags, for example, is finding success creating excitement for thrill seekers with their ride simulations.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. December 2015.

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DECEMBER 15, 2019

We'll be talking about making an AR video with Will.i.am, creating art with Intel, and delivering on the promise of VR and AR with the San Francisco 49ers, San Jose Sharks, YouTube, and more. He's kind of like the Spike Lee of San Francisco, is what a lot of people say, but he works mainly in documentary.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

Here’s the new batch, across Vive X’s operating territories: San Francisco. Its series of original content includes Nature and Science discovery, Historical and Social stories, and Physical environment simulations. Opaque Space is a premier developer of consumer and simulation VR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. Unfortunately, there is a trade-off as people get either simulator sick in normal VR setups or immersion suffers.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

It’s easy to see why; the headset costs $200 less than an Oculus Rift and the console that runs it is much cheaper than a VR Ready PC, as well as being far more accessible to new users. But all the shrewdness Sony has displayed in the past few years makes the risk of PlayStation VR all the more baffling. added to that number.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

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JUNE 21, 2017

Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. Multiverse’s previous game, Reveries: Dream Flight, is one of the highest-rated VR games worldwide, and a top selling title on the Oculus Store. China, and more.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Filling up the halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, GDC has been a big event for the VR industry over the past few years, but it is seeing something of an explosion this year, which runs from February 27th – March 3rd. Chris Pruett (Oculus). It is arguably Oculus’ biggest session of the show.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. Image Credit: Oculus.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Eric Florenzano is a VR consultant and game designer who lives in the San Francisco Bay area. We’ve actually done meetings that are eight or nine hours long straight,” he says, but ultimately, they need to be equivalent to “a heavier pair of glasses” Job Simulator. So far, so normal, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace.

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