Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

F8 takes place at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, starting April 18th. Achieving social presence in VR presents a host of fascinating challenges, from designing avatars that avoid the “uncanny valley” to determining what kind of tools and spaces best facilitate interaction.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

At the company’s annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. Today during the opening keynote of WWDC in San Jose, Apple revealed ARKit 3. First introduced in 2017, ARKit is a suite of tools for building AR applications on iOS.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Held in San Jose, CA between October 5th and 7th, Oculus Connect returns once again and, as before, promises to become a Mecca for virtual reality developers around the world. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99. Oculus Connect 3 Registration.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2016

And then on October 19th and 20th, there was a historic W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality where all of the major VR players gathered in San Jose to hash out the WebVR web standards for delivering VR and AR applications over the web. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Presented by: Megan Summers (Global Head of Production) at Facebook, Yelena Rachitsky (Executive Producer) at Oculus, Julia Sourikoff (Head of VR) Tool of North America, Christina Heller (CEO) at VR Playhouse, Ryan Horrigan (CCO) at Felix and Paul Studios. Attendees can expect insights on everything from code samples to tools to design tips.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

With two big hardware launches, it was unclear quite what Oculus had in store for this week’s Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) event in San Jose. From a tropical paradise to an interactive action arena, supposedly anything is possible with the easy-to-use creator tools.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Attendees stand in line to try out the new Oculus Quest Virtual Reality (VR) gaming system at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019. “I think it’s very revolutionary because a lot of kids are going to be very excited to learn from those kinds of tools.

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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. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said AR is “profound” and his company has integrated AR tools into the iPhone’s operating system.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Oculus is developing a new set of social and multiplayer tools which stand to make it much easier to directly connect with friends by treating games and apps more like actual places. Oculus is releasing new social tools in an effort to make this process much more smooth. Image courtesy Oculus. Destinations. Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. F8 2017 was held on April 18th and 19th 2017. Leading up to F8, I wrote a piece highlighting five key predictions about what we’d discover at the conference.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

Held from May 8-11th in Silicon Valley at the San Jose Convention Center, NVIDIA’s GTC 2017 session schedule is chock full of deep tech talks that we’re looking forward to.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. LIV, the company working on the Mixed Reality recording tool for games, has just announced a very interesting update for its framework that lets you record promotional videos of your game. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2019

Already own a copy of Google’s VR creation tool Tilt Brush (2016) from the Oculus Store? Facebook’s next big opportunity to announce Quest is the company’s F8 developer conference, which takes place April 30th to May 1st in San Jose, California. We’ll have feet on the ground there, so check back soon.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It “felt” like to me that I was on Everest with him, and not in the San Jose Convention Center. Yes, they use similar tools, if not the same tool, as AR developers use: like Unity. ” He carried dozens of cameras up the highest mountain in the world and recorded Sherpa Tenji climbing it without oxygen.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. It sounds really awesome, and it is -- it's really fun and exciting -- but what it really gets down to it is they've shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

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. But ultimately, I think it needs to be a tool in every cinematographer's toolset right now. Kevin, welcome to the show, my friend.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

Huang spoke in front of massive images on a 40-foot tall, 8K screen the size of a tennis court to a crowd packed with CEOs and developers, AI enthusiasts and entrepreneurs, who walked together 20 minutes to the arena from the San Jose Convention Center on a dazzling spring day. Major tech players are already putting it to work.

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VRWorld

APRIL 18, 2017

Intel has a number of resources available on intel.com, including a Resource and Design Center with documentation, software, and tools for designers, engineers, and developers. Following the global financial crisis, the conference restarted itself as a small startup-focused event in Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose, CA.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) took place this Wednesday and Thursday at the San Jose Convention Center. That being said, is the Go still a viable tool for clients to use? Unlike last year’s event, with the unveiling of the Oculus Quest and Rift S, there wasn’t any expected major hardware announcements. Absolutely!

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InstaVR

MAY 1, 2019

San Jose, CA – May 1, 2019 – InstaVR Inc ( [link] , a virtual reality (VR) authoring, publishing, and analysis company, today launched Oculus Rift S and Oculus Quest publishing compatibility, including the ability to interact with 3D environments using Touch controllers. InstaVR Launches Single-Click Publishing t o. About InstaVR Inc.

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