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MARCH 10, 2018

Quill , Oculus’ VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to show the incredible potential of drawing and animating in VR.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Oculus may have just acquired another piece of the puzzle in making VR headsets cheaper to manufacture and cheaper to buy. First reported by local media, Oculus confirmed the acquisition to Upload and said the team joined Oculus Research in a new office dedicated to research in Cork.

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JULY 10, 2017

Veteran horror director Alexandre Aja , known for his work on The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Pirahana 3D (2010), and Horns (2013) , is teaming up with Oculus and VR production studio Future Lighthouse to create a 360 live-action horror series entitled Campfire Creepers that takes you into long-forgotten childhood fears.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Tonight Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Hugo Barra will become the new head of Facebook’s virtual reality efforts, which includes leading its Oculus team. Co-founder Brendan Iribe recently vacated his role as CEO of Oculus to lead a PC-focused VR group. to lead Team @oculus. It seems fitting. So excited!”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus, has recently teased ‘months of high-profile VR content’ for the hardware. Launching March 23rd, Rock Band VR is a big deal for Harmonix and Oculus, having announced the title as exclusive to the Rift back in 2015. W7offpnzzD. — Jason Rubin (@Jason_Rubin) February 6, 2017. Robo Recall.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

AI and VR development firm AiSolve has acquired Clay Park VR , an LA-based strategy and advisory consultancy headed by Oculus-alum Shauna Heller. The UK-base AiSolve was founded in 2010 and has grown to some 40 employees focusing on development of AI and VR tech and experiences. Shauna Heller.

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JUNE 9, 2018

Mojave will launch publicly in the Fall as a free update for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, as well as 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Ripcoil is a two-player duelling game from Oculus Studios and Sanzaru Games , and as one of 30 titles coming to Touch later this year, it’s poised to help fill the growing VR eSports genre. The post Hands-On: ‘Ripcoil’ for Oculus Touch Has Fast Locomotion That Really Works appeared first on Road to VR.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

The Fruit Ninja series was a classic of the early iOS era, started off as a paid iPhone and iPod Touch app in 2010 and selling millions of units in a matter of months. The series came to SteamVR and PlayStation VR in 2016 as Fruit Ninja VR, and to Oculus Quest at launch in 2019.

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APRIL 1, 2020

With Oculus having launched hand-tracking on the Quest this past December, I wonder how far we are from consumer-ready mind-control systems. While VR can be traced back to the mid- 20th century, it was only in 2010 that Palmer Luckey launched the Oculus Rift Kickstarter. Eye-Tracking .

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Perhaps no project to date shows the potential of Quill— Oculus’ VR illustration and animation tool — quite like The Remedy. With twenty years of experience in 2D and CGI animation, his recent work can be seen in critically-acclaimed films like Tangled (2010) , Zootopia (2016) , and Moana (2016). Launch Oculus TV.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Rocksteady were previous recipients of the Best Game award in 2010 with the game that started it all, Batman: Arkham Asylum. Walking away with two nominations is Rocksteady Games’ Batman: Arkham VR [ Review: 5/10 ], the PSVR launch title that grabbed a lot of people’s attention last October.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Huang, Rauch, and Liaw (2010) found that highly immersive courses had a large effect on student motivation and attitude, giving students a more positive attitude towards the content of the course. Sun, Lin, and Wang (2010) also investigated how highly immersive environments impacted students in a virtual astronomy course.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Halo Reach (2010) , the final Halo game from the series’ original developer, Bungie, is coming to PC in December, and could wind up with a VR support through an unofficial mod. Zack “Nibre” Fannon, the creator of the Alien: Isolation VR mod, is experimenting with VR support for Halo Reach.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Shot in first-person as a continuous take, 360° live-action spy thriller Agent Emerson is slated to arrive on all Oculus headsets as well as PC VR headsets November 22nd, followed later by a release on PSVR. Agent Emerson will arrive for users of all Oculus and HTC headsets on November 22nd.

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JUNE 18, 2019

Founded in 2007 to take over the Halo franchise on Microsoft’s behalf from its progenitor studio, Bungie, 343 Industries is responsible for every Halo game since Halo Reach (2010) , including the upcoming Halo Infinite which is due to launch with the next Xbox console. InXile – The Mage’s Tale.

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MAY 17, 2017

From 2010 to now, the vision error rate for image recognition has fallen to a point where it is even below the rate of the human eye. Having this technology in a pair of lightweight glasses with a wider array of functionally would be a major leap toward the AR future Oculus’ Michael Abrash believes is at least 5 years away.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As a current artist-in-residence on the Facebook Social VR team, Goro Fujita has been making some pretty impressive “quillistrations” as a part of his daily creative regime using Quill, Oculus’ first-party VR paint and drawing tool that he helped develop.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Though you might think that porting SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS would be relatively straightforward—given that Steam for regular desktop gaming has been on the OS since 2010. SEE ALSO Oculus Mum on Rift Support for MacOS in the Wake of Apple's VR Announcements.

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

Developers Owlchemy Labs originally began in the mobile and PC game space back in 2010. The team created the highly entertaining and successful VR game Job Simulator, which launched as a day-one launch title on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR with motion controllers.

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MAY 16, 2019

Created in 2010, Manzalab has been exploring new technologies and inductive methods in order to create more immersive and collaborative experience in training, communication and design fields. Selected InstaVR for Easy Administration and White-Label Oculus Go and Vive Publishing. Main Output for Customers is Oculus Go.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Pinball FX2 VR’s timed exclusivity with Oculus shortly comes to an end, with the game due to arrive on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on November 29th. At the same time, the popular Walking Dead-themed table shuffles its way onto all VR versions of the game.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Soon after the visit, Facebook acquired Oculus VR for $2.3B. In retrospect, Zuckerberg might have only visited us as part of his diligence on that deal, confirming that nobody out there had better VR tech than what Oculus was working on. Was that why he wanted to acquire Oculus in the first place? Facebook in three dimensions.

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MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. 3D environment scans are in 2020 what pictures were in 2010.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This accelerates digital transformation, which we saw with search in the early 2000’s and social in the early 2010’s. But it could have been worse… Mitigating these losses was Oculus Quest 2’s October launch, which created a strong Q4 surge for VR. Figures reflect market factors at the time of creation.

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MARCH 28, 2017

They have a rich catalog of award-winning animated music videos, performed live with Madonna via hologram at the 2005 MTV Europe Awards to promote their record Demon Days, and even had augmented reality album art accompany their 2010 release Plastic Beach.

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JUNE 27, 2016

Polynomial 2 , the sequel to the 2010 original, brings its trance inducing, laser fuelled musical charms to virtual reality. The original Polynomial received some reserved critical reaction on its release back in 2010.

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JULY 17, 2017

Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million.

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JUNE 1, 2019

Since the early 2010’s, the popularity of esports has grown rapidly. Imagine pulling up a bowl of popcorn, donning your Oculus Quest headset, and being immediately transported into an overhead view of a MOBA arena match. Image Credit : Nintendo. Now, VR is stepping up to answer that call for gamers. Image Credit : Nintendo.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Owlchemy Labs Raises $5 Million On Pioneering Interaction Technology When Alex Schwartz and Devin Reimer received the first Oculus Rift development kit back in 2013, they spent a month getting their first experience up and running.

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JULY 6, 2020

Since around 2010 modern day VR has come out through the companies of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Sony Playstation VR. Created in 1838 this device used an image with two pictures that when looked at very closely created a sense of depth and field for the viewer.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Wickert and Leigh uploaded 10 videos over the next three years, most of which were inspired by video games they enjoyed ( “Grand Theft Auto,” 2011 ) ( “Traffic Rush,” 20011 ) or real-life quandaries they could poke fun at ( “Homework,” 2010 ). Then, in 2012 they posted the video that would go viral and change everything for them.

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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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JULY 19, 2023

But before building inside-out tracking, Sony initially experimented with using infrared LEDs (invisible to the eye) on the headset, tracked by an external camera - the approach the original Oculus Rift used - and a single frontal camera for 2D camera passthrough. Inside-out tracking prototypes.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

series, was first revealed at the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference earlier this month. Fan previously worked on Pixar’s Toy Story 3 (2010). “Baobab Studios is an innovator in this space, and we look forward to working with them.”. the second installment in the INVASION! The full release of ASTEROIDS! is slated for 2017.

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MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here. months away!

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MAY 26, 2016

CEO Bryn Mooser joined the Peace Corps in Gambia out of college, then moved to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake to help build a Cholera center and secondary school. While HMDs like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are now technically in-market, they provide a small fraction of the reach Facebook and YouTube have opened up for 360 video.

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