Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. VR didn't do as well in 2018 as many hoped - or expected Click To Tweet.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Last month South Korean news outlet SBS Biz reported Meta executives held private meetings with Samsung and LG’s display divisions about supplying OLED and MicroLED microdisplays for future VR and AR devices. It accounts for differences in field of view between headsets.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Although the Samsung Galaxy S8 may not make its big entrance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week, the company will however be presenting a few new VR/AR projects coming direct from their in-house incubator Creative Lab (C-Lab). Just recompense? I guess we’ll find out soon.

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VRScout

MARCH 21, 2022

Individuals lucky enough to get a slot into the show were shuffled into a small theater where everyone was given an older model head-mounted display powered by Samsung mobile devices. Credit: VRScout. What the audience got was an immersive experience unlike anything available at the event.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

1443-ppi 120-Hz OLED Display for Wide-Field-of-View High-Acuity Head-Mounted Displays.” ” Such a display, OLED-Info postulates, could land somewhere around a resolution of 5500 × 3000. The talk is named simply “18 Mpixel 4.3-in. inch AMOLEDs at 90Hz.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2023

With the Meta Quest 3, the seamless, enveloping audiovisual experience is further enhanced with the Menlo Park-based firm’s next-generational head-mounted display (HMD). Furthermore, the series includes Created, a further immersive art medium, with a female-led team of global artists leading the creative content.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. VR In Gaming.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Apple Awarded Patent For Wireless VR Headset That Works With The iPhone Today, it’s revealed that a patent has been awarded to Apple for a “Head-Mounted Display Apparatus For Retaining A Portable Electronic Device With Display.”

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VRScout

JULY 6, 2017

Based on the video provided it appears as though the Samsung Gear VR is the primary component of the set-up. Each video displayed on the headset is perfectly synced to the physical jump with the 360 visuals beginning as soon as you enter the wind tunnel.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. At the event, Samsung also unveiled other innovative tech products, such as an immersive device, a smart ring, and an assistive mobility robotics device.

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MAY 12, 2017

With any type of head-mounted display, prescription lens garbed users are typically left out in the cold (or profoundly uncomfortable in some of the major HMDs) until a special solution is crafted. USD) for the standard frame shaped for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and PlayStation VR.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The elusive head-mounted display (HMD) has been brought back into headlines after recent struggles with funding and a turbulent tech industry last year. Additional updates include pitches from potential Project Iris developers have included Samsung Electronics, and the initiative plans to release in 2025.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

From all-in-one mobile VR headsets to tethered head-mounted displays (HMDs) with hand-controllers that looked eerily similar to brands we already report on, one thing’s for sure, there was no shortage of VR and AR hardware on the show floor. million units and hardware revenues approaching $2.3

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

billion globally by the end of 2017, of which, head-mounted displays (HMDs) will account for $4.7 In its new Virtual Reality Industry Report: Spring 2017 , Greenlight Insights forecasts total virtual reality revenues to reach $7.2

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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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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Luckey was a long time tinkerer of head mounted displays prior to building the first Rift prototypes which lead to him founding Oculus and taking the Rift to Kickstarter in 2012 for what would become a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 18, 2023

News of the resurgence comes after the tech giant reportedly ceased work on the massive project in June this year, indefinitely shuttering its head-mounted display (HMD) ambitions. Rumours of renewed work on Google’s Project Iris augmented reality (AR) smart glasses have surfaced on the internet, according to reports.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

Now, price can mean a couple of different things, but ultimately when you’re spending $1,500 or $2,000 to put a brand new tower PC under your desk and you’re tethering it to the back of your head through a head mounted display […] that’s a lot of money. These guys have invested billions.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 9, 2017

” Madefire already has VR apps for the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR, but Magic Leap advisor Andy Lanning has revealed a couple of key differences at the con. The Magic Leap version will apparently feature spatial sound and comics will appear much crisper and more readable on it.

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Immersive Authority

JANUARY 12, 2016

WebVR has advanced to a point that it allows you to browse the web the classic way (pc or mobile screen with mouse/keyboard/touch input for navigation) or virtually (with a head mounted display (e.g. Mozilla and Google are the major players in enabling WebVR through the Firefox and Chrome browsers.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Apple has a number of head mounted display patents, including one which shows a headset that would dock with a mobile device, and another for an augmented reality display. Acquisitions. See Also: 3 Moves Oculus is Borrowing from Apple’s Marketing Playbook. Well, you better get there too.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

These include a 40 percent slimmer form factor, improved displays and resolution, and Qualcomm’s cutting-edge Snapdragon XR2+. Huawei outperformed Samsung, Apple, and Xiaomi in Q2 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Zuckerberg stated in a social media post at the time that “[The Meta Quest 3 is] our most powerful headset yet.”

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Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Well, we all know Apple is coming with some sort of head mounted display (technical term for something like a headphone that has screens for you to look at). Tonight I was talking to an employee at Samsung about its appliances and how they would augment them. My kind of people!

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. The Santa Cruz standalone VR unit that Oculus is working on was briefly mentioned but no new version of the prototype was shown.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Still, at the end of the day, this is still a good Full HD display. This is like bringing a knife in a gunfight against Samsung’s Super AMOLED (1440 x 2560) displays but at the lower price. During the real day to day use scenarios, users probably won’t even notice that OnePlus features a FHD display.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Still, at the end of the day, this is still a good Full HD display. This is like bringing a knife in a gunfight against Samsung’s Super AMOLED (1440 x 2560) displays but at the lower price. During the real day to day use scenarios, users probably won’t even notice that OnePlus features a FHD display.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The other image is an Imax®-in-your-pocket like offering; A VR head mounted display. Barco even chose to introduce the concept via a VR headset – the Samsung GearVR, to drive the point home about the future of immersive movie viewing. That first image in the composite is of a movie presentation format: Barco Escape.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

One of the most outspoken proponents of the metaverse is struggling to find its place in this hypothetical virtual world. Microsoft has reportedly scrapped plans to make a HoloLens 3—what would have been a successor to its current mixed reality headset—and infighting within the mixed reality division has fueled… Read more.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Adidas, Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Samsung, and Burberry are among the well-known names that have either already established a presence or stated that they plan to do so. VR is a big part of the metaverse, providing the most immersive method currently available for consumers to connect to these worlds.

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RealVision VR

JULY 14, 2016

The current generation of VR head mounted displays are already beginning to show what’s possible with room scale VR. Oculus’ rift and even the Samsung GearVR (a darling of VR marketing depts) will soon have room scale tracking capability. 2: Build for Room-sized Virtual Reality.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

The Samsung Gear VR is one of the most successful virtual reality headsets of all time when it comes to pure numbers. According to at least one objective analysis , the Samsung and Oculus-developed device is projected to sell upward of 2 million units by the end of this year. Currently, the Gear VR cannot do this.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. Even just that was incredibly powerful.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. AR and VR viewers: HTC Vive (VR): Oculus Rift (VR): Google Cardboard (and the upcoming Daydream) (VR): Samsung Gear (VR): Playstation VR (VR): Magic Leap (AR): Microsoft Hololens (AR): Meta (AR): Snow Crash (novel).

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Seebright also announced Seebright Wave Innovator Edition , a complete head-mounted display (HMD) system that still utilizes your smartphone, but also comes with an array of sensors and what they hope to be ‘an industry leading visual quality with 52 degree field of view’ The post Did Seebright Just Launch Google Cardboard for AR?

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to Chris Pruet, Oculus’ Head of Development Engineering, mentioned at GDC 2018, the headset’s thermal design allows the processor to run at higher clock rates than any device he’s seen before. Samsung Gear VR ($129.99). Its basic functions are very similar to Google Cardboard’s.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Contributor. Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital. More posts by this contributor. VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper). Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023.

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