Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2020

Outside of today’s investment, DigiLens has secured $110 million since it was founded in 2003. We’re hugely proud of our ecosystem of licensed manufacturers, software partners and OEM investors who continue to support us in this mission.”.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2024

The Ratcatcher, aka Otis Flannegan, was an Easter egg character in console and PC title Batman: Arkham City (2011), but has made no appreciable appearance in a Batman video game since release of the console title Batman: Dark Tomorrow (2003). A nametag is also seen in the trailer, reading Dr. Harleen Quinzel, aka Harley Quinn.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Meta-owned developer Beat Games also included custom environments for several of the trackins, including lighting effects and color schemes in Seven Nation Army inspired by its iconic 2003 music video. Eye of the Tiger’s environment was designed in the style of a FitBeat -style obstacle level , which ought to get your heartrate up.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2020

” Founded in 2003, the company’s Series D brings its overall financing to over $55 million, with its penultimate round arriving in mid-2016. “The ability to remotely perform inspections has tremendous business impact from cost savings and productivity to improved customer service.”

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Now live on Quest, Steam, and PlayStation VR2, the new tracks are pulled from the band's year-2000 debut album Hybrid Theory, and its 2003 follow-up Meteora. The latest Drums Rock DLC music pack includes five of Linkin Park's most recognizable songs.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In fact, this is what happened to search circa-2003 and social advertising circa-2009. — Downturns historically cause advertisers to re-examine and reallocate budget to emerging performance-based ad formats, as seen circa-2003 (search) and 2009 (social). AR could benefit from a similar shakeup by grabbing ad spend.

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VRScout

APRIL 16, 2019

Following the destruction of the Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan back in 2001, Ben Kacyra began digitally capturing historical landmarks for preservation using laser-scanning technology, going on to launch the non-profit company CyArk in 2003.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Akuma is the game’s second major content push following its ‘High Priestess’ update, which included a new scene inspired by the hallway fight scene in South Korean neo-noir action thriller Oldboy (2003).

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Mashable VR

APRIL 21, 2022

Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 novel about a man who involuntarily jumps through moments in his life returns as a six-part series starring Theo James and Rose Leslie. The Time Traveler's Wife is back from the past as an HBO miniseries.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555 (2003) is an hour-long film that expertly blends the electronic music duo’s album Discovery with some pretty striking visuals, courtesy of Japanese anime studio Toei Animation.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2018

Konami’s 4K/VR remastering of Zone of the Enders 2 (2003), called Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner MARS, now has an official street date: September 4th in the US and September 6th in the EU and Japan.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Founded in 2003, the non-profit company’s mission, CyArk CEO John Ristevski told Tested, is to capture, share and archive the world’s cultural heritage. You can download MasterWorks: Journey Through History for Rift here , and for Gear VR here.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Konami’s Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (2003) was originally released for PS2, but today the company announced during Sony’s Tokyo Game Show press briefing that it’s getting an enhanced version, including support for 4K and PSVR. Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

After having popped in for about an hour, the scenery and characters really remind me of steampunk-inspired anime like Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Studio Ghibli’s Laputa : Castle in the Sky (1986). The game also is heavy on object interaction and room-scale movement.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Sparc is an intriguing 1v1 virtual sport created by CCP Games, the studio behind VR flight combat game EVE: Valkyrie (2016) and the iconic (non-VR) MMO EVE Online (2003). Sparc , the virtual sport from CCP Games, launched last week as a PSVR exclusive but could be coming to more headsets in the near future.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2020

Bush administration began stoking the flames of war with Iraq in 2003. I was in middle school when the George W. I watched as TV newscasters and government officials shouted about the need to restore order in the country, alleging that the Iraqi government had weapons of mass destruction and claiming violent… Read more.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2018

CCP Games , the Icelandic studio known for their long-running MMO Eve: Online (2003) , shuttered their VR production studios in a surprise move last year, selling off their Newcastle-based branch behind their multiplayer space dogfighter EVE: Valkyrie (2016), and completely shutting down their Atlanta studio behind sports game Sparc (2017).

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

Six Game Boy Advance SP Pokémon Centers were released in Japan in 2003, but collectors can find some of them today for varying prices.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2021

The simulation hypothesis was boiled down into a useful thought experiment by University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom in a 2003 paper titled Are You Living in a Computer Simulation ? But did you know that scientists actually think it may be possible to experimentally verify if we’re living in a simulation?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 26, 2022

Second life, one of the world’s first metaverses, was created in 2003 by Linden Lab and received widespread attention. It had hundreds of thousands of active residents and a self-reported $500 million in GDP.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In 2003 I was lucky enough to see a job that was advertised at Stanford in the department of communications. We all think about VR as a medium today, but in 1999 or 2003, not so much. We ran the study in 2003, and we had young people become older people. I was in the psychology and computer science department at UCSB.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 26, 2020

Today Nimbus Data, one of the first companies to venture into enterprise flash storage in 2003, is announcing its latest generation ExaDrive product. Following on from the success of the 100 TB ExaDrive DC, the company is releasing a new ExaDrive NL series, from 16 TB to 64 TB.

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AR Insider

MARCH 2, 2021

In fact, this is what happened to search circa-2003 and social advertising circa-2009. Longer-term, mobile AR advertising could ultimately benefit as recessions cause advertisers to rethink and redeploy budget to more effective and cost-efficient formats. Snap is already seeing this.

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GizModo VR

JULY 7, 2022

What could’ve gone wrong when 19-year-old Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes founded blood-testing company Theranos in 2003? Apparently everything, including Theranos ex-president and former COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani being convicted of fraud in a federal court earlier today. Read more.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

Founded in 2003, the company has a relatively long history of creating the tech behind cable-free computer products, like wireless docks and video adapters. Our hands-on with their reference device revealed a robust solution with impressive quality and unnoticeable latency.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 29, 2021

Robert Kirkman ’s animated adaptation of his own 2003 comic has been even more popular and well-reviewed than its source material, thanks to its airing on Amazon Prime. It shouldn’t be a surprise. Clearly, Amazon isn’t unaware of this fact, since it’s just renewed Invincible for not one but two more seasons. Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The extended reality landscape has come a long way since Virtualware, a pioneer in virtual reality solutions, first launched back in 2003.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

This ‘new generation’ KUKA Coaster was revealed at the end of 2015, but KUKA has been active in the entertainment sector for well over a decade; their ‘robocoaster’ arms have been in service at Legoland parks since 2003. Holovis is keen to point out that this is more than repurposing an existing ride.

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Road to VR

MARCH 7, 2017

Sansar is the next-gen virtual world platform from Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life (2003). Due to launch in Spring 2017, Sansar is a new take for the company on virtual worlds, this time built from the ground up with support for virtual reality.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 2, 2021

Instead, Disney+ is finally taking us back a long, long time ago—to 2003, to re-experience our first animated taste of one of Star Wars ’ most… Read more. But we’re not returning to the 3DCG battlefields of Lucasfilm’s beloved, iconic animated series (not until Bad Batch , at least ).

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

When the third Matrix film, Revolutions , released in 2003, the series’ time flourishing at the box office was ostensibly done. As you well know, nothing’s ever really gone in the age of blockbuster franchise cinema, and now, we’re a month away from a fourth Matrix movie. But the latest sequel was never actually the… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2022

I can make an analogy to what happened in 2003, when most people believed that Windows and Palm were destined to control the mobile market, but instead, an obscure Linux-based OS named Android (running on a small number of ultra-premium phones, like the T-Mobile Sidekick) actually beat them to it!

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since its formation in 2001, London Studio is responsible for a long string of PlayStation titles, including the SingStar franchise, several titles for 2003’s PlayStation EyeToy camera, the ahead-of-its-time PlayStation Home (2008) , the augmented reality Wonderbook peripheral, and plenty more.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

OnLogic (formerly, Logic Supply) has been servicing the embedded / industrial PC market with pre-configured small form-factor (SFF) systems since 2003. This has changed recently with the need to process more data at the edge.

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EON Reality

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

About ITE Education Services ITE Education Services (ITEES), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), Singapore, was set up in January 2003 with the objective of sharing ITE’s expertise in transforming skills education.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 4, 2021

The purchase means United is on track to reintroduce the first commercial supersonic flights since the retirement of the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde in 2003. United Airlines has agreed to purchase 15 jets that fly faster than the speed of sound from Boom Supersonic, with options to purchase 35 more. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 17, 2022

Since the 2003 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film didn’t prove fruitful for a franchise, Twentieth Century Studios is opting to go the streaming route with Hulu. There have been attempts at television shows before, notably one in 2013 that didn’t make it past a pilot, and even another film , but the property has… Read more.

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