VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

Welcome to the Getty Images Virtual Reality Group. Stock photo superstars Getty Images announced yesterday the creation of their brand new virtual reality initiative, the Getty Images Virtual Reality Group. The post Getty Images Will Capture Rio Olympics in 360° appeared first on VRScout.

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MAY 3, 2017

Software Development Manager in Virtual Reality to work in its Seattle offices, according to a new job listing. The listing notes that experience with “Oculus Rift, Gear VR, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, or Google Daydream” is a bonus, so we’d expect this service to come to multiple platforms too.

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AllThingsVR

APRIL 18, 2017

The Austin, Texas-based startup has created a social VR music platform where performers can create music while wearing a HTC Vive or Oculus Rift headset and spectators can watch the whole experience. 2) Pluto VR , the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey , has raised $13.9

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Oculus Is Hiring More Than 100 People Amid AR Expansion The Oculus Rift maker has over 100 positions listed on its Careers page across a range of fields right now. 31 of these listings are for roles at Oculus Research, the Redmond-based division of the company dedicated to long-term study of the future of VR in all areas.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2017

The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) will be back in its hometown of Seattle this September 1st through 4th and Road to VR has again done the heavy lifting of sorting out all the VR things to see at this year’s convention: Exhibitor. Oculus, Vive. Oculus, PSVR, Vive. Oculus, PSVR, Vive. Oculus, PSVR, Vive. Oculus, Vive.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

High Fidelity is an open-source virtual reality platform that gives everyone the power to create, explore, and share virtual spaces. It works with both Oculus Rift and Vive, and you can also run it on your PC in desktop mode if you don't have a headset. There was an awesome greater that also showed me how to fly.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2016

You can take a virtual trip to Stonehenge and snap a selfie in the process. When it comes to virtual reality content, quite a bit of emphasis has been placed on gaming. The post Educational VR Comes to Seattle’s Pacific Science Center appeared first on VRScout. Bretz is one of those new breed of VR creators.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Valve, creator of videogames, owner of Steam and builder of the Valve Index virtual reality (VR) headset is an icon on the industry and also highly secretive when it comes to what it’s working on. Best of luck to those who do participate. For further updates, keep reading VRFocus.

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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. It’s Friday night and you have to choose what to do with your evening. The opportunity for VR arcades arises.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The initiative was revealed by Valve’s Joe Ludwig during a talk at this year’s developer-focused Steam Dev Days event in Seattle last month. ” SEE ALSO Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and 'Revive' Dilemma. SEE ALSO SteamVR to Get Linux and Mac OSX Support Within "a Few Months" computer””].

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Momentum is picking up.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 29, 2016

CEO Mitch Liu tells me that support for other platforms, including PSVR, Gear VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will be coming soon. has its competitors, like the Seattle-based VReal , but Sliver’s main competitive advantages are the titles it hosts content from. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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. The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. Despite this, Björk returns to the album via virtual reality collaborations with well-regarded developers and visual artists traveling the globe as Björk Digital.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you’re interested in developing for the system, you’re required to attend an in-person training workshop in Seattle – classes start in September and it’ll cost you $3,000. Here’s my bet: Microsoft is quickly learning from the “lack of content” complaints around the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment , a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. He worked on titles such as Quake 3, Doom 3, Rage, and Halo; most recently, he worked in VR with a team of veteran developers at Oculus. We see a real marriage of active play and VR.”. “We

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Pluto is a new social app currently in alpha from the Seattle-based startup Pluto VR. Having haunted social VR applications since the Oculus Rift DK1 days, the first things I automatically asked was “So, where do we go?” Life is fast, but our virtual reality lives are still slow.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Seattle-based VR studio Against Gravity has today announced they have received $5M in seed funding to continue to build Rec Room, the studio’s social VR platform. Only launching last summer, the app has quickly become a success story, winning over fans on both Steam and Oculus Home with high marks.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. Newly Formed Getty Images Virtual Reality Group Wants to Put You Inside Stock Photos.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Pluto , a Seattle based VR startup which reeled in a $14 million Series A investment last year, today launched their unique Pluto application in Early Access via Steam.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Cygnus had a booth at last weekend’s PAX West expo in Seattle, where attendees could play a healthy chunk of Colossal Cave 3D’s pre-alpha, either in VR on Quest 2 or in “pancake mode” on the Switch. Before I sat down with their headset, Mera was careful to focus on one word: “reimagined.”

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As virtual reality continues to rise in popularity, more film festivals, both up-and-coming ones and established ones, are opening up virtual reality competitions. Here we selected 37 film festivals dedicated to virtual reality or with VR programs for your reference. Check them out and visit some in 2018!

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A couple months ago on a murky Seattle day, my colleague Andrew and I were at the HaptX office discussing the upcoming release of Ready Player One. With Oculus Go arriving in early 2018 and HTC Vive an official partner of RPO, headset-makers see a huge upside, regardless of whether the movie is commercially successful. Warner Bros.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I took a short break during my time at PAX West this year to checkout VREAL’s new streaming platform at their office in downtown Seattle. At the office, I strapped on a Vive and jumped into VREAL’s virtual lobby with a couple of others to try things out.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The company is not without competitors, such as the Seattle-based VReal, but Sliver’s main competitive advantages are the titles it hosts content from. For a premium experience, there is support for GearVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive apps to watch in full VR. The organization teamed with SLIVER.tv appeared first on VR World.

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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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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. The HaptX Gloves Development Kit debuted on October 3, in New York City at Future of Storytelling and in Seattle at the GeekWire Summit. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Designed for the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller, a trial build of the 3D space-shooter game Perilous Dimension is now available. Seattle, WA. This week in the forums – what’s the best approach to detecting hand swipes ? Plus, check out the latest discussion about alternative text input interfaces. Developer Events.

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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. A new report talks about harassment at Microsoft’s Mixed Reality team.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

And now also companies are affected directly : after a worker has been found positive to the virus in the Seattle venue, now a group of Facebook employees has been left working from home. Oculus rejects Crisis VRigade again, causing backlash from the community. That’s a disaster. So, Start it is not a valid answer.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Valve officially teased its own virtual reality (VR) headset, the Valve Index. Right from the off when Valve introduced the headset for the first time at a special press event in Seattle the company made it quite clear its intentions for Valve Index. Oculus Rift users?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Our mission was, as you said at the beginning, was to bring VR analytics and data to virtual reality. But the reality is, is that we’re not there right now for the industry; there’s still a lot of handholding to be done and there’s still no consensus amongst which headset is kind of the iPod or iPhone right now.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Our mission was, as you said at the beginning, was to bring VR analytics and data to virtual reality. But the reality is, is that we're not there right now for the industry; there's still a lot of handholding to be done and there's still no consensus amongst which headset is kind of the iPod or iPhone right now. Alan: Got it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Our mission was, as you said at the beginning, was to bring VR analytics and data to virtual reality. But the reality is, is that we’re not there right now for the industry; there’s still a lot of handholding to be done and there’s still no consensus amongst which headset is kind of the iPod or iPhone right now.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She has broad experience in traditional film, TV, digital media, augmented reality, virtual reality and video games. 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. Security training issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She has broad experience in traditional film, TV, digital media, augmented reality, virtual reality and video games. 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. Security training issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She has broad experience in traditional film, TV, digital media, augmented reality, virtual reality and video games. 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. Jenna: Yeah, absolutely.

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