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JULY 11, 2017

We recently went hands-on with its latest offering in Utah and came away extremely impressed, but we’ve also seen The Void offer a Ghostbusters experience too. Epic itself has also developed several VR apps including this year’s Robo Recall for the Oculus Rift and is working with augmented reality tech too.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Once both of those have taken place then the top three scorers will move onto the finals hosted in Salt Lake City, Utah. Finalists will be flown out for an all-expenses-paid trip to Salt Lake City to compete for up to $2500 as well as a new Oculus Rift S. Arcade Tournament 19th – 22nd March. Grand Finals – 29th March.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2017

It’s that time of the year again when art and technology converge on Park City, Utah for over a week of VR and immersive storytelling — along with some feature films too. Oculus is privately showing select VR works at the Oculus House ( 201 Heber Ave ). 2017 Sundance Film Festival kicks of this week and it won’t be without VR.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Cheez is voiced by Banks and will add to a film that is an official selection for the Sundance Film Festival that takes place in Park City, Utah from January 19th to the 29th. A sneak peak at the film is available on Samsung Gear, Google Daydream, and the Oculus storefront starting today.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

However, true immersion did not arrive until 1968, when Utah University professor Ivan Sutherland, his student Bob Sproull, and others created the world’s first head-mounted display (HMD). The History of VR. Some people could attribute the first VR experience to the View-Master, a stereoscopic toy invented in 1939.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

It feels like only 5 minutes ago we caught wind of a new startup riding on the back of the new virtual reality revolution, one based in Utah that had its sights set on creating a cutting edge mixed reality theme park. See Also: First Hands-on: The VOID, a Mixed Reality Experience That Blends Real and Virtual.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The VOID has blown our minds with their Utah theme park and Ghostbuster’s experience in New York—and also announced in February a collaboration with China-based Shanda Group to build China’s first VR theme park.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Partnering with National Geographic to show off the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in full 360 degree glory, Facebook took its first steps into live spherical video. PARTY WITH YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS IN VR: OCULUS ROOMS & PARTIES. In the official words of the Oculus blog, this is “just the beginning of social VR.”.

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JANUARY 22, 2017

The Sundance Film Festival is this weekend and next in Utah, giving new mixed reality projects a moment in the spotlight. She was accompanied at the event by none other than Palmer Luckey, who worked at USC before formally founding Oculus.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The experience is a product of The Void, a Utah-based startup. While the approach allowed The Void to deploy the Ghostbusters: Dimension experience relatively early, it came online as Oculus and HTC started shipping improved consumer hardware. This allowed the system to be deployed in a large area.

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VRScout

JULY 3, 2016

But would this temporary New York City version be just a cheesy-knockoff of the real facility in Utah? The technology of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are incredible, but the ability to traverse a physical space, receive haptic feedback from NPC’s and interact with a physical environment is just too mind-blowing to compete with.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 1997, a bio engineering professor at the University of Utah named Dr. Richard Norman developed the ‘Utah Array’, an implant with 256 electrodes designed to rigidly attach to the brain. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR.

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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MAY 31, 2016

Imagine your Youtube friends enjoying your breathtaking death ride on a mountain bike somewhere in a canyon deep down in Utah. Devices like the Samsung Gear VR and the Oculus Rift belong to our last category called immersive eyewear. They are designed to record and stream the action from the wearer’s point of view.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2018

FlyInside Flight Simulator isn’t hitting Steam or the Oculus Store yet though, as the company is launching beta access for both their free trial version and a paid ‘pro version’ first through their website starting today to get the valuable feedback and start building a community around the fledgling flight sim.

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VRScout

JANUARY 19, 2017

As the Sundance Film Festival kicks off today in Park City, Utah, Jaunt has revealed the development of five new original scripted VR series — one of which is based on the 1992 cult classic feature, The Lawnmower Man. Jaunt unveils their 2017 VR scripted slate at Sundance. Heading over to Sundance Film Festival?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For example, when Oculus released their touch controllers in December, I was amazed by how much more real and complete each experience felt, driven simply by the fact that I could see and articulate my hands within VR. The result for me and other Oculus owners was a dramatic increase in the fun factor and time spent in VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2017

Currently available on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and accessible via PC, you can build up to 3 of your own worlds — and after that, Sansar charges a $9.99+/month fee depending on how many worlds you want to build. The company’s IP is legendary, and just like in the 90s (did you ever make it to EPCOT as a kid?)

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

They’re compelled by, for example, seeing somebody within a pod have, effectively, a game-style — very fun, very memorable — experience within an Oculus Rift headset, the entire experience being reflected on the screen. It’s a Utah-based company called The Void. That’s got a lot of pull. Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

They’re compelled by, for example, seeing somebody within a pod have, effectively, a game-style — very fun, very memorable — experience within an Oculus Rift headset, the entire experience being reflected on the screen. It’s a Utah-based company called The Void. That’s got a lot of pull. Absolutely.

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SpringboardVR

MARCH 15, 2019

When I first started our VR Arcade in Salt Lake City, Utah, it had a bit of a murky long-term value proposition. Oculus and ESL have an enormous 250,000 prize pool for their Season 3 with a few of their exclusive titles and a dedicated player base for Echo Arena, Onward, and Echo Combat.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2020

I’ve been with Nvidia for a little over two and a half years and I came out of a research group at the University of Utah were I managed a 200-person research group that focused on high performance computing simulation and most importantly visualization of high-end scientific data.

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