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Road to VR
JUNE 22, 2023
Microsoft released the first-gen Zune in 2006, an MP3 player that looked to compete with Apple’s largely dominant line of iPods. Apple wasn’t the first to make a portable MP3 player, although it was the first to make one everyone wanted. Zooming out, Zune’s ultimate defeat belies a larger pattern of behavior.
Road to VR
MARCH 19, 2017
” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers.
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Road to VR
MAY 31, 2019
Since its founding in 2011, Leap Motion has garnered over $94 million in outside funding. Its flagship product, Leap Motion, struggled at first to find purchase in the PC peripheral market, although it decidedly found a home in VR among Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2-clad developers, making it a household name at least in the burgeoning niche.
Road to VR
AUGUST 22, 2016
Those with Apple computers may well feel a little left out in the cold when it comes to running the latest virtual reality hardware. But right now there’s just not a single machine out there [from Apple] that supports it. So are Apple computer users SOL when it comes to running VR? MacBook Air 13-inch, Mid 2011–2015.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 29, 2019
I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). Things started to change in 2011, when the economic recovery reached the point where donors were willing to step forward once again. Rome Reborn 3.0
Road to VR
AUGUST 27, 2016
Arrowstorm Entertainment is what you might call ‘serial Kickstarters’, as they’ve successfully completed 13 different campaigns on the crowdfunding site—mostly focusing on small budget sword and sorcery flicks starring the likes of Kevin Sorbo from Hercules (1995) and Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) from Game of Thrones (2011).
Hypergrid Business
APRIL 15, 2018
OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. With the new restart, the grid will still have the Karmalot Apples for in-grid transactions. Created on September 9, 2011, the grid was meant to target the Belgian community but attracted people from all over the world.
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