Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Pluto is a new social app currently in alpha from the Seattle-based startup Pluto VR. To learn more about VR’s newest social tool, I popped into the app with Pluto VR co-founder Forest Gibson and Mad Scientist (real job title) Shawn Whiting, co-founder of early social VR space ConVRge.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan. Vulcan Productions has teamed up with Kaleidoscope to launch the Impact Reality Summit, a two-day event celebrating the very best in “XR for Good” storytelling.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Embracing New Tools. In 2007, the original Fantastic Contraption was built for traditional screens with Adobe’s Flash tools. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There was just one catch though: people hoping to use SteamVR Tracking in their devices would need to attend a $3,000 introductory course in Seattle. “After working with numerous third parties and updating the tools, Valve is opening more direct access to the technology and course work, available free of charge in English and Chinese.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Alan: Yeah, it’s funny, it was brought up in the last podcast, that Andy Mathis from Oculus kind of brokered that whole deal.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

My favorite thing to do was work with all the other hardworking folks in our Seattle office and New York office, who were running around doing demos at conferences and events. And so even though you have all these tools in your box there, you have to look and then go, okay, who is my audience, and what can they digest? Jenna: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

My favorite thing to do was work with all the other hardworking folks in our Seattle office and New York office, who were running around doing demos at conferences and events. And so even though you have all these tools in your box there, you have to look and then go, okay, who is my audience, and what can they digest? Jenna: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Alan: Yeah, it's funny, it was brought up in the last podcast, that Andy Mathis from Oculus kind of brokered that whole deal.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

My favorite thing to do was work with all the other hardworking folks in our Seattle office and New York office, who were running around doing demos at conferences and events. And so even though you have all these tools in your box there, you have to look and then go, okay, who is my audience, and what can they digest? Jenna: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

In fact, what we want to do is change our content, just a little bit, to use the same tools. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And for them, it's a very simple training to understand how to transform assets from standard authoring tools like Autodesk, 3D Max, or Maya into something that our system can understand. It may take years.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

In fact, what we want to do is change our content, just a little bit, to use the same tools. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And for them, it's a very simple training to understand how to transform assets from standard authoring tools like Autodesk, 3D Max, or Maya into something that our system can understand. It may take years.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Alan: Yeah, it’s funny, it was brought up in the last podcast, that Andy Mathis from Oculus kind of brokered that whole deal.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

In fact, what we want to do is change our content, just a little bit, to use the same tools. At Oculus, they said 10 years. And for them, it's a very simple training to understand how to transform assets from standard authoring tools like Autodesk, 3D Max, or Maya into something that our system can understand. It may take years.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. Your data plan will thank you.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Start with two million… Just to register the PID license (required for any new USB connected device) was a mere £5000 ; the cost of custom flexes, circuit boards, and injection mould tooling meant remortgaging the house, whilst licensing Immersion Corporation’s haptics technology wasn’t inexpensive. Image by Rob Cole).

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They were based out of Seattle. So, yes, we do work with people with ideas for games, entertainment, and productivity tools. We’re building at Circuit Stream a tool that’s meant for deploying, managing, and scaling XR content. How did this come about? Lou: Well, I was working for another VR startup early in 2015.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They were based out of Seattle. So, yes, we do work with people with ideas for games, entertainment, and productivity tools. We’re building at Circuit Stream a tool that’s meant for deploying, managing, and scaling XR content. How did this come about? Lou: Well, I was working for another VR startup early in 2015.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They were based out of Seattle. So, yes, we do work with people with ideas for games, entertainment, and productivity tools. We're building at Circuit Stream a tool that's meant for deploying, managing, and scaling XR content. To quote Ori Inbar , "We have all the tools necessary to create massive value right now.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They were based out of Seattle. So, yes, we do work with people with ideas for games, entertainment, and productivity tools. We're building at Circuit Stream a tool that's meant for deploying, managing, and scaling XR content. To quote Ori Inbar , "We have all the tools necessary to create massive value right now.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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