Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2017

CNN has officially launched CNNVR, a new immersive journalism unit and virtual reality platform with CNN Digital. Capturing major news events in 360 video, the global team will produce weekly virtual reality experiences and live streams. SEE ALSO VR Video Transition Pioneered by News Channel is the Best We’ve Seen Yet.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The two greatest quests being undertaken in the virtual reality scene today are these: the quest to find the perfect head strap settings so that your headset balances perfectly on your head (some say it’s impossible but I for one remain hopeful), and the quest to create the VR industry’s first, true killer application.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Announced at today’s Windows Mixed Reality event in San Francisco, AltspaceVR will be joining Microsoft as part of the family. The announcement comes as Microsoft prepares to launch its own VR and AR platform, called Windows Mixed Reality, on October 17. Microsoft’s lineup of VR headsets.

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VRScout

JUNE 22, 2016

Hollywood seems to really be warming up to virtual reality and it would appear Los Angeles is at the center of it all when it comes to immersive content creation. Even San Francisco-based VR studio, River Studios, opened a LA studio this week to service both Hollywood and social influencer talent.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 4, 2018

It was produced by Orbital Views, a Virtual Reality studio based in Paris, France, with a strong emphasis on research, science and education. In 2016, they became the first company to use Virtual Reality headsets in parabolic flights, for private passengers and professional astronauts. VRScout (@VRScout) July 31, 2018.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Film is an expression of the human imagination; it enables us to see the world from another perspective and escape from our own lives, and 360-degree video and virtual reality are the newest mediums for telling immersive, emotional stories. Learn More About The San Francisco 360-Degree Filmmaking Workshop.

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2018

It was produced by Orbital Views , a virtual reality studio based in Paris, France, with a strong emphasis on research, science and education. Featuring data and photorealistic images from NASA, ESA and other scientific agencies, Overview is the most accurate representation of space in Virtual Reality available today,” says Solignac.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The G71 has been rumoured to feature in Samsung’s latest smartphone, the Galaxy S8, details of which we may learn more at next week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. We’ve been impressed in the past with SMI’s demos, spending time with both an SMI modded Oculus Rift DK2 and a Samsung Gear VR.

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ARVR

JANUARY 25, 2022

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 Shopping Flow Against that backdrop, San Francisco-based Avataar has raised $45 million in Series B funding. It works with brands like Samsung and Pepperflow to enable 3D and AR product visualization in their shopping flows. Developing an Original World-Traveling VR Experience 4.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

SAMSUNG AT VIDCON: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The Assassin’s Creed Movie VR Experience is a thrilling piece of virtual reality that will excite aficionados of the game, fans of the movie and newcomers alike,” said Roy Taylor, AMD corporate vice president of content, alliances, and VR, in an official statement. Metreon 16 — San Francisco, CA.

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MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. The update allows platform developers to design interactive and gaming assets for the Metaverse platform.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The real-time interactive experience dubbed “This Is Our Future” debuted October 6th at a Conservancy hosted event in San Francisco. We are using virtual reality and experience design to highlight issues that sometimes don’t get the focus they deserve. In this new medium, we’ve got people’s undivided attention.”.

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VRScout

MAY 16, 2016

We have all seen how virtual reality can change gaming and entertainment forever with this immersive technology. The first program, the 360 Filmmakers Challenge, partners nine San Francisco Bay Area high schools with professional filmmakers to create 3-5 minute 360° films about their communities.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

Shown in this promotional video , both Planet Whack and Resistor are collaborations with TriHelix , a San Francisco-based VR developer, to create multi-user games using PhaseSpace’s motion tracking technology. The system uses Samsung Gear VR headsets for visual output. The usual limitations of this mobile VR solution—i.e.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2018

Most Gear VR-compatible smartphones work with Venues, excluding Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy Note 5. June 6 // MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks @ San Francisco Giants // 12:45 pm PT. Oculus’ Code of Conduct is also in full force, with community moderators on-hand in Venues. May 30 // Vance Joy // 7:30 pm PT.

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Cats and VR

MAY 16, 2016

Virtual reality has unlimited potential for gaming and entertainment, but it’s also a powerful way to drive important social change. The first program, the 360 Filmmakers Challenge, partners nine San Francisco Bay Area high schools with professional filmmakers to create 3-5 minute 360 films about their communities.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I got to go hands-on with the experience during an event today at the company’s San Francisco developer hub. I got to give the experience a go on the new Samsung Odyssey headset. Today Microsoft revealed the Halo: Recruit experience, launching on October 17th for Windows VR headsets.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Subsequent events, featuring different acts in support of separate causes, will be held in New Orleans on December 9 and Seattle on December 12, with two more yet-to-be-announced shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles at the end of the year.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

The VR broadcasting is done via Intel’s ‘True VR’ platform which is currently only available on Samsung’s Gear VR headset. Kansas City Royals vs. San Francisco Giants. True VR employs panoramic stereoscopic cameras derived from Intel’s 2016 acquisition of VR broadcasting company Voke.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Market researcher SuperData scaled back its virtual reality forecast for 2016, particularly after a disappointing launch of the PlayStation VR headsets. Oculus will hit 355,000; HTC Vive will be 420,000, and the Samsung Gear VR on mobile will be 2.3 You have to experiment and do research and become the best VR stakeholder.”.

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The AR Show

JANUARY 21, 2020

One of her team’s first tools, EditorXR, which is a tool for editing Unity projects directly in virtual reality, won San Francisco Design Week’s first-ever Virtual Tech award in 2018. Prior to Unity, Timoni has worked as a product designer at Flickr and Foursquare.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 28, 2017

How Coachella utilizes virtual reality. The 2017 Coachella presented its attendees with a psychedelic experience situated in a 60-feet-high dome, where Chrysalis , an 8-minute virtual reality film that San Francisco-based studio Obscura Digital spent 3 months developing, was screened. In 2014, vantage.tv

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

virtual reality peripheral that can be mounted onto an Oculus Rift headset. During an in-person demonstration at UploadVR’s San Francisco office, the Leap team explained that their new module is compiled using simple, “off the shelf” components. It’s a $79.99

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Last month Samsung declared a winner for its Gear VR Killer App Contest. After all the votes were counted, the winner was The Virtual Reality Suite — a comprehensive platform of enterprise level VR-powered communications solutions.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

2016 was the true birth of the virtual reality industry , so outlook was all over the place depending on who you spoke with and it makes sense that the perspective of GDC attendees would be valued. Tagged with: Daydream , GDC , google cardboard , htc vive , industry , oculus rift , Outlook , PS VR , samsung gear , VR.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This week, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco —the flagship hub for the tech giant’s efforts in mixed reality (MR). To help fuel this opportunity, we are expanding our investment in technologies that enable the broader ecosystem to create for mixed reality worldwide.

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MARCH 21, 2023

Spatial’s Creator Toolkit offers creatives flexible designing, building, and publishing for games and immersive stories across the internet, virtual reality (VR), and mobile devices. These have included Adidas, Vogue, Ready Player Me, OpenSea, Polygon Studios, Samsung, The Fabricant, and many others.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Since 2011, they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. We knew we had to get in on that action, and started jotting down ideas on the flight back from San Francisco. HOVR is now available on the Samsung Gear VR.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Since 2011 they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. We knew we had to get in on that action, and started jotting down ideas on the flight back from San Francisco. The real ‘Eureka!’

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VeeR VR

MARCH 5, 2018

Silicon Valley Virtual Reality , SVVR organizes community events for consumer VR developers and startups working on all kinds of virtual reality related products. They created a portal that serves as window between virtual reality and the real world. The results we’re uncanny!

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing. Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. It’s a crazy time to be alive. What to Expect from Ubisoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

Standalone virtual reality, especially thanks to the price subsidization operated by Facebook, proved that with an easy-to-use device, good games, and an affordable price, VR could reach millions of people. Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon. The big dogs are all coming.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You can download VeeR VR in your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality , Google Daydream , Steam VR and Lenovo Mirage Solo to watch amazing VR content. Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, United States. Virtual Reality Summit : Held in Seoul, South Korea in June 2018.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. It's kind of like what Samsung is doing here by building their experience centers.

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