Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2016

Provided the project reaches its $80,000 funding goal, the studio is aiming to release Mythica VR on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift/DK2, Google Cardboard and with future support for Google Daydream. Pledge $20 or more – The game on release, for PC with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, or iOS or Android with Google Cardboard.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

VR investments have broken into the billions of dollars with reports showing as high as $4-5 billion since 2010 and $2 billion in the last 12 months alone. Facebook – NASDAQ: FB – Oculus VR, VR headset, VR Camera, VR content, VR platform. Samsung – KRX: 005930 – GearVR (partnership with Oculus VR) and 360 Camera.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Microsoft and Google’s first attempt at new computing interfaces never achieved the widespread popularity of Apple’s ecosystem. Apple gave its developers the freedom and full support to use its hardware which allowed for a secondary market for business to business (B2B) products to form. Enter Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. If we go back from the 80s — that I remember — we had the personal computers, PCs. And in the 90s we had the laptops.

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Technology Entertainment Video Filming 78

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. If we go back from the 80s -- that I remember -- we had the personal computers, PCs. And in the 90s we had the laptops.

Technology 60

Technology Entertainment Video 360 Video 60

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. If we go back from the 80s — that I remember — we had the personal computers, PCs. And in the 90s we had the laptops.

Technology 60

Technology Entertainment Video Filming 60

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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Oculus Software Virtual Reality Technology 100

VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Established in 2010 by CEO Alex Schwartz, they have an impressive portfolio of titles as well as proprietary “Owlchemy VR” technology, which powers concurrent cross-platform development (which lowers creation costs). Sliver TV has raised $6.2M in seed funding from the likes of The Venture Reality Fund (yes, they’re in on this one too!),

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Los Angeles AR Real Estate Virtual Reality 150

XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Previously she was one of the first employees at NextVR ( acquired by Apple ), a virtual reality company focused on live entertainment across music and sports. Recent Matrix investments include Oculus VR, Zendesk, Hubspot, Acacia Communications, Polyvore, Lever, Poynt and Namely.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality India Asia 52

EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. I work in XR, organizing events and writing about AR and VR for my livelihood and yet, unlike some of my male peers, I purchased my very first piece of VR hardware just this year with the release of Oculus Go.

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